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To live a life of poetry, it is enough to have a flower, a bottle, and a faint heart.
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The fiftieth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber" wrote that during the snowy season, the sisters joined the poems for fun in Lu Xueting, and Bao Yu fell first and was punished to fold the red plum in Li Cui'an. When a red plum is inserted into the shoulder-shruging bottle, the posture and aroma are really clear, attracting everyone's praise.
I have asked why I should fold branches into bottles when I can enjoy the flowers in the tree?
I have seen a passage from Zhou Shuangjuan that said, "Good peanuts are only rewarded from afar on the tree, and if they are offered, they can be played closely; so we plucked them from the trees and inserted them in bottles to make a confession, although it was only two or three days, it was enough to make an eyelid offering." ”
In the harsh winter, you may be able to appreciate the fun of flower arrangement. Although the snow and red plums are romantic, we can't go out all the time like spring. Confined to the cold ashram, I cherished the warmth of the bottle of flowers.
Many people may say, I don't know how to arrange flowers, how can I insert a bottle of flowers for myself in winter?
It is better that we follow the footsteps of the ancients today, feel their exquisite treatment of flower arrangement, and turn the often dull winter into a fragrant and poetic and endless elegance.
Flowers should be elegant
〔 Flowers with grids, endless charm ]
Yuan Hongdao, a Ming dynasty, was in the bustling capital, but he often lingered on the natural life of the mountains and forests, so he served vases of flowers at home to send feelings.
If you want to arrange flowers, you must first take the flowers. At that time, he lived in Yanjing, where the weather was cold, and could not easily obtain the precious flowers and trees in the southwest, so he could only look for some common varieties nearby, but insisted on a "Ya" word.
So he would take plum blossoms and begonias in spring; peony, peony and pomegranate in summer; osmanthus and chrysanthemums in autumn; and wax plums in winter. If there is no suitable flower around, it is better to replace it with fresh bamboo and cypress branches, rather than to put it on the customary flowers.
The same is true of Chen Hongshou, who calls himself "Old Lotus" and prefers such elegant flowers with rich style, such as lotus flowers, plum blossoms, and pine bamboo chrysanthemums.
He painted a painting of "Writing a Birthday Map for the Residents of Fangcun Village", behind the calm-faced laymen, Xiao Wei held a large bronze vase, only a few pink lotus sticks, yahua to Gaoshi, and the flowers were clean and clean.
In their view, "taking flowers is like taking friends", flowers are not only elegant things, but also noble friends. At any time, do not be simple because of ugliness, and flow into the lower riba people.
If you want to ask, when the ancients arranged flowers, what was the standard of "elegance" in their eyes? Ancient times are inconclusive.
Or Ya in Meilan Zhuju and other have the character of a gentleman, or such as Shochiku Mei's "Three Friends of the Cold Year" has the arrogance of Ling Han.
Or as Gao Lian wrote in the "Eight Notes of Zunsheng", "The one who perfumes the pigment is elegant", the more quiet the fragrance of the flower and the more elegant the color, the higher the character.
In short, flowers should be elegant, and elegant in a kind of character. Only with the flowers of the grid can we produce infinite charm.
The Burrow hid flowers for a while, how many times did you step on the snow in your dreams? In the cold winter, we work hard, even if it is a cold day, we can live a steaming hot day.
The bottle should be ancient
〔 Gao Gu Humble Rhyme, Flower Phase Harmony ]
I remember that Fan Chengda had "Two Songs of Vase Flowers", "Daffodils engrave wax plums to make scattered flower rain." But he woke up drunk and did not recognize where the incense came from. ”
Nowadays, we are accustomed to calling flower arrangements, but since the Song Dynasty, traditional Chinese flower arrangements have been conventionally called "vase flowers".
Both as a "vase flower", the status of the bottle is naturally very important. How do I choose a vase of flower arrangement?
Most of the ancients will think that the style of the high antiquity is the most.
Figure | past place
In particular, the excavated ancient artifacts, because of the earthy atmosphere of the years, can nourish the flowers and branches, often flourishing on the desk; and the antiquities are often mottled and simple, not ostentatious, but more able to set off the bright colors of the flowers, two and two phases.
Yuan Hongdao once wrote in "Vase Flowers", "The old yao hidden by the Jiangnan people can be described as the golden house of flowers." The highest specification of the flower ware in his mind may be the old Yao (Shang Zhou bronze ware) seen in a Jiangnan family, which is like letting the flowers live in a golden house.
For the material of the flower, there is a saying that "autumn and winter should be copper". Because the winter moon is quite cold indoors, the porcelain bottle is easy to freeze and crack, and the copper bottle storage water arrangement is more appropriate.
Of course, it is not possible to generalize, Zhou Shuangjuan feels that it is necessary to appropriately choose the flower utensils according to the volume of the flower material.
Coarse branches and large leaves of flowers, the weight is heavier, inserted in the porcelain bottle is easy to overturn, with copper bottles will be more stable; but the ancient pottery altar or Song-style Korean bottles also have their benefits, the altar mouth is large, can be inserted with many branches or a variety of flowers.
Later, I happened to feel this wonderful situation in Wu Changshuo's paintings. His folded branches, such as plum chrysanthemums, are mostly inserted in pottery altars and Korean vases, although they are not as delicate as bronze, they look like they have a quaint meaning.
The vase of flower arrangement should be ancient, and the ancient is in a kind of humble rhyme. Noble as the elegance of antique vases, ordinary as the simplicity of clay pots, as long as it flows with vitality and charm, it can be contrasted with flowers.
Every bottle is waiting for a flower, just like those souls in life, and when they meet, they are beautiful.
The heart should be light
〔 Flowers should be light, vitality flows ]
Although flower arrangement is a small road, while pursuing flower materials and flower utensils, it is not too attached to the appearance, and it is more important to pay more attention to the heart of flower arrangement.
The harsh winter is pure, everything fades away and is gorgeous, and flower arrangement needs an indifferent state of mind.
At this time, the flowers are rare, not expensive and expensive. As Yuan Hongdao advocated in "Vase Flowers", "Flower arrangement should not be too complicated, nor too thin, but not more than two or three." The height is dense, and the layout of the picturesque garden is exquisite. ”
The number of flower arrangements should not be greedy, do not seek flowers, three or five branches is business interest; more than one branch, the selection of branches is particularly important.
Figure 1.2| Past Place
As mentioned earlier, Baoyu went to Li Cui'an to fold a plum blossom, which can well see his taste.
In the eyes of the people, the vase of flowers was like this, "Only two feet high, and there is a horizontal branch next to it, about five or six feet long, and the small branches are divergent, or like cockroaches, or like zombies, or lonely like pens, or densely packed like forests..."
The folded branches of plums selected by Baoyu are longer than the main branches on the side, and there is a sense of spatial stretching in proportion; in addition, those small branches have their own postures, some twist like hornless dragons or earthworms that are frozen, some stretch out like a high pen alone, and some are densely packed but like jungles. A plum to see the world, there is an endless space to enjoy.
The heart of flower arrangement should be light, light in a state of mind. In the cold room in winter, quietly admiring the flowers in the vase from budding to blooming, until they wither and fall, becomes a way to look back at time and life.
Towards a bottle of flowers, twilight on a bottle of flowers, even if the winter flowers gradually fall, there is a vitality of spring.
"The instrument can carry the road, the flower can be clear", flower arrangement can be the ultimate pursuit, but also can be a casual state of mind.
Just like the old painting that Wang Zengqi once saw: a hut, an old man holding a crock pot in his hand, inserting a plum blossom branch, was about to put it on the case, and there was an inscription next to the painting: "The mountain family Chinese New Year's Eve nothing else, and the plum blossoms are planted for the New Year." "It's just a random flower arrangement, but it makes us fascinated to this day."
Therefore, when we talk about the ancients' emphasis on flower arrangement, we do not want everyone to become an expert, nor does it mean that flowers must be elegant, and bottles must be expensive in order to arrange flowers. Instead, it is to get closer to the ya of a little Chinese, and find a way to get closer to beauty.
As long as the heart is poetic, has its own aesthetic and cultivation, whether it is a roadside wildflower or a branch trimmed by sanitation workers, whether it is an antique or a wine bottle or a water cup, who says that you can't "insert a plum blossom to celebrate the New Year"?
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