▲Lao She is enjoying the flowers
There are many men who love flowers and plant flowers, and the writer Lao She in an old photo crouches in front of a pile of brightly colored potted flowers, holding a pipe cigarette in his left hand, and admiring it satisfactorily and freely. Flowers are self-planted by Lao She, and as far as he is a good flower maker, this is both a hobby and a means of adjustment for long writing.
There are many flower growers, and now there are more women. In the circle of friends, several households have people sunbathing her balcony or yard every day, this seasonal month and season bloom, that night the ephemeral flowers bloom, and the dynamic picture is nine squares. As for the winter snow to find plum flower arrangements into the bottle, the spring day to return to the green full of gorgeous mountain red, weekends at home to serve their own pots of meat... The petty bourgeoisie are tireless in this, and sometimes ridicule their "elegance has become customary".
▲ Song Su Hanchen's "Cargo Lang Tu" part
What about the men? A few years ago, calamus was popular, and the city readers put a basin of books and became a confession, anyway, it is evergreen in all seasons and does not need much maintenance. Old men love flowers, and I encountered an extreme case.
At that time, I was interviewing the artistic life of an old friend of his late father at his house, and he was "absent-state" and always absent-minded. At first, he thought it was too hot, his health had not been very good, and he was even more sleepy in the afternoon. Then he apologized and said I was going to water the orchids in the yard. I pressed the topic and went along, and saw that behind its courtyard house, in the heat stood a huge "black tent" - it turned out that it was a rare Junzilan that he had carefully served. I smelled the fragrance and looked at the elegance and praise, but he still didn't seem to be satisfied, complaining that he hadn't taken care of himself enough. While sprinkling water, he excitedly introduced himself to me, after the heat of the summer, oh, that pot opened, you can greet the best Lan you to come, and its spiritual head is similar to the front judgment of two people. Later, on the phone, I joked with his child that his father was a "flower idiot", and the head said, "That's it, the flowers that take care of him are more dear than us." Whenever there is a rare category and the flowers bloom, he will make an appointment with a few of his peers to reward him, and he will be greatly satisfied in the praise of others.
▲Ming Chen Hongzhi "Zhong Kui Tu"
When it comes to planting flowers and raising flowers, there are flower arrangements. In ancient times, the literati did the four elegant things, burning incense, lighting tea, hanging paintings, arranging flowers... As far as flower arrangement is concerned, this morning there is no distinction between men and women, young and old. Many homeowners have bottles in their homes all year round, and the flower shops on the market are also booming all year round. A veteran female poet often shows her art of flower arrangement in the circle of friends. Vases, bergamots, lotus or lotus, peanuts, oranges... A few things were conjured up by her skillful hands into a pleasant scene.
It is not common for women to spend their hairpins in the present. In the past, the deep alleys frequently heard "selling white orchids Oh -", and now even on some occasions, I can also see the hairpin flower woman, the white orchid is only hung on the waist of the cheongsam, humble and low, dodging and releasing the orchid fragrance; different from today's sprinkling perfume, it is completely classical charm. As for the mountain cloud tour, pick a beautiful wildflower on the bun of the accompanying woman, which is the mad demon of the man in love, just the right stroke of God.
In the 1967 scene painting image of Zhang Daqian on the Monterey Peninsula in California, I saw such a shot: in the ancient wood forest, Mr. Daqian, who roamed, randomly picked a red flower on the head of His wife Xu Wenbo, and Xu Shi twisted his waist and smiled, a beautiful scene.
▲ Picasso of the hairpin flower
When I talk about the man's hairpin flower today, I saw a picture that caused Picasso to wear a large red flower around his ear. Saying that the hairpin flower is also OK, it brings me surprise like he made a palm of bread, and then Wan'er, Yue Laugh: On the "flower", the Chinese scribe is a thousand years earlier than lao bi.
The twelfth day of the second month of the ancient lunar calendar is the Flower Dynasty Festival, which is the birthday of the Hundred Flowers. On this day, people like to pick flowers and put them on their heads, which are flowers for hairpins. In the Tang Dynasty, the lady hairpin flower was very popular, as evidenced by the surviving famous "Hairpin Flower Lady Figure". The male hairpin flower sounds strange, but it is a fashion in the Tang Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, culture flourished, and it even developed into a court ceremony.
The "Song Shi Lizhi" says that in all large-scale national celebrations and banquets, there will be a festive figure of hairpin flowers. According to the Song Shi Yu Zhi, the male hairpin flower is generally inserted in the bun, or pinned to the sideburns, and is more worn on the head of the official hat, which is called "hairpin wear". The material of the flower can be seasonal flowers, or imitation flowers such as silk, gold and silver. On occasions such as the emperor's birthday, court banquets, and sacrifice ceremonies, the monarch and his courtiers had to wear flowers.
▲Qing Su Liupeng "Hairpin Flower Diagram"
Imagining the day when a hundred flowers bloomed, the emperor ordered the princes and ministers to go on a spring tour together, and when they were interested, they picked the flowers and gave them to the close ministers, and put them on their heads. It is remembered that when Emperor Huizong of Song visited the place, when he returned to the Capital Division, he would give flowers to the accompanying ministers, honor guards, guards, etc., and with the flowers they could freely enter and leave the palace. By the way, the Imperial Hairpin Flower is a glory and a status symbol for people.
▲Ming Qiuying,"Four-Phase Hairpin Flower Diagram"
The man's hairpin flower, with the grace of the flower matching the gentleman's elegance, also highlights the heroic posture of the hero. Over time, it dissolved into the exquisite life of men. Then it was passed on from the court to the people and developed into the whole people wearing flowers. Yang Wanli wrote humorously in a poem: "Why should the spring color be urged by karma drums, and the king will lead the spring back on the first day." Peony peony medicine roses, all opened to the hat of a thousand officials. It not only describes the joyful scene of the fifteenth day of the first month in the palace, but also the grand scene of the flowers on everyone's head at that time. In the distance, a piece of purple and red, dark incense floating.
The famous story of "four phases of hairpin flowers" is recorded in "Mengxi Pen Talk". It is said that there was a peculiar peony medicine in the Song Dynasty, the petals were red up and down, and a circle of golden buds surrounded in the middle, called "golden waist". During a drinking and flower viewing, Yangzhou Taishou Han Qi cut off four gold sticks and inserted them on the heads of the three guests of the banquet, of course, he did not forget to insert one himself. Later, these four people were all auspicious and high-ranking, and the official luck was prosperous, and they successively became the prime minister. In this way, the picture of the hairpin flower is not only "beautiful to look at", but also very auspicious and can "bring good luck".
▲ Song Li Tang's "Spring Society Drunken Return Map" part
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nong Yin Chun came, read the ancient paintings, and saw that there were sometimes "man hairpin flowers" patterns, which was very fortunate: in the Southern Song Dynasty Li Tang's "Spring Society Drunken Return Map", you can see the scene of the village official Tian Yu after accepting the toast of the villagers, riding an ox and returning drunk. The drunken Tianguan old man, wearing a bright hairpin flower towel, supported by people, the front village boy while morning glory, while eating buns, rural life, folk customs are very vivid.
Although the custom of hairpin flowers in the Ming Dynasty is no longer so popular, there are still many hairpin flowers in the pictures, whether it is an official eunuch or a gentleman, and the works of Chen Hongshou and Qiu Ying have left us with a lot of visual "evidence". Lao Lian, who has a clear personality, wrote "Yang Sheng'an Hairpin Flower Diagram", "Ruan Xiugu Wine Diagram", "Zhong Kui Diagram"... Many men have flowers on their heads, is it to follow the legacy of the sages, or to amaze the fashion? Is it a deviant celebrity, or a depressing display of style? Among them, the three ambiguities are difficult to know for a while.
In the Qing Dynasty, the men's hairpin flowers were in decline, and Ren Kaoru's "Four Phases of Hairpin Flowers" was at best understood to be a historical allusion to the creation of Chinese paintings, or a manifestation of the trend of "reaching the present with cultural retro" in art.
▲Ming Chen Hongshou's "Yang Shen Hairpin Flower Diagram" part
Today, men's hairpin flowers can only be seen in important ceremonies, such as weddings, calligraphy and painting exhibitions. As a guest, each person has a hairpin on his chest, which can be regarded as a symbol of etiquette and a symbol of festivity. It's just that they are quite lonely in the multicultural blooming sea of flowers, a long-lost elegant fragrance, a little distant, a little faint, but can still be understood as a hidden poetic escape in the noisy era.
And Xie is naturally decorated with flowers, and we are also pleased to see that more and more modern Chinese men at present will combine traditional pianos, chess, books, paintings, swords, dances, tea... The study of cultivation, as a must-have for cultivation, the flower of the hairpin culture is considered to be "matched" (pei), and this new fashion and custom deserves great praise in any case.
Wen | Xu Huilin
BY| Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News
The original title | man hairpin flower
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Edited | Shanxi Evening News All-Media Editor Nanlijiang
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