China has a long history of folk culture, of which "Five Blessingg" culture is an important part. With the change of the times, these cultures are constantly changing in a figurative form, among which "Xi" is the only word that expresses emotions. Chinese is known as the "Xi" complex, commonly known as "Xi" is one of Five Blessingg, and regards "Xi" as happiness.
The word "Xi" is a descriptive word to express emotions, and the word "Xi" created by the ancients is a knowing display of people’s psychological performance. The word "happiness" is used to express the meaning of "happiness in the heart, which is superficial". The original initial text used a drum shape and a mouth shape to express happiness. Later, he held a word "Ji" in both hands, and added a smiling mouth shape below to create a vivid expression.
Since ancient times, Chinese has collectively referred to happiness, happiness, good deeds and pleasures as "happy events". People have also created two symbols for happy characters, one is "Jubilee" and the other is "Xi", which are called double happiness, and both of them have the meaning of expressing the happiness of a happy event.
The word "Jubilee" is mainly used in festive occasions, such as the coming of the Spring Festival, and it is customary to paste "Jubilee" on doors or beams. The word "Xi" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is interpreted as "Li Ji Ye." In Ci Yuan, the word "Xi" is interpreted as "Fu". Therefore, "Congratulations on the New Year" has the meaning of "giving a gift and blessing". "Xi" is composed of "show" and "happiness", which means "seeing happiness" and "showing happiness" "Everything goes well, everything goes well" is "Jubilee".
Jubilee (paper-cut), with pine and cypress embedded in the middle.
The word "Xi" is more used to render the atmosphere in wedding occasions. The word "Xi" evolved from the words "Xi" and "Xi". "Xi" is the combination of two happy characters, which contains the meaning of husband and wife’s love and everlasting love. The word "Xi" naturally becomes synonymous with marriage. In the traditional wedding custom, on the wedding day, both men and women paste the word "happy red" on their own doors and streets. It is customary for the man to paste the word "Xi" and the woman to paste the word "Xi". However, the influence of "Xi" is far less than that of "Xi".
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Happy patterns and auspicious pictures
[Sixi doll]
Sixi doll is actually a kind of folk art modeling, which adopts the shared shape in conformal modeling, and it is modeled by the partial overlap and borrowing of shape and shape in geometry.
Paper-cut Sixi doll
The four-happiness doll picture is a common theme. In the Qing Dynasty, the Wuzi Rises in Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Picture and the Lunar New Year Picture of Jiujiu Eliminating Cold in Hebei Wuqiang New Year Picture adopted this conjoined composition modeling. It can be seen that the four-happiness doll, as a festive theme, is widely spread, and people put it at home or hang it on the wall in order to attract happiness.
In the Qing Dynasty, Wuqiang New Year Picture of Hebei Province, The Picture of Eliminating Cold in 1999, was also called Five Children and One Hundred percent.
The "99 Cold Relief Map" is a masterpiece of Wuqiang New Year pictures, which depicts four seasons of flowers: peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and camellia, as well as treasures such as disc length, wishful thinking, money, sheng spring, coral and fire dragon ball, as well as the zodiac. It was originally a record of the weather, so it was named "99 Cold Relief Map". The picture is five children fighting for the head, which is divided into two groups. One group is two dolls changing into four dolls (four happiness); One group is three dolls into six dolls (Liushun), which adds up to five dolls into ten dolls, which means "five children are 100%". Ingenious conception makes people think.
"Happiness is just around the corner"
Among the auspicious patterns in China, there is an auspicious picture called "Happiness is in sight", which shows that magpies and ancient money match, and the two magpies are opposite to each other and look at the ancient money in the middle. Magpie, taking the meaning of "happiness"; The word "Qian" in ancient money is homophonic with the word "Qian" in front of it, and the hole in the money is the eye, so the eye of the money represents the eye in front of us, and the combination of magpie and ancient money also expresses the meaning that the happy event is just around the corner.
Happiness is in sight (1)
Happiness is in sight (1)
[merrily]
The auspicious picture "Happy Land" is a picture of badger and magpie, badger looks up at the sky, magpie flies to the ground, and the two look at each other, forming a harmonious picture of animals and birds. Badger’s badger harmonizes people’s joyful "Huan", and the first word of magpie is "Xi", which represents people’s inner joy and shows the meaning of "joyous".
Happily (pattern: badger+magpie)
[good news map]
The good news picture, composed of leopards and magpies, expresses the meaning of the good news of the report. In the old days, the leopard pattern was a symbol of Jue Lu’s honor: in the Ming Dynasty, the military attaché s embroidered tiger and leopard patterns, while in the Qing Dynasty, the military attaché s embroidered leopard patterns. In the picture of good news, the word "Bao" reported by the homophonic word "Leopard" and the word "Xi" written by the magpie symbolize a happy mood of people.
Good news (pattern: leopard+magpie)
【 Tongxi 】
The auspicious picture composed by the combination of tung tree and magpie is called Tongxi. Tung tree and Tong are homonyms, and magpie’s happiness symbolizes people’s joyful modality. Since ancient times, tung trees have been regarded as auspicious trees, and there is a saying that phoenix trees attract phoenix trees. Magpies stand on tung branches, and jiamu and Lingniao are auspicious things. Being happy with each other naturally expresses the auspicious meaning of "happiness together".
Tongxi (pattern: magpie+tung tree)
Good news for spring 】
Since ancient times, people have regarded magpies as auspicious birds, and plum trees are hardy and bloom in cold years, which indicates auspicious celebrations. This auspicious meaning is often taken in Spring Festival couplets: "Spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring are the first, and plum, plum, peach, apricot and plum are the first." It is said that the opening of plum blossoms first brought people the news of spring. In the picture, the plum blossom indicates that spring is coming, and the magpie opens its mouth to sing to announce good news, which is extended here, giving the meaning of announcing spring and indicating good news for early spring.
Good news, Chunxian.
[double happiness]
The expression of the auspicious picture "Double Happiness" is both simple and novel. It is worthy of congratulations to draw two magpies, one for one happiness and the other for two happiness. This expression method was very popular in the Song Dynasty.
"Double Happiness" [Song] by Cui Bai.
[Look up and be happy]
Spiders are mascots, mainly because spiders have a nickname "Xunzi", which is homophonic with "Xi". Therefore, the folk custom thinks that spiders are auspicious, which originated from the Han Dynasty.
"Looking Up and Seeing Happiness" by Xinyu Pu
"Er Ya Shi Insect" Note: "Spiders call for joy." As for the omen of spiders, the book Mao Shi, Grass, Birds, Animals, Fish and Insects, written by Lu Ji of the Jin Dynasty, said: In Hanoi, Jingzhou, people call spiders hi-mothers, and spiders are attached to people’s clothes. When relatives and guests arrive, they are happy.
Because of these legends and records, spiders have always been messengers who bring people good luck and happiness. So the spider hangs down from the internet, named "Looking Up to See Happiness", or "Happy Doors" and "Happiness from the Sky", which means that a happy event suddenly comes and people are overjoyed.
Happiness descended from heaven (1)
Happiness comes from heaven (2)
The pattern is like a spider hanging from top to bottom, accompanied by mascots such as loquat, cherry, garlic and calamus. The ancients compared the spider to Jiguang, and the spider fell from its nest, which meant that happiness fell from the sky and that it suddenly met an unexpected happy event.
Zhong Kui decorated with spiders is also one of the common auspicious paintings of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhong Kui, a handsome donkey-riding god in Suzhou Taohuawu, was accompanied by a servant kid who burst an umbrella. Zhong Kui, holding the dental cymbal in his hand, visually observed the bats flying in the air ahead or the spiders hanging from it, symbolizing "Happiness comes from the sky" and "Happiness comes from the sky", which is full of festive colors.
?Happiness descended from heaven (New Year Pictures of Taohuawu in Suzhou in Qing Dynasty)
"Happiness from Heaven" (Fan) by Wang Zhen
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Source: Beijing Evening News-North Night New Vision Network