It's about to be the New Year, and we can tell our children about the tone of the ancient literati's New Year's Eve-
Years of pilgrimage.
"Year Dynasty" means the first day of the Lunar New Year, and "Qing Offering" is an object placed indoors for viewing.
"Offering" has the meaning of offering, and is full of respect and sustenance. "Qing" means light and pure, and it is fun and realm.
A bergamot, two stems of residual lotus, a few red plums, several vermilions (goldfish), a pot of daffodils... All can be cleared.
Qing Yun Shouping's "Narcissus Diagram"
Tasting this "Qing" word is also luxurious, lies in the painstaking search and the elegance of placement. It has nothing to do with the economic level, what is needed is leisure and elegance, to create and aesthetic.
Flower bottles are also a way to clear offerings, without having to stick to the varieties on the market. The ancients did not have certain rules for the flowers of the Qing Dynasty, and they could do whatever they wanted.
If you are tired of lilies, roses, or orange stems and hydrangeas, you can try peonies, apricot blossoms, azaleas, camellias, and even a bunch of reeds and a bouquet of puddle grass, which are both retro and novel.
There should be fewer things, the posture should be good, and it is important to leave white space. If there is a fragrance, it adds more charm.
The bergamot hands are at most one or two, matched with Longquan celadon or Dehua white porcelain, lining up the delicate yellow. Modern people with simple glass plates, feel also on the right road.
Citrus fruits such as bergamot, orange, orange, and rafters have their own fresh breath, which was called smelling fruit in ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, there was a poem cloud "Quping Deep Mantle Green Orange Fragrance", which was very good for Qing offerings. Although lemons are foreign goods, it is not bad to put a few on the desk. Smell the incense, you can also make tea after serving.
Qing confession also talks about adapting to the season, using local materials. In the spring, the valley orchid is potted, a red pomegranate is placed in the summer, the stem is picked in the autumn, and the wax plum blossom is pruned in winter.
Wax moon and new month, it is when the wax plum is open. The wax plum is shaped like honey wax, fragrant all over the house, the most resistant to nourishment, and can be left for several months after drying.
Originally supposed to be a Buddha's hand, the figure is convenient, so I took the "Harumi" (commonly known as "Tangerine" that I ate at home) on the table, and it did not look contrary.
If the wax plum is too vegetarian, it can be matched with the southern sky bamboo full of coral red berries, and inserted into the bottle. Yellow flowers, red fruits, green leaves, a lot of bright.
New Year's Day, with red plum bottle, add more enthusiasm. This classical celebration is restrained and long-lasting.
The fiftieth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", baoqin stepped on the snow to find plums, like a picture scroll.
Looking at the four sides, pink makeup and silver bricks, I suddenly saw Baoqin draped in a silken fur, standing behind the hillside and waiting, behind a beard, holding a bottle of red plums.
And Baoyu, a rich and idle person, likes to be lively the most, is to be busy with three points when there is nothing to do:
Bao Yu smiled at Bao Chao Dai Yu and said, "I have just arrived at Li Cui'an again, and Miao Yu actually gave you a plum blossom each, and I have already sent someone to send it." Everyone laughed and said, "Thank you for bothering." ”
The ancients used plum blossoms to insert bottles, which was very particular about posture.
Wang Xi of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Three Talents Picture Society" that plums have four nobles: expensive and not expensive, expensive and old, expensive and thin, not expensive and fat, and expensive and not expensive.
In the "Yingmei An Reminiscences", It is recorded that Dong Xiaowan was painstaking in making the Nian Dynasty Qing Confession. When the plum blossoms are not in bloom, she looks at whether the horizontal slope of the branches matches the vase of the case, and trims the plum branches appropriately years ago, and then cuts them off and offers them into the bottle at the New Year.
Song Li Tang 'Exploring Meitu with a Staff》
The fragrance is the clearest, and the ice muscle jade bone of the daffodil is also counted. Buy a few garlic heads ten days in advance, put them in water, and open during the Spring Festival.
In the "Chronicle of Long Things", it is recorded that there are two kinds of daffodils, and the one with a single petal is better. Winter months should be planted more, but its nature is not hardy, take the excellent one to move the pot benefit, put a few cases. The second is planted under the pine bamboo, or between the ancient mechi stones, more elegant.
Confession is not only the tone of the literati, but anyone who has the heart can also get this true interest.
Wang Zengqi wrote in the article "Confessions of the Qing Dynasty":
I once saw an old painting, a hut, an old man holding a crock pot, inserting a plum blossom branch, just about to put it on the case, the inscription: The mountain family Chinese New Year's Eve nothing else, and the plum blossoms are inserted for the New Year. This is really the year of the Dynasty Confession.
How chic!
On the occasion of the spring festival approaching, also talk to the children:
For the gift of years, the attitude of lotte and cherishing life is the best confession.
Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, I bring peanuts in advance to give you a New Year's greeting, I wish you and your family a new year auspicious, safe and joyful, all the best!