If you want to go to San Francisco/remember to wear some flowers on your head/if you want to go to San Francisco/you will meet many kind people.
This is a song that was widely sung in the United States in the 1960s. It's called "Don't forget to put a flower in your head when you get to San Francisco". At first glance, this is just a song that welcomes people to visit San Francisco. In fact, "San Francisco" and "flower arrangement on the head" had unique symbolic significance in the United States at that time, and their origins were the famous "hippie movement" in the United States.
In the days before 1960, the United States had a strong national strength and social stability, and there was almost no shadow of economic crisis. People thought that this life of living and working in peace and contentment would last for a long time, but the Vietnam War changed everything. Some people's chauvinism made the government pay too much attention to the Vietnam issue, but the situation of foreign wars always failed to achieve the expected results, and a large number of American children were killed in the Vietnamese jungle. Gradually, some people began to question the justice of this war, thinking that the Vietnam War violated the original intention of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the spirit of the Constitution. Those outstanding young people who died in the war died not so much for national honor as because of the ambition of some political speculators and the vanity of chauvinists in big countries. What's more, American youth of that era grew up in a relatively comfortable environment.
Therefore, taking opposing the Vietnam War as the starting point. Young people gradually developed various groups, or took a negative attitude towards life as a protest against the authorities. The authorities refused to pay the full tax because a fixed proportion of the tax was used for the Vietnam War, or they toured around the country to express their views on the war, and they did not hesitate to clash with the authorities. Among passive protesters, rock music, ecstasy and long hair have become the same symbols. They called themselves "hippies", and San Francisco was the base camp of hippies at that time.
Who's My Generation became the hymn of American youth in 1960s, and the lyrics of "I want to die before I get old" and "Don't trust people over 30" became the standards that hippies believed in accordingly. Officials' corruption lies, personal freedom and rights all come and go on this vast stage.
Hippies believe that love can change the world. They advocated returning to nature, took "love and peace" as the spiritual slogan against the Vietnam War, and even put forward the slogan of "replacing war with love". In their eyes, flowers are the best symbol of love. Therefore, the young people who participated in this movement or agreed with this idea at that time were called flower girl. Putting a flower in your head and going to San Francisco, the stronghold of hippies, was the trend in the United States in the 1960s.
The well-known film Forrest Gump well recalls the youth movement of that era. Jenny was invited by a strange man to ride, wander, camp, play the piano, sing and even take drugs with them. Although some people have no obvious political inclination, they are also attracted by the attitude and lifestyle of hippies and come to the same front with them.
1964, a huge rally called "Summer of Love" was held in San Francisco, which pushed the hippie movement to a peak. Not long before this, Ken? Cauchy has just published a sensational novel "Flying over the Madhouse", the content of which comes from his psychedelic drug-taking experience, and the poet Ginsburg has also published his most important work "Howl", which makes the spirit of "Beat Generation" popular in San Francisco.
Today's San Francisco has long lost its political significance, but hippies' favorite climate, such as warm in winter and cool in summer, blue sky, charming beaches, exquisite Victorian architecture and romantic and nostalgic cable cars, is now presented to the world with a gentler look, making San Francisco a city that many people yearn for.
After translation.
If you want to go to San Francisco/I remember in Hyde-Jiduohua/you will meet many friendly people.
This is a song that was widely sung in the United States in the 1960s. It is called "Don't forget to stick your head in the flowers in San Francisco". At first glance, this song only welcomes people to visit San Francisco. In fact, "San Francisco" and "Flower Head" had unique symbolic significance in the United States that year, and their origins were the famous "hippie movement" in the United States.
During the period before 1960, the shadow of strong national strength and stable social and economic crisis in the United States was almost gone forever. At first people thought it would be good for life and work, but the Vietnam War changed everything. The psychological problems of chauvinism of some people's congresses have made the Vietnamese government overly worried, but the situation outside the war does not always reach the mature effect, and a large number of American children have lost their lives in the Vietnamese jungle. Gradually, some people began to question the justice of this war, thinking that this war violated the original intention of the Constitution and the founding of the People's Republic of China. Those outstanding young people who died in the war were more glorious and died for their country than those who died of the vanity of some political speculators and chauvinists in big countries. More importantly, American youth in that era were growing up in a relatively relaxed environment.
Therefore, taking opposing the Vietnam War as the starting point. Young people gradually developed various groups, or took a negative attitude towards life as a protest against the authorities. They refused to pay taxes in full, because these taxes were used in a fixed proportion in the Vietnam War, or in rural lecture tours around the country to express their views on the war, and they did not hesitate to clash with the authorities. Among those passive protesters, rock and roll, ecstasy and long hair have become common symbols. They call themselves "hippies", and San Francisco is the base camp of hippies.
"My Generation" by "Who" has become the youth hymn of America1960s, and two lyrics "I'd rather die than change my old age" and "I don't trust people over 30" have correspondingly become the beliefs of hippies. Official corruption lies, personal freedom and rights are all on this vast stage where you come and go.
Hippies believe that love can change the world. They cite the slogan of returning to nature and opposing the Vietnam War in the spirit of "love and peace", and even put forward the slogan of "love instead of war". And spending their eyes is the best symbol of love, so that young people who participate in the election or agree with this kind of thinking are all referred to as flower girl, a hippie with a head full of flowers, who arrived at the San Francisco headquarters, that is, 1960s, a wave of the United States.
Members who are familiar with the movie Forrest Gump recall the good times of the youth movement. At the invitation of Jennifer, a strange man, they went to live with the wind, wander, camp, play, sing and even take drugs together. Although some people have no obvious political inclination, they are also attracted by the attitude and lifestyle of hippies and come to a common front with them.
1964, a huge rally called "Summer of Love" was held in San Francisco, which pushed the hippie movement to a peak. Not long before this, Ken? Xihe has just published a sensational novel "Flying over the Madhouse", from which he experienced ecstasy, and the poet Ginsburg also published his most important work "Howl", which made the "Beat Generation" popular in the spirit of San Francisco.
Nowadays, the political significance of San Francisco has long faded. The climate that hippies loved in the past, such as blue sky, charming beaches, exquisite Victorian architecture and romantic and nostalgic cable cars, is now being presented to the world with a gentler look. San Francisco is a city that many people yearn for.