Blessed places "seek" blessings

The essence of traditional culture

"Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture" is divided into twelve chapters, including FuYi Traceability, Blessing Allusions, Fu Zi Ji Language, Derivation of Fu Yi, and Worship of The God of Fu, which systematically introduces the traditional Chinese Fu culture in a graphic and textual manner.

In order to carry forward and inherit the excellent traditional culture, in 2013, the Fujian People's Publishing House planned and approved the selection of Fu culture books, and invited cultural scholar Yin Wei as the author of the book. In mid-2014, the book "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture" was published.

Prior to this, Yin Wei had published a number of books on the theme of Fu culture, such as "Tu Shu Wu Fu" and "Tu Shu Chinese Wu Fu Culture Series". "At that time, the creation of the book "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture" was aimed at carrying forward and inheriting Fu culture, disseminating the classic content of Fu culture, showing the essence of Fu culture to the world, taking Fu culture as the core concept, and deeply excavating the connotation of Fu culture." Yin Wei said that he hopes to visualize and interpret Chinese Fu culture in the carrier of pictures and texts, highlight the theme of Fu culture, show all aspects of Fu culture, concentrate on displaying the auspicious meaning and essence connotation of Fu culture, and meet the multi-faceted and multi-level aesthetic needs of readers at different levels.

Flipping through the book "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture", the whole book starts from the original meaning of "Fu Yi Traces" - "Fu" to "Fu in the World" - Fu Duoduo, the blessed state, and tells all aspects of the historical evolution, depth connotation, external performance and other aspects of traditional Fu culture. Not only is the text narrated informative and rich, but also equipped with a large number of pictures of Fu elements with various forms and historical and cultural value, which are vivid and interesting to read, and let people have an in-depth and simple understanding of traditional Chinese Fu culture. There are many Fujian elements in the book, such as in the chapter of bat fuxiang diagram, when introducing the auspicious pattern of the Fu culture of the exquisite wood carved flower boards of ancient houses, a pair of special-shaped "Fu" characters made of chinese panels made of Fujian Yongchun Gong fir wood in the Qing Dynasty are introduced, which is very exquisite. In the chapter on Fu in the human world, he specially wrote a chapter on Fuduoduo, a blessed state, and counted the fu cultural elements of Fuzhou.

Fuzhou is not only the only provincial capital city named after the word "Fu", but also a happy place of happiness and happiness, the city has a variety of Fu culture connotation inheritance and external expression, Fuzhou celebrity Lin Zexu also left a famous sentence "Profit the country lives and dies, will you avoid it because of misfortune", which is the precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation.

The wisdom of exhortation to warn the world

In the preface to "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture", Yin Wei writes: The Chinese nation is a nation that advocates and pursues happiness. Since ancient times Chinese there have been customs of praying for blessings and hoping for blessings and advocating blessings and blessings, and have a high sense of psychological identification with blessings. Since china had its own writing, there have been hieroglyphs of "Fu", and the word "Fu" has deeply influenced the outlook on life and values of every Chinese. Fu culture is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.

In the historical process of people diligently seeking blessings, various derivations of blessings and righteousness also occur. The book uses a large number of words and pages to explain and introduce this, such as when talking about "being in the blessing to cherish the blessing", introducing the ancient people to rule the family and teach the son to pay great attention to the blessing, the Qing Dynasty Yuan Fucheng said in the "Suiyang Shangshu Yuan Family Genealogy": "... Although the family is rich and self-sufficient, it often teaches the family with pity. "Folk fortune trees also warn people that happiness is born in qing frugality. When analyzing the profound philosophy contained in the paradox of "suffering a loss is a blessing", the book quotes Zheng Banqiao's words to illustrate that a peaceful mood is a blessing. The author's exposition of the concept of happiness and attitude towards life extended by the derivation of various blessings and righteousness still has important enlightenment and significance for modern society and people's lives.

When talking about the experience of writing these chapters, Yin Wei said that blessing is a subjective feeling, everyone has the ability to feel happiness, and people can express their understanding of blessing from different aspects through their own speculation and feelings. For example, the folk culture aphorism says: If you can be satisfied, you will enjoy great blessings; for example, if you have the time to study, it is called a blessing.

Many explanations of blessings and righteousness are the crystallization of the experience and wisdom of the ancestors, and many of them have the function of persuading the good to make up for the past in order to seek well-being. The various definitions of blessings by the ancients, the role of exhortation and caution against the world is very obvious, in the folk mostly enshrined as a code of conduct, the elders often use this to teach the younger generations. We can also get the profound meaning of the blessing culture from it. This kind of fu culture is a subtle process of people's edification, almost everywhere. ”

Yin Wei said that the concept and connotation of cherishing happiness explained by the ancients coincide with the concepts of thrift and thrift advocated by the current society. This enlightens us that with the improvement of material living standards, we should "cherish blessings in the midst of happiness", let thrift lead the fashion, and make due contributions to building a civilized and harmonious society.

A treasure trove of human resources

At present, Fujian Province is vigorously promoting the construction of a culture of blessings. Taking advantage of this good opportunity, the Fujian People's Publishing House also stepped up the revision and republishment of the book "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture".

Yin Wei introduced that this revision and supplement focus on supplementing the content of Fujian Fu culture characteristics, such as Zhu Xi's Defu Temple, Zhangzhou woodblock New Year paintings in Fu culture, And Fu culture in ancient residences, and strive to outline the characteristics of Fujian Fu culture more systematically. "The land of Bamin contains a rich and colorful Fu culture, and has bred a remarkable cultural heritage of Fu culture, which is an important object of Fu culture research and a rich cultural resource, which makes people proud and proud." I will elaborate on all of this in my book. ”

Promoting the Culture of Fu at present is of great practical significance in Yin Wei's view. He said that blessing is an eternal proposition of life, Chinese have special feelings for blessing, in daily life, there are a large number of sayings related to blessing, people look rich and are called "blessings", good places are called "blessed land", enjoying happiness is called "blessings", and seeing good scenes and wonderful things is called "eye blessing". All of this reflects the world's desire for blessings, which can be described as well-intentioned.

"Everyone wants happiness and dreams of pursuing a better life, but personal happiness is closely linked to the dream of the country." Happiness is the people's yearning for a better life; the Chinese dream is the basis for everyone's happy life. Yin Wei said that in such a context, vigorously promoting the culture of Happiness is not only an urgent need to carry forward and inherit China's excellent traditional culture, but also a practical need to strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization in the new era.

According to Jin Yong, editor of the Fujian People's Publishing House, the revised book "Fu: Traditional Chinese Fu Culture" is scheduled to be published next month. It is understood that in addition to the revision and republishment of the book, the Fujian People's Publishing House also plans to produce a book that comprehensively and comprehensively displays fujian's Fu culture, including "fu" in Fujian's mountains and rivers, "fu" in the Fujian context, "fu" in the ancient home, and so on.

"The traditional Chinese culture of Blessing is vividly reflected in the landscapes and rivers of Fujian and the daily life of residents, and has quite Fujian characteristics, such as overseas Chinese elements, marine elements, etc., which have not been collected and sorted out completely for many years, and it is difficult to peek into its full picture." Jin Yong said that at the moment of vigorously promoting the construction of Fujian culture, the launch of relevant reading materials is opportune, and we hope that the publication of Fu culture theme books can extract positive factors from excellent traditional culture and help Fujian's high-quality development; it can systematically summarize and refine Fujian's Fu culture to benefit future generations. (Fujian Daily reporter Li Yan)