Words and sentences about folklore and folk customs

1. Cold Food at Morning, Lantern Festival at Night

Cold Food refers to the Cold Food Festival. The Lantern Festival refers to the Lantern Festival. The whole sentence is a metaphor for every day is like a festival, life is luxurious, unrestrained pleasure-seeking.

2, well organized

The custom of folding and wearing willow at the Qingming Festival later evolved into sticking willow in the well. (This is the origin of the idiom of "well organized"), which is also the origin of tree-planting on the Qingming Festival

3. Peach Blossoms on the Face of a Man

The idiom of "peach blossoms on the face of a man" comes from a poem of Cui Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, entitled "Questioning the South Village of the Capital City". Cui Gu was a native of Boling (present-day Anping County, Hebei Province), a scholar in the 12th year of the reign of Zhenyuan, and a minister of the Lingnan Province. There is a story about his composition of this poem in Taiping Guangji (太平广记): Cui Gu was traveling alone in the south of Chang'an on the Ching Ming Festival (清明节)one year before he was awarded the bachelor's degree, when he saw a farmhouse in full bloom of peach blossoms, and went up to knock on the gate of the farmhouse in an attempt to ask for a cup of water and wine to quench his thirst. Surprisingly, a woman with extraordinary beauty and colorful peach blossoms opened the door to receive him. The following year, on the Qingming Festival, Cui Gu could not help but visit the woman. Peach blossom is still the same, but the door is locked, no trace of her. Disappointed, Cui Gu inscribed the poem "Peach Blossoms on the Face of a Human" on the doorway to remember the woman of extraordinary beauty. Later on, the idiom of "Peach Blossoms on a Human Face" evolved into a Chinese idiom, which not only describes the beauty of a woman's face, but is also used to describe the sadness that the scenery is still the same, but the people are no longer the same.

4, a strong general

Chay Juan is a Zhejiang, Qingming Festival to the wild temple drinking, see the temple in front of an ancient bell, can hold more than two stone things, but the ancient bell up and down the soil marks handprints, as if it was recently left. Peeping in from below, see there is a bamboo basket, I do not know what is loaded. He asked a few people to help him and tried to lift the bell to see what was inside, but he could not move it a bit. Ijuan was even more surprised and decided to drink slowly and wait; in a little while a beggar came in with the food he had asked for. He lifted the bell with one hand and put the food in the basket with the other. When he had finished, he closed the ancient bell and left; soon the beggar came again and probed for food from under the ancient bell. After eating, he probed again, as easily as if he had opened the box. Everyone was amazed. Ijuan asked, "Why do you beg when you are so capable?" The answer was, "I eat so much that no one will hire me." Ijuan advised him to join the army, and the beggar was worried about not having a door. So I Juan took him home and gave him a full meal, estimating that he could eat the food of five or six men. He changed his clothes and shoes and socks, and sent him away with fifty pieces of gold.

Ten years later, Chay Juan had a son or nephew in southern Fujian as a magistrate, suddenly a general named Wu Liuyi came to pay his respects. Climbing into the conversation, asked: "Mr. I Juan is your who?" He replied, "He is my uncle. Is he old with the general?" Said he, "He is my teacher. It has been ten years since I left him, and I miss him. I hope to meet him once." That son and nephew agreed haphazardly, but privately thought, "How could my uncle, a famous sage, have a disciple of the Wu family? Soon I Juan came and told him, and I Juan was bewildered and had no memory of it. Because the other was very solicitous in his inquiries, he went forward to pay his respects. The general sprang out and came to meet him outside the gate. I Juan looked carefully and, having never seen him before, suspected that the general was mistaken. But the general's attitude became more and more respectful, and after sending away the other guests, he invited I Juan to enter three or four doors, and when he saw a woman coming and going, he knew that it was a private house, and I Juan stopped. The general bowed and invited I Juan to take his seat in the hall. Some people brought him his robe, and the general suddenly got up and changed his clothes, so that Yijuan did not know what he wanted. Several men pressed him into his seat, and the general bowed to him with the great honor of meeting his father. IJuan was astonished and even more puzzled. The general changed into civilian clothes, accompanied him to his seat, and laughed, "Don't you remember the beggar who lifted the bell, sir?"

Later, I Juan was implicated in the case of the revision of history (a prison of words in the early years of the Qing Dynasty), was imprisoned, and was ultimately spared, all because of the General's power