Five poems of late winter Huang Ruixiang: soft branches are invincible, and pale yellow flowers are planted all over the place
Before the spring of the Waxing Moon, there is a special and beautiful flower that is budding. This pale blue flower bud, hanging like a fist on the treetops of the stretched shrub, because the first flower and then the leaves, the stars are dotted, and the buds are full of trees, which is larger than the plum blossom buds, which is very cute.
Wait until about half a month, the flower buds bloom one after another, full of bright yellow flowers, fragrant, a bright splendor and fragrance that makes people joyful and intoxicated, like a dream, and more importantly, the flexible branches of this flower can knot themselves, as if they bring blessings and spirituality. In both ancient and modern times, this flower tree is extremely ornamental.
This flower is Huang Ruixiang, also known as Jiexiang, also known as Mengdong flower.
Few people know the exact origin of this flower.
In the Song Dynasty, there were Ruixiang flowers, but they were red and purple Ruixiang, the leaves were evergreen all year round, and in winter and spring, they blossomed into clusters and had a different aroma, but this was not Huang Ruixiang.
So what is Huang Ruixiang entering people's aesthetics?
"The xenospring are produced in the south, and the road is long.
Peony empty national color, guizi from heavenly fragrance.
Elegant and clean, thick and creamy makeup.
Years of cold pity are there, higher than the pressure of the crowd. Ming · Zhu Chengyong "Rui Xiang Ci Rhyme"
Zhu Chengyong was a ming dynasty patriarch, and in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, he was enfeoffed as the King of Qin, and his territory was in the north. However, these clan kings could not participate in the affairs of the state, so he loved to read and built qilu Academy, and of course, there was no shortage of exotic flowers and plants in his superior life.
This poem writes the provenance of Huang Ruixiang.
This exotic variety comes from the south, transplanted over, and the road is long.
Peony and it is compared to it, empty of national color, it has the grace of peony, the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.
It is elegant, the branches are thin, the flowers are gorgeous, thick but not thick.
On the last and last cold day of the year, you are blossoming, and a kind of nobility suppresses the crowd.
Obviously, this is Huang Ruixiang, peonies in the Song Dynasty to yellow as expensive, osmanthus is also yellow fragrant. Qingxi naturally refers to the branches without leaves, but the flowering is better than the peony, gorgeous.
Moreover, the King of Qin was a clan member, and only flowers like Huang Ruixiang were in line with his identity, and they were personally sent by the doormen from the south.
So where is the origin of Huang Ruixiang?
The Song "Qing Yilu" says: "Lushan Ruixiang flower, the beginning of a bhikkhu, sleeping on the rock during the day, smelling the fragrance of flowers in dreams, and seeking it, because of the name of sleeping incense." The four squares are strange, called the flowers in the auspicious Rui, so the name Ruixiang. “
This is the origin of the Song Dynasty Ruixiang flower, but it is said that the flowers and leaves have a purple-red Ruixiang. A monk sleeping in the mountains was awakened by the fragrance of flowers, and the sweetness of the dream extended beyond the dream, and he saw Rui xiang. ”
Ruixiang's origin is in Lushan.
In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen Herbal Compendium, it is written that there are yellow, white and purple colors in the mountains of southern prefectures. The knots of the branches are curved, such as the shape of the broken. Its roots are soft and fragrant. The origin of these Ruixiang flowers is in Lushan. Among them, the branches that can be naturally bent and soft are Huang Ruixiang.
In the poetry of the Song Dynasty, Ruixiang is mostly a purple variety with flowers and leaves, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the yellow Ruixiang that flowers first and leaves later is introduced to the north and spread and expanded. And the Fuso kingdom also began to introduce seeds.
This yellow and rich flower is more dignified and graceful.
"It is rumored that the spirit planted a Zen pass and slept in the Chifen Hair Grass.
Where the dragon saliva increases the intensity, but teaches the bee array day to loop.
Xun Jun sat for a long time, Su was careful and multi-knotted.
Mo Ai Fanying is more rich, and the hundred flowers are emaciated and damaged Zhu Yan. "Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties · Peng Sunyi "Ruixiang"
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Ruixiang was widely planted, because its flowers bloomed to coincide with the period when there were few flowers in the new year, and the Huang Ruixiang flowers were like acacia knots, and the flexible branches could be knotted, which was given the most beautiful and warm emotional meaning.
I heard that this beautiful flower tree comes from the Buddha's Gate, and a strange aroma makes people feel like they are in a dream or wake up.
This is where the ambergris aroma comes from, so fragrant that it attracts bees to rush back and forth in winter.
Sitting under the Ruixiang flowers, being bathed by the Ruixiang flowers for a long time, giving people a feeling of pure heart.
And the beauty of Ruixiang is that there are thousands of knots in the branches, the flowers are knotted, the flowers are like knots, that is where Su Xiaoxiao sings the knots of the same heart, under the Xiling pine cypress.
Such a strange floral fragrance can increase people's calmness, compared to a hundred flowers, Ruixiang flowers nourish the heart, a hundred flowers thin people.
Obviously, this is the knotted Huang Ruixiang. The dragon and bee in the poem actually point out the color of this flower, which is a noble yellow.
"Musk makes a light sac cloud as a nest, and the soft branches are overwhelmed."
The bhikkhus are supposed to smell the incense, and they should be unprovoked fallen demons. Qing · Hongli "Title Qian Weicheng Four Seasons Flower Album, Its Forty-two Ruixiang"
It is said that the poetry of the Qianlong Emperor is not good, but it also records some of what he knows and hears.
At least what he saw and wrote was Huang Ruixiang.
The flowers are sac-shaped, on branches without leaves, like nests in clouds, and flexible branches are in a delicate shape.
Such a fragrant cloud-like floral fragrance, whoever smells it, will be lost in the fragrance and fall into a deep dream.
This is also the beauty of Huang Ruixiang, when it blooms, the yellow clouds are a piece, the grace is gorgeous, light and beautiful, and the fragrance is fragrant.
And this kind of yellow, one is used by the Buddha, and the other is loved by the royal family.
"Lighter than cicada wings thinner than yarn, the silk of the appendix is neat and oblique."
No literati worry about paper expensive, light yellow all over the planting of Ruixiang flowers. "Late Qing Dynasty · Huang Zunxian's Fuso Miscellaneous Poems, One Hundred and Ninety-Four
Then this kind of Ruixiang flower, after it was passed down to Japan, also developed a use, because Huang Ruixiang's skin and fibers are more flexible, and the Fuso people who lack materials carry forward the spirit of craftsmanship and use Ruixiang to make paper to create a translucent writing paper.
Therefore, the pale yellow Ruixiang flowers are planted everywhere as raw materials for papermaking, which is also a kind of beautiful grandeur.
However, at this time, Fuso has entered the modern and modern times in advance, and that kind of vigorous vitality still makes many people who stay in the east sigh.
Ruixiang flowers were still used as rare ornamental flowers and trees in the Qing Dynasty.
"The flowers are fragrant. The heavy curtains of the green curtain do not stain the dust.
In the dream, the real fragrance is through the nose, and it is full of water.
Not Tingting Qian's female soul.
The fine ones are embellished. Light powder and light fat are the most pleasant.
Lazy and vantage, fresh.
Win the Jackpot Group. "Qing · Gu Taiqing,"Nanxiangzi Yong Ruixiang"
Gu Taiqing late Qing Dynasty royal belle Fujin, natural festival precious flowers and trees will be in the mansion.
The fragrance of the flowers floats directly into the dream, and the beauty of that grace is just in line with the aristocratic aesthetic, not the ghost of a small family.
The faint yellow and white is the most elegant and fresh.
In this late winter, a courtyard of yellow rui fragrant flowers bloom, rich and light and elegant spring on the head, the so-called jiaming, not only Rui, or yellow bar.
Huang Ruixiang flowers in late winter and early spring, and like plum blossoms, it flowers first and leaves later.
Treated as an auspicious love flower, it is natural and simple, blossoming in the snow, flexible and knotted, is not it the most beautiful acacia and loyalty? And this kind of acacia loyalty is still with joy.
Therefore, Huang Ruixiang is also called Xihua.
Dreaming in the Ruixiang flowers, waking up is the warm spring blossoms, hand in hand.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.