Where is Bohemia now?

Bohemia, now the western part of the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in central Europe, bordering Slovakia in the east, Austria in the south, Poland in the north and Germany in the west. It consists of three parts: Czech Republic, Moravia and Silesia. The country is divided into two geographical regions, one is the Bohemian highlands in the western half, and the other is the Carpathian mountains in the eastern half.

Historically, after the disintegration of Slavic primitive society in Europe (mainly in Eastern Europe), its branches established different countries. Eastern Slavs established Kiev Ross and later developed into a Russian country. The Yugoslavs entered the Balkans and established Bulgaria and Serbia. The Western Slavs established two kingdoms, the Czech Republic and Poland. This may have been before the 8th and 9th centuries. It took hundreds of years for these people of the Western Slavs to gradually enter the class society and form a country, but after several twists and turns, the country finally disintegrated. The Czech Republic is independent from its north, with Bohemia as its center and Prague as its capital. This is about 65,438+00 century. So it can also be said that the ancient name of the Czech Republic is Bohemia. The struggle of Czech nation for independence is also very hard, and such a history of national struggle can promote the emergence of art. dvorak and Bedrich Smetana are the most famous musicians in the Czech Republic, and dvorak's Moravian Quartet, Son of Baishan, Slavic Dance and Bedrich Smetana's My Motherland are all works with very national characteristics.

The population of the Czech Republic is only10 million, and more than 80% of them are Czechs. Other ethnic groups include Moravians, Slovaks, Germans and a few Poles. You see, there are no Bohemians ...

By the way, the abbreviation of Czech domain name is cz. If it weren't for this, I would just write: Bohemia is the French name of gypsy. Besides consulting the French dictionary to confirm this, you can also find that in the musical Notre Dame de Paris, when the gypsy girl Esmeralda introduced her life experience, the song she sang was called Bohemia.

As for why the names of gypsies are associated with Bohemia, it is said that there were a large number of gypsies in Bohemia. Esmeralda said that his name Esmeral "probably" comes from Egyptian, which also shows that this nation is adrift. In fact, gypsies are a branch of ancient Indians. 1 1 century and12nd century, due to war and invasion, some gypsies began to emigrate. According to linguistic research, Gypsies have passed through Persia, Armenia and Greece at least. According to a more detailed study,

There are two routes to emigrate: one is to start from India and enter Europe through Persia and Turkey; They first arrived in Greece, and then passed through Romania, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany. After arriving in Germany, some people went to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, while others went to Britain, Spain and Italy. The other is from India to Persia, then to Armenia, and then to Europe through Russia, and the footprints of wandering are all over European countries. (World Nationalities and European Culture, Central University for Nationalities Press, 1995)

As people think, those gypsies make a living by singing and dancing divination, spreading Indian culture all the way, and absorbing the artistic characteristics of other countries, and finally producing flamenco dance in Spain, which is basically the contribution of gypsies. They wander from one place to another, live in a wandering place and sleep in the wind. In short, all the hard words you can think of can be put on them, but they seem to be born as the embodiment of art, and their lives are contained in art. If such achievements come from their persistent pursuit, it seems more deliberate. That should be said to be nature. Liveliness, boldness, temptation, passion and unrestrained love for beauty can all be said to be the characteristics of gypsies. Perhaps this is also the feasibility of translating The Bohemian into The Artist's Life. The characters in the play don't look like gypsies, but they have gypsy characters and pursuits.

The most difficult thing to explain is the bohemian style clothes that are popular now. Gypsies are good at collecting the characteristics of the areas they pass through, so when they arrive in Central Europe, the costumes of gypsy ethnic styles are already a mixture of various ethnic styles. Pleated skirts should be local Slavic characteristics. Eastern Slavs and later Russia also wore similar clothes. All kinds of shiny fragments and jewelry are probably brought from India, and tassels and pendants may be brought by people passing by from Persia in the Middle East and Morocco in North Africa. Gypsy style will never be Jian Yuepai's. It is impossible for them to pursue a good quality dress and then supply it carefully. They can only add and supplement bit by bit, thus forming a complex style. They can't keep their clothes bright all the time, and the bright dresses that young gypsy girls like always fade in the wandering, but they will try their best to make these old clothes look as beautiful as possible. This is the real situation of these people, and it is the beauty that people in modern society can't copy and imitate. What is the bohemian wind now?