It was the Mid-Autumn Festival that day, and autumn had already begun for some time. I walked alone in the fields, with the breeze blowing on my face, feeling a little cool in the scorching heat.
I looked at the grass and trees beside the field paths and the trees on the embankment. They used to be full of green, but now I saw that the lush leaves were already a little yellow. The leaves sway in the wind, and a few yellowed leaves fall from time to time, adding a bit of its own desolation to autumn.
Regarding "Autumn", ancient literati often gave it the meaning of "bleak" and "lonely" in their poems and songs. I think we can get some clues about this just from the words of the "poetry hero" Liu Yuxi: "Autumn has been a sad and lonely time since ancient times."
Most of the time, autumn is a season of melancholy and sorrow in the eyes of poets. Under Qiu Yu's support, Li Qingzhao, a talented woman who experienced the hardships of the two Song Dynasties, expressed the unspeakable desolation and pain in her heart in "Slow Voice" - "Looking and searching, deserted and lonely, miserable and miserable!"
It can be seen that "autumn" often symbolizes desolation and loneliness in the hearts of ancient literati. But the amazing thing is that in autumn, a season full of "loneliness", there are actually two traditional Chinese festivals, "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Double Ninth Festival", which symbolize "family reunion" and "gathering of relatives and friends".
Su Shi wrote in "Shui Tiao Ge Tou: When Will the Bright Moon Come": "In the Mid-Autumn Festival of Bingchen, I drank happily till the end of the day and got very drunk. I wrote this article because I was pregnant with my son." In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year Bingchen, Su Shi served as the prefect of Mizhou. . In the evening of that day, Su Shi looked at the moon and cherished his lover, drinking all night long until dawn. He took the opportunity to write this article to express his nostalgia for his younger brother Ziyou. Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, also expressed his longing for his family in "Autumn Thoughts": "When I see the autumn wind in Luoyang City, I want to write a book full of ideas. I am afraid that I can't finish the story in a hurry, and the pedestrians are about to leave." You can feel it. At that time, Zhang Ji had endless words and incomplete feelings for his relatives in his hometown.
The period in which Zhang Ji and Su Shi lived spanned more than two hundred years. It stands to reason that the living customs and habits of the Tang and Song dynasties were very different. But judging from the two poems "Autumn Thoughts" and "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" that have been passed down for thousands of years, the two people's feelings of homesickness and nostalgia are exactly the same.
Wang Wei, who "has paintings in poems and poems in paintings", wrote "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th" on the Double Ninth Festival when he was seventeen years old, expressing his feelings about being a guest in a foreign land. Deep thoughts of my hometown relatives.
When I read the excellent ancient poems about "autumn", I found that in the sad atmosphere of loneliness and desolation, there are also "homesickness and nostalgia" for family, friendship and the joy of reunion in ancient poems. The sorrows and joys of the ancients blended together in autumn, with joy amidst sorrow and sorrow amidst joy. This reminds me of Taoism, one of the hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. Taoism’s simple dialectical thinking holds that everything has its pros and cons, and the existence, difficulty, and ease of everything in the world are constantly changing; something is created out of nothing, and nothing is created out of something. Just like in the Tai Chi diagram, there is a bit of white in the black, and a bit of black in the white.
As we all know, Confucianism's "exclusive" status in the field of traditional Chinese thought and culture has lasted almost throughout the entire feudal society since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. However, with the development of social productivity, the exclusive status of Confucianism has been impacted, and there has even been a situation where Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism coexisted and merged into one.
In fact, in the development process of my country's ideological and cultural development, the three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism have taken the strengths of the other two schools to make up for their own shortcomings, and in this way they have continued to grow and develop. I think it is this attitude of "not complacent, open and inclusive" that allows China's excellent traditional culture to last for thousands of years and still maintains its vigorous vitality today.
