Hat Culture

Proverb: hit people do not hit the face, why? It's also simple, the face of the face, that is the bottom line of a person's dignity. You have a big waist, we are naturally not your opponent, suffer some flesh pain we recognize, the most basic rules of the animal world; but you want to face in front of the crowd dedicated to the face of the sprinkler to, I'll give up with you, even if a life for a broken arm also counts.

The face is very important. The hat, in traditional culture, is one of the synonyms for face. This is the proverb "deceive people do not deceive hat, deceive tube not deceive trick", "deceive mountain not deceive water, deceive body not deceive hat". There is also a proverb more interesting: "If you want to go over the wall, first throw the hat to the past", meaning that the hat is already over there, so you have to think of all the ways to go over; because the hat is the real you, the hat under the head to the foot, but the hat's appendages.

I remember when I was young, many times with my grandfather, who was still dying. Bedside bookcases in the books and ink and inkstone, the big point of the grandson can casually turn over blindly, but temporarily placed on the table of a melon hat can not be casual, the young author had previously put this thing on the head of the family to do ghost face crazy play, and as a result, met with the grandpa's severe reprimand. Children's logic is very simple: clothes, hats, shoes and socks, not all the same thing. I do not want to think of the hat here, is another rule.

Just say that the melon hat - first of all (now) from the name should belong to a kind of pejorative colloquialism, and its earliest and most orthodox name is called "six a unified hat". And for grandpa, this thing is their own self-esteem, not the world of a sign of the stream, so even the little grandchildren can not feel free to touch, like children will throw each other's hats to play that's even more unlikely. Many years after the grandfather passed away, the coffin is wearing a melon hat, with an old-fashioned robe lying on the door was carried into the coffin. Later, gradually and generously know, a melon hat is not just a grandfather's favorite and as a sign of the readers, and that generation with a similar situation more than it. This is the Republic of China in the decades and the establishment of new China after a decade or two, the melon hat is still perched on the top of many bald head reason.

To say that many people are a little bit of attention or even do not believe that China's feudal society for more than two thousand years, during which the hat has always been a symbol of the ruling power and noble status, the name is called "crown" and "coronet", that is to say, only the emperor and civil and military ministers can wear. Emperors and civil and military ministers can wear hats, and thus form a kind of bureaucratic order, is the so-called ancient Chinese crown system. The ordinary grass-roots people were not qualified to wear hats, and when the weather was too cold or the wind and sand were too strong, they could only wrap themselves in scarves, which is the origin of the term "bareheaded people" nowadays. "Flat head people" in the "flat head" is not related to the hat, wearing a hat will increase the visual height ah. If you want to hold your head high, of course the officials will not do it. The "interpretation of the name" recorded: "twenty adults, Shi crown, commoner scarf." The Jade Chapter records: "Towel, wear a scarf also. This to wipe things, later people with the head." Wiping sweat convenient na.

This is also the modern Chinese language with a lot of "crown", "crown", "hat" words, idioms (such as "praise clothes dangerous crown", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes", "clothes"). ", "衣冠楚", "冠堂皇", "弹冠相庆", etc.) and colloquialisms. Interestingly, with the "crown" and "coronation" of the idioms are hundreds of thousands of it, while "wear" "cap "The person is much less, and" cap "itself to start with (after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty) is only a method of wrapping the scarf and a kind of clothing, and more importantly, is not on the cultural stage.

The following on the hand to a few "cap" related to the folk verbal to add a little vitality to this article it:

Nonsense buckle hat, wear a high hat, wear a green hat, hat, red skirt (similar to the men and women ghosts), the head is not correct, but complained that the hat is biased. The hat has no edge - the top is good. Monk's hat - flat not collapse. A hat made of stone mortar - can't be topped. Three hats for four people - hardly complete. Bow with a hat on - outrageous (etiquette). Throwing hats over the wall - can not see the head (child) .......

"The hat" is the earliest folk a hat, rise in the Sui, flourished in the Tang - this is nothing strange right, let a person unexpected, then a bit of status between friends, each other to give a hat is also customary. The meaning of the table blessing? Recognition or respect? I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.

I know this ancient custom, read Bai Juyi's a "sense of the old hat (hat that the late Li Lang gifted)" (Li Bai also has a "reply to a friend to give a hat") will not happen misunderstandings:

Previously the gentleman's hat, gifted to me the white-headed man. The hat is now on the top, but you have returned to the spring.

The old things can still be used, but the dead can not be met.

The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and the second time I saw it, I was in the middle of the night.

The idea is: when you and I were dating, I was still an ordinary citizen, you gave me a hat. This hat or really a spiritual object, get the gift soon after I also became an official. But now, I wear a real power effect of the hat standing beside you, but you have already returned to the spring. At first as a gift to me the hat is still being kept by me, it will accompany me all my life; but as a friend of you but never see. It is now autumn, tonight with the lonely autumn moon, the valiant autumn wind probably only your lonely grave it.

When Bai Juyi wrote his poem, he looked back at the title of the most "sense of the old hat" four words, and felt that there is something missing: a thousand years after the descendants read it, do not misunderstand that I think I Bai Juyi is the dead Li Lang lift up the modus operandi. So add in the "cap that the late Li Lang gifted" eight words.