Wu Dao Junyu: If it’s not wild, how can it be called a picnic?

/ It is said that 2020 is the first year of picnic in China.

Because starting from March in Yangchun, people in the circle of friends began to have picnics one after another, until this May Day holiday, it almost reached its climax.

When I opened the circle of friends, I saw that as long as there were red plaid fabrics, rattan baskets, and floral skirts, I could guess that I was having a picnic without even clicking on the big picture.

Someone joked: "One China, same picnic." If this is the first year of picnics in China, it would be better to say that this is the first year of picnics popular among Chinese Internet celebrities.

Internet celebrity style picnic, the beauty lies in the sameness: a plaid cloth, a few rattan baskets, wooden plates, sandwiches, desserts, wine with English labels, flowers, even balloons, and a small stereo, ukulele, magazines, and English newspapers

...The picnic photos that appeared this year always have these factors.

If you don’t believe it, go to Xiaohongshu and search for picnic guides. Most of them have similar styles. Even the props, composition, and color palette for taking photos have been listed for you. Just follow this template to unlock the same picnic.

Just search the word "picnic" on Taobao, and you will immediately find "a complete set of the same picnic supplies as the Internet celebrity" and "Ins style picnic". You can place an order with one click and the picnic of the same style as the Internet celebrity will be available immediately.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with pursuing beauty, and imitation is not necessarily unacceptable.

But when friends post similar pictures, I just want to ask: Are you tired of aesthetics?

Does a picnic have to be like this?

What’s even more funny is that someone brought roast chicken, shrimps, and a bunch of snacks for a picnic. It looked like an enhanced version of the spring outing in elementary school, but it became a hot search topic. Netizens laughed and said that such a picnic was too real.

Seeing this, I really just want to shout: "I can have a picnic like this!" Isn't a picnic just about basking in the sun in good weather, looking at the greenery, and eating your favorite food?

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Why did this become a comedy series?

Does exquisiteness have nothing to do with feasting?

There is a group on Douban called "Are you refined today?". I thought it was to share how to live a better life every day, but when I clicked on it, I saw that they were all sharing their experiences of plastic surgery and medical beauty.

I can’t help but wonder, is our understanding of sophistication too simple and crude?

Is sophistication just a matter of precise aesthetics under human technology?

Just like our requirements for the beauty of picnics, are our requirements too simple?

Internet celebrity style picnic, "beautiful, soulless", because it is too beautiful and cookie-cutter, without any thought.

Like in our day and age, when it comes to quick fixes, it's better to have someone tell me how to do it in one click, copy and paste and be done with it.

The true meaning of picnic is wild. What is picnic?

Its English name is picnic, which originated in Europe in the 18th century and is a formal royal social event.

At that time, the nobles had to set up tables and chairs outdoors during picnics, and there would also be servants to serve them.

Later, sitting on the floor gradually became a leisure activity for the public.

Nowadays, picnics that are popular among friends can be said to have their aesthetics derived from Renaissance paintings.

Such as Monet's "Luncheon on the Grass".

In the shade of the summer trees, the sun shone thinly, the girls wore floral dresses, exquisite food was spread on the white linen, and champagne was placed.

Everything is beautiful, especially the sunshine that passes through the green shade. After so many years, facing the painting seems to be able to touch the temperature of that day and the joy of that picnic.

Turning around to look at the picnic pictures in the circle of friends, I was confused: Did everyone go to the same meadow?

Was the wind that day neither cold nor hot?

Did you encounter anything interesting during the picnic that day?

Perhaps this is the biggest problem with Internet celebrity style picnic.

The true meaning of picnic lies in the wilderness.

It is to feel the sunshine and breeze of nature and to appreciate the vitality of vegetation in the breaks of urban life.

We want to have a picnic because after living on the concrete floor for a long time, we yearn for nature and countryside.

However, often we only see refined picnic pictures.

Picnic is less wild and more PS.

The best picnic is to enjoy the moment. When I was searching for picnic topics on Zhihu, I saw someone asking: "Why don't Chinese people have picnics?" The reply below was: "Why don't Chinese people have picnics? It's just called picnics!"

Beside a river in a mountain, burn a few firewood, or build a kiln, roast chicken, roast sweet potatoes, roast corn... it is also a proper picnic.

But maybe, it’s just not that beautiful to take pictures.

Therefore, some people may say, why can’t we have a picnic in the style of Internet celebrities? Doesn’t life need a sense of ritual? Do we need to have a picnic style?

Yes, life needs ritual, but not just for the sake of ritual.

Those cookie-cutter photos all feature similar floral skirts and similar poses, and it seems that form is more important than content.

Lin Huiyin during the Republic of China was also a person who loved picnics.