What is the performance of the image of "Sakura" at all levels in Japan?

As the national flower of Japan, cherry blossoms have a very long history. Unlike chrysanthemums, which symbolize the Japanese royal family, cherry blossoms represent the entire Japanese nation. "Sakura Sword" has a cloud: If you want to ask the soul of Yamato, see the source of Sakura at sunrise? . It symbolizes the unity and friendship between Yamato nations.

Cherry blossoms can be seen almost everywhere in Japan, and cherry blossoms are everywhere in the streets and alleys. Cherry blossoms represent purity and nobility, loyalty and courage. They are tapestries stitched in time, flowing with the historical context of Yamato nationality.

In the long history, it has penetrated into every corner of Japanese culture and people's daily life, and it is the national soul that the Japanese people can't give up.

Japan is a long and narrow country, surrounded by the sea on all sides, with no severe cold in winter, no hot summer and humid climate, which is very suitable for cherry blossom growth. Cherry blossoms bloom in March and April every year, so cherry blossoms also represent spring. Used in the old Japanese saying? Sakura time? The word "spring" is used to describe the arrival of spring. "Ancient and Modern Harmony" wrote:? Where can you have a long rest if there are no cherry blossoms in the world? .

Every time cherry blossoms are in full bloom, people in the bird's nest are scrambling to watch them. There are red clouds everywhere, which makes people linger. This shows that the Japanese people love cherry blossoms.

The flowering period of cherry blossoms is very short, so compared with the blooming of cherry blossoms, the withering of cherry blossoms overnight is more beautiful and more attractive to the Japanese. Sad? With pity, people have given this landscape a romantic name? Sakura Fubuki.

Look at the flowers, the arrival of the Japanese cherry blossom boom.

1, love and hope? Hometown of cherry blossoms?

Japan has? Hometown of cherry blossoms? The name comes from an old fairy tale.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a man named? Muhuakai Ji Ye? Dear fairy, in the first year, she started from Okinawa, passed through Kyushu, Kansai and Kanto, and arrived in Hokkaido in the second year. She sprinkled pure and elegant cherry blossoms on every land she passed, which meant bringing love and hope to every corner of the world.

She and Tiansun? Joan is dead. Married and pregnant overnight, gave birth to three sons, and became the ancestor of the Yamato nation in Japan. In memory of this beautiful fairy, people named this flower after her, hence the name Sakura.

2. The rise of cherry blossom culture and? See you later. Gorgeous ending

In fact, cherry blossoms were not very popular in early Japan. During the Nara period (7 10 -794), Japan was deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty in political system and culture.

Nara, the ancient Japanese capital, is full of tang style. The Japanese royal family frequently sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to bring the annual flower viewing party back to China. As a result, flower viewing became popular in the Japanese court, but the flower was plum blossom introduced from the Tang Dynasty.

The earliest Japanese poetry collection, Ye Wan Collection, was born in Nara period of Japan, among which there are 1 19 poems by Yongmei and only 44 poems about cherry blossoms. This shows that the Japanese at that time paid more attention to plum blossoms than cherry blossoms.

During the Heian period of Japan (774-1 192), the culture from mainland China gradually lost its original freshness and vitality, so the political and cultural focus of Japan began to shift to China. At this time, Japan became popular, and cherry blossoms gradually replaced plum blossoms. In the late period of heian period, Japan, cherry blossom viewing began between Japanese courts.

Emei the Great, the ancestor of Huadao, is held every spring. Cherry blossom banquet? And after that? Hua Jian? That is, the custom of flower viewing began to gradually penetrate from the Japanese royal family to the Japanese nobility and samurai class.

Collected Works of Ancient and Modern Edited in Heian Period, as the inheritor of Collected Works of Ye Wan, has a completely different style from the former. There is a strong Japanese style in the poems of ancient and modern collections. At this time, people changed from enjoying plum blossoms to enjoying cherry blossoms, and the poet lamented the feeling of the fleeting and lost life, which was more in line with the turbulent situation in heian period and Japan and the artistic aesthetics of the Japanese people.

During the Edo period (1603-1867), cherry blossoms began to enter the public eye. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was one of the three outstanding Japanese figures in the Warring States Period. Although he was in office for a period of time, he was still looked down upon by some nobles.

In order to get rid of these prejudices, he began to learn the skills of Japanese nobles and loved cherry blossom viewing. In order to hold an enduring cherry blossom viewing conference, he dragged his sick body to personally survey and design the courtyard and make it? See you later. Held as scheduled.

The cherry blossom banquet is huge and empty. Since then,? Hua Jian? It has become one of the important activities of the Japanese people. Because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Walking Temple is also a famous flower viewing place.

Spiritual soul, the multiple meanings of Japanese cherry blossoms

Cherry blossoms are the soul of Japan and the belief and sustenance of every Japanese. A small flower, a small leaf, carries the faith of millions of people, so it is endowed with multi-level significance.

From the emperor to the common people, everyone has their own beliefs, different hopes and different thoughts and feelings. Therefore, it can be said that the significance and symbols of cherry blossoms in Japan are diverse.

1, cherry blossoms for the public

Japanese folk song "Sakura" sings:? KINOMOTO SAKURA, KINOMOTO SAKURA! In the late spring, it will be dawn, the sun will shine in the eyes, English will smile, white clouds will rise in the sky of Wan Li, and beauty and fragrance will drift away with the wind. Go to see the flowers, go to see the flowers! Look at the flowers early. ? This folk song has even been written into the music textbooks of primary schools in China, and it is deeply loved by children.

From ancient times to the present, the cherry blossom viewing culture in Japan has become as common as eating and sleeping for the Japanese. Cherry blossoms are like oxygen to the Japanese, and the instinct of the body has brought it into its own blood without taking the initiative.

Cherry blossoms have a short flowering period, so they are available in Japan. Seven days of cherry blossoms? Say it. Flowers are impermanent, flowers sometimes fall, and flowers fall in an instant. Japanese people see the preciousness of life and the brilliance and loneliness between life and death from this characteristic of cherry blossoms.

The Japanese regard cherry blossoms as sacred objects, endow them with heroic status, link the fall of heroes with the decline of cherry blossoms, and bring death into a beautiful and pure artistic conception.

Even if you know that you are nothing in the blink of an eye, cherry blossoms will try their best to bloom and show their value to the greatest extent in a limited time. Even if you come and go in a hurry, you are free and easy to leave without any scruples about life and death.

2. Cherry blossoms are to literature.

Cherry blossoms are so important in the hearts of Japanese people that there are countless literary works about them, so the symbolic meaning of cherry blossoms brings the writer's own strong personal characteristics.

Cherry blossoms are characterized by large petals and beautiful colors, and it is best to bloom on branches that look thin? Shao Qing Yan Na described cherry blossoms poetically, delicately and elegantly in Pillow Grass, which became the representative of heian period cherry blossoms in literary image.

Sataro Dihara described cherry blossoms in the poetry collection Black Cat, followed by Osamu Dazai's decadent beauty between the lines in Human Shame.

From this, we can spy out the national spirit like cherry blossoms, a morbid aesthetic of the Japanese nation for decay and death, and reflect the backbone of the Japanese. Instead of pursuing eternity arrogantly, it is better to seize the beauty left in the present? .

Novel writer Keijiro is more direct? Body, death? The combination of the words "Sakura" and "Sakura" makes the cherry blossoms more beautiful and moving.

3. Cherry blossoms are given to farmers

What is the cherry blossom in Japanese? (さくら)? , among them? さ? What do you mean? The god of grain farming? And then what? くら? What does this mean? The throne? So cherry blossoms are Japanese? The flower on which the rice god lives? Meaning, make it closely combined with ancient Japanese farming culture.

What are the cherry blossoms of Japanese farmers like? Holy tree? On behalf of the gods, they believe that cherry blossoms can be used to predict the harvest of crops. If cherry blossoms wither prematurely, it is regarded as an ominous sign, which means crop failure.

Until now, cherry blossoms are still regarded as auspicious symbols, so Japan has the habit of going to school and working in a company when cherry blossoms are in full bloom. What is the third day of March in Japan? Enjoy flowers in the first month? Farmers will judge the sowing time according to the blooming degree of cherry blossoms.

Cherry blossoms are for nobles.

As mentioned earlier, Japan in Nara era was deeply influenced by the wind of the Tang Dynasty, and the habit of enjoying plums was popular among the nobles. However, with the withdrawal of Nara era, plum blossoms gradually faded out of the sight of Japanese nobles, and cherry blossoms replaced plum blossoms because they conformed to Japanese cultural aesthetics, or even worse.

In peacetime, every time the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the nobles will hold a huge flower viewing banquet. Cherry blossoms are a symbol of kingship and wealth for nobles.

"Ancient and Modern Harmony" wrote:? Liu Ying, keep looking. Beautiful? . In the early spring, the Japanese capital is full of flowers, which are endless and beautiful. The emperor loved cherry blossoms, and the literati gathered together to compose poems and give brocade, which made him infinitely leisurely and elegant.

5. Cherry blossoms are for samurai spirit.

With the decline of Heian period, people feel the impermanence of the world, and watching cherry blossoms wither adds a vague sense of sadness. Grass in vain says: Everything has a beginning and an end. The most interesting thing is that death is more memorable than rebirth.

However, in the Edo era, this feeling of mourning for the cherry blossoms began to develop in other directions. There is a well-known Japanese proverb: If you want to be a tree, you have to be a cherry tree and a samurai? There is also a line in kabuki "Loyalist Tibetan":? Cherry blossoms are the most beautiful flowers, and warriors are the most praised among all kinds of people. ? Cherry blossoms then began to combine with loyal and brave soldiers.

The glory of a soldier's life and the beauty of his death. This image of death, purity and independence deeply infects every Japanese.

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Throughout the development history of cherry blossoms, we can find that the meaning of cherry blossoms in the eyes of the Japanese has changed again and again. From the initial divination flower to the flower feast among nobles, to the material feelings of the Japanese people and the spirit of Bushido, cherry blossoms have been endowed with various meanings, which are inseparable from the development of Japan's times and the people's thoughts and feelings.

Cherry blossoms represent life and death, loyalty and strength, hope and love. It has become the most important part of Japanese culture and history in a subtle way.

Nowadays, although those complicated symbolic meanings have gone away with the times, cherry blossoms will still accompany Japan for a long time, waiting for the future to be endowed with more profound meanings.

References:

1, Sakura Sword

2. Collection of ancient and modern harmony songs

3. White Grass

4. "Ye Wan Collection"