Writing is the carrier of a country's culture and carries the unique culture of this country. Chinese characters, pictographic ideograms, one word and one meaning, and even one word multiple meanings, this is an interesting place, but also a delicate place.
Take the word "pavilion" as an example. The explanation of the "Explanation of Words and Characters" is: "The pavilion, the people are stable." The pavilion has a building, from the high province, Ding Sheng. "The original meaning refers to the pavilion for everyone to stop and rest.
Northern Song Dynasty Wang Ximeng's "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" Volume (Partial)
Collection of the Palace Museum
The extended meaning has the meaning of "positive". For example, Tingwu means high noon, and the Central Plains region is called Noon. Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou in his forties and served as the deputy envoy of the Huangzhou regiment, which was a purely fictitious post. The official rank is low and the future is uncertain. The word "pavilion noon" appears in his poem, in which he says: "Three glasses of wine are drunk, and one pillow sleeps in the spring." When I woke up, I drank, drank and then slept, and slept until noon.
Guanfu Museum · Cat kiosk
The word "pavilion", in addition to meaning "positive", also has the meaning of "stop" by extension. The so-called "pavilion, stop also." "The pavilions in all the places of interest and monuments are certainly not taken for granted by craftsmen, but must have been painstakingly designed by literati and craftsmen, and painstakingly created by skilled craftsmen." They wanted to go through this pavilion and tell the people who were strolling through it: Slow down, enjoy the beautiful scenery, and it is not too late to rest and go again.
Sit idly in the cat booth
Bao Junhui, a talented daughter of the Tang Dynasty, was summoned to the palace, became a female scholar of Tang Dezong, and participated in a royal outdoor banquet held in the East Pavilion. She wrote in the "East Pavilion Tea Banquet": "Idle towards Xiao out of the curtain, tea feast East Pavilion look around." Looking at the mountains of the city in the distance, listening to the sound of the strings and pipes. "Sitting firmly in the East Pavilion, looking around, the city in the distance is ethereal against the background of the mountains, the palace people in the vicinity play the silk bamboo orchestra, and the beautiful music floats down the water to the ear. Mountains in the distance, water in the near distance, people sitting idly in the pavilion, the luxury and comfort of royal life jump on the paper. It can be seen that the pavilion is a leisure place for people to slow down.
Tang Dynasty poet Bao Junhui
So, next time we move into the pavilion, please stay and walk. After stopping, looking around, the scenery in the pavilion is the most beautiful. Don't miss the good intentions of the builders.
A Chinese character hides so many deep meanings, reflecting the profundity of Chinese culture.
We engraved Chinese characters on pillars or hung them in temples, and we had the Chinese Yanglian. At first glance, it is easy to understand, and the details contain clean things. The exquisite Chinese characters form an exquisite Yang Lian.
楹聯 is the most Chinese expression, the meaning of the upper and lower links is harmonious and unified, the number of words is equal, and the rhetorical method of duality is used. Regardless of the content, just looking at the text, the brushstrokes of the silver hook iron painting are already pleasing to the eye. Coupled with the catchy rhyme and the words of the dual battle, it is even more evocative.
Guanfu Museum, Furniture Hall, Mahogany Exhibition Hall
In the mahogany exhibition hall of the Guanfu Museum, there is a striking pair of Yang Lian, which is engraved on a pair of Qing Dynasty black lacquer depicting gold pillars, listed on the left and right of the "Baoshan Hall" plaque, with sixteen big characters: "Tianshui is clear in ancient times, and the earth mountain is to take qi and Ruochun." The font is simple and elegant, and it is made in one go. The content is neat and tidy, and it contains clean and tidy. The first two words of the upper and lower links are taken from the two gua xiang of the I Ching.
"Tianshui", the lawsuit of the sixty-four trigrams, is a fierce and unlucky trigram. "Tianshui has no reason" means that there is no verbal argument, and there is no extraneous branch. This is, of course, a beautiful long-cherished wish for everyday life. On the other hand, this sentence is also a warning to oneself and even to one's family: life is always inevitable to be ditches and bumps, take a step back and open up the sky, and "the wind is clear in the ancient times".
"Earth Mountain", the humility of the Sixty-Four Gua, means to be humble and humble in one's heart, and to be tolerant of all things in heaven and earth in one's heart. Interacting with people and knowing humility are also the premise and basis of "Tianshui has no reason" in Shanglian.
Since ancient times, we have the saying of "humble and humble valley". Southern Song Dynasty Wei Zongwu said in the "Fuxi Xuanzhu": "The middle is vain and tolerant, and the outside is straight and not leaning." The "emptiness" in the middle of the bamboo is to leave capacity and give the space to absorb and be compatible with all things. Borrowing bamboo as a metaphor for people, humble and humble, there is tolerance and greatness, there is heaven and earth in the heart, the sun and the moon, and the sky and the sky in the eyes.
One stroke after another, one horizontal and one vertical, it is full of the master's academic cultivation and understanding of self-cultivation. The charm of culture permeates the Yang Lian, and in a stroke of a stroke, we can glimpse the master's family cultivation behavior, the family's cultural heritage, and even see the home country and the world.
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Let's look at a couple of interesting couplets.
There are set sentences, there are words that are broken.
Let's continue to explore the ingenuity of Chinese characters,
The beauty of The Link.