Survey: How elegant are you?
Incense burning focuses on the beauty of "fragrance";
Tea tasting focuses on the beauty of "taste";
Flower arrangement focuses on the beauty of "color";
Hanging pictures focuses on the beauty of "environment".
But these four kinds of elegant beauty are getting farther and farther away from our life now.
This elegance is unknown to most people except a few Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian writers. Yes, and most of them are not refined.
There is a fragrant path. Before the ancients could read and write, they would burn incense and wash their hands to show their respect. Burning incense to purify the air, burning incense to caress the piano, reciting poems and painting, and burning incense to sit still for fitness are even more beautiful customs.
Good fragrance is not only fragrant, but also makes people feel happy. It can also help people to achieve a calm and agile state and achieve calmness in a relaxed and happy way.
The fragrance is slightly smoked, refreshing and clear words are expensive. Clear is quiet, clear is easy, clear is elegant, and clear is fine. On the contrary, it is chaotic, dry, turbid and vulgar.
There are many people who drink tea now, but not many can taste tea, and even fewer can blindly pursue the realm of Zen tea. More tea instead of wine for health, mostly for cattle drinking.
If life is a dream and tea is intoxicating, why drink it? Tea can pass Zen, and tea tasting is really the best of the four elegance.
Tea has a tea ceremony, "Zen tea blindly", "Zen" is the understanding of the heart, "tea" is the spiritual bud of material, and "blindly" is the communication between heart and tea, heart and heart. Pay attention to empathy and Zen tea.
Tea has three lives: rooting, sprouting, sprouting, growing leaves and bathing mountains and rivers.
Then, picking, rolling, frying ... and finally becoming a genuine product.
Finally, add spring, bloom, shine and be reborn.
Have a grateful heart for this unique taste. Smell it, sip it and taste it repeatedly until the bottom of the throat is sweet and refreshing. How many times can you experience this kind of life for half a day?
The bitterness of tea, realize the "bitter truth" of Buddhism, there are eight difficulties in life, and the sea of suffering is boundless. Cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature. Tea tasting can be associated with the inner essence of Zen, which is helpful to practice Buddhism, taste life and break through the "bitter truth".
Tea is "quiet", "quiet, pleasant and true", which cleans the body and mind and cleans the dust. Tea is "ordinary", through which we can understand the truth, see the big from the small and understand the truth.
Tea "release", put down the work at hand, steal a long time, drink a cup of green tea casually, and relax the imprisoned and trapped natural mind. "Let go", nothing attached, all four are empty, just like tea meditation.
Buddhism exists in tea soup. Tea is Zen, and giving up Zen means no tea; I don't know the taste of Zen and tea.
You know, drinking tea is like meditation. Self-knowledge, since the enlightenment Zen. Drinking is as drunk as a fiddler, but drinking tea can turn the world into a tea ceremony.
I sincerely hope that all of you can learn this elegance.
This elegance has almost been cut off, which can best reflect the aesthetic taste of literati.
Flower arrangement is an elegant art, paying attention to the harmonious collocation of flowers and bottles, arranging flowers in large bottles, avoiding excessive decoration and pursuing spontaneity and naturalness; Small bottles should be thin and clever, not complicated. Stick in one branch and stand out, stick in two branches and sing in chorus. In fact, it contains the unique aesthetic taste of ancient people in China.
There are flower passages in flower arrangement. The basic spirit of Huadao is the harmonious unity of "heaven, earth and people". Feel the changes of nature and life through flower arrangement, and enhance your aesthetics while creating and appreciating. This way of learning and living to improve the spiritual world by arranging flowers is called Huadao.
However, this elegance has been replaced by a general superficial hobby of growing flowers.
Whether it is good to grow flowers or not, the problem is that people who pursue practicality generally think that "planting flowers and raising birds for nothing" is understandable, but they don't know that the loss of life interest has led to a sharp decline in the quality of life. We love life. Without elegance, we are left with vulgarity, which can only make life more and more vulgar and rough.
Calligraphy and painting are the essence of China traditional culture. Unfortunately, the most sought-after calligraphy and painting books in modern times have lost their fragrance, simplicity, massiness and elegance, and the so-called elegance has been divorced from the mark. Look at the smog in the book world now. Imagine hanging an ugly book at home. What do you think when you look at it every day? Where are you? Where are you?
The ancient literati's way of hanging pictures pays attention to pictures and texts, the perfect combination of pearls and pearls, the interest of pen and ink, and the blending of scenes, which plays a wonderful role in understanding Tao, cultivating body and mind, alerting evil thoughts and sharpening interest.
The ancients hung, admired and wrote paintings, taking ink as treasure, painting as treasure and words as treasure, and were in awe of culture. They not only formed a whole set of calligraphy and painting, but also formed artistic forms such as couplets, nave, screens, fights, picture books, sketches, hand scrolls and fans. Because the appreciation distance is very close, so use paper, Mo Yun and Fan.
Scholars not only set up their own study to practice calligraphy and painting, but also like to hang suitable calligraphy and painting in suitable places, or cultivate sentiment and relieve fatigue; Or beautify the space and stimulate creativity; Or render books and show skills; Or reminisce about the past, express feelings, leave your arms, and naturally get an elegant enjoyment when enjoying calligraphy and painting.
If you are elegant inside, you can start over. Fortunately, we can still explore the "four elegance" and experience and feel the elegance of learning from the ancients. According to personal tastes and conditions, we can learn from the ancients and add a little elegance. If we pick up a point, we will get the same result. It is also a good thing to try to add a little elegance to our life.
Having said that, I am not advocating melodrama, so there is no need to pretend to be elegant and ostentatious!