Chapter 93: Chinese Rites
Seeing that Lu Wang's family handed it over to her and guaranteed to overcomplete the task, the corners of Jian Er's mouth twitched, it seems that the future days will be watched. How could it be! In the depths of Jane's heart, not only did she not resist, but on the contrary, she also carried a trace of yearning and expectation. The regret I said before is just a moment of laziness, and in modern times, for any girl, to become an elegant woman, or even to become a classical and elegant woman, that is definitely not something that any girl will refuse.
Then again, how can you become a classical and elegant woman? Not to mention inner beauty, it takes time to get along with each other before it can be expressed. When others look at the past, what is the first thing they see? First, appearance, and second, manners. Appearance is innate, but what about manners? It has to be systematically studied and trained.
Of course, Chinese people have to learn Chinese etiquette! And modern learning the most orthodox Chinese etiquette is very rare, not to mention whether you can afford to invite a good etiquette teacher, even if you ask to get a good etiquette teacher, according to the etiquette that has been passed down now, after the baptism of several wars, in such a situation, who will have the mood and ability to pay attention to etiquette and etiquette? There is an old saying: etiquette is enough to know etiquette. After such a long period of turmoil, how many can be passed on?
Not to mention, you have to admit one sentence: the Han Dynasty was strong, the Tang Dynasty was Wusheng, and the Song Dynasty was Wenwang. Before the Song Dynasty, China could still be called Zhonghua. At that time, China stood for the word "civilization". But what about after that? Is China still China in the true sense of the word?
But to put it mildly, in fact, for the Song Dynasty, Chinese civilization was the Song Dynasty that succeeded and the Song Dynasty was defeated.
Yes, the Song Dynasty was not only the most developed dynasty in China's traditional culture, economy, and science and technology, but also the era when Chinese capitalism began to sprout. At that time, China accounted for more than half of the world's total GDP. The Song Dynasty's economic strength, science and technology, and civilization were all the world's largest at that time.
For China, the Song Dynasty is synonymous with what the West calls a Renaissance. Chinese culture is a positive, open culture at this time. It is also the sentence "The Han Dynasty is strong, the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, and the Song Dynasty is prosperous". Chinese culture reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. But it is also the beginning of the boom and bus. The era of the peak of Chinese culture withered with the demise of the Song Dynasty.
Some people may think it's an exaggeration, but you have to admit it. The Song Dynasty was, in a way, the destroyer of Chinese civilization.
How much did the policy promulgated by Song Taizu cater to the despicable pleasures of those boring literati! As a state decree, Mr. Zhu Xi vigorously promoted women's foot binding in spite of foreign invasions, causing more than half of the Chinese population to lose the ability to fight, produce, and live, and lay the most solid foundation for foreign invasions and lay the warmest hotbeds.
Yes, as many people say, the Song Dynasty was more enlightened and relaxed, and the old man of Song Taizu did issue an edict not to kill the scholars and scholars, and his descendants did follow the law and did not kill the literati and scholars. However, some people have ever thought that a dynasty that does not kill literati can kill its own savior, Yue Fei, a military attache of the first grade! Since civil officials can do whatever they want without killing them, what earth-shattering reason can they kill Yue Fei, a famous general who defends the family and defending the country? If a military general is not killed and a military general is killed, what is the result of killing one's own blood with a butcher's knife?
The alternating foreign invasions of the Later Mongol Yuan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty brought great disasters and heavy slaughter to the Chinese people, and these were two barbaric and bloody dynasties that conquered civilization, so in the eyes of the Japanese, China was no longer the source of the Chinese civilization they admired since the Song Dynasty. Many foreign historians also regard the fall of the Song Dynasty as the end of China in the classical sense, that is, the so-called "after Yashan, there is no more China".
A Korean man named Kim Jong-hou wrote a letter to Hong Darong, who had been an envoy to the Qing Empire, saying that "those who think about it care that there is no Chinese ear after the Ming Dynasty, and the servant does not blame him (referring to the Chinese) for not thinking about the Ming Dynasty, but for not thinking about China's ears." And quite fiercely, for China, "those who are more valuable than China should be those who live in the world, and the same is true for those who live in the world, and there are few people who are not sages in the world, and there are few people who are not sages and sages." In their minds, China should be China, and China originally meant civilization, and if the Chinese civilization was not in the Qing Dynasty, then I would "rather be willing to be the cheapness of Dongyi than the nobleness of others." …… At this time, the Koreans no longer regarded the Qing Empire as "China", let alone the Qing Empire as China.
Therefore, it is no wonder that there have been disputes over the history and traditional culture of China and South Korea, such as the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival declared by South Korea in October 2005 and officially designated by UNESCO as a "work of human legend and intangible heritage" in October 2006, when "traditional Chinese medicine was changed to Korean medicine and declared as a world heritage site", and the subsequent dispute over Confucius.
At the same time, Japan was in the Edo period, and there was a lot of admiration for China, but after seeing the current situation of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the Japanese also had the same feeling as the Koreans, believing that from then on, Chinese culture only existed in Japan, so there was no Chinese meaning.
This is not to mention the destruction of the only remaining pure Chinese civilization by modern civilization, not to mention the real Chinese etiquette, even the glorious Chinese civilization has lost many things. Not to mention the "etiquette" that can only be paid attention to under the premise of "sufficient food and clothing". So now I have the opportunity to learn the purest Chinese etiquette, and the etiquette norms inherited by the ancient family that existed in the Tang Dynasty, and the professor is another professor who is also the handle of a noble lady from a big family. Such an opportunity is not something that can be imagined and can not be bought by money.
Since you have decided to study seriously, you have to listen to the teacher. Jian Er straightened her attitude, stood up, bowed slightly to the Lu Wang clan, and bowed.
Lu Wang did not avoid this salute, but only turned sideways slightly, as a sign of receiving a half-salute. Because in the future, she can no longer be said to be a simple "servant", and in a larger way, she should be regarded as Jian'er's "etiquette teaching", the identity of a "teacher", a teacher, and a disciple should receive it. But at the same time, her identity as Jane'er's "servant" has not changed, so she received a half-salute to show her humility.
Then Lu Wang's face straightened up and said, "Since Miss is ready, let's start now?"
Jian'er nodded affirmatively.
"Then the slave will tell the young lady about the arrangements for the next few days?" Seeing that Jian Er did not put forward any opinions, Lu Wang then said the plan he had drawn up before, "This study, the slave wants to start with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the time required is determined by the progress of the young lady, can the young lady see if it is okay?"
Food, clothing, housing, and transportation? Jian Er felt strange, too, this food, clothing, housing and transportation are not seen as simple four words, as long as it is a person, no one can do without it, and she deals with it every day, although she may not be as elegant as Lu Wang's words, but it may not take a long time as Lu Wang's words imply, right? To put it bluntly, this is learning to dress, eat, housing, and walk. She wasn't stupid enough to learn for a long time, after all, she wasn't the age when Huangkou was a beginner.
Seeing Jian'er's doubts, Lu Wangshi smiled and said: "Miss, don't underestimate these four words, if you want to do it well, it's a university question, Rong Nu will sell it first?"
As for now, he glanced at Jian Er up and down, "Miss, can you change your clothes first?"
This is even more strange, look at yourself, there is nothing wrong with her, a simple casual cotton T-shirt, with slim jeans, comfortable to wear, not showing the body, in modern society, very good common dress.
"Horn, horn" slapped his face twice, and a girl ring tied with a little girl's hair walked up, holding a black plate in her hand, and a complete set of clothes and accessories on it, and walked straight in front of Jian Er and said, "Please also ask the young lady to change her clothes." ”
With a puzzled expression, she followed Xiao Yahuan to the inner room, and with the assistance of Xiao Yahuan, Jian Er quickly changed her clothes.
Jian Er, who came out again, felt a different person, wearing the clothes made in the Lu family's needlework room, which seemed to fit and look better than wearing other people's clothes before, and now Jian Er stood still, that was a classical little beauty.
The lake-blue Confucian dress and half-length embroidered hair were also given a half-head style by the quick and dexterous little girl, and Jian Er was not equipped with a complete set of head jewelry, but only slightly embellished with a few silk flowers, and there was no fat powder on her face, but Jian Er herself was natural, delicate, and the good color of white and red was no less than a hundred times stronger than any fat powder. It makes her whole person look very fresh.
It's just that now, as an adult, she still has to ask someone to help her change clothes, and Jian Er feels really embarrassed. You must know that as an orphan, she has been doing it all by herself since she was more than one year old and less than two years old. I didn't expect to get older, and I was getting more and more alive to go back, the previous time I relied on peach blossoms, this time I still relied on others, and I lost a lot of people! Two points of shyness, three points of embarrassment, under the Lu Wang's up and down looks, Jian Er felt even more embarrassed, and her little face turned red in an instant.
"Yes!" nodded in satisfaction, this is what a woman should do. Seriously, in the eyes of a traditional woman like Lu Wang, this woman should look at it like this, can the clothes that Jian Er wore before be called clothes?
"Okay, since the young lady is ready to stop, then please come with the slave!" Lu Wang took his hand and motioned for Jian'er to follow her.
Aren't you learning here? With a puzzled expression, Jian Er followed. RS