Why is it the Yellow Flower Girl and not the Red Flower Girl?
What kind of people can be called "ancestors" and "ancestors"?
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Why do you call an unmarried girl a "yellow flower girl"?
Why do you call an unmarried girl a "yellow flower girl", why is it not a red flower, a blue flower or a purple flower, but a yellow flower?
In fact, the so-called "yellow flower" refers to a decoration on the forehead of women in ancient times, also known as "flower yellow".
At that time, women liked to draw various shapes of flowers and birds on their foreheads with yellow powder, or cut them into the shape of flowers and birds with golden paper and paste them on their foreheads.
This custom originated around the Northern and Southern Dynasties and prevailed in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In "Mulan Ci", there is a saying that "when the window is cloudy, the mirror appliqué is yellow".
There is also a beautiful legend about the origin of this custom.
According to legend, during the Liu Song Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, once slept under the eaves of Hanzhang Palace, and the plum blossoms happened to fall on her forehead, and the plum blossoms were stained, forming the shape of plum blossoms on her forehead, and they could not be brushed away.
Since then, Princess Shouyang has often pasted plum blossoms on her forehead, and the palace people have followed suit. Since then, there has been the so-called plum blossom makeup, referred to as plum makeup.
After this kind of makeup was spread outside the palace, folk women also followed suit, or cut out patterns with chrysanthemums or yellow paper and pasted them on the forehead, and later gradually developed into the custom of "pasting yellow flowers".
Since this kind of makeup is more popular among unmarried girls, gradually, "yellow flower girl" has become synonymous with unmarried girls.
What kind of people can be called "ancestors" and "ancestors"?
"Zuzong" appears as a word in modern Chinese, referring to the elders of a family, especially the earlier ancestors, and also to the ancestors of the nation in general.
In ancient Chinese, "Zu" and "Zong" each had different meanings.
"Zu" originally referred to ancestors, ancestors. Under the patriarchal system, people pay special attention to the identity of the ancestors of the family and the ancestors of the past dynasties, and the status of the ancestors can determine a person's blood relationship and the status of the person in the family genealogy.
And "Zong" is the temple of the ancestors after the first ancestor. Later, the people who started the business were called "ancestors," and the descendants who inherited the great business were called "ancestors." For example, since the Han Dynasty, the temple number of the emperor, the first emperor is called Taizu, Gaozu or Shizu, and the heirs of the future are called Taizong, Shizong, etc.
And "ancestor" is used together to refer to the ancestor.
Who are the "six relatives"?
When watching TV dramas, we often see the term "six relatives don't recognize", so do you know who the "six relatives" refer to?
There are many theories about this in the past dynasties, and there are three representative ones:
One note: "Lao Tzu" Wang Bi Note, father and son, brothers, and husband and wife are the six relatives.
2. According to the "Zuo Chuan", the father and son, brothers, aunts (father's sisters), nephews, concubines (the wife's family) and in-law (the husband's family) are the six relatives.
Three evidences: "Hanshu Jia Yi Biography" Yan Shigu notes should be quoted in the Shao note, with father, mother, brother, brother, wife, and son as the six relatives. Later generations agree with the third theory, because it is the closest in blood and marriage relations.
Later, however, the term "six parents" was also used to refer to maternal grandparents, parents, sisters, sons of brothers, sons of mothers, and sons of daughters. "Historical Records: The Biography of Guan Yanlie" contains: "The degree of service is six relatives and solid. Zhang Shoujie of the Tang Dynasty explained this: "Six relatives, that is, one maternal grandparent, two parents, three sisters, four sons of wives and brothers, five sons of mothers, and six sons of daughters. ”
Today, the "six relatives" have generally referred to relatives.
How old is the age of the sixtieth year, ancient rare, old age, and expectation?
Sixtieth birthday refers to a person reaching the age of sixty.
This is related to the ancient Chinese Ganzhi chronology. The ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches are intricately matched into 60 units in order, each stem and branch represents a year, and the 60 years cycle to form a cycle, so it is called "60 flower nails".
The twentieth chapter of "Journey to the West": "(The old man) said: Sixty-one years old. Walker said: Good, good, good! ”
The age of antiquity refers to the age of seventy. The words come from Du Fu's poem "Qujiang": "Wine debts are common everywhere, and life is rare for seventy years." ”
耄 (mào) means that a person is eighty or ninety years old. "The Book of Rites: Qu Lishang": "Eighty or ninety. 耋 (dié) means to be seventy or eighty years old. "The Biography of Mao": "The old man is also, eighty years old." Du pre-note: "Seventy is old." ”
People conform to the linguistic habits of two-syllable words, and combine the two words, using the term "old age" to refer to the age of 70 to 90.
The so-called "age of expectation" refers to the age of 100. "The Book of Rites: Qu Lishang" said: "A hundred years old is called a period of time." Zhu Xi explained: "The meaning of Zhou Zao (that is, the meaning of turning around). "It's been a hundred years. Therefore, expecting a person to live a full life and live a hundred years old means.
Source: WeChat public account "Tang Poetry Song Ci Yuan Qu"
Editor: Pan Xi
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