What is the meaning of rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting hops?

Here are the seven necessities of ordinary life, which are very ordinary and ordinary, but life cannot be separated from them. It is also often used to describe family chores.

Qin, chess, books, paintings, poems and hops are the media used by ancient China literati to cultivate their minds. Rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea are seven things that ordinary people must consider every day. The former is a metaphysical spiritual level, and the latter is a metaphysical material level, which cannot be neglected.

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It remains to be verified when the proverb of seven things to open the door began. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu mentioned eight things in Liang Lumeng, namely firewood, rice, oil, salt, wine, sauce, vinegar and tea. It is generally believed that Wu is the man who created the seven great things.

With the progress of society and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, seven things have also made progress. In most areas of modern China, firewood has been replaced by liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas and gas.

Rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are still the main components of China's food culture; As for Chaze, it is famous for its unique tea culture. On the other hand, the time of life is not as good as before. In the past, seven things took up quite a lot of time, but now it is getting easier and easier to get and deal with them.