Pictures illustrate blessing culture
Author: Yin Wei/Cheng Jianqiang
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Publication year: 2012-11
Number of pages: 226
Price: 49.00 yuan
Book series: ?Illustrated Chinese Five Blessings Culture Series
ISBN: 9787302302513?
Introduction:
Introduction to "The Culture of Blessings in Pictures": Blessings are before your eyes. Since ancient times, happiness has been one of the life goals that Chinese people have longed for, and it has become an eternal theme of blessing and auspiciousness throughout the ages. "Illustrations of Fortune Culture" starts from the origin of the word "福"
and explores and sorts out the blessing culture. With popular language, vivid stories, and exquisite and detailed pictures, it tells the story of the Chinese people's worship of the God of Fortune, their understanding and pursuit of the word "福", and explains the characteristics and connotation of the blessing culture, revealing The unique flavor of Chinese culture. It not only explores its origin, narrates its evolution, but also describes its function, combines folk legends, allusions, folk customs, and outlines a relatively complete image of folk welfare culture.
Chinese blessing culture
Author: Editor Wang Daren
Publisher: Beijing University of Technology Press Publishing Department
Year of publication: 2004- 1
Number of pages: 105
Price: 10.00 yuan
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9787563914159
Content introduction: Chinese culture has a long history, is rich in content, and is extensive and profound. Fu culture, as a vote in the vast sea of ??Chinese culture, has been mentioned frequently in recent years, and some Fu culture dissemination organizations have been established in many places and hold Fu culture festivals from time to time. So far, there has been no special description of what exactly culture contains and what specific aspects it is embodied in. There is a domestic cultural communication organization established relying on the resources and strength of China's media and literary and art circles.
It has been openly soliciting manuscripts on China's blessing culture online for more than half a year, but still not a single manuscript has been accepted; one publishing company The organization planned to launch a magazine "Fu Culture", but due to difficulties in compiling articles and other reasons, it was abandoned. It can be seen that the research on blessing culture is still blank. Commissioned by the Yunnan Qujing Fu Culture Communication Center, Mr. Wang Daren spent half a year compiling the book "Chinese Fu Culture" after extensive collection and research of a large amount of information, telling the history, evolution, legends and stories of Fu culture. and the manifestation of blessing culture in all aspects of people's lives, thereby filling a gap in Chinese cultural research.
Chinese blessing culture
Author: Yin Wei/? Yin Feiran
Publisher: Yunnan People's Publishing House
Year of publication: 2005-02
Number of pages: 166
Price: 21.50 yuan
Binding: Paperback
Series: ?Chinese Folk Auspicious Culture Series
ISBN: 9787222043435 Content Introduction:?
German philosophical anthropologist Michael Landmann believes: "Culture by definition is formed by people themselves What is created by the initiative of freedom is that it is for this reason that people give culture so many styles: one nation is different from another nation, and one era is different from another era. However, in creation. In the process of culture, people create themselves. "Among all cultural phenomena, the cultural landscape generated by blessings and prayers is the most common one used in our lives to distinguish one nation from another. logo. For example, Chinese people like to say "Gong Xi Fa Cai" to each other during the Spring Festival, while British and Americans say "HAPPY NEW
YEAR" on New Year's Day.
In the interactions between people, in addition to the most practical communication needs, there is a kind of etiquette that appears in almost all ethnic groups, and that is blessing. Generally speaking, blessing is a matter between people, and expressing wishes is beautiful and altruistic; prayer is a matter of oneself, and expressing wishes is for oneself (of course, it also includes others). a collective including oneself). However, usually in terms of specific benefits, the content of wishes and prayers appears to be highly consistent.
To summarize in traditional Chinese culture, it is almost nothing more than "luck, wealth, longevity, happiness, and wealth."
This is an interesting question: In the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, why do these words sum up the happiness that people can enjoy
and not a few others? The high-level summary of traditional culture amazed us. Among the five words "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, and Wealth", "Fu" is the first. The connotation of "blessing" can be both simple and high
deep. Compared with the following four words, it is more metaphysical and not specific, but it governs the others. A person's understanding and enjoyment of "blessing" are related to his outlook on life and values. Longevity is a blessing, health is a blessing, and having descendants is a blessing... It is a classic dialectical evolution. People may get blessings in disguise (such as "a blessing in disguise"), and of course they may also get a blessing in disguise if they go too far. according to". Therefore, "ding" is also the word most closely related to "wishes" and "prayer". Each word "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, Wealth" has a rich history. And the long civilization is reflected not only in the specific meaning of the words, but also in the history of these words. The history of words itself is human
history, the history of nation and culture. The history of every word is a gorgeous cultural landscape. For a long time, we have wanted to use these words too frequently, and our desire to understand them has become even more urgent. But seriously, apart from getting concise explanations in dictionaries, there is often no way to know more.
Thanks to Mr. Yin Wei, an ingenious cultural scholar, for carefully selecting and compiling a set of pictures and texts about China from the voluminous historical books
and from the numerous folk culture maps. Folk auspicious culture series "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, Wealth". Each volume of the series has one word, each volume contains a hundred thousand words, and the style is basically the same. From the origin and meaning of words, to allusions and customs, from the worship of word gods to anecdotes about blessings and prayers, they are all full of interesting references. The publication of this set of books makes our desire to understand the culture of "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, and Wealth" come true.
Words, as the most important cultural symbols, have been filled with ambiguities, contradictory dangers, and expectations of growth, reproduction, and miracles since their birth. Words are walking, and the path they take is a real cultural map; words are procreative, and every dynamic word has a huge ethnic group through the nourishment of history—— For example, Mr. Yin Wei presented to us "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, and Wealth". If each word is a seed with full seeds, then "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, and Wealth" are fortunate to fall on the fertile soil of Chinese culture. After five thousand years, the rich nutrition is enough Let them have strong root systems and luxuriant branches. Every dwarf plant is a magnificent scenery
. Normally, we may see some scattered branches and leaves or exposed roots, but we cannot see the whole picture. The contribution of Mr. Yin Wei's compilation is to depict the whole picture of the tree, allowing us to see the "Five Blessings" with well-developed pedigrees. What is even more valuable is that Mr. Yin Wei has carefully collected hundreds of folklore pictures in the book, making the series not only informative but also visually pleasing. ?
Undoubtedly, the publication of the Chinese folk auspicious culture series "Fu, Lu, Longevity, Happiness, and Wealth" is a generous gift in the book market; a feast of folk culture in reading; and a feast of festivals. , is an unconventional blessing.
Chinese patterns of fortune, wealth, longevity and joy
Author: Zheng Jun
Publisher: Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House
Publication year: 2000-9
Number of pages: 262
Price: 28.0
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9787531425311
Introduction:
Good luck, longevity, peace, happiness and good fortune are the eternal aspirations and pursuits of the Chinese nation. The ancients said: "Auspicious things bring blessings and good things, and auspicious things bring good fortune." Fortune, longevity, and joy are used to express good wishes, exaggerate the festive atmosphere, and pray for good fortune. It has become a Chinese people's love for life and efforts to create happiness, contentment, and wealth. The external reflection of psychology.
The Grand View of Fortune, Luxury, Longevity and Joy
Author: Jin Zhu, Wang Zhijun
Publisher: Publishing Department of Cultural Relics Publishing House
Year of publication: 2006-1
Number of pages: 229
Price: 50.00 yuan
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9787501018437
Content introduction:
This book is divided into ten parts, including talking about blessings, wealth, longevity, and happiness; the origin of calligraphy and the evolution of calligraphy styles; the writings of the Pre-Qin and Qin Dynasties "Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi"; "Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi" in the writings of the Han Dynasty; "Fu, Prayer, Longevity, Xi" in the writings of the Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties, etc.
I don’t know who is studying traditional culture such as “Fu Culture”. Yin Wei is one of them, but I don’t know about the others.
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(This is the website address of China Fu Culture Network.)
Fu Culture Research and Development Center of Chinese Yanhuang Culture Research Association
(I can’t find his URL, you can try to find it)
I hope my answer will be helpful to you.