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Mohism refers to poets, writers and other elegant literati, as well as literate people. "Moke" is a Chinese word.

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Han Yang Xiong's "Yang Longfu": "The words are not dead, the ink guest falls, and then kowtows." According to "Preface to Changyang Fu", "Chatting is a pen and ink article, and the native land is mainly Hanlin, and Mozi takes the wind as a guest." In Fu's place, Hakka dialect was called "Mohist", and later it was another name for literati. Tang Du Fu's poem "Banquet in Hu Shutang" said: "The Hanlin is well known and the literati are prosperous."

synonym

Poet [Xi Helun]

scholar

scholar

antonym

Enlightened [xhuá iruog incarnation]

Mohist behavior

One of Yaxing: Friendship with Literature

Pen pals are a grand gathering of ancient literati. Chapter 12 of The Analects of Confucius, Yan Yuan, records that "Zeng Zi said,' A gentleman makes friends by writing and helps others by friendship'. It means: a gentleman makes friends with articles and cultivates benevolence with the help of friends. This also shows from the side that this is a traditional form handed down from generation to generation, meeting friends. Rooted in the traditional culture of rites and music, it has nurtured many excellent poems handed down from generation to generation, promoted the development of ancient poetry forms and the prosperity of poetry creation, and has important value in China's ancient poetics, which has also become a great interest of ancient literati.

Yaxing Part II: Drinking and Singing Poems

Looking back, there were very few ancient literati who didn't like drinking. After drinking, they actually made countless masterpieces, such as the famous poet Li Bai. When he meets a bosom friend, he will "and I are very happy to have a rest, talk about wine and wave"; When the road to official career is smooth, he will "sing and get drunk and masturbate, and dance to the sunset to win glory"; When the road to official career was bumpy, he angrily wrote the eternal quatrain, "But since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with a sword, it is even more worrying to raise a glass to eliminate our worries"; He used "seeing me off here with my city comrades, and when each of them drank his glass, I said goodbye to him" to express his parting feelings when he said goodbye to his friends. It can be said that in Li Bai's life, he never left wine. Drinking and reciting poems has also become another great pleasure for many literati.

Of course, in addition to the above two more extensive literati, there are several others. Today, however, the focus of my introduction is not these elegant types, but one of the most elegant literati in the ancient cultural circle, namely Gao Lian, a book collector and opera writer in the Ming Dynasty. He was born in the early years of Jiajing and lived around Wanli. He can not only compose poems, but also be proficient in medicine and be good at keeping in good health. However, what is most amazing about him is his numerous hobbies. There are quite a lot of elegant tastes, such as collecting books, enjoying paintings, discussing words, incense and playing music. So how elegant is he?

Research layout

In Gao Lian's study, there are many elegant and interesting things besides many books. These collections are not only numerous, but also exquisitely arranged. On the coffee table beside his bed, there are bronze flower statues and Ge Yao bottles, and these containers also contain the flowers he picked. There is an guqin in the center of the study, and there are many kinds of paintings hanging on the walls around it, including landscape paintings, flowers and trees paintings, birds and animals paintings and figure paintings. In addition, in his spare time, he will collect morning dew with Pushi, and use it to clean his eyes and make himself see more clearly. Such an elegant attitude towards life, just thinking about it, the picture is pleasing to the eye.

Ancient study decoration

In addition, he also placed "Acorus gramineus" in the study. Acorus gramineus is a kind of herbaceous plant, its branches and leaves are evergreen and shiny, which has certain ornamental value. Moreover, its rhizome is often used as medicine because of its sedative effect, which has high medicinal value. Therefore, in the eyes of Ming literati, Acorus gramineus was regarded as an indispensable ornament, and so was Gao Lian. He put the Acorus gramineus in a small stone tray and put it by his desk, which can be used for viewing and calming the mood.

In fact, as long as you look at the decoration of Gao Lian's home, you can see how much he attaches importance to the taste of life. However, his concept of book collection is also different. Different from some scholars who only pay attention to external embodiment, his view of book collection is quite practical. He didn't pay attention to the external value of books at that time. In his eyes, as long as there are books with collection value, whether poems or miscellaneous books, Gao Lian will collect them in the study as much as possible and record his thoughts after reading. People who collect books like this can be described as real book lovers.

Health advice

Gao Lian also has his own unique views on health care. He pays great attention to the quality of drinking water, as can be seen from the dew he uses to clean his eyes. Gao Lian believes that not all natural water is suitable for drinking, and the best "spiritual water" is water such as rain and snow dew. In terms of diet, he likes to cook with flowers and often eats lilies in cakes. For health care, Gao Lian thinks that health care needs to be carried out in different seasons, and the health care ingredients eaten in each season are naturally different. He once recorded in "Eight Notes on Respect for Life" that jujube soup, medlar cream and other medicines should be taken in winter, and jujube porridge can also be eaten for tonic.