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How romantic were the ancients?

How romantic were the ancients?

How romantic were the ancients?

At that time, fireflies were not called fireflies, but night walks.

At that time, the reed was not called a reed, it was called a crab leaf.

At that time, there were many birds, called displacement, morrowind, canggeng, juju...

Just by name, I was surprised and delighted. Flowers, birds, fish and insects are spiritual things in nature, and they are also the beginning of the romance of the ancestors.

The sentence in the "Book of Poetry", "The peach is dying, burning its glory", is already the most beautiful appearance in the heart.

How romantic were the ancients?

Photo / Stills from the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber"

In ancient times, there was no mobile phone network, and people took the festival as a covenant and the flowering period as a letter. Flowers and wood pipes are seasonal, and birdsong report agricultural time. When it rains and mango seeds, all four fields are planted with seedlings.

The insight and reverence of the ancients for the laws of nature was hidden in the cycle of prosperity and decline of plants.

How romantic were the ancients?

Figure / pixabay

The Buddhists say that one flower is one world, one wood and one bodhi. A person's life is not similar to the flowering period.

The daughters in "Dream of the Red Chamber" each live into a flower language. Daiyu's fate is like a windy and sorrowful hibiscus, and the musk moon that accompanies Baoyu to the end is like a flower that "does not compete for spring, lonely blooms the latest".

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The fate and character of human beings given to plants have been recognized by the Chinese people.

This romance and transparency, through the millennia, is connected with our world today, the blood.

If you want to taste the fusion of flowers and plants and traditional culture, and immerse yourself in the romance and wisdom of the ancients, this beautiful "Atlas of Famous Things" series must not be missed.

How romantic were the ancients?

The Atlas of Famous Things series includes:

"Beautiful for a Thousand Years, But Forgotten: Illustrations of Famous Objects in poetry"

"Flowers Bloom Without Realizing the Depth of Time: Twenty-Four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Flower Trade Winds"

"Several Dreams Before the Flowers: The Love affair of the Woman in the Red Chamber"

This set of books plays a symphony of traditional culture and flowers, plants, animals and plants for the reader from the three aspects of poetry, festivals, and women in the Red Chamber. It is both intellectual and very literary.

The book is interspersed with hundreds of hand-painted ancient paintings and photocopies of ancient books, which are beautifully bound and readable.

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The romance of the ancients, deep into the bone marrow

How romantic were the ancients?

[Day] Hosoi Akira painting

List price: 60.00

China Pictorial Publishing House

Publication date: 2016.8

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蒹葭

Crabapples are green, and white dew is frost.

The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.

- "Qin Feng, Crab Leaf"

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papaya

Vote for me with a papaya, and repay it with Qiongju.

- "Guofeng, Weifeng, Papaya"

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tuckahoe

Mountains have hazelnuts, and mountains have ridges.

Who thinks about the cloud? Western beauty.

- "Guofeng Shaofeng, Jian Xi"

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sow thistle

Who is bitter? It's as sweet as a tree.

Feast on the new faint, like a brother like a brother.

—— "National Wind, ShaoFeng, Valley Wind"

Hand-drawn illustrations restore the beauty of the poems

The above pictures are from the Edo period Confucian scholar Hosoi Hiroshi in Japan. More than 100 years ago, Hosoi Supplemented the Book of Poetry with more than 100 exquisite ancient paintings, and the painting style was simple and elegant.

This "Beauty for a Thousand Years, But Forgotten: Illustrations of Famous Objects in the Poetry Classic" selects the original manuscript hand-painted by Hosoi, using the binding form of "book in the book", retaining the beauty of the original painting.

How romantic were the ancients?
How romantic were the ancients?

The notes are plain and easy to understand

It is not only extremely beautiful in binding, but also makes it easy to read such a classic as the Book of Poetry, which is beautiful to read but difficult to understand.

The book puts a lot of effort into the word "solution". In addition to the original manuscripts, it also contains the original text of the Book of Poetry, the interpretation of classic ancient books such as Mao Chuan, Lu Shu, and the Compendium of Materia Medica, as well as modern interpretations of animals and plants, with a total of three major sections. Let you more intuitively feel the birds and flowers of the ancient times.

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Strange words are phonetically pronounced and easily chanted

The strange words in each animal and plant name in the catalog are deliberately annotated with pinyin, so there is no need to look up the arguments separately, and the chanting is stress-free. Even if you have a limited understanding of ancient texts, you can appreciate the poetry of the ancients.

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For example, these plants:

荇(xìng) vegetable Kudzu (gé)

芣苢(fú yǐ)

蘩(fán) 蒌(lóu)

Another example is these animals:

Partridge (chī xiāo)翚(huī)

尨(lóng)豝(bā)

Leave a blank note page and write it as you like

At the end of the article, there are exquisite notes that allow you to enjoy themselves and write your own poetry.

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The Book of Poetry is often read and renewed, and if you open this book, perhaps you will have more experience and understanding. And you can also use the verses in it to give the child an elegant and elegant and good name.

Lin Huiyin, a talented woman of the Republic of China, is named from the "Poetry Classic, Daya Siqi": "Great Concubine Huiyin".

The famous writer Qiong Yao, her pen name is from the "Poetry Classic, Wei Feng, Papaya": "Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao." ”

Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou, named after "Yo Yo Deer Ming, The Apple of the Wild." in "Xiaoya Luming". ”

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The wisdom of the ancients, transparent and elegant

How romantic were the ancients?

Ding Pengbo Ren Tong Wrote [Japanese] Giant Shi Xiaoshi painting

Pricing: 68.00

Publication date: 2018.8

"Flowers and wood pipes are seasonal, birdsong reports agricultural time". The ancients captured farming instructions from natural phenomena in return for a bountiful harvest. Today, the twenty-four solar terms are passed down from generation to generation as a cultural symbol.

What is the origin of each solar term? How does nature change with the changing of the seasons? What are the folk customs of the solar terms? These questions can be found in this book.

How romantic were the ancients?
How romantic were the ancients?

There are twenty-four solar terms in a year, each of which is divided into three seasons, for a total of seventy-two seasons. In ancient times, people took the festival as the covenant and the flowering period as the faith. The wind has a letter, the flower is not wrong, and the wind that should come from the flower period is the flower trade wind.

Living in cities, it is difficult for us to feel the changes in phenology. Every time the flowers bloom and fall, they run regularly in nature.

The designer of this set of books also said, "A little away from the city, into nature, you can feel the change of phenology, the change of plant growth and decay." ”

More than a hundred years ago, the Japanese painter Zoe Koishi recorded the most beautiful moment when the wind blew the flowers blooming, and this book reproduces the hand-drawn original manuscript of his "Seventy-two Waiting Flower Painting Posts".

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Camellia (giant stone painting)

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Chinese Daffodils (giant stone painting)

Each is accompanied by two classical poems. One hundred and forty-four ancient poems related to festivals or flowers allow you to travel through time and space, and tao Yuanming to enjoy the chrysanthemums next to the eastern fence under the South Mountain, and you can give a small plum in the lin kui garden.

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How romantic were the ancients?

The book is both poetic and intellectual. It introduces the knowledge of solar terms, phenology, flowers, etc., and uses concise language to explain many folk customs and their context thoroughly.

Ding Pengbo, associate researcher of the National Museum of China, and Ren Tong, a member of the Beijing Folk Writers Association, were invited to elaborate on the origin of the 24 solar terms and folk culture.

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How romantic were the ancients?

Professor Yi Mingfang of the Department of Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Architecture of China Agricultural University was also invited to examine the characteristics and functions of the painted plants, and strive to create a dual sense of beauty of painting and naturalism.

It's not enough to watch, and this book also has the pleasure of "painting".

Choose a flower from each solar term and attach its first black-and-white draft to the text for coloring, upgrading the reading experience.

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In a book, chanting poems, viewing flowers, watching the four seasons, and practicing folklore.

May your solar terms be accompanied by flowers and your life be accompanied by poetry.

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The meaning of the ancients, the metaphor of people and flowers

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Zhou Shu wrote [Japanese] Yan Qi Changzheng painted

Pricing: $88.00

Publication date: 2020.4

There is a classic scene in "Dream of the Red Chamber": Baoyu's birthday, Yihong Courtyard's big night feast, drinking and having fun. Baoyu and the women played a game called "Occupying the Flower Name". All the women drew a flower name tag with a hidden fate.

Although the flowers are beautiful, the flowering period is short. Just like the women in "Dream of the Red Chamber", whether they are rebels or obedient people of the times, they cannot escape the tragic fate of being buried and abandoned.

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"Several Dreams Before flowers: The Love of Grass and Trees of the Woman in the Red Chamber" is extracted or extended from the original text of "Dream of the Red Chamber", using flowers as a metaphor for people, focusing on the theme of the fate of people and flowers, closely following the original text, and finding plants exclusive to them for 43 people in the dream of the Red Chamber.

Baochao is the "peony" of Yanguan Qunfang, and Daiyu is the hibiscus of wind and dew. Yuan Chun is a durian flower that "in the past twenty years, the durian flower has been discerning right from wrong, and the durian flower has blossomed to take care of the palace".

Take each woman in the Red Chamber corresponding to each plant as a chapter, and read the key biography of each Woman in the Red Chamber and the wonderful passages in the book.

How romantic were the ancients?
How romantic were the ancients?

Hand-painted is simple and elegant, and classic prints are illustrated. The book is accompanied by more than 50 hand-drawn manuscripts of the famous Japanese Edo period Materia Medica Iwasaki Motosumasa's "Materia Medica Atlas". As well as 94 frames of Qing Guangxu Qiu Live up to the Zhai "Additional Evaluation of the Full Map Foot Capital Jin Yu Yuan" embroidered prints.

How romantic were the ancients?
How romantic were the ancients?

The perfect integration of classical literature and botany, with a unique angle, provides another way for many "red fans" to open "Dream of the Red Chamber".

Authoritative base version, original magenta building. The original texts quoted in the whole book are from the first edition of the 2009 "Dream of the Red Chamber" of the China Pictorial Publishing House, that is, based on the Qianlong codex "Dream of the Red Chamber". At the same time, he participated in the "Cheng Jia Ben", "Cheng Yi Ben" and "Gengchen Ben" and the Leningrad Tibetan Manuscript.

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High-definition photocopy of the original text of the ancient book. For red fans who have not read the ancient book version, reading this book can be a feast for the eyes.

After the main text of each chapter, the original text of the book is also photocopied and included in the original text of "New Criticism embroidery like the Dream of the Red Chamber" (Wen Shetang Collection Edition, Qing Jiaqing Sixteenth Year (1811) Dongguan Pavilion Publication), which is convenient for readers to read.

This edition is the earliest commentary book of "Dream of the Red Chamber" that can be seen in Fuzi Magazine, and thousands of comments have been added to the text. The content of the criticism involves the artistic evaluation of the novel, the evaluation of human objects, the creation of skills and other aspects, which can be called the representative work of the classical novel critic school, which has high research value and far-reaching influence.

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More than 400 pages of books, the internal layout design adopts the form of "book in the book", grass and wood maps, embroidered prints and ancient books are interspersed, turning over and reading as if holding up a yellowed old book, spying on the fang world of daguanyuan, and lamenting the fragrance of your and my books in the red dust.

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4 years to create a set of books about beauty

Collection gifts are a good match

The first part, "Beautiful for a Thousand Years, But Forgotten: Illustrations of Famous Objects in Poetry", was first printed in August 2016 and has now been reprinted twelve times to rave reviews. In order to make the beauty continue, there are two later volumes. This set of books took 4 years and provided readers with a beautiful "love affair with grass and trees".

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In the binding design, the form of "book in the book" is adopted, retaining the original appearance of the ancient hand-drawn and ancient books.

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The bare ridge lock line binding allows you to enjoy the large spread of the book at 180 degrees.

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Traditional hand-painted cover with three vermilion brushed edges, antique.

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Picture beauty, literary beauty, binding beauty, is a set of rare sense of traditional culture collections, suitable for family reading collection -

Adults taste the beauty of the "Book of Poetry", "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Phenological Flower Letter", and children can also read it as a flower sketch to plant the seeds of classical literature and aesthetics.

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"Famous Things Atlas"

Walk with beauty, let beauty continue!

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