Farmer, one of the Nine Streams of the Pre-Qin Dynasty. Its basic purpose is to persuade farmers to cultivate mulberry, abundant food and clothing, to adapt to heaven and earth, and to ensure the safety of the country and the people.
Confucian scholars and doctors look down on these old people in the peasant households. After the Confucian confucianism, the peasant family lost its prominent position. However, China is a big country based on agriculture, and the idea of peasants still exists and is inherited in the bones of the Han people.
Don't think that farming is a vulgar thing, on the contrary, a highly mature farming culture is a sign of the advancement of a racial civilization. Barbarians do not know how to grow vegetables, so even fried potatoes, raw milk, and kimchi soup are called "gourmet". Therefore, the soil of barbarians is most suitable for capitalism. Capitalism is mercantilism, in which merchants do not directly produce material wealth, but buy cheap and sell expensive goods to seize the interests of laborers. Socialism, on the other hand, emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce, which is called the business of the book. The people's happy and peaceful life is the foundation, and the commercial benefits created by stimulating consumption and exploiting surplus value are the end.
If you want to plant the land well, and naturally obtain food and clothing from heaven and earth through your own labor, so as to live a good life, it is obvious that you do not know that it is impossible to succeed in doing things recklessly. If you don't know the heavens and the earth, how can you get the gifts of heaven and earth? Farming needs to understand the objective conditions of nature in heaven and earth, in order to get what they want from nature through manpower. It is impossible to do without the great wisdom of communicating with heaven and earth. Therefore, whether there is a highly mature farming culture is a necessary condition for seeing whether a race is civilized and advanced. The barbaric and backward races have no ability to communicate with heaven and earth, do not have the wisdom of farming, and have to delve into capitalism to plunder the fruits of labor created by others. Indulgence, consumerism, and money worship are low-level. On the contrary, it is advanced to take agriculture as the foundation, love nature, and return to the basics.
The essence of the farmhouse aesthetic is to conform to the nature of heaven and earth. Sowing seeds in the spring and harvesting in the autumn is a basic common sense and objective law. Violating the objective laws of nature in heaven and earth, sowing seeds in autumn will only lead to nothing. Therefore, everything must be adapted to the current solar terms environment. The solar terms belong to heaven, the environment belongs to the earth, and human behavior conforms to heaven and earth, which is called great beauty.
Throughout the year, the ancients always followed the characteristics of the solar terms and the region in which they lived, which is the reflection of the peasant thought and the aesthetics of the peasant family. Four hours and eight festivals (four stands, two points, two solstices), twenty-four solar terms, and other festivals, the ancients will have a sense of ceremony. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, there are too many days to celebrate and create beauty. The traditional festivals we have now are too few compared to the ancient times, and the twenty-four solar terms are not enough, and big festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are often limited to eating seasonal food at dinner. In other words, there are fewer people connecting with heaven and earth. The normal practice is to be more in line with heaven and earth, rather than with international standards. Connect with heaven and earth, security; connect with international standards, danger.
In a nutshell, festivals need to be taken seriously, both in large and minor sections. This festival is generally a calendar-determined natural festival, not a man-made festival. If there is a festival of artificiality, it must be commemorated as a saint and hero who has made great contributions to the people and the country, not just one. There is no introduction of barbarian customs. The movement of celestial bodies and the earth produces a rotation of seasons, causing changes in the body and mind of all things, including human beings, so human behavior should conform to heaven and earth. How? The simplest is to live every festival according to the teachings of the ancestors, create beauty, and enjoy the beauty.
Ji Han, the grandson of Ji Kang, the head of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, wrote a book called "Southern Grass and Trees". There is a sentence in it: "The head of a woman, at four o'clock, has not tasted it." "Ancient women's hairpins, all year round is not unpretentious, Hua is a flower, there are flowers in all four seasons, so the women's heads are endlessly flowered." In fact, the hairpin flower is not a female patent, the ancients, regardless of men and women, young and old, rich and poor, in the festival, there are customs of hairpin flowers. What the ancients wore on their heads and what patterns they wore on their clothes changed at any time, and such a life had a sense of ceremony. I remember when I was a child, in the summer, the girls in the class would wear gardenia flowers that grandma or grandma had tied for themselves, which is now rare. Under western influence, the custom of hairpin flowers seems to have nothing to do with the Han Chinese. But ancestors who once lived in the same land will have flowers for generations.
At four o'clock, there are flowers with fluttering belts, and there are also flowers sold into flowers, cypress gui, and luohan leaves. Spring flutter with peach blossoms, four spices, Ruixiang, wood fragrance and other flowers, summer flutter golden lantern flower, jasmine, sunflower, durian flower, gardenia flower, autumn flutter jasmine, orchid, wood tree, autumn camellia, winter is fluttering wood spring flower, plum blossom, orchid, daffodil, plum blossom.
- "Dream Liang"
In the spring, the peonies in Luoyang City bloom, and the people of a city are all crazy for flowers, and they all bloom on their heads, although the low-level laborers are no exception. The ancients wore flowers, headdresses, and clothes that could change at any time. We generally only know how to eat seasonal food now, but the ancients also wore seasonal clothes and seasonal headdresses, and this was regardless of men, women and children. For example, in the spring, plum sideburns are inserted, and in autumn, chrysanthemums are worn. The Dragon Boat Festival wears clothes with the pattern of five poisons, and the clothes worn by Tanabata have the Pattern of Queqiao. Coupled with the corresponding food and sacrifice ceremonies, banquet activities, life and heaven and earth are the same frequency.
(Four Seasons Flower Basket Picture)▼
On the first day of the first lunar month, that is, the first day of the Chinese New Year, that is, the day of New Year's Day, when the chickens are about to crow, they get up and set off firecrackers in front of their own courtyard to ward off evil spirits. From the elders to the young children, they all wear new clothes, dress up and celebrate the New Year. The customs of new year's greetings, dressing in new clothes, and getting up early are the same now. On this day, you have to drink pepper wine, peach soup, Tu Su wine, and eat eggs. Pepper cypress wine is a wine soaked with peppercorns and cypress leaves. Pepper and Cypress are both high-purity medicines, Cypress is Immortal Wood, and Pepper is Yuheng Star Essence. The aroma of pepper and cypress leaves is psychic and repels evil spirits, and it is long-lasting. Peach wood is also a fairy wood, peach is the essence of the five elements, can subdue the evil spirits, so on the first day of the first month to drink peach soup, put the peach wood board on the window. "The first time to use pepper wine", this custom has been spread in the land of China for thousands of years. The spicy aroma of peppercorns was highly valued by the ancients, so on this special and important day of the first year, peppercorn wine was taken. The junior drinks first, because the junior has to be old. Elders drink after, because the elders are out of age. On the same day, it is also necessary to paste chicken paintings on the windows, and insert peach charms next to them, which is also the effect of warding off evil spirits and driving away ghosts. The night is the time when ghosts wander, the chicken cries with the dawn, and the chicken is the messenger of the sun, so it can make the ghost afraid. The practice of sticking like this on doors and windows to achieve the effect of warding off evil spirits is not only New Year's Day. Of course, not to put different paintings in the same season, for sure.
There is pepper Qiyixin
Let's talk about a few festivals that the ancients valued and that today's people don't necessarily care about. Spring. Lichun is an important day, and this day should be cut and worn on the head. Spring returns to the earth, swallows return, so you have to wear swallow-shaped jewelry. Again, seasonal ornaments are not just women's patents, but acts of the whole people. "Rainbow swallows welcome spring into the sideburns", the poem describes the customs of the Lichun hairpin swallow. On this day, a Spring Festival ceremony is also held. People should dress up as the jurchen gods in charge of Chunsheng and whip the spring cows. Spring cattle are made of clay. In the old times, there will be spring cow patterns in the spring festival. Beating spring cattle and hairpin spring swallows is something to do when li chun.
(Spring Cow Year Painting)▼
Li Chun head inserted small swallows, then li qiu head wear what? Wild goose? Just kidding. Autumn to ask for catalpa leaves. Catalpa is a large catalpa tree. This kind of tree, with small leaves and relatively smooth bark, is called the quince tree, which is used in summer festivals and daily dress. The catalpa tree, which has larger leaves and coarser bark, is a symbol of autumn. During the Southern Song Dynasty, in the early morning of the autumn day, the streets and alleys of Hangzhou City were selling catalpa leaves, and people rushed to buy them, cutting the catalpa leaves into various favorite patterns and inserting them on the sideburns to meet the time of day. It can be seen from this that the ancients paid much attention to how much their behavior was in line with the heavens and the earth, and how much they paid attention to the same frequency with the heavens and the earth.
(Catalpa tree fragrant) ▼
(Catalpa flower color rhymes well)▼
I also like to wear Hanfu. I once saw a Hanfu product, it is a Song gown. Gowns were a popular style of women's clothing in the Song Dynasty. On that summer gown, a camellia flower was embroidered on the chest. Camellias bloom in winter, summer clothes embroidered winter flowers, this dress was placed in the Song Dynasty, should not be sold. Because the ancients paid great attention to whether the clothing pattern was seasonal. Traditional clothing will have decorative patterns on the fabric, and those without patterns are generally mourning clothes. What clothes to wear affects people's aura, then the pattern is very important. The Dragon Boat Festival wears the Five Poisonous Aihu pattern, the Qixi Wears the Queqiao Nebula Pattern, the Mid-Autumn Festival wears the Chang'e Jade Rabbit Pattern, and the Winter Solstice wears the Sheep Prince Pattern. If there is a floral ornament on the clothes, see if it is a seasonal flower. For example, the peach blossom flowing water pattern is used for spring clothes, and the ice crack plum blossom pattern is used for winter clothes.
(Dragon Boat Festival' Seasonal Clothes Five Poisons AiHu Supplement)▼
(Ice crack plum pattern)▼
This annual, day of celebration in different ways is called the year of the year. Each year has a corresponding different theme ornament. The Qingming Festival swings and plants willow branches; in August, enjoy the begonias and wear jade hairpin flowers; the Dragon Boat Festival, which is woven with multicolored silk threads on the wrists, called "long life wisps", can avoid disasters; in September 9, the ninth yang, wear the cocoon, drink chrysanthemum wine; on the first day of the first month, everyone likes to wear plum blossoms, plum blossoms and five blessings, and welcome the new spring.
Each year also has a corresponding different theme of food. Drink pepper wine, cypress wine, and peach soup on the first day of the first month, as mentioned above. The Cold Food Festival is a commemoration of jin wen gong loyal minister Jiezi push. On this day, we eat cold food, drink barley porridge, and add mashed almonds, called "liquor cheese". On the fifth day of May, in addition to eating rice dumplings, it is necessary to collect more medicine on this day, and the medicinal aura collected on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival is stronger. Eat soup cakes on June 5 to ward off evil spirits. I feel that what the ancients ate could be related to the ward off evil spirits. Chongyang drinks chrysanthemum wine. The list goes on and on. The consumption of dietary jewelry in the seasons of the year is very large, and the usual life also follows the four-hour rule.
(Sheep Prince Figure (Winter Solstice One Yang Sheng))▼
There are two particularly beautiful traditional festivals, which I would like to talk about specifically, namely the 15th Flower Festival in February and the 3rd Shangmi Festival in March. These two festivals have been forgotten today, but they were very important in ancient times, and they were a time for the whole people to rejoice.
The Flower Dynasty Festival is a hundred peanuts day. This day is a day of celebration, flower viewing, drinking, and poetry, which is a day of elegant and customary appreciation. The girls especially enjoyed the day. Everyone gathered together to go to the countryside to see the flowers in the spring, plant flowers and plant trees, cut ribbons on the flower trees, and celebrate the birth of the flower god. If the weather is clear on this day, the year's crop ripening is an auspicious omen. The flower god is the December flower god, and there are many versions of the corresponding characters of the flower god, and the male flower god and the female flower god have it, such as Tao Yuanming is the chrysanthemum god, and Xi Shi is the lotus god, how cute. In short, the customs of the Flower Festival: walking on the spring to enjoy the flowers, cutting the ribbon to tie the flowers and trees, and celebrating the birthday of the flower god.
The three paths are deserted, and the pine chrysanthemums still exist. Tao Yuanming is the chrysanthemum god.
March 3 shangwei Festival, can be said to be the real Chinese Valentine's Day. Because Tanabata is actually a festival exclusive to girls, and Tanabata is in autumn, which belongs to the season of yin convergence, and spring is when everything germinates and young people are pregnant with spring. On this day people are going to the water's edge. Rivers, lakes, streams, river banks, all. Go to the nearest water's edge, bend the water, drink and feast and write poems, and both men and women send flowers to the object of their choice. The Central Plains region gives peony medicine to express his heart, and peony symbolizes love. On the same day, you also have to plant cauliflower on the head. Cauliflower does not have the appearance of national color and heavenly fragrance, simple and cute, very grounded. It has a delicate fragrance, can make the liver stretch, has a bright effect. Therefore, the Shangwei Festival should conform to the heavens, wear cauliflower on the head, and the whole body is refreshing and comfortable, and the heart is bright. Folk proverb says: "On the third of March, the cauliflower race peony, the woman does not insert no money, the woman inserts a rice full warehouse." ”
Wei Shi and the female, Yi Qi, sneered at each other and gave them a spoonful of medicine.
Spring in the creek head cauliflower
The aesthetics of the farmhouse is based on the beauty of people's words and deeds that are in line with heaven and earth, and conform to the seasons, and vice versa. Spring order, summer order, autumn order, winter order is normal. If you don't do what you should do in a certain season, but do things in other seasons, such as spring and summer, winter and autumn, there will be disasters, and the specific disasters will be different according to the specific practices. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, twenty-four solar terms, at least every fifteen days can be celebrated. Each section is divided into three seasons, seventy-two days a year, and every time there are changes in heaven and earth, food, clothing, shelter and transportation can be adjusted accordingly. Coupled with other festivals, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata, there are too many such days that can be taken seriously. Life needs a sense of ritual, and the peasant aesthetic teaches us to love life, get close to nature, conform to the heavens, and be content with the earth, where there is no room for recklessness and selfishness. Judge whether a race is civilized and advanced, to see whether it has a mature farming culture; to evaluate whether a person has taste, to see his feelings for the nature of heaven and earth and his attitude towards the working people.
There is great beauty in heaven and earth without words