We are in the world, it is difficult to brush our bodies, and seeking elegance and abandoning vulgarity is the pursuit of inner clarity.
Just look at the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which can be said to be an era of elegant culture.
From a short article, we can get a glimpse of people's lives in that era. Wen Zhenheng's Chronicle of the Song of Eternal Sorrow says: "The court is full of rice, the rain is stained with moss, and the green mattress is lovely. Green grass can be planted everywhere and the hair is lush. " When I first read this sentence, I was surprised. What kind of mind did Han think of cooking rice soup to nourish moss? Sitting quietly under the eaves, waiting for the rain to grow over the moss, watching the green shadows float, can be described as elegant.
Speaking of elegance, of course, I can't help but mention A Dream of Red Mansions, which has been with me for more than ten years. The book has long been yellow, and the thread of the book is dirty. Yuan Fei's "Mothering the Mothers" and Xue Luan's poetry pages are even more stained with sporadic ink left by me when I practiced calligraphy. I'm long past the age when I'm obsessed with the love and hate between the brothers and sisters of Bao and Lin, and I'm even more obsessed with the grand view garden of Qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, wine and poetry written by Cao Xueqin. In the fiftieth chapter, Jia Baoyu stood side by side with Xue Baoqin in the snow, covered with scarlet carpet, with plum blossoms behind him, which was even better than Chou Shizhou's "Double Bright Pictures" in Ming Dynasty. This is obviously a kind of "performance art". According to statistics, there are 180 kinds of foods in the book, including Bijing porridge, Laba porridge, mousse porridge, bird's nest porridge, duck porridge, jujube porridge, green rice porridge, green rice porridge and Jiang rice porridge. All kinds of banquets are even more dizzying, such as birthday banquets and ghost birthday banquets. However, it is disappointing to eat only at banquets, and poetry often runs through banquets. There are also many kinds of wine orders, such as poem order, tooth card order, parcel delivery, cover shooting, thumb fight, flower name selection, qu card order, moon word flow and so on. Speaking of eating, I have to mention that Feng frightened Granny Liu's "eggplant". When she first read it, she was shocked and even claimed that it was wonderful.
There are many people around me who think that the lifestyle of the daughters and literati in Grand View Garden is exclusive to the rich, and we ordinary people can only have eye addiction. In my opinion, if you want to live poetically on the earth, the most important thing is to have poetry in your heart. Like the ancients, you are willing to be close to nature with your heart, to discover and cherish all the beautiful existence. Walking past a willow tree, if you stop, you may have a feeling of "flying on a stranger"; When you catch up with the night road, you may look up and sing "the moon shines on Kyushu"; Sitting on the grass, experience "delicious grass" and wonder what kind of grass can be considered delicious; Staring at the river, I saw "the deceased is like a husband." Like porridge in a dream of red mansions, everyone can afford it, but how many people are willing to cook it slowly? The exquisiteness of life is actually the exquisiteness of the soul.
According to my understanding, the essence of elegance is to live seriously with the expectation of beauty. Our ancestors lived in this land for thousands of years. Although they have a long way to go, they have created a splendid culture and pursued beauty endlessly. Nowadays, if we can also learn from the quietness of our ancestors, see the traces of vegetation growth, dew condensation and wind blowing, and listen to the faint spring thunder, rain hitting banana and Zita Law folding bamboo, we can have a natural flavor, which is elegance.