Great Golden Country Flower - Peony Flower
That Sinology
Note this picture: 1. The photo with "Golden Country Flower - Red Peony Flower" and "Jurchen White Peony Flower" was made by Teacher Guo Changhai.
2. The picture of the shaman mask was provided by Teacher Guan Boyang.
The national flower of the Golden Kingdom is the peony flower. Why is it said that the peony flower is the national flower of the Golden Kingdom? Because the "Daikin Guozhi School Card" has a clear record. In volume 1 of the Dajin Guozhi School Certificate, in the fifth year of Liao Tianqing (1115), the outstanding jurchen leader Quanyan Akuta established the Great Golden Kingdom and claimed the title of emperor, "It is the year, the red peony flowers are born, and the north is rui." Jurchen white peony flowers, all wild, silky. The House of Good Deeds takes its sprouts and frys them in the pan, and uses them for all the ingredients to be bent. Its taste is crisp and beautiful, and it can stay for a long time. The golden man cherished it very much, refused to pretend, and when he encountered a big guest, he cut several silks into the cane to make it a foreign product. ”
The red peony flowers bloomed in the land of Jinguo, and the Jin people were very surprised to see it. Jin Taizu's completion of Yan A-bone and the government and the public all thought that this was an excellent auspicious sign.
When Taizu Ah KuanTa was summoning civil and military officials to discuss state affairs, Ceres Yan Xiyin said to Ah Kuan and everyone: "My Jurchens all love peony flowers, but they are all white peony flowers, and I have never seen the red peony flowers that are blooming all over the mountains now, which is a good sign." Ah Kuanta then said, "As soon as I founded the country of Dajin, the land of our Jurchens has bloomed red peony flowers, sending us auspicious and festive flowers to the Golden Kingdom, which is indeed a sign of good fortune and foreshadows that my Dajin Congress is icing on the cake, blooming like a brocade, blossoming and rich, prosperous, prosperous and developed!" This rare red peony flower is the national flower of our Golden Kingdom! The civil and military officials present unanimously said: "The red peony flower is the national flower of our golden country!" ”
Whether it is in the garden of the court of the Golden Kingdom or in the courtyard of the folk Jurchen family, while already like to plant white peony flowers, they have added more "precious" red peony flowers. In the hinterland of Jinyuan, it is already a national custom for Jurchens to plant peony flowers.
Jurchens believe in shamanism, uphold the polytheism of the unity of heaven and man, believe that there are heavenly gods, earth gods, mountain gods, tree gods, etc., regard peony flowers as flower gods, and worship the peony flower god as one of the jurchen totems.
When the shaman sits, he wears a mask on his head in the shape of a red or white peony flower to pray.
(Photo of Na Hai Chau)
The Jurchens and their descendants, the Manchus, loved the peony flower, and the Jin Dynasty poets praised it even more. The first volume of the Quanjin Poems compiled by Xue Ruizhao and others contains Yao Xiaoxi's poem: "Peony medicine - green calyx cloak thin, red bud dew fat." Only the spring dream is broken, turning into a colorful cloud flying. ”
(Finish Yan Shujun: What a beautiful poem!) ）
The third volume of the Quanjin Poetry contains the poem of the Jin Dynasty poet Li Junmin: "Delao planted flowers into bamboo - peony flowers: physical properties move with the flow, and the old age changes spontaneously." Lost in the original body, but also seen outside the body. Get the jade version of Zen, such as the face of the bodhisattva. Jungle a flower ancestor, sent into the incense Yan chuan. ”
An emissary of the Song Dynasty was very excited to see the peony flowers blooming everywhere in the Golden Kingdom, and told the people in the Golden Palace a story of a peony fairy:
"There is an old man named Song Shan Father, who specializes in peony medicine, and can transplant Yangzhou peony medicine to the north, with fresher color and larger flowers. Father Song Shan was also summoned to the palace to plant peony medicine by the side of the Agarwood Pavilion, and it was necessary to make the peony prescribe peony medicine to follow. During the day, there are imperial concubines and nobles playing, and the old man must avoid it, and can only be planted and maintained after the three changes. Song Shan's father worked hard at night, and there were bright moon stars and cold dew frost to testify. However, in this year, the yin and yang are not harmonious, the heating does not move, and when the buds do not germinate in the flowering season, the saint will add sin. The peony fairies are extremely kind in their hearts, and they must repay the blessings of Song Shan's father at night and night, and the yang qi must not move and to be fangyan must break the convention, so the flower fairies agreed that everyone would work together to open a plant and a stem in one day, and the combination of forces would definitely be able to win the heavens. Therefore, in the early morning of the next day, the peony suddenly opened, each branch opened two flowers, with different postures, all of which were dark red in the morning dew wind, and the palace was noisy, and the Ming Emperor, noble concubines, and civil and military officials all came to watch. When I was marveling, it was already noon, and the peony medicine suddenly became dark blue, like jasper, and everyone was amazed, and the more viewers there were. When twilight falls, the petals of the peony are dark yellow. The moon rises, and under the moonlight, the flowers turn pink and white again. As the color changes, so does the aroma. Sometimes fragrant, sometimes rich, the crowd was drunk. The peony immortals were fragrant in one day, and naturally decorated the agarwood pavilion more than the Yaochi.
The concubines were eclipsed by the peony fairy, and they were naturally unhappy. When Saint Shang saw this, he became angry again, saying that it must be the flower demon who was responsible for deliberately removing the peony medicine and condemning Song Shan Father. The peony immortals were deeply uneven, not to give birth to buds were guilty, and all kinds of colors were even more guilty, and it was really the obscene power of the emperor on earth that was better than that of the Heavenly Jade Emperor. In order to save Song Shan's father, the peony fairy could not care about the theory of merit and wrong. This night Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei were drunk at the Huaqing Palace. The peony fairy went to Lishan Mountain overnight to open.
The next morning, When Emperor Tang Ming and Guifei sued for a while, they were even more amazed, and they joined hands to enjoy the peony medicine. Emperor Tang Ming was originally the Son of Heaven, and Yang Guifei was the time when she was pampered. Emperor Tang Ming personally folded a branch of peony medicine and sent it to the noble concubine, who smiled and sniffed its fragrance and watched its beauty. When Emperor Tang Ming saw that Aifei was so pleasant, he said, "Not only can xuancao make people forget their worries, but the flower fragrance of peony medicine can also sober up wine." Since Emperor Tang Ming's words, the custom of using the fragrance of peony flowers to sober up wine has become popular, and whenever there is a feast and drink, all kinds of peony medicines must be folded down, put into the sea plate, and placed in the center of the table.
People are immersed in the joy of passing on the cup and the red wine and green all day long, but they forget the song shan father who planted flowers, the old man who brought thousands of purples and thousands of reds to the world, just to avoid death, is the highest reward. There must be cause and effect in the world. The peony, hundred flowers, and hundreds of herbs on the slope of Ma Song just coldly watched the life and death of the imperial couple. ”
Peony flower, alias temple spring flower, will leave the grass. It is favored by people as "flower fairy" and "flower phase", and is also listed as one of the "six famous flowers" in China and one of the "top ten famous flowers" in the world. Also known as the "Mayflower God". The ancients of the Central Plains commented on flowers: peony first, peony second, peony for the flower king, peony for the flower phase. There is also a saying that beauty is "standing like a peony, sitting like a peony". It can be seen that peony flowers have a very important position in people's hearts since ancient times. In foreign countries, peony flowers are also favored, with the reputation of "queen of flowers".
It is recommended that Jinyuan Cultural Park plant more Golden State Flower and Jinyuan Famous Flower Peony Flower. The Manchu family, a descendant of the Jurchens, planted peony flowers in the courtyard.
Author that Guoxue
After solving Yan Shujun
Editor of Manchu Culture Network