The Significance of South Wind in Japanese Culture

The meaning of south wind in Japanese culture: expressing homesickness.

Astronomically speaking, the summer solstice solar term is the longest day and the shortest night in the northern hemisphere. Equinox and autumnal equinox, which are even day and night, represent a kind of balance.

Solar terms such as summer solstice and winter solstice represent an extreme. Theoretically, the heat we get from the sun reaches its maximum during the summer solstice. The solar term of summer solstice is very high, and many ancient civilizations discovered such a special day long ago. Shakespeare's classic A Midsummer Night's Dream is actually very similar to our Summer Solstice.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Taishi Bureau, which specialized in monitoring ancient astronomy and meteorology. It experienced the Astronomical Academy and Taishi Bureau in the Song Dynasty and the Astronomical Observatory in the Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, Qin Tian Prison was the highest-level official astronomical and meteorological science business management institution in ancient China. Qin Tianjian will observe the wind direction every Boxing Day. In summer, Qin will observe whether the wind direction at that time is due south wind.

The ancients in China longed for rain, but what they captured in weather observation was the direction of the wind, which was closely related to the monsoon climate in China. Wind is the initial factor in the causal chain of climate, and the ancients have long been keenly aware that "wind tone" will lead to "smooth rain".

The Song of the South Wind in the pre-Qin Dynasty said: "The south wind can solve the worries of our people. When the south wind blows, it can enrich the people. " On the solstice of summer, if the south wind comes, we will not be sad. If the south wind comes on time, we will be "rich" At that time, people simply knew how important the normal wind direction was to our life in a year.

Poetry refers to the traditional poetry of Han nationality in China, represented by ancient poems, modern poems and metrical words. It is also one of the characteristics of Chinese character cultural circle. Generally speaking, poetry is more suitable for "expressing ambition" and words are more suitable for "expressing emotion".

Poetry is a literary art that elucidates the soul, while poets and poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, dense composition, rich emotions and rich images in a highly concentrated way according to strict rhythm requirements.

China's poetry originated in the pre-Qin period and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. China's ci originated in Sui and Tang Dynasties and was popular in Song Dynasty. China's poetry originates from the people, but it is actually a kind of grass-roots literature. In China in the 2nd/kloc-0th century, poetry is still favored by the public.

In today's social life, it is the need of China culture to inherit and develop traditional poetry. The emotional flavor of traditional poetry is more acceptable. It is the unique charm and function of Chinese, which can't be achieved by any other language and can't be translated by any language. Therefore, traditional poetry culture is the most unique form of expression and literary heritage in the history of world literature.