(Question about East and West) Short comment: How about "Chinese-style romance" during the Qixi Festival?
China News Agency, Beijing, August 13th, title: Qixi Festival, telling the "Chinese-style romance" geometry?
Author Xu Huanguan
Qixi Festival every year, and Qixi Festival today.
"The night sky is as cool as water, lying down and watching the Altair Vega." Qixi Festival is approaching, this traditional festival with love as the theme and a history of more than 2,000 years, which demonstrates China's unique concept of love.
Unlike the West who likes to "talk about love", the East seems to place more emphasis on "talking about love".
What kind of "Chinese romance" does the Qixi Festival reflect?
Data map: A couple dressed in Tang suits at the wedding ceremony in the imitation of Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Yuanshe
Qixi Festival originated from the star worship of Chinese farming ancestors.
"Xia Xiaozheng" in "The Great Dai Liji" records that people observed the Vega during the pre-Qin period and regarded it as a sign of the coming of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
In addition to "breaking the season and responding to the agriculture", the Chinese ancestors connected stars as pictures and pictograms to understand, the love legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was born, and the Qixi Festival began.
Qixi Festival is often associated with women praying for clever wisdom, "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in Kaijinlou on July 7", which is called "Qiao Qiao Festival".
In the Song Dynasty, the "Chinese Valentine's Day" became an officially recognized festival, which was passed on from generation to generation.
In 2006, Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of China's national intangible cultural heritage list, and its cultural value was fully affirmed.
Speaking of Tanabata, it is unavoidable to think of Valentine's Day in the West.
Different from the origin of the Qixi Festival, the predecessor of Valentine's Day in the West is St. Valentine's Day. To commemorate the death of the Italian Christian bishop Valentin who was persecuted by the Roman emperor in the third century AD, he had nothing to do with the "lover".
It wasn't until the English poet Chaucer wrote in 1382 that "It is on the beautiful St. Valentine's Day that the birds are happily looking for their mates", injecting love elements into it.
In the 19th century, British stamp and greeting card merchants packaged St. Valentine's Day as "Valentine's Day". The hype was a big success, and then gradually spread to the world.
Data map: A pair of lovers walked across the "love zebra crossing" on the streets of Chengdu.
Photo by Zhang Lang
Although it is all about love, the meaning of Qixi Festival is not the same as that of Valentine's Day in the West.
Contrary to Shakespeare's notion that "love is a puff of smoke from a sigh", which is quite popular in the West, the love concept carried by Qixi Festival is more idealistic, rather than ambiguous and commercial.
The former focuses on talking about love, while the latter focuses on interceding.
Compared with the "love" in front of us, "love" seems to be more long-lasting.
"Xianyun makes a coincidence, the flying stars spread hatred, and the silver guy is dark."
The Song Ci "Magpie Bridge Immortal·Fragile Cloud Making a Clever" is famous for the ages, precisely because it tells the true meaning of idealistic love from the story of Qixi Festival.
In addition to the joy of love, you and me, it also includes the watchfulness of the dreamlike period, and the loyalty of Yin Han's unwavering affection.
The ancient famous phrase "If the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the day and night" even more reveals the eternal characteristics of true love, and conveys the ultimate understanding of love by the Chinese people.
Data map: "Chinese Valentine's Day" is approaching. A clerk at a flower shop in Kunming is making bouquets and flower baskets of "Chinese Valentine's Day".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Ranyang
Qiushi is susceptible.
The Chinese people are fond of the Qixi Festival, but also cherish the youth, sadness of aging and parting.
For example, in the "Nineteen Ancient Poems", the famous "He Han is clear and shallow, and the phases are repeated several times. In the surging water, the pulse cannot be spoken" and "Thinking of the monarch makes you old, and the years are suddenly too late."
There is also the "Autumn Wind Ci" by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "Autumn breeze rises, white clouds fly, yellow vegetation falls, and geese return south. The orchid is beautiful, the chrysanthemum is beautiful, and the beautiful woman can not be forgotten", which is grand and touching.
This kind of sincerity and softness makes the Qixi Festival more profound and unforgettable.
Among various cultural phenomena, festivals are more ethnic.
The prism of the Qixi Festival reflects the unique aesthetic, love, and time-space views of the Chinese people.
Different from the West, the loyalty, watchfulness, sentimentality and sentimentality of love under the stars of idealism are sublimated to the eternal yearning for true love, blending with a unique "Chinese-style romance", which has become the inheritance and continuation of Chinese cultural genes, and it is also unique. Spiritual logo.
Data map: Lovers swans in the lake.
Photo by Liu Ranyang issued by China News Agency
The Qixi Festival, which originated in China, has had an impact on the world with the spread of Chinese culture and the footsteps of the Chinese.
Especially in Asia, Japan has fireworks festivals and paper paper wishing, the Korean Peninsula worships the Weaver Girl and eats pancakes, and Vietnam has "Seven Sister Plates" and "He Seedlings"... the long-lasting and sincere concept of love and the unique local Qixi folk customs Together, they are deeply integrated into the spiritual blood and cultural beliefs of overseas Chinese.
Love is the "motif" of different countries, different races, and different cultures all over the world.
The various speeches, festivals, and customs surrounding it are all in pursuit of beauty.
It can be said that there is no question about romance.
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