Folk Customs
1 min readThe clothing, food, housing, transportation, as well as the folk customs of the chinese people, all reflect their inner peace optimism. open-mindedness. and aesthetic tastes.
A visitor from afar would be able to perceive all this in the hustle and bustle of the capital Bianliang of the Northern Song Dynasty(960-1127), as depicted in the famous painting A Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.
They could also find all this in many aspects of traditional life: the busy Tianqiao area in Beijing, the hawking of peddlers in alleys, pigeons soaring across blue skies, the leisurely life of taverns. the openness, fashion and vitality of modern shanghaithe ambience exquisitely created in teahouses and bars, shadow boxing, and a game of go.
Chinese people have long pursued soulful contentment in the midst of secular lives, trying each and every method to add meaning and joy to everyday life.
