Why do feelings in China's traditional culture take ambiguity as beauty?

"The Book of Songs" "Peach flies and burns its glory; It is best to stay at home. " China's ancient poems are very implicit. Instead of directly expressing your love and my love. Similarly, China people's expressions are euphemistic.

Implicitness is a beautiful moral character, and too straightforward expression will lead to bad results. The hazy feeling of wanting to say goodbye often leads to endless reverie. Moreover, China people are reserved since ancient times, and will not directly express their love.

(1) The hazy beauty contained in misty poems and articles is often the best way to inherit the spirit. Moreover, there was no such advanced communication media in ancient times. And this implicit expression is passed down step by step in literary works. The ancients took implication as beauty, but turned it into another thought-provoking and fascinating way to convey thoughts and feelings. If it is too straightforward, it is neither nutritious nor easy to remember.

1. Implication is a kind of romance.

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in history, and its expressions are mostly euphemistic explanations. Most of them describe the environment first and then express their feelings in the scenery. Putting your feelings between heaven and earth is more likely to cause * * *. For example, the famous Jian Peijun "Jian Peijun is pale, and the Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side. "

Through the description of the scenery, people can feel the yearning and love for their lover more intuitively. If it is too straightforward, it will be too pale and powerless. "From there, the road is blocked and long." No matter how difficult the road is, I will follow the person who is looking for my heart.

This is much more convincing than describing the lover directly. The "self-protection" fly in Feng Wei embraces cloth to trade silk. Bandits come to trade silk and look for it when they come. "Under the guise of selling cloth, the beloved crossed the water and climbed up the mound just to meet each other. This sentence indirectly shows the hazy feeling of love between men and women, some ambiguous and some shy.

Both the preface to Li Sao and the articles in Li Sao written by Han people are based on poems and make analogies, so they are good at writing herbs to match loyalty, spirituality to beauty and analogy to monarchs. Qu Yuan is a famous patriotic poet in history, and his Songs of the South is a beacon in the history of literature.

But he himself is very reserved and will not directly write his loyalty and patriotism. But the king is often compared to a vanilla beauty. Someone once even suspected that he was gay, but it was actually just a subtle expression. If it is too straightforward, it will often leave a handle on people.

2. Better expression effect

"Only the grass and trees are scattered, and I am afraid that the beauty will be late." If Qu Yuan always writes in his poems how he loves this country and how he wants to help the king. Then the civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty will definitely think that he is taking credit for himself. Moreover, this effect can't be achieved. On the contrary, it will be more open if it is written implicitly and tactfully.

Similarly, expressing the feelings of men and women in poetry should not be too straightforward. That will make you feel too sentimental, and ancient ideas are not open. People in the pre-Qin period were subject to the system of rites and music, and later generations gradually liked this obscure expression under the influence of previous poems.

Therefore, there are many poems and articles expressing their wishes. This is a good way of expression, which will not cause resentment to people, but also create romance. Even if the other person doesn't accept himself, there is still room for taking a step back. Therefore, vague emotions are often the real inner monologue.

(2), ethical code system, spiritual oppression "no rules, no Fiona Fang". Nowadays, many costume dramas, such as the Qing Dynasty drama and the Ming Dynasty drama, have very strict rules, whether it is the former dynasty or the harem. In today's hot Song TV series "Qingpingle", Queen Cao is also unpopular because of the strict rules. Ancient women paid attention to three obedience and four virtues, and they liked to follow the rules in everything.

1. The shackles of secular vision

"Shi Shuo Xin Yu" "Ruan Ji's sister-in-law wants to return home, see it and leave, or ridicule it. Ji said, "Is it a ceremony for our generation? ".This book records many stories of seven sages of bamboo forest, and it is precisely because they don't care about secular vision that they can be called romantic figures in Wei and Jin Dynasties. "Ruan mixed up, atmosphere like a father, he also wants to achieve something. The infantry said: "Zhong Rong has predicted it, you can't reply!" "

They are also very clear that this kind of behavior that does not care about secular vision cannot be passed on to the younger generation. Therefore, when Ruan Hun wanted to join, Ruan Ji disagreed. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the country was in turmoil and did not form a strong centralized rule. However, the constraints of ethics are still so strict, not to mention in other dynasties.

There was a system of rites and music in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Confucian education began in the Spring and Autumn Period. Women should abide by three obedience and four virtues, and obey their parents' orders and matchmakers' words in marriage and love. So in this case, if you want to express your true feelings, you will be criticized by others.

2. Imprisonment of freedom of expression

In ancient times, you couldn't talk casually, let alone talk about state affairs. And the emperor is the statue of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, how can he allow his subjects to speak casually? Even if they say good things, they don't deserve it. So everyone is used to expressing their ideas in an implicit way. So using innuendo is also a vague expression.

The social environment is not open, and people's minds are not open. There is also the "tired people" policy led by Shang Yang, which makes everyone afraid to express their ideas at will. The ancients gradually began to learn to express their true feelings in a vague way, whether in political affairs or in love and marriage.

The development of ancient society is the process of strengthening the centralization of monarchy. They use Confucianism to regulate everyone's living habits. Confucianism, on the other hand, is like a ruler, and everything needs strict calibration. Not only love, but also affection. Mencius once said, "People in the world will return to Mo if they don't return to Yang".

In the view of Confucianism, it is very opposed to the universal love proposed by Mohism. It is thought that this is an idea without a father and a king, so the king is the head of the country and the father is the leader of the family. Therefore, the image of the father is often taciturn, and the communication between the child and him cannot be too straightforward.

(3), historical inheritance, unforgettable in many film and television works, westerners and China people are slightly embarrassed after meeting. In ancient etiquette in China, people were used to fuel when they met. Of course, this phenomenon only exists among peers. The ancients used to keep a certain distance between people, from which we can also see the implication of the ancients. This phenomenon is due to the etiquette system.

1. Provinces are scattered with different customs.

Zhuge Liang once said in "Longzhong Dui" that "the general trend of the world will be combined for a long time, and it will be combined for a long time." In the pre-Qin period, governors were divided into one party. In addition, Zhou Tianzi was unable to control it, which is what Confucius said. During this period, all localities developed their own customs and habits, which could not be changed even after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries.

People-to-people communication between ancient countries is bound to be somewhat estranged. A lot of things, there is no way to say. For example, outspoken refusal, bossy nitpicking. None of this is useful. Implicit expression of your own meaning can often achieve unexpected results.

Therefore, even if there is a unified dynasty, this gap will not be eliminated overnight. In the process of expression, people are used to expressing their ideas in a straightforward way. After all, people have forgotten how to express their true feelings directly.

The stronger the imperial power, the weaker the voice of the people. The concept of love and marriage in pre-Qin was relatively unrestrained, but in the era of great unity, monarchs promoted Confucian education in order to better restrain the people. For example, the stereotyped writing system in the Ming Dynasty was designed to make all those who used it for themselves full of loyalty and patriotism to the monarch.

There is also a literary inquisition in the Qing dynasty, and even obscure expressions are easy to get burned. For example, in the Complete Works of Qiu Feng, the author was sentenced to death. At that time, almost everything about Ming and Zhu would be considered as innuendo by the rulers. As you can imagine, at this point, implicit expression is not enough, let alone straightforward statement.

2. The particularity of language

Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world, and its sentence can often express multiple artistic conceptions, that is, puns. But relatively speaking, this is its limitation. If the words are too straightforward, it will cause the other person's disgust. It's best to beat about the bush and get the other person's attention.

Especially in ancient times, ministers advised the king, and they should be more cautious. Otherwise, it is possible to "take it in court and become Tian Shelang at dusk". This habit has existed since ancient times. It is precisely because of the complexity of freedom of speech and feudal ethical system that it is impossible for everyone to explain their intentions directly.

Some words are too straightforward and often have the opposite effect. Just like a popular joke on the Internet, if you directly tell a girl that you want to sleep together, it's a hooligan, and the one who wants to get up with you is Xu Zhimo. Because of its euphemistic and implicit expression, its ambiguous and romantic index is much higher than that of directly telling the true thoughts.

This is the natural charm of Chinese. Whether in daily life or writing articles, it will be more intriguing if you write vaguely.

Conclusion: In the era of closed mind, the love between teenagers is very shy to express. If you are too free and easy, you will be considered depraved. Moreover, the oppression of the monarchy made many people afraid to speak.

So they all took a different approach, that is, implicitly expounded their ideas. This is not an expression, but a promotion to a higher level. As Xu Zhimo said, "The most important thing is the gentleness of bowing your head, such as the shyness of hibiscus." No love, but full of affection.