A few days ago, the fireworks over the crescent moon spring of Mingsha Mountain ignited the romance of Dunhuang.
Colors flow freely in the wind, and rich reds, greens, blues, and yellows form a big dream in the sunset.
This is a beauty that Chinese can't help but stop and admire.
Such gorgeous Chinese beauty has been unconsciously integrated into our daily life.
Hanfu, tea, landmarks, pop culture is full of Chinese aesthetics.
We've finally waited for our own aesthetic revival.
A Chinese-style pandemic
"The hairpin flower in this life is beautiful in the world."
Zhao Liying's hairpin with fire is undoubtedly the top tourist check-in that has been popular for more than half a year.
Whoever wears this flowery red dress can set off the atmosphere of Guotai and Min'an.
The dress of the fisherwoman in Quanzhou has become fashionable overnight, and the hairpin flower shop in the small fishing village has a long queue every day.
The girls came from all over the country, and the hairpins were full of colorful flowers, leaving a picture of their lives.
It's a retro and traditional romance.
Source: Little Red Book
The direction of the wind has indeed changed.
"Intangible cultural heritage" like hairpin is no longer out of reach, and has turned into an aesthetic and film artifact in daily life.
For example, almost everyone has a lacquer fan on the street during the holidays.
A few drops of lacquer dripped into the water, a paper fan flew under the water, and within a few seconds, "the escape is horizontal, and the dense posture is full of shapes" is embodied in front of the eyes.
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The paint fan is wonderful, until the moment of the water, you don't know what kind of color blind box will be opened.
Blue and green are thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, red and green are big fish and begonias, and blue, green, red and gold match the elegant and magnificent Dunhuang ......
Yangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Lanzhou...... Visitors to each place leave a unique urban imprint on the fan.
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There is also Dali's tie-dye that has become popular.
In the south of the clouds, you must experience a blues moment with the charm of ink.
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When you arrive at Qianhu Miao Village, you must be a Miao girl who can lay Gu for a day.
In the ancient city of Pingyao, she turned into a Jin merchant lady in the house.
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The beauty of Chinese handicrafts has also been revived.
Goldfish lanterns, fish lanterns, and paper kites are out in minutes.
The "flower market lights are like day" in the New Year's Festival, and the "paper kites are busy in the east wind" in the spring, and they come to us through a hundred years.
Source: Little Red Book
Even An Lingrong's goose pear tent incense of the same style was also copied by netizens.
This incense is said to have been made by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the recipe has been passed down to this day.
The fragrance of agarwood, sandalwood, and goose pear has not been diminished by time.
Source: "The Legend of Zhen Huan"
Clothing, jewelry, lifestyle ...... Chinese details are all over the corners.
The return of Chinese aesthetics has become an unstoppable trend.
You look at the Chinese wedding with colorful lights, and the phoenix crown and xia curtain replace the wedding dress.
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You look at the popularity of "Only This Green", and the swiping screen of "Pray".
Behind it is the unique green aesthetics of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and the magnificent imagination of Dunhuang flying into the sky.
From the careful attempts of a small group of people, to the streets and alleys everywhere.
Chinese aesthetics is in the pandemic, and you and I have really been waiting too long.
A common experience of beauty
Speaking of which, we all grew up immersed in Chinese aesthetics, but only now have we seen its popularity.
Who didn't pretend to be a white lady with a bed sheet when he was a child, Princess Gege cosed again, or fantasized about the distant rivers and lakes fighting swords to go to the end of the world.
Source: "The Legend of the New White Lady"
The dreams we had when we were children were all ancient dreams, dreams of rivers and lakes.
Jay Chou sang Chinese style at that time.
The tones of the pipa, guzheng, and erhu are integrated into pop music, and the poetry in the words and rhymes seems to be innately perceived.
In "East Wind Breaking" is the association of "green, fat, red and thin", and the sigh of "there are flowers that can be broken straight and must be broken, don't wait for no flowers and empty branches".
Source: "East Wind Breaking" MV
A pot of wandering is difficult to enter the throat of the world
After you leave, the wine is warm, and the memories are thin
The water flows eastward, how to steal time
The flowers ripen once they bloom, but I miss them
Dongfeng Po, Jay Chou
"Blue and White Porcelain" "Azure waiting for the smoke and rain and I'm waiting for you, the smoke rises, thousands of miles across the river".
The tone of Jiangnan ink painting has been outlined in a few strokes.
Blue and white porcelain, Jay Chou
The popular film and television dramas at that time taught us what "light makeup is always appropriate".
It is the elegant lightness of the masters in the rivers and lakes who tread water without leaving a trace.
It is the affection between men and women who want to talk and stop, and the blank space that stops when it is clicked.
It is also the silence of the knights when they are facing the sea in the east and the waves crashing on the shore.
We watch the heroes of the rivers and lakes flying on the wall, happy and revenge.
But in their chivalrous spirit, they are also diffused with elegance and Zen that belong to the oriental artistic conception.
And thick is the beauty and grace in the rich color.
For example, in "Dream of Red Mansions", the group portrait of the female relatives of Jiafu drinking and writing poems.
The girls are dressed in red and green, surrounded by flowers, each with their own beauty and style, and this prosperous fantasy of the lively family is difficult to reproduce now.
is also like the grand scene of heaven in "Journey to the West".
In that supreme fairy world, fairies dance with the most brilliant jewels and the most gorgeous dresses. Red clothes and red lips, square lined with beauties.
Light is the plain and clean of white space, a lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow.
Thick is a bright atmosphere, the spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers.
The colors and artistic conceptions of Chinese aesthetics are something we learned early on.
In recent years, the revival of Chinese aesthetics is, in the final analysis, an awakening of romantic genes.
Behind it is an aesthetic experience shared by Chinese everywhere.
Passing on the romance of thousands of years
Chinese aesthetics have never been disconnected.
For example, the hairpin flower that has exploded recently, our ancestors have long loved it.
"Hairpin Lady", "Lady of the Governor's Taiyuan Wang's Rite Buddha", "Han Palace Spring Dawn", ...... The women in the famous paintings have hairpins on their heads, and their gestures show luxury.
When spring is in full bloom, they break off the branches and flowers, and ask the sisters to put them all over their heads.
The lady in the portrait of Empress Song Renzong wore the popular "three white pearl makeup" at that time, and wore a head full of peach blossoms, peonies, chrysanthemums, and camellias.
The good times of the four seasons are wrapped up in pearls, gold and jade, and silk.
Chinese have loved beauty since ancient times.
Wu Zetian's secret recipe for beauty is fairy and jade girl powder, and Zhen Huan of the Qing Dynasty is still planting grass.
Yang Guifei also has her private customized skin care products - Taizhen Red Jade Balm.
"Picture of the Concubine's Makeup"
I have to say that at that time, the aesthetics of the Chinese were far ahead.
Eating, drinking, and having fun all year round are all interesting and beautiful.
Fluttering butterflies in spring, boating and lotus picking in summer.
Climb the crab in autumn and enjoy the snow around the fireplace in winter.
"Reclining Smoke Cage"
Song has "burning incense and ordering tea, hanging pictures and arranging flowers, all kinds of idle things, not suitable for tiring the family".
Frying agarwood over the fire, the dark incense floats, and it does not disperse all day long.
Flower arrangement is pleasant, dense and oblique, each with its own attitude.
In the corner of the small room, you can see elegance everywhere.
Reading, playing the piano, playing games, and drinking wine.
Nothing is infinitely beautiful.
"Yueman Qing Tour Map" idle pavilion game
Taste tea, listen to the rain, wait for the moon, and seek seclusion.
The climate and scenery are all wonderful.
"Yueman Qingyou Map" Qiongtai plays with the moon
Chinese people who can sum up the "ten elegant things" really understand life.
Our aesthetics are also committed to beauty down to the last detail.
After looking at the traditional Chinese color, I know what colorful black is, bizarre white. Morandi and Maillard, who were popular before, were instantly eclipsed.
The dew is dyed with silk, and there is a "green" with blue water;
The soft texture of the herbs burned out has become the "ash" of the herb frost;
Take a touch of the glow reflected on the sea, which is the "powder" of the sea and sky.
Source: "If Colors Could Talk"
Yanyan, thin persimmon, falling chestnut, crow green, plum dyeing, distant mountains such as dai, green plum boiled wine, blue smoke falling, the east is white......
Painting a color in Chinese is like writing a short poem by hand.
Source: Little Red Book
The beauty of these costumes, colors, and seasons that have been passed down for thousands of years come from the Chinese people's awareness of daily sensitivity since ancient times.
Before the moon flowers, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all elegant things.
Listen to the wind and listen to the rain, and you will sleep when you are tired.
A pair of skins can't trap the soul of the Chinese at all.
Keep dreaming
However, in the past period, many people have been troubled by a ridiculous question: Do Chinese have aesthetics?
Look all around us.
In the past, it was the unbearable youth memories of the family who killed Matt, and now there are middle-aged figures dancing square dances and waving silk scarves in the wind.
Chinese aesthetics, why was it hidden before?
You must know that the aesthetics of the ancestors have been subdued in Europe in two or three hundred years, and the novelty of clothing, beautiful porcelain, and exquisite gardens all amazed the Europeans at that time.
"Chinese Garden" Bu Xie
When Louis XIV's court painter Alain Mannison Marais arrived in Nanjing and saw the glazed pagoda of the Great Bao'en Temple, he exclaimed, "I want to juxtapose this pagoda with the Seven Wonders of the World."
His painting "Nanjing-Baoling Temple (Bao'en Temple)" had a great influence in Europe.
The Kew Gardens Pagoda, built in London in 1762 by the British, is a complete replica of the Great Pau En Temple.
Legendary designer Coco Chanel is also a well-known fan of Chinese style.
In her apartment at 31 rue Cambon in Paris, porcelain and ebony screens are neatly displayed, and her personal collection of screens reaches 32.
In the pen of the American painter William MacGregor Paxton, Chinese style is also indispensable.
The hazy and exotic mystical beauty is full of imagination of the East.
At that time, Europeans and Americans had an infinite fascination for Chinese aesthetics.
Exquisite porcelain, folding fans, screens, and a variety of Chinese elements are a high-end fashion sense that everyone is vying for.
Our aesthetics have long crossed the barriers of civilization and left traces on the ground.
Finally, now, this Chinese wind has finally blown back to the place where it was born.
Hanfu of various colors and shapes is worn on those who understand it.
Xi'an and Luoyang, which have been sleeping for many years, have ushered in the noisy and prosperous generation of this generation.
The Chinese aesthetic genes in our bones have finally been awakened.
Today's hairpin girl shares the joy of "beauty on her head, curling spring flags" in ancient times.
The raised skirt of the horse-faced skirt seems to be able to travel through time, making women of different eras in ancient and modern times high-five in the air.
The national style dream and martial arts dream we started from childhood can also continue to be done with a smile.
Go to Jiangnan and experience "the spring water is blue in the sky, and the boat is painted to listen to the rain".
In Dunhuang, there is "white geese west wind purple plug, soap carving sunset yellow sand".
The colors and breaths, whether simple or strong, cross the historical context and are within reach.
To this day, we can still be like the ancients thousands of years ago, wearing flowers, skirts, reading poetry and books, watching the clouds and listening to the rain.
The so-called ideal day is still "a bowl of tea, a bottle of wine, and a bustling world of idlers".
In this way, the unchanging inheritance is a great blessing.
Therefore, we must remember that you and I did not come to this world to be ignorant and rush to catch up.
You and I, in every seemingly mediocre and repetitive day, live to the fullest and live beautifully.
Source: Station B @ April Chenchen