Why do ancient literati always grieve for the fall?

Because the most important feature of autumn is the falling leaves, which can always make people think and show their sadness, so the ancient literati were sad about autumn.

The theme of sadness in the fall began in the poem, formed in the fugue, mainly in the lyrical literature, the formation of both performance and reproduction factors, the two fusion and penetration, and became the later generations of literati Alpine Jingxing mantra. Qu Yuan, Song Yu is worried about political disillusionment, Han after the rapid expansion of the connotation of sadness in the autumn, and become a fixed expression of social life lamentation.

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Related Background

The aesthetic imagery generated by human beings stems from the fact that autumn is a period of time in which the world's most important cultural events take place. The aesthetic imagery that people produce stems from the outward manifestation of the qualities of autumn in its natural journey from prosperity to decline. As a medium for triggering the sense of beauty, autumn has a relative "neutral beauty". The excitement is not strong, not its rapidity and speed of its passing, but rather light, hazy, poignant, and refreshing, but it also foretells the ominous. This is very different from the rest of the three seasons.

This prescriptive nature of the natural climate, determines the ancient literati purposeful directional associations: "and encountered the autumn scenery, the four body bias agitation, do not see the day line rush, only feel the cold air attacking people." This is a psychological sense of crisis.

The first autumnal sadness is precisely with their own aesthetic point of view, in the qualities of the autumn in the realization of some of their own nature, the sadness of the autumn into the autumn scenery, but also from the autumn scenery in the rise of worry. Thus, autumn becomes an object that expresses the personality of the person who is sad about autumn, the subject and the object correspond to each other, and the scene is compatible, so the sense of sadness about autumn is suddenly born.