Traditional art flower arrangement

China is the birthplace of oriental flower arrangement, and the traditional flower arrangement in China has a very long history. Our ancestors have always loved nature, landscapes, flowers and birds, giving them a different taste. We are also one of the first countries to appreciate and apply flowers. Many painted pottery pots unearthed from Yangshao cultural site in the Central Plains five or six thousand years ago have five petals and four petals, which are continuous and decorative. This pattern is created after people carefully watch or plant wild roses, chrysanthemums and other flowers, and it also contains the meaning of praying for a bumper harvest. Some archaeologists believe that the combination of this culture with flower patterns as its main feature and dragon patterns as its main feature is the combination of flowers (China) and dragons, which synthesizes the predecessor of our Chinese nation. Is that what we're talking about today? Huaxia? The source of future generations' statements. Because? Hua? This is the ancient writing of the word "Hua".

Flowers here mean as beautiful as flowers. It can be seen that our nation has been named after gorgeous flowers since ancient times. In addition to archaeological objects, The Book of Songs, the earliest collection of poems in China, also recorded that young men and women picked peony branches to express their love when they were in love. This can be regarded as the earliest application of cut flowers in China. By the Western Han Dynasty, there had been a simple form of flower arrangement, in which flowers were evenly inserted in flowerpots. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as Buddhism entered China and began to spread, flower arrangement became one of the offerings in Buddhist activities, which was called? Buddha flower? . For a long time after that, flower arrangement was full of religious color. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to social unrest, scholars like the seven sages who were injected into bamboo forests either pinned their trust on religion or lived in seclusion in the mountains, focusing on literature and art.

Let the cultural and artistic thoughts of this period break through the shackles of the Han Dynasty and present a situation of transcending the secular and practicing in natural beauty. This kind of flower arrangement close to nature? Art has also developed quite well, with three main branches representing heaven, earth and people respectively, symbolizing the flower arrangement form of the universe; The seven main branches of flower arrangement, which symbolizes the Buddhist world, integrate flower arrangement with cultural artistic conception. Accordingly, the application forms of flowers are constantly enriched, and there are many daily decorative forms such as holding flowers, wearing lapels, arranging flowers in a bun, etc., and flower arrangement has also begun to pursue artistic beauty in its shape. Sui and Tang Dynasties were the heyday of China's feudal society, with political stability, economic prosperity, great progress in culture and art, and the art of flower arrangement also entered the stage of popularization, development and prosperity.

During this period, the wind of loving flowers prevailed for a while, and flower arrangement expanded from offering flowers in front of the Buddha to the court and the people. Lotus (Lotus) is still the main flower supply before the Buddha, which is simple and clear, and generally consists of three branches. The types of flowers used in court and folk flower arrangement are also increasingly rich, and peony is often the main one, with elegant configuration. For example, peony can only be matched with plum, orchid and lotus. And the flower quilt is endowed with personality, style, character and ideological connotation. Palace flower arrangement has put forward a set of strict rules and requirements for tools, containers, water, places of placement and ways of appreciation. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, the art of flower arrangement became more and more mature, and began to spread to Japan with cultural and religious exchanges, which played an extremely important role in the emergence and development of Japanese flower arrangement.