Is this real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Encountered a landslide

Unable to escape from reality

Open your eyes and look to the sky

I am just a poor person Boy, I don't need sympathy

Because I come and go calmly, a little excited, a little depressed

No matter how the wind blows, it can't really affect me.

Queen (QueenBohemian Rhopsody)

Beginning in 2002, a wave of "Bohemian" style swept the entire world, especially the fashion industry, and seemed to be everywhere on the stage overnight. It is layered pleated cuffs, off-shoulder loose tops, inlaid lace, hanging tassels, exaggerated ornaments, cross-body belts, and exquisite flowing hair. Almost all brands are more or less dyed with bohemian style. breath. Among them, the various bright decorations on Marnie's wide belt and the low-crotch skirt are particularly "bohemian". This year, Chloe's new designer Phoebe Philip combined lace with low-neckline, lantern-sleeved shirts, and paired them with exaggerated metal ornaments, fully embodying the bohemian style.

So what is "Bohemia"?

"Bohemia" (Bohemia) originally refers to a specific geographical area in Central Europe. It now belongs to the Czech Republic and has a population of about 6.25 million. "Bohemians" therefore refers to the people who live in the land of Bohemia. The original inhabitants of Bohemia were a Celtic tribe. Beginning in the first century BC, the Germans settled here. As they migrated southwest, the Slavs occupied Bohemia around the sixth century. The ancestors of today’s Czechs. In the ninth century, the Slavs living in Bohemia accepted Christianity and became part of Charlemagne's empire. Beginning in the tenth century, it became an autonomous territory of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1526, Bohemia became a territory of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, but legally speaking, Bohemia (including Moravia and Silesia) still retained relative independence. In 1810, after the Habsburgs dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia became a territory of the Austrian Empire. In 1867, the Habsburg dynasty established the "Austria-Hungary" dual empire, and Bohemia became an autonomous province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed and Bohemia became part of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic. In 1993, Czechoslovakia was dissolved and Bohemia was now part of the Czech Republic.

The second meaning of "Bohemians" emerged in nineteenth-century France and referred to "a group of artists and writers who lived an unconventional lifestyle." In traditional French, Bohème refers to Gypsies. Bohemia, within the borders of the Habsburg Empire, was believed to be the homeland of these wandering people. The Gypsies are a wandering people who call themselves Roma. They first lived in northern India around 1000 AD. The Gypsies left India and migrated abroad. In the fourteenth century, they came to the Balkan Peninsula, and in the sixteenth century they reached Scotland and Sweden. The reason for the word "Gypsy" is that the dark skin of the Gypsies made Europeans think that they were a people from Egypt. Egypt was the only hot country that Europeans knew at that time. The Gypsies are a wandering people. Baudelaire described them in "The Flowers of Evil" as follows:

This tribe with fiery and piercing eyes is accustomed to occupying

On the road yesterday, everyone put their babies on their backs,

Or, in order to let the children eat freely,

they simply opened the sagging breasts, which are always a treasure trove. .

In people's minds, Gypsies are regarded as "wanderers" and people who are not bound by tradition. Likewise, the same is true for Bohemian artists. They are "wanderers" in modern cities who are not bound by tradition and oppose the mainstream bourgeois culture. Paris is the main stage for Bohemians. Bohemians reject Challenging the status quo by mocking mainstream values ??and bourgeois lifestyles. This was also the precursor to the Bohemia we are now obsessed with.

The Bohemian lifestyle was popularized by Murger's novel "Scenes from La Bohème" (or translated as "La Bohème"), and later by Puccini's He is famous for his opera "La Bohème". Octave Tassaert's "The Studio" (1845), a good reflection of Bohemian life: a young artist working intently in a messy, empty apartment ; Although he lives in poverty, he loves art. This is the essence of bohemian spirit.

In the 20th century, Bohemians appeared in New York’s Greenwich Village, East Village, and San Francisco, and gave rise to the famous “Beat Generation” and subsequent “hippie” movements. , became the main force of the American counterculture movement in the 1960s.

The basis for the existence of the "Bohemian" spirit is its rebellious spirit: resistance to the luxurious values ??of mainstream society and resistance to the so-called taste values ??that are increasingly commercialized and vulgar. "Bohemians" once opposed brands in their own unique way, but now they can only oppose themselves on the basis of brand and taste. Since entering the 21st century, "Bohemia" has been materialized and commercialized in the commercial tide. Bohemia has become a trademark rather than a unique spirit and unique way of life. Bohemia" Simia’s current lifestyle has been reduced to sitting in Starbucks drinking coffee and listening to alternative music.

But even so, we still have a unique fondness for the bohemian spirit. In our impression, a girl wearing a bohemian dress is definitely a girl with her own unique thoughts. We also still firmly believe in Ye Ying’s words, “Spiritual Bohemians are always only a very small minority in an era.”