The Great Autumn Festival has ended. When the night passed, people from various tribes began to go home. They still had their own autumn festivals to take care of. Similarly, Yuzai issued a "typhoon warning" for everyone, which means autumn. At the beginning of winter, the wind direction is no longer normal, so beware of the attack of the Houtian clan.
In late autumn, even in the south, where the climate has always been hot, there is some coolness, and the leaves of some trees become slightly withered and yellow.
In winter, people can take a short break for a month. After everyone from the Akagata clan returned to the tribe, they began to strengthen the stability of the houses. Yuzai met with the prince Changqin. As for the direction of the discussion, of course it was about shadow puppetry and so on. "Art Creation".
Yu Zai pondered the science and technology of ancient times, including agriculture, pottery, textile industry, animal husbandry, bows and arrows, swords and spears, mining, hunting, calendar, writing, carpentry, boneworking, stonemasonry, bronze manufacturing...
It's almost the time. The great artist Prince Changqin appeared at the right time.
Happiness +5, consume a great artist to start a golden age for the city-state and gain an additional 20% cultural output...
This [51] is the golden age coming!
The prosperity of the tribe will drive the prosperity of the cooperatives, and then it will burn like a prairie fire across the entire south. In this way, more famous people will "come here because of its reputation", which will then drive the construction and development of the entire south.
"You think he's a good apprentice? I can't make the decision."
Yu Zai was surprised, but these things were expected. During this "play", Xiang showed talents that he himself had never known and had never explored. He was valued by Prince Changqin. It's also reasonable.
"If he wants to, that's his business, but..."
Yuzai very interestingly added a "twist" at the end of the sentence.
Sure enough, Prince Changqin asked: "But what?"
Yu Zai said: "Shadow puppetry is only one of the performing arts of drama. The ancient sacrificial chorus, in the Central Plains, the Western Wilderness, including our south, singing Shennong's Harvest Song during the Spring Festival, is also the A kind of musical performance method.”
Prince Changqin nodded: "Yes, I know too..."
Yu Zai said: "Have you ever been exposed to stage acting?"
"It's not shadow puppets, but turning shadow puppets into real people, just like the wizards telling Shi's wizards and Ge Tian's wizards to dance as gods during the Spring Festival."
Prince Changqin's eyes suddenly lit up: "What Wu means is that if the shadow puppets who angered Buzhou Mountain are replaced by real people... But will it..."
Halfway through his words, he shook his head: "No, this is also a way to praise the ancestors. If the warriors dare not dance, the wizards can, just like this Great Autumn Festival?"
"So it turns out that this Great Autumn Festival is similar to the stage play that Wu said?"
"It's just that everyone is still singing and dancing to entertain the ancestors and everyone. If you want to perform, you have to treat yourself as the 'character' just like playing a shadow puppet."
Prince Changqin said to Concubine Zai: "In that case, it is similar to the behavior of the Fang Xiang clan!"
After Fang Xiangshi became the concubine of the Yellow Emperor, his wife died on the road while the Yellow Emperor was touring the world. Huangdi ordered his mother to take care of him and made him Fang Xiangshi.
"In the past, Zhuanxu had three sons who died as plague ghosts: one lived in the river and was a malaria ghost; one lived in the water and was a sprite ghost; the other lived in a palace and was good at surprising children and became a little ghost. So the emperor ordered Fang Xiangshi to be handsome. Nuo is used to drive away plague ghosts."
Emperor Zhuanxu had many sons, three of whom were very strange when they were born. They were the legendary "monsters and demons". Zhuanxu was the uncle of Emperor Ku. Emperor Ku didn't want to kill them, so he sent Fang Xiangshi to expel them. They are afraid and run away.
Yu Zai threw out "artistic knowledge" that attracted his interest one after another. After the stage drama, Yu Zai said again:
"In addition to music, dance, and singing, the changes in drama come from the rituals of various sacrificial rituals. There are no more than three things that can make people happy. The first is what the eyes see, the second is what the ears hear, and the third is what the heart expresses. Its meaning."
"Music and dance are about expressing one's own mood in the form of music. This power can infect other people and be passed down orally from generation to generation."
"That's what 'culture' is."
Once upon a time, when the emperor made the emperor Xunli, he ordered "Zhi" to be happy. Zhi imitated the beautiful sounds of the mountains, forests and valleys and sang songs. He also used leather, placed the fou and beat the drum sound with both hands, and hit the stone like a god throwing it. After hearing the sound of the jade chime, all the beasts began to dance like humans.
The prince Changqin said: "The origin of witchcraft opera comes from here! Music, dance, piano songs, drama..."
"But culture, what do you mean?"
Prince Changqin was a little interested when he heard the words he had never heard before, and Yuzai explained to him:
"The so-called culture refers to you and me, them, all living beings, not limited to humans, intelligent people, the gathering of strange beasts, the mountains and forests where gods gather, the tribes and cities where we humans live, all the symbols we create , represents our past.”
"For example, the totem of our tribe used to be a sheep. So this sheep totem is different from the sheep of other sheep totem tribes when they are painted and engraved. This is the sheep of the Akafang clan."
(The lamb in the distance pricked up its ears.)
"This is our thing, and this symbol is what we created, and this is where humanity begins."
"Consider humanity and transform it into the world. From one symbol to many symbols, to our hunting skills, to the songs we sing, to the homes we build, to all the craftsmanship we pass on, and all the records of our existence, This is called civilization, and everything that is born in our civilization, good or bad, is our culture."
It was the first time that Prince Changqin heard this method of "describing", and his soul and spirit were deeply shocked. These words sounded to him like a bright ray of light suddenly shone between heaven and earth during a period of primitive ignorance. of light.
"I understand. The so-called culture is the visible 'spiritual inheritance', which is the unknown 'ancient ancestors'. People in later generations look at these ancient cultures. Although they cannot speak, they will continue to teach subsequent people. , continue to pass them on, and then create new culture and pass it on to the next generation."
Prince Changqin's wisdom is the wisdom of heaven and man. After being revealed by Concubine Zai, it was like an enlightenment.
"The way of heaven moves to the left, the way of earth moves to the right, and the way of humanity remains in the middle. However, things are mixed together, so literature is born! If you abandon all destiny and conquer humanities, then there will be no end!"
The meaning of Prince Changqin is that heaven, earth and man move around each other without interfering with each other. Heaven is on the left, earth is on the right, and people are in the middle. This character refers to all living creatures. With culture, people who originally did not want to interfere with each other The three things are intertwined and mixed, and man and heaven and earth merge. This is the world of heaven and man.
Then the behavior of realizing destiny can be given up. The important inheritance is not in the sky but in people's own culture, so they can become "Hugh Lie". The so-called "Hugh Lie" is a "splendid career".
Yu Zai said to him seriously: "Besides these, there are many ways to make our ancestors and sentient beings happy..."
"Painting, sculpture, poetry..."
The ballads and poems of this era are not separated, or there is no concept of poetry at all. After listening to it, Prince Changqin was inspired and told Yuzai. He described what he saw and heard on the road in a brief way. The sentences were written down, and the songs from each place were also compiled. This is "Wind".
"It turns out that wind is just one of these cultures."
Prince Changqin seriously discussed the meaning of "culture" with Yuzai. After that day, Prince Changqin spent a whole day writing a volume of slips with Yuzai's help.
The name of the slip is called "Eight Winds".
There are eight deserts in heaven and earth, so there should be eight winds.
Poems, songs, music and dance, drama, sculptures, paintings, spectacles, nothing.
Wonders are added at the request of the concubine, while nothing represents "fantasy".
"The hometown of Wuheyou... Wuheyou is said to be in the wilderness of Guangmo."
Prince Changqin actually knew the land of nothing, which surprised Yuzai. Of course, according to Changqin, even Guangchengzi, who was half his teacher, had never reached the land of nothing, but he had been to another one. The place is called the Gate of Infinity. The world calls it the "Gate of Yaoming".
"I don't know where the place Master Guangcheng mentioned is. Maybe he went there in his dream..."
Changqin didn't pay much attention to this matter, and Suzai just listened.
Of course, there is the Central Plains besides the Eight Wastelands, but in the Central Plains, when Prince Changqin felt that he needed to add an additional Central Plains volume, Yu Zai said that he could add a "craft" because the pottery craftsmanship in the Central Plains is very powerful, and of course he also muttered behind him. One sentence....
"People from the Central Plains actually just need to call 666..."
