What's the matter with collecting wind?

Collecting customs refers to collecting people's feelings and customs; Especially the collection of local folk songs. The language comes from Zhong Shuo Wen Yi in Sui Dynasty: "Governors don't praise poems, emperors don't collect poems, musicians are indecent, and national history is unknown. Alas, after a long time, Poetry can't be continued!"

19 18, with the support of Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, Liu Bannong, Shen, Shen Jianshi, Qian, Zhou Zuoren and other professors launched a collection of ballads and set up a collection office to collect modern ballads from the whole country. 1920 65438+established the ballad research society in February,1922 65438+February 17 officially launched the ballad weekly. Later, Sun Yat-sen University established the Folklore Society, and successively edited and published Folklore Weekly and Folklore Weekly, published a series of folklore books and published many works collecting folklore. Such as the first and second episodes of Wu Ge.

By the May 4th New Culture Movement, some scholars introduced folklore from abroad, and the meaning of the word "collecting customs" expanded, generally referring to collecting all folk creations and customs. After liberation, people began to talk about collecting folk oral creations, including myths, legends, ballads, stories, proverbs, sketches, rap and riddles.

During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the activities of collecting wind were mainly carried out in the north and south. First of all, in Yunguichuan area, scholars began to investigate and study the language, literature and folk customs of southwest ethnic minorities. Liu's Southwest Tales is a commendable work. This book contains more than 2000 folk songs, all of which were investigated by Liu during his hiking trip from Hunan to Kunming. 2. 1942 After the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, the folk literature and art activities in the Liberated Area were carried out on a large scale, and many folk songs, ballads and folk stories were collected, among which the outstanding works were Selected Folk Songs of Northern Shaanxi edited by He Qifang and Zhang, Walking the World edited by him, and Collection of Folk Stories edited by him, etc.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the China Folk Literature and Art Research Association was established, which was responsible for the collection, collation and research of folk literature and art, and the research association established publications such as Folk Literature to publish folk literature works collected from various places. 1958, at the initiative of Mao Zedong, a new collecting wind movement was launched all over the country. In the same year, the first national folk literature workers' congress was held, and the working principle of folk literature was put forward, which was "collecting comprehensively, focusing on sorting out, popularizing vigorously and strengthening research". This folk literature collection activity with the participation of the masses has achieved remarkable results. There are more than 2400 kinds of folk literature works published in various places, among which a large number of original materials of minority folk literature have not been counted.

In 1980s, a new round of folk literature collection and collation was carried out all over the country. 1984 In May, the Ministry of Culture, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the China Folk Writers Association (China Folk Writers Association) jointly issued the Notice on the Compilation and Publication of China Folk Stories, China Ballads and China Proverbs, and conducted a comprehensive investigation and collection nationwide through the provincial and county folk literature integration committees. Collected 3.02 million ballads, 7.48 million proverbs and 65.438+0.84 million folk stories. The written materials amount to 5 billion words. Ten sets of literature and art integration records, such as Three Collections of Chinese Folk Literature sponsored by the National Folk Literature Development Center of the Ministry of Culture. This national gathering activity is a model of gathering activities so far, with large scale, great manpower mobilization, scientific design and many achievements.

In modern times, the meaning of "collecting ideas" of fashion designers is similar to the above, observing the clothes of different people in different countries and collecting the characteristics of national costumes in ethnic areas in order to get creative inspiration for fashion design.