The origin of Chinese civilization is not one place and one end, but "rising from all directions." These civilizations, like stars, after exchanges and integration, eventually adhere to the same mainstream, forming our unique civilization. The long evolution process of Chinese culture has experienced cultural integration on both vertical and horizontal scales. The horizontal direction is the influence of various foreign trends of thought. The focus of this book is the vertical process, that is, the issues of cultural integration and collision in the changes of ancient Chinese culture. It covers topics ranging from Food (hot pot, moon cakes, crabs), clothing (long johns), social life (toilets, garbage, express delivery, star chasing, military parades, anti-epidemic), festivals (Spring Festival, Qingming Festival), customs, beliefs (Kitchen God, Nezha, Jade Rabbit), etc. Are related to people's lives. This book is different from grand narratives. Instead, it focuses on the daily lives of the ancients and chooses to observe history from the details of cultural changes. This kind of marginal cultural history provides a different perspective for thinking about the current social and cultural collisions.
Reader comments
This book is very interesting! It showed the changes in ancient Chinese culture in detail and allowed me to learn a lot of knowledge that I didn't know before. Just like what is mentioned in the book, "Writing a preface, in my opinion, is a form of reciprocity between literati", which gave me a new understanding of the interactions between literati. I also particularly like the author Hou Yinguo. His articles and poems are very charming, and he himself is also very interesting. He has no airs of a scholar and is a treasure boy! I think this book is worth reading and I recommend it to you!
This book is very interesting! It showed the changes in ancient Chinese culture in detail and allowed me to learn a lot of knowledge that I didn't know before. Just like what is mentioned in the book, "Writing a preface, in my opinion, is a form of reciprocity between literati", which gave me a new understanding of the interactions between literati. I also particularly like the author Hou Yinguo. His articles and poems are very charming, and he himself is also very interesting. He has no airs of a scholar and is a treasure boy! I think this book is worth reading and I recommend it to you!