Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - This sentence tells us: give me a peach, give me a plum in return, and connect with the reality of life?

This sentence tells us: give me a peach, give me a plum in return, and connect with the reality of life?

The moral is gratitude; It is also a metaphor for giving and answering each other. Give me a peach for a plum. Chinese vocabulary means that he gives me a peach and I return him a plum.

Appreciation: Comparatively speaking, although the article "Feng Wei Papaya" has an idiom of "throwing papaya (peaches and plums) to admire Qiong (Yao and Jiu)", the frequency of using "throwing wood to admire Qiong" is not as high as that of "throwing peaches and plums".

Simply put, it is reciprocity. It is indecent not to come; It is also impolite to come and not go.

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Confucius: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius opened the altar to give lectures, which attracted people's attention. Yang hu visited Confucius at that time, but Confucius didn't see him. He deliberately left a roast suckling pig and finally got a return visit from Confucius.

Analysis: This was the idea of "reciprocity" advocated by Confucianism at that time. And this idea can be traced back to the source, that is, "give me the peach and give it back to Li." Wei Wugong of the Western Zhou Dynasty was deeply loved by the people and should be regarded as a model for repaying the people. Later generations simply used the idiom "peach for plum". ?

This is the custom and rule of our etiquette country, especially in the communication between men and women. In the communication between men and women, "returning gifts" is not only a general etiquette, but also a kind of etiquette. The value of the gift itself is not important, but its symbolic meaning is more prominent to show mutual commitment, two of a kind.