4. When there is no "one year to get rid of firecrackers" in the Spring Festival, when people no longer "look up, I find it is moonlight" in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when no one thinks of "missing relatives more during the festive season" in the Double Ninth Festival, people seem to ignore the unique details of our nation hidden in the seemingly ordinary days of life. Those distant customs! Is quietly taking away our culture.
The loss of traditional customs may be only a small change of living habits, but in the long run, it is the loss of a national culture.
Without these customs, there are still a few people who can understand the beauty of Qianmen Day, and there are still a few people who can understand the mood of "going up the mountain on September 9 to remember Shandong brothers". Without these customs, no matter how good poetry is. This is just a dead letter. Without the filling of national feelings, no matter how touching the poem is, it will only look old, and there will be no people who really recite it.
Fans have been a cool thing since ancient times. ? China's fans have a long history of development. There were fans in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In terms of materials, China's fans include feather fan, bamboo fan, wan fan and Pu Kui fan. Traditional fans are mostly round, so they are called "round fans". For thousands of years, in addition to its use value, the small fan has also nurtured the wisdom of China's culture and art, forming a unique "fan culture", which has long been a well-known poem: "Silver candle draws a cold screen in Qiu Guang, and the small fan flies lightly". ? Calligraphy is used on fans, and the earliest one is "Xi book fan". In the Tang Dynasty, there were paintings, landscapes and figures on the fan. To understand China culture, fans are an irreplaceable window.
Traditional festivals in China?
Ancient festivals and related customs New Year's Day
On the first day of the first month, also known as Yuanri, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the gods and sticking peach symbols. According to legend, there are two immortals, Tea and Lei Yu, under the peach tree in Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, who can eat all kinds of ghosts. The ancients painted two statues in peach wood and hung them at the door to exorcise ghosts. The Five Dynasties began to write couplets on symbols, which later evolved into Spring Festival couplets. Wang Anshi has a poem "January Day": "Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old ones." Shangyuan
On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is also called Yuanxiao, Yuanxiao and Yuanxiao. It is also called the Lantern Festival, because on the last night of the Lantern Festival, people hang lanterns to play. Song notes Shu Zhen's Cha Sheng Zi Yuan Xi: "Last year's Lantern Festival, the flower market was full of lights." Sheri
The day when farmers offered sacrifices to the land gods. Before the Han dynasty, there were only spring clubs, and after the Han dynasty, there began to be autumn clubs. Spring club is around the vernal equinox, and autumn club is around the autumnal equinox. On the social day, neighbors gathered in the land temple to prepare wine and meat to sacrifice to the gods, and then held a banquet. The Wangs' "Poetry of Social Day" "Sang Zheying left the Spring Society and everyone was intoxicated." An outdated festival (Qingming Festival) that started one or two days ago in Tomb-Sweeping Day, when only cold food is served for three days.
Two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, that is, after the winter solstice 105, sometimes 106. Legend has it that it originated from Jin Wengong's mourning for Jie Zhitui, who lived in seclusion in Mianshan. Jin Wengong forced him to let Yamakaji go, and he clung to the tree. Jin Wengong banned fire and cold food on this day, which later evolved into a cold food festival. During the Cold Food Festival, people will ban fire for three days. Yuan Zhen's "Lianchang Palace Ci": "After the first cold food of 160, spread smokeless green." Qingming Festival
The customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day are mainly hiking and sweeping graves. Du Mu has a poem "Qingming Festival": "It rains a lot during Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." Shangsi
It was originally scheduled for the third day of early March, so it was called Shangsi. After Cao Wei, this festival was fixed in March.