As stated in the article, it is absolutely wrong to understand the golden autumn as the golden yellow of the autumn harvest, and it is purely just the understanding of modern people who have not read ancient texts. Among the five elements and the four seasons, autumn corresponds to gold, so autumn is called golden autumn.

Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty "Fenghe Holy System Tianchang Festival Bestows Zaichen Song System": "The golden sky is pure and beautiful, and the Tongting dawn extends the eight wildernesses. Zhao Diancheng notes: "Jin Tian, the Tang people make Jin Tian characters, that is, autumn." Autumn belongs to the five elements of gold, so the day is golden. ”。 Autumn is also known as "Golden Row", "Golden Number", and "Golden Autumn". For example, Shen Yu in the Song Dynasty wrote "Five Words and Rhymes and Jing Yi Qiuxing": "The summer is full of rain with the morning and the cold people are many in the twilight." I have felt that the gold line is early, who tunes the jade candle and. There is also Liu Yuxi's "Early Autumn Jixian Courtyard Affair" in the Tang Dynasty: "The number of gold has been three, and Mars is flowing westward." ”

Therefore, the autumn wind is also known as the "golden wind", such as Li Shangyin's "Xinwei Qixi Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The origin of the blue falling on the bank of the Milky Way, but when you want the golden wind and jade dew." ”。 There is also a very famous sentence in Qinguan in the Song Dynasty, which is estimated to be unknown to few people who have read the book: "As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win countless in the world." Among them, the golden wind and jade dew refers to the autumn wind and white dew, because the Qixi Festival is between the beginning of autumn and the white dew solar term. To this day, people still use words such as "golden autumn October" and "golden wind to send cool" to describe autumn.

When it comes to Jin Qiu, I have to mention Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, who wrote a "Qiu Shengfu", which mentions: Fu Qiu, the criminal officer, is Yin at the time; It can be seen from this that the autumn-gold-slaughter is what it really means.

The full text of "Autumn Sound Fu" is as follows, from which you can clearly see the slaughter in autumn.

Ouyang Zifang was reading at night, and when he heard a voice from the southwest, he listened to it in horror, and said: "Strange!" It touches things, and the sound of gold and iron is loud, and it is like a soldier who goes to the enemy, and he walks quickly, not hearing the order, but hearing the sound of the people and horses. Yu said to the boy: "What is the sound of this? The boy said: "The stars and the moon are bright, the bright river is in the sky, there is no voice in the four places, and the sound is among the trees." ”

Yu said: "Oh hee sorrow! This autumn sound is also coming, Hu Wei is coming? Gefu autumn is also in the same state: its color is bleak, the smoke is cloudy, its appearance is clear, the sky is high and the sun is crystalline, its breath is cold, the muscles and bones of the head are strong, its meaning is depressed, and the mountains and rivers are lonely. Therefore, it is also a voice, poignant and earnest, and the cry is angry. The abundant grass is green and vigorous, the beautiful trees are verdant and pleasant, the grass changes color when it is brushed, and the leaves fall off when the wood is encountered. Therefore, the destruction of the scattered is the aftermath of its anger. Fu Qiu, the criminal officer, is also yin at the time, and the soldier is also like a soldier, and he uses gold in the line, which is the righteousness of heaven and earth, and he often takes killing as his heart. The sky is in the object, the spring is born and the autumn is fruitful, so it is in the music, the voice of the business is the voice of the West, and the law of July is Yi. Business, injury, things are old and sad, raze, killing, things are too prosperous and should be killed. ”

The grass and trees are merciless, and sometimes they are scattered. Man is an animal, the spirit of things, a hundred worries feel its heart, everything works its form, and there is movement in the middle, and it will shake its essence. And thinking about what is beyond its strength, worrying about what its wisdom can't do; it is advisable for those who are rich and Dan to be wood, and those who are dark and black are to be stars. Why do you want to compete for glory with the grass and trees with the quality of non-gold and stone?

The boy is not right, he hangs his head and sleeps. But when I heard the chirping of insects on the four walls, I sighed like help.

In addition, spring corresponds to the "green" in the five colors, so people also call "spring" as "qing". For example, Wang Dingbao of the fifth dynasty "Tang Jiayan • Ci'en Temple Inscription Tour Appreciation Fu Yong Miscellaneous Chronicles": "Wang Qi put the second list in Huichang, and the poets and monks in the inner dojo widely announced that they sent congratulations with poems...... replied: 'Yan Yingmian is served into Qingyu, and he also chooses kung fu and odd. ’”

The word "youth" originally referred to spring. For example, "Chu Ci: Big Move": "Youth is thanked, and the sun is only visible." Wang Yi noted: "Green, Oriental spring position, its color is also green." ”。 The Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai has the sentence "When the youth is geometric, the yellow bird sings endlessly" in the poem "Jiangnan Chunhuai", and Du Fu also has the sentence "Singing and drinking during the day, and returning to the hometown with youth", in which "youth" is synonymous with spring, not the youth that we modern people understand on the surface.

Youth, like spring, is full of vitality, so "youth" is also extended to refer to youth. The Jin man Pan Zhengshu's poem "Fu Lu Ji Out of Wu Wanglang's Order" said: "To Su Qiu, Zi Deng is young." Note: "Su Qiu is old, and youth is young." ”。 It is white, which matches the gold line and autumn, so autumn is also called "plain autumn". In autumn, the grass and trees are gradually falling, so "plain autumn" can also be used as a metaphor for the twilight years.

As for the poem in the text, it is from the three poems of "Huashan Poems" by Wei Yuan of the Qing Dynasty, and the full text is as follows:

The golden autumn is solemn and awe-inspiring. One stone, one grass and trees, still pressing tens of thousands of peaks. How can you let it go and attract the world? The trees are all oblique, and the clouds are oblique. Slightly uninch-straight, but with two walls. It's too close to kiss, and it's far away. Just like the ancient sacred, thousands of years of the same dynasty. I don't see the rocks, but the wind is blowing. An Zhi Zhen noodles are not the same as Jihua.

In order to visit the king in the clouds, come to find the heavenly stone. Thousands of holes and thousands of holes, chaos reopened. People walk into the mountains, and the mountains are already standing outside the sky. No matter how much you can't, all the stones are upside down. The platform hall is green and cloudy, and it is about to press the side of the mountain. Under the eaves, this is dedicated. Win the wilderness, and break into the depths. The remnants were upside down, and suddenly realized that this body was easy. The intention of going out of the mountain has moved, and the spiritual realm is in the north. From the beginning of the body, everything is reprimanded.

Hundreds of hills and ravines, one step at a time. It's strange that it's not a one-time event, and tens of thousands of lives are thrown. Hanging down thousands of lilies, walking a thousand thunderbolts on the side. One stone and three hibiscus, and three peaks are only one stone. The thousand peaks are lotus petals, and the three peaks are lotus flowers. One after another, the lotus beard has been loosened into hundreds of billions. The White Emperor Star Palace, sent in the Chiba gap. Between the fairy cave houses, the sun and the sky are together. Wisdom is dirt, and pottery is old. Although the re-travel is endless, it is also self-tragic. As soon as I got off the golden rooftop, the world was hesitant.

Note: Some of the information in this article comes from Zhong Jianghua and Chen Lizhong's ""Yang Chun" and "Golden Autumn": On the Relationship between Word Teaching and Cultural Inheritance.

It can be seen from this simple golden autumn word that the ancients' words and sentences were not made casually, but were well-founded, so when reading ancient books, don't take the mentality of modern people to write at will to read the articles of the ancients. The "Tao Te Ching" is only 8,000 words, but it can be passed down through the ages; the 6,075-character "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has been praised as a pearl of words; and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is only about 640,000 words, but it has made countless Chinese and Japanese fall in love with it.

Among all the books translated into foreign languages in the world today, the Tao Te Ching is the second most numerous, second only to the Bible, which is the first. And both of these books can be said to be religious books. Therefore, it is a joke that some people keep mentioning the so-called science to suppress the so-called superstition. In European and American TV dramas and movies, if scientific Westerners are in trouble, do you know what their mantra says? "Ah, my God", instead of saying "Ah, my science", "Ah, my Newton", "Ah, my Einstein", "Ah, my Archimedes" and so on. A lot of people, including officials and scientists, sometimes they make a gesture, which is to draw a cross in front of them, and everyone understands what this cross is. Again, all roads lead to Rome, and modern science is only one of the ways to the truth, not the only one. Theology, astrology, and feng shui are not necessarily another path to truth.

I'm not saying that everything in ancient times was good, but don't kill the essence of the ancients who worked so hard to pass down their lives. A lot of things are just self-righteous. The wisdom of the ancients is not lower than ours, or even higher than us, and the reason why some of us can pretend to be 13 and say how the ancients were is is that we are standing on the shoulders of giants of thousands of years of history. If we are swapped places with the ancients, we are afraid that the civilization we can create in ancient times is inferior to that of the ancients, and the civilization that the ancients can create today is very likely to be higher than ours.

When it comes to religion, by the way, a very superstitious thing, many high-rise buildings in China do not have a 4th floor, and everyone understands the reason. In foreign countries that believe in Catholicism, there is also no 13th floor, 13th house, 13th passage and so on. In the Netherlands, it is difficult to find the house numbers of Building 13 and Building 13. They replaced the number 12 with "13A". In British theatres, you won't find 13 rows and 13 seats. The French are smart, and there is usually a pedestrian passage between rows 12 and 14 of the theater. In addition, people are also taboo to travel on the 13th, and even more taboo to eat at the same table with 13 people, and 13 dishes are even more unacceptable, when you invite foreigners to dinner, arrange a table of 13 people to sit and see, and you just wait for those foreigners to rebel, are you saying that I belong to Judas, who betrayed Jesus among the 13 people? This taboo is even more serious than the taboo of the Chinese people4. Even many high-rise buildings in China that receive foreign guests generally do not use the number "13" in order to respect the customs and habits of some foreign guests. If you let those Catholic foreigners live on the floor or room 13 with the words 13, then you have to wait for the lawsuit: in a village in England, the owner of the house with the name "13" was so angry that he sued the court and won. So shut up the superstitious scientists. FeelingsWesterners are superstitious 13 is science, and our superstition 4 is really superstition? Westerners believe that astrological divination is science, and we believe that feng shui is superstition.