What are the forgotten traditional cultures in China?

The forgotten traditional culture of China;

1, item culture

Speaking of incense, it is estimated that nine times out of ten you don't know it, or it is associated with Buddha worship.

In fact, Xiangdao was the ancient label of China, just like the tea ceremony, but it was quickly registered as their cultural heritage in Japan.

In ancient China, tasting incense, fighting tea, arranging flowers and hanging pictures were called the "four gossip" in the elegant life of the upper class. But now, the tea ceremony and flower arrangement have become the quintessence of Japan next door, and Xiangdao, an extremely pure and elegant China art, has almost been registered as its own cultural heritage in Japan and completely disappeared.

The ancients said: "Burning incense and looking at paintings are thousands of miles away, and the clouds and trees are graceful, and it is effortless to swim mountains and rivers." It is said that if you live between rooms, light a pot of incense and hang a pair of beautiful mountain and river paintings, you will wander around the world one day without any effort.

People in China used incense in the Qin and Han Dynasties. At that time, Tang Muxiang, washing hands cleanly was very common in the daily life of the upper class aristocrats. In the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, Taoism prevailed and incense culture prevailed, resulting in articles such as hand-covered sachets.

Then in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, incense was already very common. At this time, Zhen and the eminent monk traveled eastward, which not only spread Buddhism to Japan, but also brought incense culture closely related to Buddhism.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the high standards and strict requirements of the literati for material life, as well as their vigorous advocacy and promotion of material life from the spiritual level, they laid the cornerstone of the traditional culture of China, such as piano, chess, books, paintings, food, wine and tea, showing a broad and vigorous trend. Incense has also become an art, and dignitaries and literati often get together to smell the incense and do the initial ceremony.

When people in China talk about incense today, the first thing that comes to mind is that Buddhist temples are already deformed. As a foreign religion, Buddhism undoubtedly inherited the incense of the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties in disguise, but its essence has long lost that kind of cultural precipitation and essence.

Compared with Japan across the sea, in Chinese mainland, the birthplace of incense culture, for more than 1000 years after the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially after the Qing and Jia Dynasties, due to frequent wars, the spiritual life of literati tends to be lax, and pure art forms such as incense ceremony, poetry, ci, music, dance and chess decline. With the decline of national strength and the invasion of western culture, Xiangdao gradually withdrew from the leisure life of nobles and literati. This fragrance spread all the way to the late Qing Dynasty, and finally the fire cooled down in stormy weather.

Life arts such as arranging flowers, drinking tea, playing chess and incense all originated in China, and they constitute a colorful part of the secular culture of the Han nationality. When it was introduced to Japan, playing on the level of Taoism not only greatly enhanced the sense of ritual, but also became a philosophy of self-cultivation and heart-nourishing, which was accepted by the upper class and the public. However, today, some pure and elegant living arts, such as incense, tea ceremony and flower path, have a strange feeling that stings people's hearts, and let us see some sacred and solemn things, which are not seen in China.

2. Nuo culture

Nuo culture is an ancient primitive culture and an important part of China traditional culture.

The ancient ancestors' desire for survival and reproduction in conquering nature needs to surpass themselves with the help of religion (natural religion). The descendants of the dragon created a splendid witchcraft culture with great romanticism.

"promise" means that people avoid their difficulties, which means "the ghost that scares away the epidemic."

Witchcraft activities meet the psychological requirements of the majority of believers for life consciousness. For a long time, the inheritance and spread of witchcraft has been integrated into customs. Even in modern times, it still exists among the people in the form of traditional culture.