February 7, the first seven of Mibu-to-Etsu.
At the end of the annual leave, most people started working. The days of striving for their respective life goals are restarted. Tourists plummeted, but some people still walked into the Xiurong Academy Museum.
Some time ago, because of the creation of a drama "Patching up the Heavens", I revisited some materials and relived the legend of Nuwa again. Legend has it that Nuwa created all things, but it was not man who created it first, but animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses in turn before creating man. Therefore, the seventh day of the first lunar month is called "Human Day". This day can be said to be the birthday of mankind.
One thing that distinguishes man from other animals is that human beings have created culture and have inherited culture.
These days, in the exhibition hall of "Jiuyuan Yuanmu", people are very interested in the "Mural paintings of the Jiuyuan Gangbei Qi Period". Through the figures in the paintings, I learned that Xinzhou was a place where many ethnic groups converged in history, and I also learned some customs at that time from the paintings. Many people carefully watch and discuss the characters and costumes in the paintings.
Since the Beginning of the Han Dynasty, there has been a "Human Day" festival, which the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to pay attention to. In ancient times, on the "Day of Man", that is, the seventh day of the first lunar month, there was a custom of wearing "Man Wins". "Rensheng" is a kind of headdress, also known as Caisheng, Huasheng, from the Jin Dynasty onwards, there are ribbon cutting for flowers, ribbon cutting for people, or gold leaf for people to paste screens, but also worn on hair. There is also the custom of ascending to the top of the poem. After the Tang Dynasty, more attention was paid to this festival. Every human day, the emperor gave the group of ministers a colorful wisp of victory, and then ascended to a high feast for the group of subjects. If the weather is sunny on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the main year population is safe and the entry and exit are smooth. When admiring the works of Chen Hongshou, an outstanding artist of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to admiring the wonderful and gorgeous female headdresses, you can often see the image of flower arrangements on male heads. Now that I think about it, it may also be the inheritance of this custom.
In the "Mural paintings of the Jiuyuan Gangbei Qi period", the characters in the picture basically have headdresses. In addition to women, those hunting men also have different headdresses on their heads, and from the shape of these headdresses, it is not just for the sake of keeping out the cold, but there is a great component of aesthetics. Women's head decorations are naturally more so, and women's clothing is also very exquisite.
It can be seen that aesthetic consciousness is an important connotation and composition of human culture.
In the exhibition hall of "Jiuyuan Yuanmu", there is also an exhibit that many people stop and admire. That is a plaque of "enthusiastic public welfare" in China for twenty years. From the content of this plaque, it can be seen that this is a wooden plaque given by Zhang Yanlin, the county magistrate of Xinxian County, for the outstanding teacher Cui Maoguan in the 20th year of the Republic of China, with the seal of "Xinxian County Government Official" on it and many names under it, and these people should be the contributors to the plaque. The person who erected the plaque is "Village Chief Ning Sancai". From this plaque, we can see that at that time, there were already people and things in the society who were enthusiastic about public welfare, and from the villagers to the government, they all hoped to publicly commend such behavior and affect more people.
Human history has always been full of sufferings, natural disasters and human disasters, but human beings pray for goodness. In all cultures, blessings, wishes, and the resulting cultural practices contain such a wish, and all major festivals are the concentrated expression of this good wish.
The museum is the presentation of human past, and it is a good place for people to understand people.
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