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The world-famous Beijing Winter Olympics came to a perfect end at the Bird's Nest on February 20, and many people were amazed by the beautiful performances and scenes at the closing ceremony, but in fact, at the closing ceremony, there are still many knowledge points of Chinese culture hidden, I don't know if you can see it.
In this issue, we will briefly talk to you about the five knowledge points of Chinese culture hidden in the closing ceremony.
First, I used to go to the past, Yang Liuyi
At the closing ceremony of this Winter Olympic Games, when the song "Farewell" composed by the famous master Li Shutong sounded, the actors on the field slowly appeared with willow branches in their hands.
Willow branches have been synonymous with farewell since the pre-Qin period and have always been synonymous with farewell in Chinese culture.
In the "Poetry Of Little Ya Tse-wei", there is a verse that reads, "Once upon a time, I went to the past, and Yang Liu Yiyi";
The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei also wrote in the famous farewell poem "Sending Yuan Er Envoy Anxi" to "Liu Se Xin"
Weicheng is light and dusty towards the rain, and the guest house is green and willow-colored.
Persuade the jun to drink a glass of wine, and go out of the west to yang guan without a reason.
Li Shutong also has the sentence in the lyrics of "Farewell" that "the evening wind blows the willow flute and the sunset mountain is outside the mountain".
Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain. The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered. A scoop of turbid wine is all over the place, don't dream cold tonight.
This first point of knowledge is Willow.
Second, the world is one, the world is one
At the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese characters "World Unity, One Family" composed of fireworks and the corresponding English "One world One famliy" amazed the world.
In fact, "world unity" and "one family under the heavens" can be said to be a very important Confucian understanding of the world, the country, the monarch, and the people.
This sentence comes from the Confucian classic Book of Rites.
In the Book of Rites, Confucianism describes the world of great unity in the Confucian concept:
"The journey of the avenue is also the public of the world." Choosing the wise and the able, preaching faith and cultivating harmony, the old man does not kiss his relatives alone, does not have only sons and sons, so that the old will have an end, the strong will be useful, the young will grow, and the widows and lonely and the sick will all have something to support. Men have points, women have returns. It is not necessary to hide it from itself if it is evil to the earth; it is not necessary to be evil from the body, nor does it have to be for itself. It is the reason for the conspiracy to close but not to be happy, the theft and the thief without doing it, so the foreign household is not closed, which is called datong. ”
And "The Family of the World" is also from the "Book of Rites and Fortunes", which mentions:
"Therefore, the saints regard the whole world as one family and China as one person, and they are not intentional."
In the late Qing Dynasty, the revolutionary ancestors shouted out the social ideals of "the world is just" and "the world is one" at the critical juncture of the survival of the nation.
It can be said that "the unity of the world" and "the family under the heavens" have both the ancient philosophical ideas of the Chinese nation and the modern concepts under the circumstances of the peril of the modern nation.
3. Kiss and tie the knot, ninety of its rituals
Rope knots have a very long history in Chinese history, and in ancient times, without writing, the ancestors used the method of knotted ropes to record major events that happened around them.
That is, the famous knotted rope chronicle: "The ancient knotted rope chronicle, the future saints are easy to book deeds."
That is to say, the earliest meaning of knotted rope is record, contract; later, knotted rope has the meaning of "combination" and "gathering", such as our commonly used words such as "marriage", "marriage", "alliance" and so on
In the Book of Verses, it is said: Kiss the knot, ninety of its rituals.
It means that when a daughter gets married, the mother knots with her on the one hand and advises her on the wedding ceremony. And the "knot" here already has the meaning of marriage.
In the long process of development, the knot has more and more meanings in the folk, and different knots represent different expectations and wishes.
For example, the concentric knot symbolizes love; the auspicious cloud knot represents auspiciousness; the ruyi knot symbolizes all things as it goes; the shouzi knot represents shoubi Nanshan...
Now, the Chinese knot has also become a beautiful business card of Chinese traditional culture, and at this closing ceremony, the many appearances of the Chinese knot have also made the world feel the charm of Chinese traditional culture again;
In addition to the above three knowledge points, at the opening and closing ceremonies of this Winter Olympic Games, it can be said that every program and every picture is integrated into a strong Chinese culture.
For example, the opening time of this Winter Olympic Games is the spring breeze of the twenty-four solar terms, and the day before the closing ceremony is the rain of the twenty-four solar terms;
The opening ceremony showed the twenty-four solar terms in Chinese culture, and the snowmobile of the zodiac was launched at the closing ceremony;
During this Winter Olympic Games, just in time for the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is one of the most important festivals in the Chinese traditional festivals, on this day everyone has to hang lanterns, make flower lanterns; eat the Lantern Festival, guess the riddle of the lanterns...
The closing ceremony also showed the scene of the fifteenth day of the first month.
There are also "ice carved Chinese doors and windows" that open doors and welcome guests, "water of the Yellow River" that pours down, Olympic medals from ancient China, paper-cut shapes on children's clothes singing songs...
"The Chinese culture formed in the accumulation of 5,000 years of history is inexhaustible and inexhaustible, which can be seen everywhere and shines at the Beijing Winter Olympics." Chen Ning, director of the Cultural Activities Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said.
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