In the Song Dynasty, people called burning incense, ordering tea, hanging pictures and arranging flowers "four busyness", while in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Laolian's "sixteen views of seclusion" expanded and developed the "four busyness", which reflected his yearning for a leisurely lifestyle and was full of interest and realm.
When the deceased is like a husband, the hands of years will always mercilessly erase many old scenery. Once upon a time, with the passage of time and the changes of the world, the "loose life" advocated by the ancients gradually drifted away from us. This inevitably makes people sigh: flowers are similar year after year, and people are different year after year. For most people, the joy of life just stays in the situation of "unreachable, yearning for it".
Have you ever thought that a person has two kinds of life, material life and spiritual life. In today's relatively rich material life, the latter is more important and may be your real life.
If the world is too noisy, there are many ways to calm people down. Some people think that walking into the mountains and listening to the wind in the mountains can calm down. Some people think that drinking a pot of tea can also make people quiet. Others like to light a wisp of fragrant incense to soothe their troubles between breaths, and now their hearts are calm.
"There is a scenery in the heart, and there is no right and wrong in the mouth. There is a book that is really rich, and nothing is immortal. " Let's go through the years to see the leisure of the ancients and see how the ancients cultivated their body and mind. Whether we can still learn from today! Let go of the things in your heart and let your mind calm down. No matter what others think, if you are happy, the world will be happy. Isn't it?
First, burn incense.
Burning incense has been a way to make people feel natural and peaceful since ancient times. The ancients often used incense as their friends when they were studying, but they liked it when they were alone.
When you are quiet, light a piece of incense, and with the elegant fragrance, you will enter a quiet and peaceful state of mind. Before setting the tea mat, burn a incense to calm your body and mind quickly and feel the real taste of tea.
Burning incense in a cigarette is proud, and taking a break in the dust of Jiuqu is romantic.
Second, father
Qin is the instrument of sages and gentlemen. "On Qin" in the Song Dynasty says: "If you attack Qin, you will be in meditation. After years of tempering, you will be clear at a glance, use it freely, and have more than enough taste. " In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhi went on to say, "The way of sound can lead to Zen". In today's life, playing the piano is the happiest thing and the best way to cultivate spirit, spirit and temperament.
In ancient times, there was a pianist named Gong. He played the piano in front of a group of cows, but the cows didn't respond. He imitated the calf's cry and played another song, but the cow remained indifferent. Gong lamented: Playing the lute to a cow, I don't know how to appreciate it. But if you think about it carefully, a truly carefree person will not worry about the outside world. If you want to be romantic, you have to have a kind of "self" power. People like Tao Yuanming who can't play the piano should keep a stringed piano at home all the year round. Whenever the wine is mellow and comfortable, he can touch it gently, and silence is better than sound, which is also a kind of sustenance.
People who know musical instruments can enjoy it anytime and anywhere by moving their fingers. When the heart is comfortable, there is no string, which is the romance of fiddling.
Third, the game
"If you don't do useless things, why send this limited life?" . In ancient times, learned people played chess for recreation. At the same time, they also exercised their ability to consider the overall situation and enhanced their own strategies. Therefore, there are often idle people playing chess in the teahouse downtown.
There is a saying in Li Weng's "Follow the Fate": "It is better to watch chess than to play chess, because the viewer has nothing to gain or lose." Watching chess is very interesting, such as watching bullfighting, cockfighting and cricket fighting. But watching chess is also sad. Watching chess without saying a word is a kind of pain. My throat itches strangely, and I can hardly think about it.
Fourth, reading.
Zeng Guofan has a saying: "People's temperament is hard to change because of life, but reading can change their temperament." Another cloud said: "We only have two things to study, one is to enter Germany, and the other is to study."
Jin Shengtan said: "It is a great pleasure in life to enjoy tea and read casual books." . The ancients had already seen through the road of life and regarded the cultivation of a pure heart as their greatest fulfillment. "Books are rich, but nothing is immortal."
In the past, although the meaning of words was very clear, they practiced little and turned a blind eye. After the world's tempering, I believe that reading is my first pleasure.
Fifth, appreciate this painting.
A poem by Wang Mo in the Tang Dynasty said: "The distant mountains are colored, but the water near them is silent. It is not surprising that spring is still there. " The ancients painted with a pen and a piece of rice paper, free and easy, and freehand brushwork was smooth.
Painting appreciation has always been an elegant enjoyment, which can cultivate sentiment and be beneficial to health. It can make people's mood sink into the artistic atmosphere, be cultivated, and make life more knowledgeable and relaxed.
When the ancients painted, they all had profound meanings. When they put pen to paper, they all had their own masters. The name is true, and it has been said for a long time, and there must be something extraordinary.
Six, picking flowers
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "I don't know the rhyme of flowers, it is difficult to enter the elegant environment", and I want to find flowers and die. As a result, I dream of flying all over the world. China has a long history of flower culture, and flowers are an important theme in many works of art.
Ancient songs include "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms" and "Flowers in the Back Garden of Yushu". Folk music includes Jasmine, Why Flowers Are So Red, and so on. There are countless poems and paintings with flowers as the theme. Even traditional handicrafts such as embroidery and ceramics, flower patterns are important decorations.
People appreciate flowers, not only appreciate the natural beauty of flowers, such as color, fragrance and posture, but also give flowers an elegance and character by synthesizing their own feelings about flowers. Those who are good at orchids are elegant and refined; Good chrysanthemums, good independence and cold autumn; Love lotus, it is better to get out of the mud without dyeing; People who love plum are good at fighting cold snow.
Seven, tea.
When Su Dongpo took office in Hangzhou, Nan Pingqian of Jingci Temple heard about it and specially came to order tea for Dongpo. Travel-stained, meet each other in a hurry, be modest and calm, and grind carefully. Dongpo sat opposite him, quietly watching him decoct water, inject water and mix paste, holding a tea basket in his hand, spinning and blowing, his face as quiet as Buddha. In the hands of a modest teacher, tea soup has a delicate milky white foam. After that, Dongpo raised his tea cup with both hands and tasted tea, which was unforgettable for a long time. He wrote a poem on the spot: Taoist priest went out to Nanping Mountain to try tea samadhi. Suddenly startled by the rabbit spot in the afternoon, I made a spring jar of goose wine.
This profound understanding of still water is Zen and the taste of life. Tea has many flavors. As long as you brew with your heart and taste with your heart, it always has the power to make people happy. Make a pot of strong tea in your busy schedule, choose a quiet place, pour it yourself to refresh your mind, or sip it slowly and enjoy the beautiful scenery. The still water is deep, and there is a smell in the light. This is the romance of tea tasting.
"On a cold night, guests come to tea for wine, and the bamboo stove soup boils." People in China pay attention to the word "quality" when drinking tea. Whether to quench one's thirst with tea or to clear one's mind with tea expresses everyone's different attitude towards tea. In fact, the realm is different, far from high and low. Tea can be simple and simple, grand and exquisite, vulgar and elegant.
Eight, consider wine
In the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, on the third day of last week, Wang Xizhi called his friends to the newly-built Lanting to prepare for a game. They sat on the floors on both sides of Qingxi in Lanting, filled a container similar to a boat with wine, put it down upstream and floated all the way across the winding stream. Whoever stops the cup in front of him will make a poem.
Between Hui Feng and Chang, Maolin xiuzhu, or shirtless, or slightly drunk, celebrities in Wei and Jin dynasties all laughed and laughed. They drink not only wine, but the freedom in troubled times. No matter how many years have changed, my love for life remains unchanged.
A cup of wine and green plum overflows. It is always appropriate to enjoy the cool when you are drunk. Most wise men in ancient and modern times know the world from the realm of getting drunk, thoroughly understand life and cultivate their own character. There is an old saying that "an alcoholic is learning, not eating", and there is also a saying that "the sun grows in the pot when he is drunk". I have a pot of wine, which is enough to comfort the dust. This is the romance of drinking.
Nine, listen to the rain
Juck Zhang, a biologist in Qing Dynasty, said that spring rain is suitable for reading, summer rain for playing chess, autumn rain for collecting and winter rain for drinking. The rainy day that ordinary people hate is described by him as a painting. I read an ancient poem about rain when I was a child. There is an interesting saying: Zhu Zhai sleeps and listens to the rain, and moss grows in his dreams.
The most pleasant time on rainy days is lying in bed at home listening to the rain. Sleeping in the rain, even wet moss grows in dreams, and consciousness seems to turn into raindrops, and the boundary with the world slowly disappears in the torrential rain. No one will blame this emotional laziness.
We may not be able to change the environment, but we can change our mood. Sleeping and listening to the rain, a dream floating, this is the romance of rainy days.
Ten, enjoy the snow.
It was a winter. Bai Juyi's homemade light green rice wine caused a red commotion in a quiet stove, and his good friend Liu Yutong just entered the room. It's getting late and it's snowing harder and harder. Two people chatted one build what did not build, and the wine was hot. One person picked it up and poured another wine, drank a glass, sighed with satisfaction and smiled.
If you pass by the house at this time and see this fire on a snowy night, ordinary people will think that this is just an ordinary fragment of life. But for them, I don't know how to laugh at the Spring and Autumn Period and how many poems to write this night.
Sometimes I feel that cherishing the present is a gift of life. For example, in the hot summer, we will miss the cold in winter, but in the middle of winter, how many people will feel the beauty of the moment? Whether we live a leisurely and interesting life depends on how much beauty we can find in our eyes. It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside? This is the romance of enjoying the snow.
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A poet said: to watch the moon, you must be close to the water, you must go alone, you must open a secluded place, and you must be alone with the spirit of heaven and earth. It is in this situation that Zhang wrote the famous work "Moonlit Night on a Spring River".
In many poems about the moon, the poet melts the moon into his inner thoughts and feelings, so that the moon and inner thoughts and feelings complement each other, creating many beautiful aesthetic moods, and raising the literary taste, ideological connotation and artistic attainments of poems to a high level.
Li Bai, an urchin, is said to have done something stupid, but in the face of Mingyue's confidant, he also showed a deep and affectionate side: he invited Mingyue to the greenhouse alone, "until, raise a glass, ask Mingyue, take my shadow and make us three";
Some people say that the moon is the eye of the sky. Looking at the moon is also staring at yourself. The moon is the oldest romantic image in China. Taking the moon as a mirror and interacting with heaven and earth alone is waiting for the romance of the moon. Wait for the moon, have a date with the moon at night, bathe in the moonlight, enjoy the beautiful scenery and feel the tenderness like water.
Twelve, flowers
Lin Hejing, a poet in the Song Dynasty, can be regarded as a "real anthomaniac" in today's words. He lived in the mountains for a long time, never became an official, never married and had children, only planted plum blossoms around his residence, and spent his life with flowers and a white crane. Later it was called "Mei Wife Crane".
Flowers are not flowers, they are better than companions, and people who love flowers are the most romantic. Zhu Zeng, a famous scholar in Qing dynasty, used flowers to compare women: chrysanthemum, a good writer of talented women; Teasing, good at talking about Zen; Peony, the wife of famous soil; Lian, the daughter of a celebrity, is a beautiful woman. ...
Planting flowers is planting flowers. It is the romance of flowers to serve them as companions and read them as people.
Thirteen, looking for a seclusion
Try to imagine walking outside the ancient temple in the early morning, and the rising sun shines in the jungle. The winding path leads to a secluded place, and the place where monks sing sutras and worship Buddha is hidden among flowers and trees. The clear mountain light and the reflection of the deep pool make people's vulgar thoughts completely disappear.
China people don't hold the heart of conquest like westerners, but appreciate its profound and implicit beauty, so it is called "exploring the secluded". Abandoning the world of mortals and being silent with nature is the romantic seclusion.
What nature always has is a kind of natural freedom. Compared with the noise of the world of mortals, its broadness and silence can always calm people's hearts.
The ancients rebuilt their bodies and cultivated their sentiments, but when they were poor, they were immune. Extension is good for the world. There are both idealism of joining WTO and open-mindedness of birth.
Elegance is a feeling of peace and indifference from the heart. Stay away from busyness and leave a leisurely space where there are many distractions. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "The mountains and rivers are romantic, and the idlers are the masters." If there is no luxury, why add elegance?