After Li Zhongxin chose a pasta with a meaning in the big steamer for everyone, he led Mitsui Masako and the others out while eating.

As Li Zhongxin walked, he introduced: "At this time on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, in addition to having facial hair, we also have a new year's custom of "appliqué flowers."

The so-called decals refer to pasting New Year pictures, window grilles and various magical codes.

This matter! There is also an allusion. Our ancient Chinese used peach wood as a tree to ward off evil spirits. "Dian Shu" said: "Peach is the essence of the five trees, so it can suppress evil spirits." In the Five Dynasties, the monarch of Later Shu

Meng Changya was fond of literature, and he ordered people to inscribe peach symbols every year, which became the origin of decals for later generations.

In our family, people send New Year pictures to our home every year, including New Year pictures from Wuqiang, Hebei Province, and the kind of New Year pictures that my mother likes."

Li Zhongxin pointed his finger at the doll on the screen and began to explain: "

The dolls in the New Year paintings have "childlike Buddha bodies, playful postures and martial arts", holding carps in their arms, and holding lotus flowers in their hands. This one! We Chinese use the homophony of it, and it is called "Continuous Years of Surplus".

"Sustainability for many years" is a time-honored folk aesthetic culture, which perfectly demonstrates the concept of auspiciousness and "blessing" culture in traditional Chinese folk customs.

The image of this doll has obvious traditional Chinese folk aesthetic characteristics. The doll has a round and soft face, rosy cheeks, big and lively eyes, and smiling eyebrows, making it appear to be full of energy and joy.

The decorations on its clothes are slightly rich and gorgeous, giving people a sense of great fortune and wealth. The overall shape of the doll is naive and cute, making people fall in love with it at first glance.

The image prototype of the doll is the image of a baby. The baby is an image that can arouse people's sense of joy, and it points to the collective unconscious concept of "human beings are inherently good". The baby prototype has pervaded the vast life atmosphere of time and space from ancient times to the present, and is a Chinese folk

Remedy and confrontation for the lack of baby concepts in traditional mainstream culture.

However, this doll is not simply equivalent to the image of a big-headed doll in the general sense. Judging from the doll's huge earlobes and casual and lazy sitting posture, it is clearly the body of a "Buddha".

The combination of "child face" and "Buddha body" not only represents the continuation of the race and embodies the hope of a family and race, but also indirectly contains a certain degree of worship of "gods", hoping that the light of the Buddha will shine everywhere and life will be happy.

This! It can be said to be a microcosm of Chinese culture. We Chinese, especially traditional Chinese women, like this image of children the most. They feel that such a child will bring them blessings."

"Wow, it's just such a doll, and you can say so much. When you say this, why do I feel that Chinese traditional culture is so powerful?" Qingzi said exaggeratedly while listening to Li Zhongxin's explanation.

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For a Japanese girl like Haruko, it is rare to hear such an explanation of Chinese culture, especially since Haruko is very fond of Chinese culture now.

Although Qingzi has taken many Chinese culture classes and can speak some simple Chinese, she really doesn't understand the profound and profound things about China. As Li Zhongxin explained so much, she only has a good sense of traditional Chinese culture.

Awesome feeling.

"O Tadashi! This New Year picture is of such great significance, why haven't I heard anyone mention it before?" Mitsui Masako asked calmly.

Although Masako Mitsui knew that Chinese culture was profound and profound, she did not remember that a New Year picture could say such a thing.

Wang Bo and Yang Panpan's eyes lit up at this time. They did not expect that Li Zhongxin would say that the New Year pictures had been painted for more than one year in a row, and that they had deceived all their Japanese friends.

The way they looked at Li Zhongxin changed a lot. They couldn't understand Li Zhongxin more and more. How could he say so many things, how could he talk so freely, and how could he talk so freely?

People are made to believe it.

"Aunt Masako, don't you know that China has a history of five thousand years of civilization, and our Chinese traditional culture is so extensive and profound that no other country in the world has it?

This Chinese New Year invites you to come to Jiangcheng. Firstly, I am going to let you have fun here for a while, and secondly, I want to introduce you to our traditional Chinese culture." Li Zhongxin smiled at Masako Mitsui.

Explained.

Although the Japanese attach great importance to national culture, their national culture is far different from China's national culture and is not on the same level at all.

As for Li Zhongxin! He also has an idea that through these exchanges on cultural and other levels, he will let more friends from around the world know China and fall in love with China, and he will also promote some Chinese things.

Seeing that Mitsui Masako remained silent, Li Zhongxin continued to point to the lotus in the New Year painting and said: "The lotus painted on this New Year painting is an important representative of traditional Chinese auspicious images.

It is widely found in the eight auspicious patterns of Buddhism, the dark eight immortals of Taoism and folk auspicious patterns. It implies auspiciousness, nobility, many children and many blessings, and has a profound and extensive folk aesthetic culture. In the eight auspicious patterns, the lotus is simply called flower.

It is a metaphor for the purity of the Buddha's teachings, which is like the fresh fragrance of a lotus. It refreshes the heart and guides all living beings to escape from dirt.

The pattern of the Dark Eight Immortals is a pattern composed of the objects enforced by the eight Taoist immortals. Among them, the lotus refers to He Xiangu. As the only woman among the Eight Immortals, her beauty and fragrance are eternal and youthful. She is as elegant and refined as the lotus she holds in her hand.

Become the embodiment of holiness and beauty.

Among the flowers of land and water, the most lovely ones are even sweet flowers. Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty only loved chrysanthemums. Since the Li and Tang Dynasties, the world has loved peonies very much. I only love the lotus, which emerges from the mud but is not stained, washes the clear ripples without being evil, is straight in the middle and straight in the outside.

The vines have no branches, the fragrance is clear from a distance, and the pavilions are clean and planted, so you can look at them from a distance but not play with them.

I say chrysanthemum, a flower that represents recluse; peony, a flower that represents wealth and honor; lotus, a flower that represents a gentleman. Alas! The love of chrysanthemums is rarely heard of after Tao; the love of lotus, who can share it? The love of peonies.

, It is suitable for everyone." When Li Zhongxin explained this lotus, he ended up using the theory of love for the lotus written by Zhou Dunyi.

In Li Zhongxin's mind, the best metaphor for lotus is the love of lotus, and there is no other.

"Brother Zhongxin, what did you say last? Why can't I seem to understand?" Qingzi asked Li Zhongxin with a confused look on his face.

Qingzi felt that what Li Zhongxin said sounded very poetic and had a feeling that she couldn't describe, but she really didn't understand it.
Chapter completed!