What Is a Salon?
The word "salon" originated from the Italian word "Salotto", which is a transliteration of the French word "Salotto". From the 17th century, celebrities in Paris (mostly ladies and noble ladies) often turned the living room into a famous social place. Those who enter and exit are mostly dramatists, novelists, poets, musicians, painters, critics, philosophers, and politicians. They share similar interests and gather together, sipping drinks, enjoying elegant music, holding hands and talking, freely. Later, people called this form of gathering "salon" and became popular in European and American cultural circles. The nineteenth century was its heyday.
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- We often see magnificent or elegant salon scenes in European movies, novels and plays.
- Modern salons extend to conferences, mainly referring to small-scale, brief, informal, meetings that are gathered by companies in the industry to discuss. Generally, there are events such as drinks, sugar tea, and cabaret.
- From the 17th century, celebrities in Paris (mostly ladies and noble ladies) often turned the living room into a famous social place. In the era when books were not popular and various propaganda tools were not developed, it had a great impact and was a show A great stage to expand your influence yourself. Most of the people who come and go in the salon are dramatists, novelists, poets, musicians, painters, critics, philosophers, and politicians. Some literary scholars often recite their new works in the salon. They shared similar interests, gathered together, drank drinks, enjoyed elegant music, and held talks on various issues of common interest, spreading information freely in the salon, creating public opinion, and drawing wisdom from rhetoric. Language, insight into people
- The authentic "Salon" has the following characteristics:
- 1. Regularly held;
- 2. The time is at night, because the lights can often create a hazy, romantic beauty, which will arouse the interest, conversation and inspiration of the participants;
- 3, the number is not large, is a small circle, usually celebrities;
- 4. Voluntary combination, two by two, with a wide range of topics, very elegant, free to talk about, expressing their own opinions;
- 5. There is usually a beautiful salon hostess.