Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty - "Ode to Walnuts"
The sun and moon spin in the palm of your hand, and time is about to go back.
Qi and blood are surging all over the body. When is the bald head?
Vernacular translation:
Playing with Wenwan walnuts in your hands is like spinning the sun and the moon, as if you have turned back time.
Playing with walnuts has the effect of dredging blood. When will hair turn gray?
Extended information:
Modern development history of Wenwan walnuts:
The use of pecans for rubbing hands should have begun in the Ming Dynasty, when they were just palace piano players. It is an auxiliary tool to exercise and maintain finger flexibility. After long-term rubbing, the walnut lines become crimson and round, and the pulp is as shiny as jade and porcelain. It is loved by other palace people, and gradually becomes popular and becomes one of the health care tools. It slowly spread to the people. Because walnuts have auspicious meanings in folk customs, they are easily accepted by the people. More and more people are playing with them, forming a custom and a culture.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to reward the banner people for their contributions in opening up territories, expanding territory, and establishing the country, and to prevent them from causing trouble, the imperial court allocated land to the banner people, without having to pay grain or work. Bannermen subcontracted their land to tenant farmers, lent money to merchants and workshops, and collected rent and interest every year, so they put a lot of energy, time and wealth into entertainment and leisure.
Emperors of the Qing Dynasty respected Han culture and advocated banner people to read more Confucian classics to gain knowledge, nourish body and mind, and improve their temperament to get rid of the "barbaric" habits of the herders and hunters. However, men with banner status , I didn’t focus on studying hard in the cold window, but I loved all kinds of literature and entertainment. As a result, wenwan culture reached its peak of development in the Qing Dynasty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, playing with walnuts was more popular than in the past. The folk songs at that time included: "If you keep a walnut in your hand, you can live eighty-nine, surpassing Emperor Qianlong, and the king of hell will not let you go!"
< p>At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, civil wars were frequent and people were in dire straits. All kinds of cultural toys, including walnuts, were gradually forgotten. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wenwan walnuts were classified as the "Four Olds" together with all traditional cultures for a period of time, and no one paid attention to them.After the reform and opening up, with the rapid development of my country's economy, people's living standards have continued to improve, the construction of spiritual civilization has become increasingly prosperous, and traditional culture has received more and more attention. Many cultural categories that have disappeared for a long time have reappeared in the world. In people's daily lives, Wenwan walnuts have begun to attract people's attention again, especially in Beijing, from the Longtan Lake Bird Market in the 1980s to Fuchengmen, Lao Tianqiao, Panjiayuan and other places in the 1990s. The walnut market is gradually booming, and now more and more people are beginning to enjoy playing with walnuts.
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