Mizuki Jun said:
The ideal home in the minds of the ancients is to cultivate "feng shui" - where should the house be built to keep it warm in winter and cool in summer, and how should the objects be arranged to make people comfortable? Pay attention to everything... although it cannot be inhabited In the mountains and forests, even if you are living in a secular city, you must have an elegant foyer and clear windows. Let your life go as you wish, and happiness will come naturally.
Mu Xin once said: "In life, you need something higher than firewood, rice, oil and salt."
To say that we are the best at living, we are really not as good as the ancients.
You see, the Qing Dynasty palace in "Story of Yanxi Palace" is calm and elegant at the same time: the solemnity of receiving guests, the elegance of the study, the quietness of resting, every furnishing is a test of the owner's aesthetics.
Stills from "Story of Yanxi Palace"
In "Know or Not", how elegant are the people of the Song Dynasty? Even when it comes to eating and drinking that is full of fireworks, it is important not to eat from time to time, and you have to eat to be famous.
Burning incense, ordering tea, hanging pictures, arranging flowers, all four other things are learned.
Stills from "Know or Not"
From living and traveling to eating and playing, the ancients were experts in everything!
Living with them must be poetic and interesting.
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Elegance is the way the ancients lived. Live with rules, live with dignity, and live with dignity.
In this regard, a pair of close friends in the Ming Dynasty had the most say.
One, Wen Zhenheng , the great-grandson of Wen Zhengming, one of the four great talents in Jiangnan, was good at all kinds of elegant things.
His "Long Things" can be called the "aesthetic bible" for contemporary life writers and designers.
◎ "Chronicles of Changing Things" covers twelve categories including houses, flowers and trees, water and stones, birds and fish, calligraphy and painting, couches, utensils, clothing, and fragrant tea.
His ideal home is to cultivate "feng shui" -
where the house should be built to keep it warm in winter and cool in summer, and how the objects should be arranged to make people comfortable. He pays attention to everything...
Although he cannot live in the mountains and forests, But if you want to live in a secular city, you should also have an elegant foyer and clear windows. Although it is simple and elegant, if you let your life go smoothly, blessings will come naturally.
◎ "To live in the chán city, one must have an elegant and clean gate and a clean and beautiful house. The pavilions and terraces should be like those of a scholar, and the pavilion should be like a secluded person."
The placement of utensils, the matching of flowers and trees, the decoration of calligraphy and paintings, etc. Aesthetics also need to be "formal and presentable, and the painting must be in harmony with the scene."
◎ "The hanging paintings should be high", the hall should hang "large horizontal drapes", and the study should hang "small scenes of flowers and birds, whether single, fan, square, hanging screen, etc., all look good."
Waiting for you to enter the hall, walk through the corridor and cross the bridge , and walked into the secluded back garden.
Wen Zhenheng’s friend Ji became , and created the Chinese garden aesthetic of "although it is man-made, it seems to be open from the sky" in "Garden Ye". What we have created is not only a garden, but also a spiritual paradise for the Chinese people.
◎ "Garden Ye" is the world's first monograph on gardening. It intuitively explains the key points of site selection for ancient Chinese houses. It also has great knowledge in selecting stones, paving the ground, trimming mountains, and planting flowers and trees.
After reading this book, when you take a slow tour of the Summer Palace , Suzhou Lion Forest and other gardens and courtyards, where the winding paths lead to secluded areas, you will understand the wonder of the wilderness with rockery and strange rocks, and know how to change the sceneries by looking at the walls. The universe of scenery.
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In addition to Wen Zhenheng and Ji Cheng, there were four "number one players" in ancient times who excelled in the elegant matters of pure food, tea ceremony, stone hiding and flower arrangement:
It can be said that, The elegant things we enjoy now are just the remnants of what they did back then!
This complete set of "The Elegant Life of the Ancients" is a collection of classic works by six people. It is both practical and appreciative:
○ The decoration guide and gardening secrets that you can use at your fingertips allow you to design your own like an expert s home.
○For enthusiasts of ikebana, tea art, stone collection, and even greedy foodies, it is a "living dictionary" for appreciating collections and peeking into ancient life.
This set of books has excellent editions and can be called a "precious collection of Chinese aesthetics": each volume of
has full-color binding, hundreds of original illustrations, and highly restores the original text. Compared with other boring pure ancient Chinese versions on the market, it can be called " Beautiful version"!
is a "good aesthetic education" for children with its comparative translation and illustrations. Compared with children who are addicted to games, children who grow up immersed in Chinese aesthetics will never lose their temperament. After reading
, you will be amazed: It turns out that it is not difficult at all to live a poetic and elegant life in modern times like the ancients!
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° "Shanjia Qinggong"°
The eating pleasure of "the first literary and artistic foodie in the Song Dynasty"
Beauty can be eaten, and elegance can be eaten
If It is said that Yuan Mei was the number one foodie in the Qing Dynasty, then Lin Hong, who wrote "Shanjia Qinggong", can be said to be "the number one literary foodie in the Song Dynasty" - he not only loved to eat, but also loved to give poetic names to food.
It is said that one time he traveled to Wuyi Mountain in winter and caught a hare, but he could not find a skilled chef to cook it in the wild mountains.
A hermit told him: just cut the rabbit meat into thin slices, mix it with wine, sauce, and pepper as ingredients, hold the thinly sliced hare meat with chopsticks, and stir it in the steaming soup, it will immediately turn into clouds. color.
Later, he wrote a poem: "The clear river surges with snow, and the wind blows and the evening glows." He gave the hot pot a literary name, "Pu Xia Gong."
"Shan Jia Qing Gong" records 104 elegant and delicious dishes of the Song Dynasty. The ingredients and dish names in the mountains have their own hermit style and are full of the life interest of the literati in the Song Dynasty:
"Plum porridge" is cooked with fallen plum blossom petals and snow water. The white porridge;
"Tang Xuanmei" is made by using a bamboo knife to pick the budding plum blossoms and then soaking them with honey.
After reading one volume, it is both educational and educational, which satisfies the craving of the mouth and quenches the thirst of the heart.
° "The Classic of Tea"°
"Since Lu Yu was born in the world, the world has learned about spring tea"
A luxurious illustrated version of the "Tea Classic"
Anyone who loves tea will read the "Tea Classic".
This version of the book is even more massive:
is based on the "Tea Classic" from the Xianchun edition of the Southern Song Dynasty collected by the National Library of China;
is drawn with silk painting techniques, the mainstream form of Jin and Tang Dynasty paintings;
is based on the shape of the utensils. The textual research also follows the method of the Tang Dynasty.
includes 133 meticulous paintings full of vitality. In 10 chapters, "Tea Saint" Lu Yu's profound understanding of tea culture vividly depicts the fun of the ancients making tea in the snow.
"There are nine difficulties in tea: the first is making, the second is separation, the third is utensils, the fourth is fire, the fifth is water, the sixth is roasting, the seventh is grinding, the eighth is boiling, and the ninth is drinking."
Open this book " "Living Tea Classic" is like sitting across from Lu Yu, making tea and explaining the classics in detail. After finishing the book, you will have the answer.
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° "Yunlin Stone Spectrum"°
A garden is beautiful without stones, and a house without stones is indecent.
A must-read classic for stone enthusiasts
The presence of stones in the study is either independent or interesting, which is a symbol of the spiritual temperament of the literati.
The “number one player” in playing, hiding and admiring stones in ancient China was none other than Du Wan. His "Yunlin Stone Book" is even revered as the most complete and richest monograph on stone in Chinese history.
It systematically introduces how to select, observe and evaluate stones, and introduces the origin, collection method, texture, shape, sound, etc. of 116 famous stones.
Many Tibetan stone enthusiasts around me have read and re-read it and praised it repeatedly.
°"Vase Flower Spectrum"°
Authentic Chinese-style flower arrangement by literati
Practice your ingenuity and provide elegant rooms with a clear view
A monotonous and boring room has become elegant because of vase flowers. If you want to learn flower art, you must know about vase making.
"Vase of Flowers" was written by Zhang Qiande in the Ming Dynasty. It introduces traditional Chinese ikebana from eight aspects: vase appreciation, flower appreciation, branch breaking, insertion and storage, nourishment, matters, flower taboos and vase protection.
After reading, we can know the character of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. We also know what kind of vase and what kind of offering can truly make ordinary flowers more soulful.
"Know or Not" excerpt
Living in the bustling world, you can enjoy the beauty of mountains and forests, and being hidden in the city, you can feel the beauty of forests and springs.
If you can't escape the world and live in seclusion, you might as well invite the beauty of the mountains and forests as a guest, and exchange the firewood, rice, oil and salt with the host's deep love for life.
Life is too short, you must live poetically to live up to this life.
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