Recently, Hou Yinguo's new work "The Same Day in the Wind and Moon: Details in ancient cultural changes" was published and distributed by the Gansu People's Publishing House and Beijing Lingyu Culture Planning. Eons of time, a wind and moon, follow the Indian country into the details of traditional culture.
The book focuses on the daily life of ancient people, choosing to observe the changes in cultural concepts and customs in Chinese daily life from the details of cultural changes. Take you to discover interesting and moving details of ancient life culture.
The writer An Yiru believes that this book is written in some small details of ancient life, but I do not think it is trivial, on the contrary, they are deeply rooted, and it is difficult for the world to peek through the mysteries and see through the original face. Life is the bearer of culture, culture is the root of life, the two such as flowers shining on water, such as water reflecting the moon, can be attributed to the Chinese culture itself in the mountains and rivers of exotic, wind and moon on the same day.
The origin of Chinese civilization is not one place and one end, but "eight directions rising", these stars-like civilizations, through the intersection of the flow, eventually attached to the same mainstream, the formation of our unique civilization.
The long process of evolution of Chinese culture has experienced cultural integration at both vertical and horizontal scales, and the horizontal is the influence of various foreign ideological trends, and the focus of this book is on the vertical process, that is, the problem of cultural integration and collision in the ancient Chinese cultural change;
Topics range from food related to people's lives (hot pot, moon cake, crab), clothing (autumn pants), social life (toilets, garbage, express delivery, star chasing, military parades) to festivals (Spring Festival, Qingming Festival), customs, beliefs (Vesta, Nezha, Jade Rabbit), etc.
About the Author:
Hou Yinguo
Dingxi people of Gansu Province, cultural scholars, university teachers, mainly engaged in the teaching and research of philology and cultural communication, in recent years, mainly focus on the study of Buddhist communication. He has published monographs on philology and cultural communication such as "Research on Private Bibliographies of the Qing Dynasty", as well as the collation and editing of ancient books such as "Tokyo Dream Hualu" and the textbook "General Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Studies", and has won the first prize of the Chinese Ancient Philology Award, the Excellent Paper Award of the Chinese Catalogue Society, and the May Fourth Youth Medal of Nanjing University.
Title: The Same Day in the Wind and Moon: Details in the Changing Ancient Cultures
Author: Hou Yinguo
Publisher: Gansu People's Publishing House
Planning: Beijing Reading Culture
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Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
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Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Dai Yujing