China News Service, Guangzhou, August 5th (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) Playing the piano, arranging flowers, ordering tea, and burning incense are all ways for literati in the Song Dynasty to pursue an elegant life.

Following the "'2022 Summer Museum Night' Launching Ceremony and 'Guangdong Expo Cultural and Creative Session'" and "Listen to the Pine Wind - Guqin Concert", the Guangdong Provincial Museum will launch "Song Yun" on the evening of August 5. "Feng Ya" theme event, talents and beauties from all walks of life took turns to stage, for the audience to stage the elegant life of Song Dynasty people.

　　That night, with the opening of a Song Dynasty night banquet scene in the lobby on the second floor of the Guangdong Provincial Museum, Dr. Jian Zicong slowly appeared to show the guqin charm for the audience.

In the sound of the piano, the audience seems to be in a certain night in the Song Dynasty.

For the ancients, the guqin is not only a musical instrument, but also something to express feelings. The art of guqin has absorbed a large number of elegant and beautiful tunes, and the playing techniques are complex and exquisite.

Dr. Jian has been learning the qin for many years, and the style of the qin is elegant and upright, and the gentle and peaceful sound of the guqin slowly flows out, soothing the hearts of the audience.

　　When the song was over, the flower arranging master Zhou Yi imitated the "Flower Basket" painted by the Southern Song Dynasty painter Li Song to perform flower arrangement.

It is reported that the ancient Chinese art of flower arrangement is not only a plastic art, but also covers the profound connotations of the ancients' philosophy, culture and ethics.

After the Song Dynasty, due to the popularity of flower viewing activities in the palace, literati and doctors used flowers to create poems and songs, and external factors such as increasingly frequent social exchanges promoted the ancient art of flower arrangement to flourish.

At the same time as the flower arrangement performance was held, the host's introduction to Song-style flower arrangement was interspersed on the spot, allowing the audience to experience the fun and connotation of flower arrangement in an immersive way.

　　Afterwards, the tea orderer quietly appeared, showing the tea ordering skills and sharing the knowledge of tea art.

According to reports, Chinese tea culture has a long history, "originated in Shennong, heard in Lu Zhougong, flourished in Tang and flourished in Song".

In the Song Dynasty, ordering tea and fighting tea was one of the favorite pastimes of scholars and scholars.

Ordering tea is a rigorous and meticulous art, and it pays attention to tea leaves, tea soup, and tea cups.

In the display of the team of Huang Jianhong, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage tea making skills, the audience was able to observe the ancient meaning, hold a cup to invite the bright moon, sip tea together, and savor life.

　　Suddenly, a burst of aroma drifted past, and incense culture lecturers Chen Huiling and Feng Lijun sat on the stage.

"Burning incense and sitting silently to distract the world", burning incense, ordering tea, hanging pictures, and arranging flowers are the four great elegance of Song people.

During the event, the two lecturers explained the traditional incense burning culture of the Song Dynasty, and let the audience feel the comfort brought by the dense aroma in the summer night.

　　Finally, Dr. Jian Zicong returned to the stage and brought an ancient Song Dynasty song "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" to the audience.

At the end of the song, lucky audience members were able to come to the stage to experience the beauty of ordering tea and burning incense, and appreciate the meaning of life in the Song Dynasty.

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