Today at 18:02:12, Gengzi gas runs to mid-winter: winter solstice.
The winter solstice, the beginning of the one-year festival, the end of the year. It is said that it is the beginning of the one-year-old solar term, because the weekly calendar is based on the winter moon Jianzi, and the winter solstice is the beginning of the year. "Winter solstice is born of one yang", the yin and yang of the years fade, starting from the winter solstice. It is also said that the winter solstice is the end of the year's solar terms, because the current Gregorian calendar, that is, the last solar term at the end of the solar year, is the winter solstice. The current order of the solar terms, which lists the winter solstice as the 22nd solar term, begins with the Spring Festival.
The Song Dynasty poet Chen Bifu's "Winter Solstice in the Mountains" said: "Reading easy to burn incense is closed door, lazy and bitter." Xiao lai quietly participates in the business, and there are a few points of plum blossoms in spring. "Burning incense and meditating on the day of the winter solstice is the daily custom of the ancient literati to live in festivals. In the Book of Rites and The Order of the Moon, it is stated that the winter solstice should "fast a gentleman and hide everywhere." Desire for tranquility, devotion to sound and color, abstinence of old age, tranquility, and tranquility of things, to be determined by yin and yang. The inscription in this issue is a partial detail of the volume of the Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin's "Wuyang Zi Yang SexualIty Map" now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. In the painting, the old man Wu Yangzi (Gu Mi) sits on his knees on a futon, his head wrapped in black veil, dressed in a wide robe, and his face is slightly tilted upwards, as if he is wandering outside. On the low table on its right hand side is a stove, and there is an unfolded book and letters. For example, Su Shi said in the "Anguo Temple": "The Jingshe in the south of the city is known as the Anguo Temple, and there are Maolin Xiuzhu and Pichi Pavilion. In the first and second days, when they burn incense and sit silently, and examine themselves deeply, then things and things are forgotten, their bodies and minds are empty, and they are born and cannot be obtained by seeking sin and dirt. A thought is pure, the stain is self-defiled, the appearance is clear, there is nothing to attach, and the private is happy. ”
"Burning incense and sitting silently, deep self-examination, forgetting things and self, body and mind are empty, one thought is pure, and pollution falls on its own." This is the soul of the traditional Chinese literati incense.
Incense can not only purify the environment, but also a good medicine to purify the soul. The incense culture of burning incense and sitting on incense mats has penetrated into the three houses of Confucianism and Taoism, and has formed a whole set of rituals from the decoration of the incense room to the aesthetics of utensils. Regarding the arrangement of the literati incense room, in Song ChenJing's "Chen's Incense Spectrum", Yan Bowen's "History of Incense" yun was quoted: "To burn incense, it will be in the deep room, and the stove will be placed on a low table to level people's knees, and silver leaves or mica will be set on the fire, and the incense will be made like a plate shape to line the incense, and the incense will not reach the fire, and it will be naturally comfortable and slow, and there will be smokeless dryness." The general idea is that the incense room should not be too large, and the height of the incense table and the knee level of the decoration are arranged from the perspective of kneeling, and now the table height and waist level seem to be more appropriate. The Ming Dynasty's Zhu Quan's "Seven Essentials for Burning Incense" lists the seven necessary utensils needed to burn incense: incense burner, incense stick, incense charcoal, fire insulation sand tablet, spirit ash, spoon basket, and bottle. The selection, use and precautions of these seven utensils are explained in detail. As the saying goes, "the vessel carries the tao", the utensil itself is a symbol of national culture, in the field of Chinese incense culture, Japanese incense utensils are popular, and it is particularly important to understand the incense mat furnishings and utensils of traditional Chinese incense culture.
Wen Zhengming's poem "Burning Incense" vividly depicts the meaning of traditional literati tasting incense: "Silver leaves are on fire, and the blue smoke does not move and the water sinks." The paper screen bamboo bed is clear, and the drizzle is clear and the cold swallow sleeps. The mysterious realm can be referred to first, and the common fate is washed away. Ri Chang read from Nanhua in his own exhibition, and turned to the taste of the idle way. In the Five-Spiced Yan Tong Zi Chapter of the Great Buddha's DingShou Leng Yan Sutra, which is revered by Chinese Buddhism, there is a Xiang Yan Boy, as the third enlightener of the twenty-five Yuantong Bodhisattvas, who reported to the Buddha the experience of smelling agarwood and realizing the Tao: "When I resign from the Buddha, I feast on obscure qing fasts, I see bhikkhus burning incense, the aroma comes into the nose silently, I look at this breath, not wood and not empty, not smoke and no fire, going to nothing, coming from nowhere, from the intention of selling, inventing without leakage." If you come to print me, I have to incense the number. The dust is gone, the incense is dense, and I get the arhat from the incense. The meaning of this passage is that the Xiangyan boy smells the aroma of agarwood in meditation and meditation as dependent arising, and perceives that the aroma is not wood and not emptiness, not smoke and not fire, going to nothing, coming from nothing, and thus attaining Prajnaparamita wisdom. As Mr. Liu Liangyou said, "The incense mat is a kind of aesthetic life that has been sublimated into a feast for the soul after studying, cultivating and practicing with incense work. ”
Winter solstice customs have been handed down to this day, still familiar with the only ancestor worship and food, try the traditional Chinese incense burning meditation on the winter solstice day, this experience can make you more intuitively understand the ancient poetry of the mood, rather than just the understanding of the meaning of the text, this experiential learning and feeling, is the traditional cultural system learning and study of the right way.
Ming Wen Zhengming's "Sweeping the Floor and Burning Incense Stickers" is on the Bozang
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The festival is | Small cold, the first incense of the lavender wax plum fragrance
The festival is | Great cold, resign the old and welcome the new full of incense
The festival is | Li Chun, incense medicine two Yi pin and incense
The festival is | Rain, burning incense to listen to the rain soothing humor
The festival is | Sting, the incense dissipates the sting and wakes up
The festival is | Spring equinox, enjoy the fragrance of flowers and fragrance live up to spring
The festival is | Qingming, smoke clouds and cypress fragrance
The festival is | Gu Yu, the open window exhibition volume is fragrant
The festival is | Li Xia, the ancient temple furnace incense heart is cool
The festival is | Small full, precautions for the smoke of incense
The festival is | Mango seeds, mosquito repellent and mildew-proof perfume sachets
The festival is | Summer solstice, wake up the spleen to clear the summer medicine incense beads
The festival is | Xiao Xia, Hongxu sang the first qinglian incense
The festival is | In the heat of the day, steam up and down and cook the incense
The festival is | Autumn, drying books and incense to drive out silverfish
The festival is | In the heat, the clouds are clever to appreciate the magpie stove
The festival is | White dew, autumn pear smoked and dyed in the tent incense
The festival is | Autumn equinox, mid-autumn moon incense
The festival is | Cold dew, morning dew raw cold and sparkling
The festival is | Frost falls, proudly greets frost and clears the fragrance
The festival is | Li Dong, Matsushita set up a mat dou incense
The festival is | Light snow, warm incense strike room spring
The festival is | Heavy snow, changyue burning incense to nourish the mind