Every year, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala will attract countless complaints, and the 2023 Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival Gala is no exception. Whether it's a sketch, a crosstalk or a talk show, it's quite embarrassing. On the contrary, the dance program is very outstanding, and the dance "Splendid" makes the cultural relics come alive on the stage.
"Splendid Embroidery" is a dance inspired by the national treasure "Five Stars Out of the Orient Benefit China" brocade arm guard, the dancers on the stage dance on the line of the brocade and gradually weave the city and palace, and finally the line converges into the "Five Star Out of the East Benefit China" brocade arm guard beauty has turned countless audiences.
What is the "five-star out of the East Benefit China" brocade arm?
The five-star Dongfang Li Chinese arm guard is a Han Dynasty brocade, a national first-class cultural relic and one of the first cultural relics in China that are prohibited from going abroad (border) for exhibition. This Han dynasty brocade is rectangular in shape, 18.5 cm long and 12.5 cm wide, with three straps on each of the two long sides, which are used to tie around the arms.
This is a Shu brocade, from Sichuan Province, the whole brocade is woven in five colors: blue, red, yellow, white, black, the character is seal, the color is white, the character and the Rui beast pass through the cloud pattern of the brocade, there are four kinds of Rui beasts that appear in the brocade of this arm guard, namely: male birds, female birds, unicorns, and tiger-shaped beasts.
Discovered in October 1995, the Sino-Japanese Nya site academic expedition conducted archaeological excavations at a cemetery in Minfeng County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang. At this time, archaeological members dug up an ancient tomb where two people were buried together, both corpses were wearing a lot of clothes, due to the weather in Xinjiang, the clothes were well preserved, one of the corpses had this arm guard on the arm, after a simple identification by archaeologists, they recognized the words on it: Five stars out of the East to benefit China.
What does five-star out of Oriental Benefit China mean?
The first thing to note is that the meaning of five stars and China here is different from modern times. The ancient "five stars" refer to the years star, the glow star, the filling star, the taibai star and the star chen, corresponding to the current names of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury. In ancient times, "China" did not refer to a country, but a geographical concept, especially the Central Plains and Gyeonggi region in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. In ancient times, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn appeared together in the eastern sky, which was beneficial to the Central Plains and Gyeonggi region in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. This is an explanation given for astronomical phenomena.
In ancient China, divination was carried out on every major national event such as war and sacrifice, and oracle bone script was originally used to record the divination of the Shang Dynasty. This five-star Dongfang Li Chinese arm guard was actually combined with the celestial phenomenon Bu Zhi by the rulers of the Han Dynasty in order to pray for the smooth expedition. It's the same as modern people have to say something auspicious before doing things, and the picture is auspicious.
"Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China" comes from Sima Qian's "Shiji Tianguan Shu": "Five stars divide the sky, accumulate in the East, China benefits; Accumulated in the West, foreign use (soldiers) benefit. The five stars are all gathered together from the stars, and the kingdom they give up can be lawed to the world. It can be seen that at least the people of the Han Dynasty believed that the appearance of the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the eastern sky was an astronomical phenomenon favorable to "China", while the Han Dynasty was a dynasty living in "China", so when this astronomical phenomenon appeared, it was beneficial to China.
Is there anything else behind Five-Star Out of Oriental Benefit China?
Whether it is ancient or modern, clothes, decorations, arm guards and the like are cut from the whole cloth to make, this Han Dynasty brocade arm guard is not very large, can not show the content is not complete, so what does the whole cloth look like? Is there anything else behind Five-Star Out of Oriental Benefit China?
According to archaeologists' research, this Han dynasty brocade may be related to the military events of the Western Han Dynasty's conquest of Southern Qiang, which is recorded in the "Hanshu Zhao Chongguo Biography", and Emperor Xuan of Han recorded in his edict to Zhao Chongguo: Now the five stars are out of the east, China is great, and the barbarians are defeated. This coincides with what is on the tapestry. But this sentence is not the whole content of the tapestry.
For the entire content of the tapestry, it was shown in "National Treasure", and Zhou Yang, deputy director of the China National Silk Museum, also explained that this arm guard is not complete, but other fragments unearthed from the ancient tomb were spliced and finally restored, and finally restored to 20 words: "Five stars out of the East to benefit China Zhao Nanqiang Siyi obeys Shan Yu and Tianwuji", if the sentence is broken: Five stars out of the East, benefit China, please Southern Qiang, Siyi obey, single in descending, and Tianwuji.
It can be inferred that when the rulers of the Han Dynasty heard the phenomenon of five-star pearls reported by the celestial officials watching the stars, they were very happy and thought that the appearance of such celestial phenomena was beneficial to the Han Dynasty. In order to boost morale, he also weaved this sentence on the brocade, and made an arm guard for the general or soldier at that time, and the general also liked this arm guard, and made a funeral after death, which was preserved due to the special weather in Xinjiang, so we can see this priceless treasure.
Whether it is ancient or modern, people can pray for the prosperity of the country and the safety of the country! However, what is the national fortune of a country, we still need to do it step by step. Perhaps this is the greatest wealth left to us by this Han Dynasty tapestry.