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At the turn of autumn and winter, the fiery red pomegranate is in front of you, do you know the long cultural story behind it before tasting it? From Yang Yuhuan's pomegranate skirt to Xu Wei's painting of the pomegranate's frank state of mind, there are too many meanings behind the little pomegranate to tell. Read this night, with the author, "Eat pomegranates, eat a slow manner, or three or two friends in the clouds and breeze and whisper between heaven and earth." ”
Published in this newspaper on October 15, 2020, the original title of "Like a volcano and a small mountain"
Peel off the pomegranate and the autumn wind blows through the wilderness.
One
Henan pomegranate, famous all over the world. Wang Zengqi said. Mr. Wang did not have a mouthful, eating Henan pomegranate in Beijing, small grain, light color, thin taste, the article sighed under the fame, in fact, it is difficult to match. It is estimated that Mr. Wang ate a "fake" - a counterfeit. The Henan pomegranate I bought is good, the skin color is red and purple, and when opened, the durian seeds are like jewels.
The famous Henan pomegranate is actually a white horse pomegranate. There was a large pomegranate in front of the White Horse Temple in Luoyang during the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei Period, and the Legend of the Beijing Master is that "the White Horse Pomegranate, a stone like an ox". I've eaten white horse pomegranates in Yanshi, and it's delicious. I have eaten Huili pomegranate in Chengdu and Lintong pomegranate in Xi'an. These pomegranates are extremely sweet, broken in half, full of crystalline, and still unforgettable. Our Huaiyuan pomegranate in Anhui is also a famous product.
Pomegranate, Wu Guanzhong, 1990
Autumn breezes blow and pomegranates come to market. The streets and alleys are full of pomegranate sellers, picky and driven. I like to pick up the burden of the grower, if there are three or five pomegranate branches in the pick, the more beautiful it is, I feel alive.
Autumn fruits are more flavorful, such as pomegranates, grapefruit, and persimmons. Spring fruits are thinner in taste, and cherries, strawberries and the like are light and shallow.
Pomegranate seeds are divided into two types: white and red. Both are beautiful, the white pomegranate looks like a white lady, and the red pomegranate looks like a red child. When you eat it, the red pomegranate tastes better, crisp and tender, and the white pomegranate is slightly dull.
In folklore, white pomegranates are known as "big rock sugar jars". Xu Xian married the White Lady and fell into the big rock sugar canister. However, Fahai is troublesome, and the amorous woman is partial to Bo Minglang, making Yongzhen Leifeng Tower.
The red of pomegranate is divided into burgundy, blood red, and rose red. Wine red like wine, red and colorful; blood red like blood, red and fierce; rose red is the most beautiful, rose red pomegranate seeds are hidden in the calyx, a variety of styles, want to say hugh.
Not all fruits are red and full of charm, and not all fruits are red enough to say goodbye. The apple is red with a variety of styles, but it wants to refuse to return the favor, and the style is low. The cherry is red with a variety of styles, but the red is too tender, stopping at the style, more elegant. The watermelon did not red out of the style, but the red out of the abuse. Thanks to the pomegranate red, it is beautiful and delicious.
Part of "Pomegranate Diagram", Ming Xuwei
Collection of Shanghai Museum
Pomegranates are often included in paintings. I have seen Xu Wei's "Pomegranate Diagram", the side section is a self-titled poem, remember the sentence "Pearls go". Xu Wei's painting of pomegranates, freehand, "pearl walking" three words are more freehand, writing heart. In the picture, the branches and leaves are hanging upside down, a pomegranate is ripe and cracked, the pen and ink have a Taoist atmosphere, and the artistic conception is higher than his "Grape Map".
When I was a child, I didn't like pomegranates, the grains were small and tasteless, a mouth of seeds was chaotic, and I couldn't get much taste, far less than eating watermelon, apples, pears, and cantaloupe. Now that I am older, I have the mood to eat pomegranates.
In childhood, I drank a kind of pomegranate wine, which was refreshing and sweet. In the New Year, my father made an exception for me to drink three cups, and now that I want to come, I still think it is delicious.
Whether it is a red pomegranate or a white pomegranate, eating in the mouth, trance, a piece of ice heart in the jade pot.
Two
Returning from Zhengzhou in the evening, listening to "moreover" overnight. After getting up and going grocery shopping, someone at a roadside stall sold pomegranates and chose three. I don't know if it is too poor vision, or if the pomegranate has learned badly from oranges, but it is also golden. After returning home, open it to eat, bitter and astringent, small and large nucleus. Anyway, I didn't suffer less, and I didn't care about eating three or five times more. Astringency was really uncomfortable, and after eating a few bites, I could only throw it away.
The taste of pomegranate, what I like is sweet and sour. There is sourness in sweetness, sweetness must be overshadowed by acidity, acid can not be too low eyebrows, vague resistance is good, sour "small lotus only shows sharp corners", sweet can "stand on the head".
Outside my yard, a pomegranate tree was planted, and the fruit was hung every year, but unfortunately it was small, black and thin, and no one wanted to eat it, so let it grow old in the autumn wind.
In the season of pomegranate blossoms, sitting in the courtyard, you can get a good mood alone. At the beginning of the summer heat, the sun is like a waterfall, and it is very emotional to see the cockroaches rustling among the flowers and leaves.
"Yang Guifei on the Horse Figure" Yuan Qianxuan, Freer Art Museum Collection
During the Han Dynasty, pomegranates came from the western regions to the Central Plains, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were already widely planted, and many women wore big red skirts embroidered with pomegranate flowers. The Liangyuan Emperor Xiao Xuan's "Wuqi Qu" has the sentence "Cross the dragon into a brocade fighting phoenix pattern, and the hibiscus is a pomegranate skirt". In the Tang Dynasty, people called red skirts popularly known as pomegranate skirts. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered the civilian officials and military generals to see Yang Yuhuan performing all the rituals, and the courtiers were helpless, and when they saw Yang Yuhuan walking in a pomegranate skirt, they all knelt down. In this worship, for thousands of years, many heroes and good men have become "lace ministers".
There is an interesting record in the "Huili Zhou Chronicle": "The name of the grenade is Ruo liu, yue Dan Ruo, Yue Jin Poppy, Yue Tian Pulp, Yue Zhu Shi, Yue Zhu Ying, Yue Jin Ying." "If the durian is like the name of the beast; if Dan is the name of the beauty; if the poppy is as splendid as the poppy?" Tianpu, Zhu Shi, Zhu Ying, Jin Ying, the three sisters of the Yin Family.
The largest of the pomegranates weighs more than two pounds, and that is the pomegranate king.
Third
I love pomegranates, especially their flowers. Han Yu said, "The May durian flowers shine brightly", one photo and one light, the realm comes out. Du Mushiyun: "Like a volcano reflecting a small mountain, it can be thin and idle in the midst of prosperity." On a beautiful jade flower, only suspected of burning but green cloud beard. "It's a stroke of Genius.
Ming Luzhi, "Flower Stone Diagram" (partial), Cleveland Museum of Art, collection
The red color of the pomegranate flowers is unusually red. Even more peculiar are the golden yellow in the red petals, the hairy flower buds, tender and pink, like egg yolk. The green pomegranate is shaped like a grenade, hangs from the treetops, turns yellow when it grows up, and turns red when it matures. The trees are drooping and branching, and the leaves are yellow, and the red pomegranates are shining like rubies among the trees.
Grandmother said that children ate pomegranates, and when they grew up, their teeth were not neat and they were not allowed to eat them.
When marrying in the countryside, the new house is equipped with pomegranates with cut peels and exposed berries. When I was a child, whenever I saw the sparkling pomegranate seeds, I couldn't help but swallow darkly. If you are afraid of messing up your teeth, then bear with it. Bear with it, and people will be bigger.
Fourth
The pomegranate skin is thick and soft, giving the impression of a good article. Some people say that the superior of the article is "the content of the diamond, wrapped in colorless transparent crystal paper". It refers to it like a pomegranate.
Eat pomegranates, eat alone is better, eat a slow manner, or three or two friends in the clouds and breeze and between the world and the earth.
In the courtyard of the tile house, a bush of bamboo, a persimmon, a tree of pomegranates. The offerings in the poor life are not lacking in poetry.
Left: Part of "To Sanduo Flower Album", Wu Changshuo
Right: Part of "Pomegranate Diagram", Qi Baishi
Young people are. I discovered the beauty of pomegranates at the time of the weak crown, which is really a creation. The beauty of pomegranates, the beauty lies in the gold and jade, the gem in it. It can also be said to be stunning, especially the red seed pomegranate, twisting a grain in the mouth, lips and teeth of the erotic encounter. Eat out a belly of style, and the style becomes a wind moon, and it is a good wind moon.
A good article is just a good wind month, a good wind moon to talk about. Good wind and moon talk is my writing skill, but unfortunately I can't do it well.
My desires are small. When it rains in autumn, just look at who will send pomegranates, and you will be satisfied.
Manuscript Editor: He Jing; New Media Editor: Zheng Zhouming
Pictured: Art museum paintings
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