What is Peach Blossom Luck? It is a sign of the arrival of a woman's peach blossom.
In other words, from ancient times to the present, people often like to describe marriage with "peach blossom" instead of other flowers.
Then, why did the ancients like to use "peach blossom" to describe marriage?
Let's look at the following story first. It is said that there was a scholar named Cui Hu in the Tang Dynasty. When he went out to play, he saw a peach blossom forest. There is a hut in the forest, and there is a girl named Jiang Niang, who is as beautiful as a peach blossom.
They fell in love at first sight after they met.
The following spring, when Cui Hu came to Taohualin again, he found that the door of the hut was locked, and the crimson mother had already disappeared, so he wrote a poem under sadness, namely:
"Today last year, the peach blossoms set each other off in red. I don't know where to go. "
Later, after seeing this poem, Jiang Niang knew that she had missed love, so she lived in this hut.
Cui Hu, however, was full of sorrow because he couldn't see Jiang Niang, and once again came to Taohua Forest to find fate. So they met again and finally got married. Later, Cui Hu's official career was smooth sailing, and he reached Lingnan.
So this marriage was passed down as a much-told story by later generations, and people called the affection between men and women "Peach Blossom Luck".
This is the origin of the saying "Peach Blossom Luck".
Of course, the above story is probably invented by later generations, but it doesn't actually exist.
The implication is that the ancients like to use "peach blossom" to describe marriage, but there are other reasons.
Why do you say that?
We look at it from the following three aspects, namely:
First, the expression "Peach Blossom Luck" can be derived from the Book of Songs.
In The Book of Songs Nan Zhou Yao Tao, there is a poem to congratulate the bride, and two of them mention peach blossoms, namely:
",burn its China"
The general idea is that when the poet goes out to see the willow branches and bright peach blossoms in spring, he will naturally associate the bride with her youth and beauty.
Moreover, the poems of the ancients were actually sung, not read, which is the real reason why they are called poems.
As the earliest collection of poems in the history of China, The Book of Songs is no exception-its content is mainly "singing".
We can imagine that these two poems are a scene of a wedding song-on the wedding day, the bridesmaid sent the bride out, and everyone walked around the bride to the groom's house, singing "Burn its glory ..."
The word "Peach Blossom Luck" probably comes from this.
Second, from Du Mu's Peach Blossom Girl
As we know, Du Mu is one of the most famous poets in the Tang Dynasty, and most of his poems are well-known and widely circulated. The Peach Blossom Garden is one of them, namely:
"Fine waist palace dew peach blossom is new, and it takes several degrees of spring. What is the end of death? Poor golden valley faller. "
It is said that this poem was his masterpiece when he served as the secretariat of Huangzhou, and Mrs. Peach Blossom refers to Mrs. Xi.
Mrs Xi is one of the beauties in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the daughter of Chen Zhuanggong, the monarch of the State of Chen. It is said that when she got married, she was teased by her brother-in-law Cai Hou because she borrowed Cai Guo. When the late Lord heard about it, he designed the late Lord and the State of Chu. King Wen of Chu took the opportunity to capture Cai Hou alive. Knowing that his wife was beautiful, he wanted to dominate her by collecting personal salary.
After Mrs. Xi knew about it, she was willing to marry into the state of Chu and become the wife of the state of Chu in order not to let the Chinese people be painted with charcoal.
Later, King Wen of Chu liked her very much, so he built a purple mountain in the place of Chu Geyi and planted peach blossoms. Later generations called Mrs. Xi Mrs. Peach Blossom.
The poet Du Mu wrote this poem because of this kind of personality and deeds of Mrs. Peach Blossom. Later, people used "Peach Blossom" to describe the feelings and marriage between men and women-this is probably another origin of the term "Peach Blossom".
Third, statements in metaphysics.
In metaphysics, there is a way to calculate people's fate-birthday, which is often said, the year, month, day and time of a person's birth.
When a person's birthday corresponds to the four directions of "Meridian You Mao", peach blossoms are in full bloom at the intersection of the four elephants.
This is actually another source of the saying "Peach Blossom Luck".
Of course, the above three statements are actually the real reason why the ancients like to use "peach blossom" to describe marriage.
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The materials in this paper are mainly quoted from Zhuangzi, Tanjing, Sit for a while, Dream of Red Mansions, The Abandoned Capital, The Lone Ranger, Life Philosophy Record, Plato said this, Historical Records, Complete Works of Wang Yangming, Classics, University, Book of Rites, and The Book of Rites.
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