Fishing and farming in traditional culture

Listen to Jiang Xun's Fuchun Shan Jutu. From the characters in the picture, we can talk about the tradition of fishing and collecting firewood. Don't look down on these fishermen and loggers. Fishermen can suddenly sing a song "The blue water is crystal clear, you can stand on my tassel" before an aristocratic scholar-bureaucrat like Qu Yuan commits suicide. The water in the rough waves is turbid, so I can dance my feet. In the Yuan Dynasty, most literati who were not officials lived in seclusion, fishing and chopping wood for a living, or setting up stalls on the roadside to sell divination for a living, all of which were extraordinary people.

? The four courtiers of Emperor Jin Yong's Dali became fishermen and farmers after the emperor abdicated and lived in seclusion outside the rivers and lakes.

? In the traditional culture of China, the plot of fishing and fire has a long history. First of all, Jiang Taigong didn't give full play to his talents. While fishing in Weishui, he met a wise master and helped Wang Wen destroy Shang Xing Zhou. The image of the fisherman in Zhuangzi's fisherman's works made Confucius "bow down and give thanks". Because of the role of Taoist thought in China's cultural thought, the primary position of "fishing" in the tradition of fishing reading was established.

Before Zhuge Liang became an official, he devoted himself to farming and lived in seclusion in Longzhong. Tao Yuanming, an idyllic poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was disappointed with the officialdom because of social unrest, and resolutely resigned and retired, "devoting himself to self-financing". Sending a message to the countryside has created a new artistic conception of fishing and hunting tradition.

Fishing and farming are the four major industries in China's farming society, and they are also the basic lifestyle of the people. Scholars yearn for this idyllic life and indifferent life realm, and their deeper intention is to be born and ask the mysterious, which is full of detachment.

There have been many images of fishing firewood in Tang poetry and Song poetry. Shao Yong, a philosopher in the Northern Song Dynasty, regarded the fisherman as the incarnation of Tao and interpreted the Hyunri of heaven and earth, everything, personnel and society.

After the subjugation of the Song Dynasty, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system, and the status of scholars was very low, so most scholars lost the opportunity to be officials. The goal of the scholar was gone, and the sense of loss and resentment made more literati return to the secluded life of Yu Qiao's farming and studying.

The theme of "fishing and farming" usually appears in painting, sculpture, embroidery, blue and white porcelain and other arts. It appeared on a large scale in blue and white porcelain around Kangxi in Qing Dynasty and prevailed in Guangxu. Scholars pursue the artistic conception of being above the Tao, and the "fishing and ploughing" complex of ordinary literati is more due to these auspicious metaphors of "surplus grain", "overpaying", "having food" and "being an official".