What are the mascots with a long history in experimental primary schools?

What are the mascots with a long history in experimental primary schools?

Wisdom baby, soul baby

Mascot is the product of primitive human culture, which was formed by primitive human beings in their struggle with nature.

In this struggle with nature, human beings first focus on the needs of survival, and in the process of development, they naturally form an instinctive concept of pursuing good fortune and avoiding evil.

China's ancestors created auspicious birds and animals such as dragons, phoenixes and unicorns.

Moreover, these things are endowed with symbolic content and meaning to meet people's psychological needs of praying. There are many kinds of mascots circulating among the people.

But most of them are pictures of animals or hieroglyphics symbolizing peace and good luck.

Such as dragons, phoenixes and magpies.

From the perspective of the zodiac, every zodiac can be regarded as a mascot, but now many mascots in Dong Yilin are also designed from the perspective of the zodiac, but the design significance is more profound; People want to live a stable and happy life, but in real life, we will inevitably encounter some difficulties and setbacks; As the saying goes: [Nine times out of ten] Therefore, in the face of the unpredictable future, our ancestors created many symbols to pray for everything to be smooth, and these things that yearn for and pursue happiness are called mascots.

This is the earliest auspicious thing "mascot" representing human spirit and culture in China, and it is still the main image of the design and application of China mascots, because they can better represent 5,000 years of history and culture.

2 Auspicious Five Blessingg

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Mascots often reflect the characteristics of national culture.

If you want to survive, you first need to survive. "Lucky, lucky" is human nature.

The ancients often faced unknown or sudden disasters. In order to survive in such difficult conditions, they should carefully avoid all kinds of disasters and pains and strive to live an auspicious, safe and happy life.

Compared with westerners, Arabs and Indians, ancient China people were indifferent to religion.

Shang Shu hong fan

What they consider is how to live happily in this world.

What kind of life is happiness? People often use "Five Blessingg" to summarize it.

Five Blessingg in Shang Shu Hong Fan refers to longevity, wealth, corning, virtue and final examination. "Virtue" means "virtue", and "dying after the exam" means dying well.

In modern times, "Five Blessingg" is interpreted as "blessing", "wealth", "longevity", "happiness" and "wealth". Although the meanings are somewhat different, they all reflect the happy life pursued by China people.

3 auspicious patterns

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[Ji] refers to goodness and benefit; "Auspicious" originally refers to a sign of good luck or bad luck.

The combination of these two words means happiness and auspiciousness. Since the Warring States period, the word auspicious has become more and more common.

In the Tang Dynasty, Cheng explained: "Lucky people are good things; Since then, the word "good luck" has become a wish for a happy life and all the best. Pursuing good luck and the concept of "good luck" have become an important part of China culture.

Auspicious pattern collection (40 pieces)

Mascots and auspicious patterns can be said to be concrete manifestations of auspicious ideas-in order to express the yearning for happiness, joy and celebration, people process the inherent attributes of things, or add artistic symbols, such as attaching myths and legends to something or taking its name as a homonym, and treating it as a good omen, or drawing beautiful stories and festive signs into images.

Mascots show the innate nature of human beings to seek good fortune and avoid evil. We can try to taste the touching stories and artistic achievements derived from the pursuit of good fortune without superstition.

Even in many sports events today, mascots often appear, and other aspects such as architectural sculptures, wooden ornaments, ceramic carvings, paper-cut window decorations, mural calendars and even trademarks, city logos or advertisements all reflect this expectation for life.

4 Dragonfly Pearl

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Dragon beard bead is the abbreviation of dragon beard and dragon ball, and it is an auspicious ornament worn by ancient people.

Both dragon beard and dragon ball have auspicious meanings, and the collocation of dragon beard and dragon ball has far-reaching implications.

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According to the Records of Historical Records, the Dragon Emperor, also known as the Jade Emperor, is said to be the embodiment of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

When the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven as a jade emperor, a dragon hung a beard to welcome the Yellow Emperor to heaven.

The Yellow Emperor rode on the dragon's back, and ministers, wives and children climbed up one after another, with more than 70 people each.

At this time, the dragon ascended to the sky, and the rest of the subjects grabbed the dragon's beard. Dragon beard meat can't bear the weight, and it's broken.

(According to "Historical Records" and "Zen Sutra", "The Yellow Emperor picked bronze wares from Shoushan and cast a tripod at the foot of Jingshan Mountain.

When the tripod was finished, a dragon lowered its beard to welcome the Yellow Emperor.

The Yellow Emperor rode on horseback, and there were more than 70 ministers in the harem, with dragons on them.

Yu Xiaochen couldn't go up, but he knew that he had a Chinese alpine rush in his hand. When he pulled it, it fell and fell into the bow of the Yellow Emperor.

People look up to the Yellow Emperor, but hold his bow and beard, so later generations call it Dinghu, and his bow is called Wu Hao. ") At this point, half of the broken dragon must stay in the folk.

There is a folk legend that the dragon beard ornaments are spiritual and can protect the safety and health of family members, and they are very successful in their studies and careers.

Dragon Ball

Dragon ball: In ancient times, dragon balls were generally made of pearls, wooden beads or other spherical objects.

Pearls are produced in water and have bright luster and shape. In many legends, dragons are the length of the aquarium in charge of water, so pearls can be used as dragon balls.

Pearls have always been loved by people since ancient times. Pearl is not only beautiful, but also has a medicinal history of more than 2,000 years in China. There are 19 kinds of ancient medical books, such as "Bielu of Famous Doctors in Three Kingdoms" and "Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty", all of which have clear records on the curative effect of pearls.

Modern medicine often points out that pearls have the functions of calming nerves, relieving convulsions, clearing away heat and nourishing yin, improving eyesight and detoxifying.

The collocation of dragon beard

The combination of dragon beard and dragon ball has a deeper meaning. Although dragon beard meat can bring many auspicious meanings, folklore says that dragon beard meat is spiritual and always wants to return to the dragon body, and it will also take away the auspicious blessings of dragon beard meat. As we all know, the dragon likes the dragon ball, and the role of the dragon ball is to hold the dragon whisker and keep it in the world.

Dragon's beard bead is not the product of feudal superstition. Like dragon, it is a symbol of Chinese national spirit and a spiritual sustenance in people's lives, which mainly reflects the history and culture of Chinese descendants.

Now, more and more students and young people are paying attention to the traditional culture of China. Although the dragon beard bead is an auspicious ornament worn by ancient people, it is more and more loved by people because of its classic fashion modeling and auspicious cultural implication.

5 evolutionary path

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Mascots are people who deliberately process the inherent attributes and characteristics of things to express people's emotional wishes.

From the original to the mascot with auspicious meaning, the processing techniques used include changing the attributes of things, homophonic meaning, word-of-mouth legend, artist's craft and so on.

From these mascots, we can get a glimpse of the lifestyle of this nation and what people cherish together.

Attribute extension

All kinds of mascots come from the original works and are full of auspicious meanings, which can be described as endless fun.

One of its techniques is to enlarge or extend the appearance, characteristics or practical value of things to make them have auspicious meanings.

Take Toona sinensis, Hemerocallis fulva, Lan Zhi, Rock and Bamboo as examples. Zhuangzi said: "In ancient times, there was a big toon, with 8,000 years as spring and 8,000 years as autumn"; Mou Rong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote the poem "Snow Cover on duty in Chunxuan". Because of its longevity, people compare Haruki to his father, and call it the Spring Pavilion, which symbolizes the longevity of the elderly.

Hemerocallis, also known as worry-free girls.

The dormitory of the ancients was divided into "front hall" and "back room", also called "North Hall". Beitang is often the mother's residence, because the ancients planted more daylily than Beitang, and later generations also took daylily as their mother, saying that it can make people forget their worries and bring blessings to their mothers.

Lan Zhi is a potted plant planted in the courtyard by the ancients. Its appearance is noble and elegant. The ancients always used it to teach their children to learn the virtues of Lan Zhi and grow in the yard instead of in the wild.

Rock is a flat and thick stone, which usually stands motionless on a high mountain. Later generations extended it to a stable and firm ambition.

As for bamboo, people have used bamboo as a metaphor for noble and upright gentlemen since ancient times.

In ancient times, it was customary to call "bamboo newspaper" a letter from home, so there is a saying that "bamboo newspaper is safe": bamboo branches or leaves are printed on stationery to represent peace.

Combining these five things together, it becomes the meaning of parents' long life, worry-free, stable family foundation, prosperous children and grandchildren, and safe family, which can be said to give full play to Swiss property.

Homophonic meaning taking

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"Homophonic" is an important feature of China folk culture, and folk mascots faithfully apply the principle of "homophonic".

Take "Ruyi" as an example. It is a unique mascot in China. Originally a military artifact, it gradually became a folk "claw stick", that is, an itching tool.

If you put ruyi in a bottle, it is "safe ruyi".

If you match two persimmons or lions, then "everything goes well."

If you draw a boy riding an elephant with wishful thinking, it is "good luck and wishful thinking".

If you add boxes and lotus flowers, it will be "harmonious"

Another example is "knowledgeable person", which is a combination of knowledgeable person, cypress and persimmon.

Also, everything goes well (persimmon), four arts (piano, chess, calligraphy and painting) and happiness (bat).

In addition, many popular folk gifts are mostly homophonic mascots.

Give gifts to candidates with cakes and zongzi, with cakes homophonic "high" and zongzi homophonic "middle", meaning the good wishes of "Jinbang High School"; Give the newlyweds four things, dates, chestnuts, longan and peanuts, which symbolize the good hope of "early birth" or "early birth".

There is also the custom of "sending lanterns" in many places. Because "Lantern" and "Ding" are homophonic in southern dialect, giving lanterns means the blessing of the population. In an agricultural society that depends on the weather, nothing is more gratifying than the reproduction of children and grandchildren and the prosperity of the population.

Illustrative example

Many folk mascots are based on folk myths and legends: people from generation to generation spread and continue stories through word of mouth, which people are convinced and used to.

Like "Dragon", "Phoenix" and "Kirin" among the four famous folk things, who has seen their true colors? They all live in the spiritual space of China people through various wonderful legends.

For another example, on birthdays every year, people send "birthday peaches" to the elderly, wishing them health, longevity and happiness. This custom can be traced back to the legend more than two thousand years ago.

According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin, a Qi native, left home at the age of eighteen and studied the art of war with Guiguzi. He has been away from home for twelve years. One year, on the fifth day of May, he suddenly remembered that it was his mother's eightieth birthday. He thought, "The crow feeds back to his mother, the lamb kneels on his mother's chest, and the beast knows how to be grateful, but I haven't thanked her for raising me for twelve years."

"So I asked the master for leave to visit my mother. Before he left, Guiguzi picked a peach and sent Sun Bin home to Gaotang.

Unexpectedly, after Sun Bin went home to send peaches to her old mother, her old mother was rejuvenated.

People heard that Sun Bin's mother became younger after eating peaches and wanted her parents to live a long and healthy life, so they followed suit and gave them "longevity peaches".

The truth of the legend has not been verified, but the beautiful implication contained in it has been handed down and continued.

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