Of course, before that, we also have a common question: "Why should we have a picnic?"
After that, we went home and opened the computer website, social software, TV series 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, villages decline and cities rise."
Although human beings have been foraging outdoors since their birth, it was not until hunting parties in the Middle Ages that people began to intentionally 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.
When you go on a picnic, you actually want to get rid of mediocrity. In fact, people always imagine 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 enabled the rich to kill time, while artists used picnics to indulge their fantasies about rural 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)。 The accurate description of nature in this painting shows a dynamic, vivid and interesting riverside world: vivid changes in woodland and a flock of birds flying into the vast sky; Near, the painter vividly described the picnic on the grass and the utensils and food used for the picnic with a small scene.
In the17th century, ladies wore gorgeous baroque costumes and drank and played 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, Parsinyemesi, Hungary. The painter of the Hungarian National Art Collection in Budapest described the beautiful scenery in May, with green grass and flowers in full bloom. Several gentlemen and ladies 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 in an idealistic color.
French painter Edward Manet created it in 1863, and 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 has changed with each passing day. Pierre Auguste Renoir's Lunch on the Boat is also the theme of the picnic. Those 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 of19th century impressionism. 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 further led 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 sharp color contrast.
Monet wrote several huge works 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 and leisure life of citizens in Paris holiday afternoon parks or outdoor forests with beautiful pictures.
It is also outdoor, it is also lunch, and there is an environment where "thick and tall trees block the sun from the cracks". The characters in Monet's paintings are "two women sitting on the edge of a tablecloth with fluffy skirt lace", "a man lying on the edge of a tree trunk, wearing a white shirt, a small black vest, pants and boots" or.
In the 1930s of 19, a group of famous photographers began to photograph people who went out for an outing in their spare time. Bresson's Sunday on the Marne seems to have brought previous oil paintings to real life.
Those keywords about picnics
Keyword 1: Hunting
At the beginning of the picnic, it was a banquet after the noble hunting. Walter Levy, the author of Picnic: A History, said that the act of sitting on the ground with friends and relatives in the wild 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 nobles eating in the wild after hunting.
At the end of 14, The Hunting Written by a French Earl Phobos 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, spread tablecloths and set tableware in the wild, the chefs would prepare semi-finished products prepared before leaving in the morning, such as ham and pie, and the drinks they drank during the dinner would be frozen in the mountain spring to ensure that the entrance was cool and waiting 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 gentlemen also need to create exquisite and elegant dinners in the wild, which has become an important social occasion for young men and women to get to know each other.
There are countless picnics in Jane Austen's novels and plays. Men and women sit or lean together in beautiful outdoor places, and put on colorful ingredients and tableware, so that people and scenery are integrated, which has become the best source of 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 originally meant that each 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 a Pic-Nic society. Each member took a meal to the appointed place to eat and drink, and recited a few poems while performing.
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 food they brought were eaten as lunch in the wild, which also turned into a picnic.
Especially in ancient times, women could not go out at ordinary times, and 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 worship their ancestors, and then go for an outing, so it is also a festival for women in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. They can enjoy spring scenery, fly kites and have picnics in the suburbs. From this point of view, whether in the East or the West, the constant 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 picnic on the grass. But in the beginning, people only used this kind of basket because the food in the basket was quite heavy. According to previous materials, rattan is the most resistant to weight, so rattan is used to carry baskets. However, famous paintings have left a deep impression on people. Up to now, even though there are many light and durable materials, as long as people want to have a picnic, they still want to put food in rattan picnic baskets, which seems 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. Just laying it on the ground is like declaring that this place is our territory. Adults can put down 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 Japanese who keep a low profile and strictly observe their duties, the cherry blossom viewing season has evolved into the peak of Japanese picnics, and family members or colleagues will eat barbecue or lunch and drink beer under the cherry trees. There are more and more people in Taiwan Province Province who like to sit under flowers and have a sky by themselves during the flower viewing season.
Although many people criticize that the cherry blossom viewing season is the noisiest time in the wild in Japan and the elegance of flower viewing no longer exists, to some extent, it 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. They have not fallen all the way since ancient times and are even more popular.
Theme picnic
1988' s white picnic day is the star of the theme picnic. The founder of the activity lived abroad in his early years. When he returned to Paris on 1988, he wanted to hold a party and invited his former friends to attend. There were so many people attending that the location of the party became a problem. So he chose the big park "Boulogne Forest" in the west of Paris as the meeting place, and agreed that everyone should wear white clothes to facilitate mutual confirmation. Because the party is very successful, everyone will meet after the meeting and meet again every other year in the same pattern. Since then, this private dinner has followed this tradition and evolved into a famous social activity in the upper class of Paris.
White picnics continue as a tradition. The time is set on the longest day in June every year, and the number of participants can be as high as 1 10,000. 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 fragments and scenes in our lives. It seems that the place we want to go most is our childhood "spring outing". 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.
I don't have a good memory of the picnic in spring.
Because every year (at least in primary school), I have a picnic in spring, and I basically eat steamed bread and poached eggs carefully prepared by my mother (in fact, people who don't have 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, which was confiscated by the teacher on the spot for several months because of the delay in the group departure time.
-I'm trying to hold my head up so I can't cry-
So until today, my heart is still full of yearning for picnics. So, Mr. Yang, a businessman who lives in shaoyaoju, and I jointly 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, this must be an unforgettable picnic for yourself.
On the way to the picnic, I walked calmly and calmly.
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