The aesthetic life of the flower protector

Ancient literati were good at understanding the vastness of the world from a flower, a piece of wood, a corner of a mountain, and a pool of water, and conveyed their own or Wang Yang's wanton or long and flowing spiritual thoughts, always able to see grand in the subtleties and profound in the shallow. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty advocated frugality and simplicity, which affected the government and the public, and the flower activities were not as popular and popular as those of the Tang and Song dynasties in terms of scale. However, the commodity economy is becoming more and more prosperous, and scientific and technological progress is gradually promoting, and the flower planting industry has developed rapidly. Because the ming dynasty literati participated in politics at great risk, they devoted themselves to leisure activities to avoid political dangers, and flower arrangement activities flourished under the promotion of literati and scholars; literati flower arrangements also became representatives of flower groups. Compared with the Song and Yuan dynasties with potted flowers as the main tide, the Ming Dynasty flower arrangement containers mainly choose bottles, vase flowers are the mainstream, and gegao rhyme is different from the previous generation. The literati of the Ming Dynasty not only participated in floral activities far more frequently than in previous generations, but also formed many experience summaries and theoretical works in the practice of flower affairs. Gao Lian's "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers" in "Eight Notes on Zunsheng", He Xianlang's "Flower Case", Tu Benyi's "Bottle History Moon Table", Cheng Yuwen's "Flower Calendar" and "Flower Nickname", as well as Zhang Qiande's "Bottle Flower Spectrum", Yuan Hongdao's "Bottle History" and so on.

What I want to talk about here is the Vase Flower Recipe. Compared with Gao Lian and Yuan Hongdao, Zhang Qiande is slightly less famous, just in line with his name, and his life's journey is hidden in the "History of Ming" without a single word, but only by relying on the self-description in his works to reveal a few traces. Roughly speaking, Zhang Qiande (1577-1643) was a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, born in the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty (1577), because the second year was Ding Ugly, so he changed his name to Zhang Ugly, the character Shuyi, Qing Father; the forty-third year of the Wanli Calendar (1615) got the original copy of the Mi YuanZhang "Treasure Chapter to be Visited", because of the name Mi'an. In his early years, he was a dream butterfly disciple, a disciple of Yu Juesheng, a descendant of the other yanbo fishing disciple, a former photographer Zhu Mingdong Tianxian Shi, and a TingtingShanren; Chongzhen died in the sixteenth year (1643), and his life seems to have never been turbulent, which can be described as safe and sound. This is a lucky life, and a lucky life comes from an aesthetic attitude towards the world. He said in the "Cinnabar Fish Recipe Sequence": "The residual nature is rushing, there is no other hobby, and he is only happy to raise cinnabar fish from Qingquan." It is always interesting to watch it haunt, and every time you meet your heart, you forget it every day. Huishi Dezhuang Zhou Fei fish do not know the joy of fish, do you know the words! "Of course, the aesthetic life is not only about raising fish, tea ceremony, painting theory, book art, poetry, natural objects, archaeology, collection, etc., all of which are liberal and knowledgeable, for a while. His books "Tea Classic", "Wild Clothing Examination", "Famous Mountain Collection", "True Deeds Daily Record", "List of Famous Paintings of The Law Book", "Nanyang Law Book Table", "Nanyang Famous Painting Table", "Qinghe Calligraphy and Painting Boat", "Jian Gu Baiyi Poems", etc., show his profound talent and unique experience, and leave a specific position in the history of Chinese art.

The Vase Flower Notation is Zhang Qiande's earliest work, and together with other works, it shows that it is a portrayal of the liberal life of a layman. The so-called vegetarian can refer to a common person with no title, no official title, no title, and no faction, or a simple and unadorned, natural and comfortable birth. The so-called liberal arts is a combination of extensive knowledge and elegant temperament, which means that the body and mind are healthy and rich, and the awakening of vulgarity is outstanding. Zhang Qiande can be called a hardcore vegetarian, and he can also be regarded as a liberal gentleman. Only a liberal arts person can penetrate the true meaning of ordinary life and achieve so many works of living art. The liberal life of this ordinary person is not only related to the social atmosphere of changing from vulgarity to elegance, but also related to the family lineage. The "Qinghe Calligraphy and Painting Table" of the "Compendium of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries" says, "His high ancestors are out of Shen Du and Shen Cang's gate, his great-grandfathers are also traveling with Shen Zhou, and his grandfathers and fathers are married to Wen Zhengming's father and son, and the world is good, and the origins are self-derived, so the scandal is specially appreciated." Here, the Siku Pavilion ministers admired Zhang Qiande's extensive insights and analyzed several reasons for his "appreciation and appreciation". According to this, his father Zhang Yingwen can also be called a liberal arts person. Wang Zhideng's "Preface to the Qing Secret Collection" describes Zhang Yingwen as follows: Jiadingren, Maoshi, Yi Zhai, Yifu, and Mr. Brown; The prisoner, who has tried many times and failed to do so, is bent on entertaining himself with ancient artifacts and calligraphy; Bo Zong ancient and modern, and Wang Shizhen is a friend of Mo Rebellion; good literature, gong calligraphy, rich collection of books; grew up in Lanzhu, next to the stars, yin and yang; since Jiading moved to Changzhou (present-day Suzhou), taking the meaning of Ni Zhan's "Qing Secret Cabinet", the name of the collection is "Qing Secret Collection". Zhang Qiande was influenced by his father's generation, and edited his father's "Qinghe Calligraphy and Painting Ship", "Qing Secret Collection", "Zhang's Collection", and "Nest Residence Small Manuscript". There are fathers such as Si, young Chengting training, smoke soaking thorns, no wonder Zhang Qiande is less ambitious, interested in liberal arts, in various art disciplines are accomplished, and even the concept of life and temperament are passed down from father to son. As far as the field of flower cultivation is concerned, Zhang Yingwen knows almost everything, and zilan plants bamboo and chrysanthemums are all personally experienced and experienced. For example, the "Luo Li Zhai Lan Spectrum" and the "Ju Shu" are well described in the sealing, repair and appreciation of orchid chrysanthemums, which can be described as special books on flower planting techniques. Perhaps deeply influenced by the work of hearing and seeing, because of his penchant for living in seclusion, Zhang Qiande wrote the "Vase Flower Spectrum" at the age of eighteen, although he modestly called "Yu Yi is childish, and his composition is a number of words", he still implies a sense of self-sufficiency in humility.

Of course, the "Vase Flower Notation" is by no means a work created out of thin air. Ancient Chinese folks have always had the customs of loving flowers, planting flowers, viewing flowers, picking flowers, giving flowers, wearing flowers, and hairpin flowers, which are interpreted into colorful vase flower techniques. Before the Song Dynasty, the "Book of Poetry, Zheng Feng, Qin Huan", "The Record of South Vietnam", "The Record of Jingzhou", "Southern Grass and Trees", "Ancient and Modern Notes", "Hua Jiu Xi", etc., as well as many wild histories, miscellaneous notes, pen notes, poems, etc., jointly describe the development history of traditional Chinese vase flower art. The origin and evolution of vase art, theory and practice, ideas and fashions, experiences and writings can be outlined from these accounts. Folk customs, offering flowers in front of the Buddha, and court decoration are the main forms of flower arrangement. The more important literature of the Song Dynasty include Wen Ge's "Trivial Records of Dividing Doors", Zhou Mi's "Notes on Qianchun Living", Lin Hong's "Mountain Family Qingshi", Su Shi's "Rough Discussion of Ge Wu" and "The Feeling of Objects", and Wu Yi's "Seed Art Must Be Used", which recorded the bottle cutting technique from many aspects, or cutting and matching, or nourishing care, or appreciating and evaluating, or summarizing the flower path, or specializing in the insertion of certain flowers, providing a reference and breakthrough model for the flower art activities of the Ming Dynasty. However, after all, these works lack a comprehensive and systematic analysis and elaboration of the theory of bottle cutting art, and focus on flower processing and vase flower maintenance, which is not deep enough and comprehensive enough. Only in the Ming Dynasty, when the customs turned into elegance, a large number of literati and scholars dabbled in vase flowers, vase flowers became the mainstream form of this period, and the aesthetic principles revealed by its composition layout, flower containers, and tasting and playing were deeply influenced by the Yangming xinxue and retro ideological trends at that time, combined with the concepts of "reason", "elephant", "qi", "number" and so on, a complete and comprehensive floral theory system was constructed, and the main aesthetic purpose was to take qing, sparse, light, and far away as the main aesthetic purpose; the prominent point of the new change in the art of flower arrangement in the Ming Dynasty was to create a pure aesthetic field away from the political field. In this pure aesthetic field, the literati and scholars cultivated their hearts, met with flowers, showed off their talents, and showed off their elegance, and introduced vase flower activities into the academic field, resulting in the advent of vase flower art monographs one after another. Gao Lian's "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers", Chen Shijiao's "History of Irrigation Garden", Wang Lu's "Left Compilation of Flower History", Wang Xiangjin's "Qunfang Genealogy", Wen Zhenheng's "Chronicle of Long Things", Zhang Qiande's "Vase Flower Spectrum", Yuan Hongdao's "Bottle History", Wang Shimao's "Flower Shu", Sun Zhibo's "Peihua Ao Recipe", Tu Long's "Shanzhai Qing Confession" and "Examination Plate Yushi", Fang Yizhi's "Physical Knowledge", as well as the author's unknown "Hundred Flowers Collection Spectrum" and "Fragments of Flowers", are all important works of floral art in this period. Of course, on the role and influence, the "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers", "Vase Flower Spectrum" and "Vase History" are the authors. In general, the vase flower art flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was complete in form, mature in theory and complete in system.

Liberal arts "vegetarians" often pay attention to the quality of life, the quality of life is often balanced by the degree of happiness, and the degree of happiness is reflected in the degree of art and leisure and combination. "Playing chess can be idle, it seems difficult to play music; playing the piano is really nourishing, and it is not easy to insist on this pleasure." Li Yu believes in "Idle Love" that these games are full of the meaning of fighting and killing, and can not make people really feel relaxed, but it is better to supervise the family to pour bamboo and bushes, to serve as a micro-diligent, after all, "the grass and trees are thriving, not only the ears and ears can be entertained, but also for the art of grass and trees, to help the auspicious light and be angry", "also to cultivate one of the temperaments to help also". It is explained here that stroking flowers and plants is the best way to be happy, because it is a highly coupled life of art and leisure. We know that people's choices and understandings of lifestyles vary widely based on considerations of career choices, job concepts, personal interests, family backgrounds, social encounters, etc. However, in general, social trends tend to affect the formation of personal virtues. When the proposition of "art of living" with local flavor became popular in the middle and late Ming Dynasties, activities such as flower arrangement and vegetable arrangement naturally became an excellent choice for people to enjoy leisure and leisure and the best way of life, and the vegetarian family will show their strange acrobatics and acrobatics, and have their liberal feelings in their indifferent life.

If the world of work refers to the world of working days, the world of efficiency, in this world there are only purposeful behaviors, the completion of work and the operation of functions, etc., "its biggest feature is hard work and fatigue, the more we look closely, the more we will feel that these characteristics are obvious, as if carved out"; then, the world of ordinary people is the resistance and avoidance of the world of work, and it is the real moment of life that is experienced in daily life through leisure. Leisure activities such as flower arrangement and the summarization of their experiences are superficially irrelevant, but in fact there should be a space in the history of human thought, because it also embodies the insight and wisdom of life. Yuan Hongdao's theory of vase flower art has caused a sensation in the Japanese flower path community, and is revered as the "Hongdao Stream" school, which is called "the flow of the "History of the Bottle", and its people are visible", is it not because the passages exude high vision?

Zhang Qiande wrote the "Vase Flower Spectrum" in the twenty-third year of the Wanli Calendar (1595), and signed himself "Dream Butterfly Zhai disciple Zhang Qiande" in the preface. Why is it called Dream Butterfly Jai? He did not express his own intentions, but he literally deduced that it was probably similar to the characters of Sun ("Cinnabar Fish Spectrum"), the former Zhu Mingdong Tianxian Shi ("Wild Clothing Examination"), and The Shuo Juesheng ("Tea Classic"), that is, they were taken from the Zhuang Lao Taoist concept of survival, swimming out of the turbulent political life, and letting themselves go to the world of life of ordinary people who were at ease. Worldly merit is not what it wants, but what it wants is to master all kinds of arts, write miscellaneous books, and show knowledge. The "Vase Flower Spectrum" is more than 1,900 words, just an article, not a foreign masterpiece, and may not be very eye-catching today, but for Zhang Qiande, it is his proud debut work, and it is a self-affirmation of the green onion years. Therefore, he wants to compare himself with the talents of a hundred years ago, "The genealogy of the Years of The Former Jin Run, yu Yi is a number of words", and he thinks that "what is right and wrong in the middle, what to do, the solution has its own evaluation". This is a manifestation of self-confidence, in a modest language that shows a little majestic look at the ancient and modern. This sense of accomplishment, of course, is different from the satisfaction of worldly desires, it is more sufficiency in the spiritual world, and it can also be said to be a variant of the ancient precept of "making words".

Reading "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers", "Vase Flower Spectrum" and "Bottle History", it is not difficult to find the causes and new creations of the three. We should not be surprised that their expositions are quite similar, and it is precisely because of the similarities that these three most representative floral theory texts just illustrate the basic trend of the art of life in the Ming Dynasty. Based on the concept of inheriting the previous and the future, Taiwanese scholar Fu Peili introduced the floral theory of the "Vase Flower Spectrum", and based on its text, compared it with the "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers" and "Vase History" to understand their differences and connections, so as to find the positioning of "Vase Flower Notation" in the history of floral art. The conclusion of the comparison is, "We can affirm the contribution of the pioneer Gao Lian and the promoter Hongdao to the floral art of the Ming Dynasty, and Qiande is in it, which seems to be slightly inferior, in fact, the "Vase Flower Notation" has its own value in the history of floral art, that is, the floral theory of the Ming Dynasty can be developed from the notes of the experience recorded at leisure to a professional paper intentionally written, so that the professionalism of the floral art is affirmed, so that Yuan Hongdao's "History of the Bottle" can further bring the Ming Dynasty floral art theory to a new realm, and Zhang Qiande is in the turning point after the inheritance of the first and the first. Its merits cannot be erased. Indeed, the "Bottle Flower Spectrum" is divided into eight sections, such as bottles, flowers, folding branches, storage, nourishment, matters, flower taboos, and bottle protection, which are not only based on the "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers", detailing the details, and the clouds have quite insights, which have surpassed the attitude of recording their own interpolation experience in "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers", and regard floral art as a kind of professional knowledge and skill, intentionally writing their own opinions and aesthetic concepts, which has played a role in threading yuan Hongdao's further elevation of the realm from "heavy people" to "loving flowers".

The Vase Flower Spectrum says: "Precious magnetic copper, cheap gold and silver, Shang Qing Yaye." "As far as flower arrangement is concerned, why is the vase flower arrangement stored "precious magnetic copper, cheap gold and silver"? It should be noted that the gold and silver vase flowers have a long history. Lady Shiyun: "The light rain is slightly moist and green, and the heather red apricot pond is open." A branch was inserted into the golden vase and carried into the King's Jade Palace. The "Past Events of Wulin" also records: "Dozens of large golden vases are planted with sunflowers, durians, and mast flowers, and surround the palace." "Don't cut a thousand flowers like good colors, and settle the flower racks, and they are crystals, glass, azure ru kilns, and golden vases; there is an agarwood table in the middle, and the white jade milled flowers are honored, about two feet high, two feet and three inches in diameter, and the fifteen branches of the red of the temple are inserted alone." Needless to say, the golden vase flower arrangement is also quite scenic, and it also reveals the majesty of honor. The silver vase flower type has also existed for a long time, Yang Wanli's "Plum Blossom in the Bottle": "The bold silver vase is like a jade plum, and the north branch is not fully folded; for pity and loneliness in the empty mountain, summon the poet into several cases." Obviously, through the memory of the silver bottle inserted plum, it satirizes the stormy situation of the Southern Song Dynasty court. It is said that because silver dissolves in water and has anti-corrosion effect, so the silver vase flower arrangement, the flower color can be long-lasting and undefeated. However, the cost of gold and silver materials is undoubtedly higher, although it is magnificent, after all, most of them can bear the palace flower activities, "Wan Hu is sad, the head of the golden mink, not worth the silver bottle is expensive", naturally not the first choice of ordinary people. On the other hand, the choice of copper magnetic bottle also has its own physical advantages, "on the bottle is strong", as mentioned in the above paragraph of cold resistance. According to the investigation, the thick layer of patina (alkaline copper carbonate) on the surface of the bronze ware has a bactericidal and antiseptic effect. Therefore, the vase flowers are planted in bronze ware, absorbing copper ions and improving nutrition, coupled with patina sterilization and purification of bottle water, the vivid image of vase flowers can be extended for a long time. In the industry manufacturing theory, magnetism, porcelain also, ceramic bottles undoubtedly have great advantages, after the Song Dynasty, the development and continuous updating of the porcelain industry, porcelain has become the mainstream of vases, its color, texture, shape, composition, etc. are in line with the aesthetic taste and cultural concepts of the people, such as pink blue glaze through the ear flat bottle, this kind of bottle is imitation bronze in the copper pot works. The green glazed bile bottle is the official kiln bile bottle in the "bottle should be short, to the official brother bile bottle" that Gao Lian said about the study of flower arrangement, and its shape is elegant and elegant, which is very suitable for flower arrangement, and it is a natural thing to be valued by people. Zhang Qiande also mentioned the characteristics of famous kiln magnetic bottles in various places later, which can be referred to.

One expensive and one lowly, the Ming people's requirements for the material of the bottle reflected the aesthetic concept of leisure appreciation at that time; the category of "Qingya" was not only the appearance of life formed in the process of vase flower arrangement, but also the vane of the common life purpose of the literati class of the Ming Dynasty. Cheap gold and silver, in addition to the high cost, is also related to the Ming Dynasty literati's antipathy to the rich and luxurious gold and silver color, and the extravagant sense of gold and silver is contrary to the elegance and humor. The elegant person is pure and elegant, fresh and elegant, quiet and elegant, and simple and elegant. Qingya advocates the mutual causal logical relationship with the value judgment of precious magnetic copper and cheap gold and silver, indicating the transcendence and purity of aesthetic taste, and also showing the leisure and simplicity of life interest.

This can also be taken from the perspective of literary techniques. In modern times, it has become a foregone conclusion that the novel literature represents the ming and qing dynasties. However, in the eyes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the eight-strand system of righteousness can be called the best art of that time. Yuan Hongdao, who is a lyrical spirit, said in the "Preface to the Times of everyone": "In this generation, it is said that the scholar is a deed, and although the scholar is prepared to take the world's assets, he is also tired of the times." This is not the case. After the husband looks at the present, the present Jugu also, to take the scholar with the text, the WenYu poetry also, thousands of years later, An Zhi does not Qu Tang and Lu Luozhi, Gu Xi will be ancient chinese words and then immortal! And the so-called ancient writers are still extremely bad today! Why? Better than Han, called the text, not the text; slave to the Tang, called poetry, not poetry; take the Song and Yuan princes and polish it, called the song and song of the family, not the song of the family. The closer the ancients are, the more they seem to be forgeries, and the true texts between heaven and earth are destroyed. Dr. Du's words are still desirable. Yuan Hongdao's admiration of the Eight Strands of Literature as the true text between heaven and earth seems to be a bit surprising, in fact, it can only be blamed on the misunderstanding of the people close to the interpretation of literary history. Why did Yuan Hongdao think that the True Text between Heaven and Earth was the Eight Strands of Literature? It should be known that the Eight Strands of Literature should make speeches on behalf of the sages, should discuss the Law retroly, should participate in the administration and discussion of politics, should show their talents, should be well-learned, and had to be grammatical, and the main energy of the Ming Dynasty scholars was probably consumed on this masterpiece, and it was regarded as the true text between heaven and earth, which was a great consolation for the consumption of their own energy.

More importantly, while the energy is consumed, they can fully show off their talents and abilities, because the writing of the eight strands of righteousness requires the author to have a wide range of knowledge, righteousness and benevolence, and ancient and elegant words. Therefore, a good miscellaneous shang boya is one of the ends of the literati's ability to show off their talents. Through the study of the eight-strand system, the class of literati in the Ming Dynasty expanded unprecedentedly, and then a comprehensive literati showmanship-style amusement activity arose, and drove the artistic trend of the whole society. At this time, all kinds of acrobatic arts, through the intervention of the literati class, were even elegant, contaminated with literary flavor and gradually rose in status. Xie Zhaochun's "Five Miscellaneous Tricks" said: "With the help of many animal virtues, gentlemen do not waste it." Song Qiansigong reads the history of the Bible when he sits, reads novels when he sleeps, and reads small words when he goes to the toilet, which is the case with the ancients. Therefore, readers do not know the families of barnyard officials, such as eating the meat of liang and abandoning the sea mistakes, sitting in the grandeur and abolishing the Tai swamp, and the customs are also very bad. "The atmosphere is flourishing, then the ancient carved stele, the carved insect seal, the piano and chess calligraphy and painting, the literary play with the golden stone, the bottle appreciation pottery, the carving of bamboo fans, the making of pots and tea, the singing of songs and fillers, the construction of garden flowers, etc., are all the manifestations of miscellaneous liberal arts. It is not surprising that Yuan Hongdao wrote such a floral theory work as "The History of Bottles".

The flourishing of the arts shows that this is a world of transformation into elegance. "Its reading Bogu, ancient is said together with the words rhyme, elegance, height, far, leisure, light and so on, indicating a meaning that is beyond, higher than, and separated from the world. It shows that people who pursue the quaint and lofty realm are not psychologically on the same platform as secular people, but are transcendent. But people live in the real world, how can they transcend it? The first is to rely on moral cultivation, and the other is to observe with art. In other words, the literati of the Ming Dynasty practiced an aestheticized and normal life; the elegant lifestyle of the literati was the goal pursued by the Ming people. Therefore, Gao Lian recommended his "Eight Notes on Zunsheng" to the world, introducing the various methods and forms of life of four-hour tuning, living in peace, prolonging life but being sick, drinking and eating, and appreciating Yan Leisure, teaching people to enjoy leisure and leisure or contemplate long things, pulling out from the worldly net, and opening up a pure land of the soul, is not it the echo of the times that art looks at real life? Among them, the "Three Sayings of Vase Flowers" in the sixth note "Yan XianQing Appreciation" has initially established a research system for flower arrangement art, and its experience is an excellent example of the aestheticization of daily life. In the following eight years, Zhang Qiande wrote the "Vase Flower Notation" and Yuan Hongdao wrote the "Bottle History", which was successively theoretically upgraded and became the double bibi of classical Chinese flower arrangement art classics. In these three floral theory documents of the Ming Dynasty, there is no lack of overlap in words and viewpoints, but there are advantages and disadvantages in the inheritance of the ming Dynasty, which together witness the style of an era that has changed from custom to elegance. Although the "Vase Flower Spectrum" is only an article, its content involves all aspects, which can be described as a regular system and very instructive. It is in this sense that we say that it is a classic work of the Ming Dynasty that records the practical technique of flower arrangement. After Zhang Qiande wrote the "Vase Flower Spectrum" from a distance and close feelings, he divided eight sections of text content such as bottles, flowers, folded branches, storage, nourishment, matters, flower taboos, and bottle protection to describe his floral thoughts and concepts of life. In short, the "Vase Flower Spectrum" can be regarded as a work of agronomy, horticulture, acrobatics, leisure or aesthetic theory, no matter from which aspect, it undoubtedly reflects a silhouette of the life of the middle and late Ming literati, from which we can understand how they release the embarrassment of survival, enhance and develop the ability and experience of elegance, and can also appreciate and experience the aesthetic life of a generation of flower protectors.

Grass and trees originally do not matter whether they are sentient or ruthless, but because of people's emotional projection, they have the feeling of "one grass and one tree always caring". In ancient and modern Times, Chinese and foreign countries can not be excluded, the Swiss philosopher Yamer said that "a natural scenery is a mood", which is what Wang Guowei said: "All scenery is love language, and all love language is scenery language". Empathy is often produced in people's daily lives, those flowers and plants that hide each other and are interesting, those various vases that are varied and meaningful, become vivid under the action of empathy and synaesthesia, and at the same time become the "quiet and anecdotes" enjoyed by literati and scholars. Those who are precious in love, please each other to understand. However, it is not easy to talk about pleasing each other and solving it! Therefore, it is not easy to truly understand these "anecdotes" and to contain a "yearning for meaning" in this activity. Gai therefore and other activities are difficult to understand, in its quiet, in its elegance, light and gentle, high and deep, non-elegant and narrow realm can not taste and appreciate. "But the reason that cannot be said, the things that cannot be seen, the feelings that cannot be reached, are vague and reasonable, imaginative and reasonable, and worried about feelings, and the words of reason, matter, and affection." Isn't it true that all the minds of the confucians are divided into minds? "The layman cannot appreciate it, nor can he insert a flower of mental image with a different meaning. Zhang Qiande sighed at the beginning of the chapter by borrowing the mouth of the dream butterfly jai disciple, "The anecdotes of the ghostly perch, the vase flowers are particularly difficult to understand, and the one who solves it is impossible to solve it", which is not an unprovoked groan, pretending to be a surprising word. The Vase Flower Notation is a floral work that continues to open up the past, reflecting the evolution of traditional Chinese bottle cutting art and its aesthetic taste in the Qingya monks and ancients in the middle and late Ming Dynasties. By understanding the floral aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty, reflecting on the mysterious relationship between the mind and nature of the ancients, providing historical reference for the construction of contemporary Chinese spiritual civilization and human ecosystem, we can further measure the practical problems of how art and life are harmonious and beautiful, and how the rationality and sensibility of life can be combined. In addition, vase flower activity is a kind of leisure art, an important yardstick to measure the degree of social civilization, a way of life and a state of life; sorting out and studying the aesthetic ideas of the Ming Dynasty vase flower in the mature period can inherit the Chinese aesthetic tradition of leisure appreciation from a positive aspect.