What kind of experience is a picnic?

Since I resigned for three months, I have been trying to find the "other" rhythm of life in an orderly way. Almost half of the week is spent talking about work, writing plans and having meetings, and the other half is spent gathering with friends, having coffee and breakfast at home and visiting hutongs in Beijing. There is often a moment when I suddenly feel the comfort of wasting time and the tiny happiness that comes with it. I believe Xiao Fei, who left the "Flying Fish Show" one year earlier than me and stayed at home, has a deeper understanding. So we talked about a topic that we all thought was "happier"-picnic.

Of course, before that, we also have a common question: "Why do we have a picnic?"

After that, we went home to open computer websites, social software, TV dramas and world famous works, and began to look for some traces and reasonable explanations about it.

Walter Levy once wrote in Picnics: A History, "Picnics come with modern history, from rural life to urban life, rural decline and urban rise."

Although humans have been foraging outdoors since the day of their birth, it was not until the medieval hunting party that people began to deliberately carry a lot of food with them. We now know that picnics are:

Organize a dinner in an outdoor natural environment with a purpose. And this behavior appeared about 500 years ago.

Going on a picnic is actually to get rid of mediocrity. In fact, people have always imagined that picnics can take them away from the city and return to a simpler and more natural life. This kind of escape seems to be more obvious in works of art.

Later, picnics became a popular leisure activity, which allowed the rich to kill time, while artists used picnics to indulge their fantasies about country life.

Let me see those touching picnics in the artist's eyes and under the brush ~

"Picnic on the Grass" by Philippe de Angley, also known as Philippe Napolitano (1589? ~ 1629)。 This painting accurately depicts nature, showing a dynamic, vivid and interesting riverside world: vivid changes in woodland, a group of birds flying to the vast sky; Recently, the painter vividly described the picnic on the grass and the utensils and food used for the picnic with a small scene.

/kloc-in the 0/7th century, women wore grandiose baroque costumes and drank and frolicked with crystal glasses, while men talked endlessly about literature, art, politics and military affairs. At this time, picnics became a special social form.

May picnic (1873, Parr Szinyei Mersey, Hungary. Painters from the Hungarian National Art Collection in Budapest described the beautiful scenery in May, with green grass and flowers in full bloom. Ladies and gentlemen are having lunch, enjoying the natural scenery, freedom and happiness, and enjoying the gift of nature. This painting expresses the painter's desire and pursuit for freedom and depicts his ideal picture with an idealistic color.

French painter Edward Manet, created in 1863, exhibited the controversial Lunch on the Grass in Salon of Losers, which is an immortal work that Napoleon wanted to whip. After that, the world painting world changed with each passing day. And Pierre Auguste Renoir's Lunch on the Boat is also the theme of the picnic. People who suffered from the Franco-Prussian War finally found a breathing space in the countryside. At that time, it was the beginning of modern life, and people tried all kinds of extremes outside of daily life. What could be more natural and relaxing than a picnic?

Manet was one of the founders of Impressionism in19th century. 1832 was born in Paris, France. He has never participated in the Impressionist Art Exhibition, but his innovative artistic attitude has deeply influenced emerging painters such as Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh, and then brought painting to the road of modernism. Another work he created, Family Picnic, vividly shows the aristocratic life and elegant and romantic life realm of a family through bright color contrast.

Monet wrote several masterpieces from 1865 to 1867, all of which were based on the theme of' picnic on the grass'. In these paintings, Monet avoids Manet's controversial and sharp moral problems, and depicts the real holiday leisure life of citizens in Paris holiday afternoon parks or outdoor forests with beautiful pictures.

It is also outdoor, and it is also lunch. There is an environment where "thick and tall trees shield the sun through gaps". The characters in Monet's paintings are "two women sitting on the edge of a tablecloth with fluffy skirt lace" and "a man lying on the edge of a tree trunk, wearing a white shirt, a small black vest, trousers and boots" or "or".

In the 1930s, a group of famous photographers began to photograph people who went for an outing in their spare time. Bresson's Sunday on the Marne seems to have brought previous oil paintings into real life.

Those keywords about picnics

Keyword 1: Hunting

At the beginning of the picnic, it was a banquet after the hunting of the nobles. Walter Levy, the author of Picnic: A History, said that sitting on the ground with friends and relatives in the wild and eating some food and drinks should actually have existed since ancient times, but there is no formal term to call it. The evolution into written records can be traced back to the habit of eating in the wild after hunting by nobles.

/kloc-At the end of 0/4, the Book of Hunting, written by a French count, recorded in detail the details of European aristocrats going out to eat at that time: when the aristocrats went out to hunt, the accompanying servants of the aristocrats would set tables and spread tablecloths in the wild, and the chefs would prepare semi-finished products prepared before leaving in the morning, such as ham and pies, and the drinks they drank during the dinner would be frozen in the mountain spring to ensure the entrance was cool for the aristocrats. This form of outdoor drinking and having fun is considered to be the earliest origin of picnics.

Keyword 2: Socialization

With the emergence of the middle class in the18th century, pleasure is not just a noble patent of the upper class. The social activities of European rural gentry also need to create exquisite and elegant dinners in the wild, which has become an important social occasion for young men and women to meet.

There are countless picnics in Jane Austen's novels and plays. Men and women sit or lean in the beautiful field, and put on colorful ingredients and tableware, so that people and scenery are integrated and become the best inspiration for artists.

Keyword 3: Sharing

Picnics are modern products. According to the research on the history of picnics, the word picnics comes from the French Pique-nique, which means that every participant should bring his own food, drinks and tea. Later, the word spread to Britain, and a group of Londoners who loved French culture formed Pic-Nic. Each member took a meal to the appointed place, ate and drank, and recited a few poems while acting.

In the East, the habit of picnicking can be traced back to the Qingming Cold Food Festival. At the Cold Food Festival in the third month of the old China lunar calendar, people were forbidden to make a fire, so they had to eat cold food. In the Tang Dynasty, cold food gradually evolved into a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. After the sweeping ceremony, they gathered together for an outing, and the offerings or meals they brought were eaten as lunch in the wild and turned into picnics.

Especially in ancient times, women were not allowed to go out at ordinary times. Tomb-Sweeping Day was a good opportunity for ancient women to go out to worship their ancestors and go for an outing. On this day, they will dress up, go out early to pay homage to their ancestors, and then go for an outing, so it is also a festival for women in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. They can enjoy the spring scenery, fly kites and have a picnic in the suburbs. From this perspective, whether in the East or the West, the unchanging significance of picnics lies in the spirit of bringing your own food and sharing it with others.

Keyword 4: picnic basket

The most important container for food is a rattan picnic basket. This kind of basket seems to be specially made for picnics. As long as you see it, you will naturally think of an elegant grassland picnic. But in the beginning, people only used this kind of basket because the food in the basket was quite heavy. According to the previous materials, rattan is the most weight-resistant, so rattan is used to carry the basket. But the famous paintings are so impressive that even though there are many light and durable materials, people still want to put food in rattan picnic baskets as long as they want to have a picnic, which is more elegant.

Keyword 5: picnic mat

It is difficult for people to sit down on the grass, but the magic picnic mat is like a magic mat. As long as it is laid on the ground, it seems to announce that this place is our territory. Adults can put aside their reserve or sit or lie down in an instant, children can run at will, and everyone can eat, drink and be merry. Where there are picnic mats, it's like an extension of home.

Keyword 6: Free breathing

One of the spirits of picnics is to return to nature and relax the feeling of breathing freely. For the low-key and conscientious Japanese, the cherry blossom viewing season has evolved into the peak of Japanese picnics, where family members or colleagues barbecue or have lunch and drink beer under the cherry trees. There are more and more people in Taiwan Province Province, and they like to sit under the flowers and have their own sky during the flower viewing season.

Although many people criticize that the cherry blossom viewing season is the busiest time in the wild in Japan, and the elegance of flower viewing is gone, to some extent, this is also one of the key points of picnics: people can be more relaxed and informal than usual. Especially in high-tech modern times, picnics are synonymous with relaxation and catching breath, which is also the deep key to the prosperity of picnics, and they are more popular all the time.

Theme picnic

1988' s white picnic day is the star of the theme picnic. When the founder of the event lived abroad in his early years, 1988 returned to Paris, he wanted to hold a party and invite his former friends to attend. There were so many people attending that the location of the party became a problem. So he chose the "Boulogne Forest", a big park in the west of Paris, as the venue for the party, and agreed that everyone should wear white clothes to facilitate mutual confirmation. Because the party was very successful, everyone met after the meeting and met again in the same mode every other year. Since then, this private dinner has followed this tradition and evolved into a well-known social activity in the upper class of Paris.

White picnics continue as a tradition. The time is set on the longest day of June every year, and the number of participants can be as high as 10 thousand. Because this activity has been very successful for many years, it has now been completely legalized, and there are similar theme activities in more than 40 countries around the world.

My picnic memory

After watching so many colorful picnics, we also began to recall the picnics-related scenes in our lives. It seems that what we want to go most is the "spring outing" when we were young. On the day of celebration, every child will go to parks, Shan Ye and fields with food prepared at home and his beloved little things.

And my memory of the spring picnic is not so good.

Because every spring (at least in primary school), I go for a picnic, and my dinner is basically steamed bread and poached eggs carefully prepared by my mother (in fact, people who don't go on a spring outing eat this every day on their way to school). So I usually eat three or five bites behind the tree alone, and then go after my classmates and choke myself to death. Once in a hundred years, my family gave me more pocket money. Before the party, I secretly bought a can of Jianlibao. Because of the delay in the group departure time, my teacher confiscated it on the spot for several months.

-I tried to hold my head high to keep my tears from flowing-

So until today, my heart is still full of longing for picnics. So, Yang Xiancheng, a businessman who lives in shaoyaoju, and I set up a mysterious lifestyle research institution-3T Life Guide, and began to explore and experience picnics. In this process, we also made more interesting and like-minded friends.

I believe that in the near future, we will present and share more joy and beauty brought by "picnics" for everyone. Of course, more importantly, it must be an unforgettable picnic.

On the way to the picnic, I walked calmly.

The picture comes from the internet and is original.

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