Flowers and flowers
Zhou Slender Crane
ISBN：978-7-100-19717-5
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The Commercial Press October 2021
This article is the foreword written by Professor Xu Deming for "Flowers and Grass". "Flowers, Flowers and Grasses" selects nearly 90 essays of Zhou Skinny Crane Flowers and Grasses, aiming to bring the hearts of public readers to relax and enjoy at the same time, increase cultural knowledge, and appreciate the traditional interests of Chinese literati.
Flowers and grasses - the second half of the life of the Zhou Slender Crane
A generation of literati Zhou Slender Crane, with his own purple orchid small building of flowers and grass bonsai to mark the second half of his life; with hatred thrown into the well, the flowers and trees in the garden should be his last glimpse.
Zhou Shuangjuan has a "flower addiction", almost every day with flowers and trees as a companion, just like Zhang Dai's "Tao An Dream Memories" in the "Golden Milk Grass Flowers", and also like Feng Menglong's novel in the irrigation garden. The branches are full of flowers and flowers, and the flowers and trees are always in his eyes, heart, and pen, and the letters of father and daughter also talk about it. His flowers and trees and artistic life are one, and the combination of the heart is "fetish", which is to contain Yingzuihua and love to become a fetish, transform the fetish into beauty, present it as a poetic painting of potted flowers, potted plants, and bonsai, and then present it as text. This fetish belongs to the individual, and it is also far from the Tao Qianju fetish and the Zhou Dun Yilian fetish, which are close to the centuries-old Jiangnan Caizi cultural context, related to the crisis and vitality of modern life.
Zhou's half-life flowers and trees are beautiful with words. In 1932, he moved from the sea to Suzhou, and before he reached middle age, he looked down on Vanity Fair, and devoted himself to flowers and plants in addition to the editors of text newspapers and periodicals. In 1937, more than 1,200 pots of chrysanthemums were planted, and more than 140 kinds of chrysanthemums were planted. From 1939 to 1940, he won the first prize of the Chinese and Western Flower Society for Bonsai. In 1943, he opened the "Fragrant Snow Garden" flower bonsai exhibition in Shanghai. In 1946, the National Government accepted the "Declaration" in which he was appointed, "from then on, Zhou Lang lay behind closed doors, and the four walls of plum blossoms dreamed of a clear soul", chasing tao Yuanming, Lin Hejing realm, and living a life of irrigation garden. In 1948, he sold flowers for his livelihood. In 1950, he participated in the Suzhou Bonsai Exhibition, and since then, he has met friends with flowers in the purple orchid small house.
In the summer, the lotus flowers bloom, and on the wall is "a 'love lotus picture' painted by the old painter Lin Baixi", the lotus pond, the lotus xuan and the indoor bottle are full of eyes, Zhou Slender Crane chases after the ancestors, and is pleased that "finally lived up to the old sign of 'Love Lotus Hall'"; the winter is slow, Han Xiang Ge, Mei Qiu, Mei Wu inside and outside the plum viewing area, planted in the oval white sand ancient pot there are green calyx plum "dancing crane", it is a famous painter in Suzhou Gu Heyi's descendants, once in the plum blossom exhibition, the figure is published in the "People's Pictorial" and color bonsai documentary, In the garden, the various plum blossom bonsai that are 1200 years old and decades old are leading the way. Flowers and trees were transferred to the text, and in the past year, they have regained their pen and ink, and the "Ta Kung Pao" in Hong Kong has been published in 1955. In the second half of his life, he also included "Flowers and Grasses" (1956), "Continuation of Flowers" (1956), "Bonsai Fun" (1957), "Picking Flowers" (compiled in 1962 and published twenty years later), "Gusu Shujian" (also talking about flowers, collected by posterity and published in 1995).
On poetry, there are "poems" and "words", and Zhou Slender crane flowers can be "flower words". He writes about the experience of human/flower life interaction: Yingchun, plum blossom, peach blossom, camellia, peony, rhododendron, Lingxiao, pomegranate, lotus, autumn chrysanthemum, indigo, wood hibiscus, wood rhinoceros, phoenix fairy, daffodil, gardenia, jasmine, ephemeral, ziwei, calyx green flower (green plum), magnolia, maple, goose laihong, hollyhock, plantain, cannabis, honeysuckle, hibiscus, acacia, jade hairpin, cyclamen, poinsettia, plum, white orchid, Jianlan, Xifu begonia, such as the twelve gold noodles. The article is eloquent, or chronological, or according to the characteristics of flowers; "words" flowers fall on people's hearts and human feelings, and flowers are love words and poems, and flowers and flowers reflect seasons and climates. If he loves flowers and raises flowers with friends, he understands flowers and flowers as a confidant: "Indigo flowers near the water", hibiscus "proud quality, is not under the East Hedge Autumn Chrysanthemum"; when he sees the outstanding ancient trees and flowers, he is engaged to unforgettable, and sometimes asks "I don't know if it is still unharmed now?" Don't say Lin Hejing", "wife plum crane", Zhou Skinny Crane loves flowers like children, caressing day and night in all seasons.
Zhou SlenderJuan has strong knowledge of the text of flowers and has a wide range of involvement. He was familiar with the "Book of Poetry", "Chu Ci" and the flowers and wood songs of the poems of the past dynasties, and he always cared for the agronomic monograph "Qunfang Spectrum" and "Guangqun Fang Spectrum", the flower arrangement apparatus described in the "History of Bottles" by the talented Yuan Hongdao was also collected one or two, the "Encyclopedia" supplemented its flower genealogy with Western learning, the foreign flowers translated as "Cyclamen Lai" were named after him, the reasonable and explanatory text "Suzhou Bonsai One Seat Talk" was a ready-made entry in the feedback dictionary, and the gossip form of "Bonsai Two or Three Things" wrapped up the history of bonsai. For the sake of a scientific attitude, the writing is rigorous: the origin of the species, the original source; the temperament of the flowering period, the calendar is clear. A glimpse of its respective potted plants, potted plants, bonsai can be seen in the article, potted flowers and trees are planted casually, potted plants must have trunks, bonsai must be equipped with stones, houses, pavilions, bridges, boats, towers, figures, the proportion is appropriate, the composition into the painting.
Flowers and plants are also in the pot, and wood and stone bonsai create a structural aesthetic. Zhou Shuangjuan is a bonsai master who walks alone in the world, with odd wood and stubborn stones as an alliance, and a beautiful landscape within easy reach, and tree stumps, spirit stones, and characters reflect his "poetic and picturesque" aesthetics everywhere. Resisting the War of Resistance and living in southern Anhui, he borrowed a pot of green calyx plum with pine and bamboo, and the shallow purple sand pot was the three friends of the cold year. The bonsai he created has touched the government and the public, and read countless people, from Yuan Rong and prime ministers, foreign guests to ordinary people.
Entering the painting is the basic principle. Zhou Shuangjuan's bonsai often describe famous paintings such as Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Qi Baishi, including Tang Bohu's "Banana Stone Diagram", Shen Shitian's "Crane Listening to the Qin Diagram", Zhang Daqian's "Songyan Gaoshi Diagram", and Water Stone has Fan Kuan and Ni Yunlin. There are also many self-creators, such as "TianJia Xiaojing" and "Maple Forest Yaji". He gave different plants a different taste, the leaf winner such as plantain, he created the "banana under the Hengqin" bonsai, two bananas, a case of shade; flowers and trees old dry, dry shape is more good, there are old dry red wei like boat shape, "take the small Dharma statue to dry up, take the meaning of Dharma crossing the river, don't be funny." "Poetic sentiment is not a cliché, the meaning of painting is visually transformed from paper, and the poetry comes from the inner connotation, and then inherits the literary heart of the past generations." He instructed: "We must have hills and ravines in our chests, poetry books in our stomachs, and more ancient and modern famous paintings, in order to make a pot of poetic and picturesque high-quality products." ...... For a few cases, day and night to watch... It is as if you are in the embrace of nature, swimming in the mind, swimming in bed, and your mind is open. ”
Zhou Slender Crane flower and wood habits, such as love in the heart, flowers and trees are essential for life, can not be separated from the four seasons of morning and dusk. He loves spring violets, summer lotuses, autumn chrysanthemums, and winter plum blossoms. The first love made him "bow his head to violet all his life": he introduced the famous British novelist Scott as a confidant, and that one also fell in love with a "violet" lady and was not consummated; he bought a purple orchid house after half a lifetime, and the original owner planted violet the most important; love house and Wu, two tanks of goldfish named purple orchid, and purple radish flowers are listed as double bibi.
"Ai Lian" is the ancestral training of the Zhou family, as a lotus for qing offerings, he has entered the heart of the case; he has prayed for famous seeds everywhere and thanked his predecessor Pan Jiru for "dividing the roots and seeing the gifts" of famous seeds; he planted thousand leaf lotus lotus roots in the distance, looking forward to "I will also have two cylinders of thousand leaf lotus flowers for the clear offerings in the summer"; summer bottles for lotuses, bronze large round bottles, Yongzheng yellow porcelain bold bottles, purple and red porcelain kiln flattened square bottles in turn with rare varieties of different colors; Ai Lian is never satisfied, and also admires his old friend Lu Binshi to cultivate bowl lotuses, "in a small bowl, open a red lotus flower."
Autumn chrysanthemums were "paired with a fist stone or a stalagmite,...... It looks like a vivid ammonite map", and the huangju sketch flower arrangement was praised by an old painter as "clearly a painting... Xu Qingteng's paintings." Chinese New Year's Eve plum branches are paired with red sky bamboo insert bottles, which are naturally used as offerings for the Qing Dynasty. In addition, in the winter, Chongzhi Narcissus, with Jingzhou red stone; late spring peony inserted five branches in the gall bottle, white flowers with Yongzheng yellow, when the flowers chanted the poem "Faintly remnants of dreams in Yangzhou". Endless flower and wood fetish! Love flowers deeply and pay attention to the poems of arias, read them at any time, deep in the heart, and be handy for the text, which is appropriate and appropriate. The wide range of quotations, the first Qin classics, the lower and the late Qing Dynasty and the early ming dynasty, seem to have no end, and it takes no effort at all, and the ancient and modern love flowers and the hearts are imprinted. Moreover, he will also spend the love that lingers before the flower, "spoiling it with poetry", and repeatedly writing.
In addition to the family training "Love Lotus", Zhou Slender Crane lives in the Jiangnan culture of loving flowers, and his pen cultivation hands and plants are the source of interaction with flowers and trees such as Wu zhongcai's sons Zhou Chen, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying. Tang Bohu and his friends in the Ming Dynasty brought wine and peach blossoms to send spring in the garden, Mao Xiang and Dong Xiaowan's "Ying Mei An Reminiscences" to appreciate the chrysanthemums and appreciate the juju shadows in a picturesque and picturesque situation, confidants generally prompted him to admire the chrysanthemum marks on the wall under the lights, and the "Love Lotus Hall" was the Qing Dynasty Yu Qu Garden with "flowers falling in the spring often in the" name of the "Spring in the Hall", but the envy of the calligraphy and painting collector Pang Laichen's forecourt is planted with various colors of hydrangea flowers, "five colors, wei for the grand view". He has a large collection of "Peach Blossom Source Map" by Zhou Dongcun in the Ming Dynasty, and a famous Shanghai painter Wang Yiting's "Holding a Chelation juju map" ,...... There are countless people related to flowers.
Sixteen painters in Suzhou have cooperated for him with a middle hall, a collection of flowers and bamboo pots and stones for the dynasty, an inscription on Fan Yanqiao, and Chen Mansheng with "every line of auspicious things, always rejoicing". Such a grand gathering of elegant collections, all by virtue of artistic hobbies to enhance the friendship of literati, sporadic flowers and elegant collections include "with old friends Cheng Xiaoqing and Tao Lengyue's second brother hired a boat to go to Huangtian to see the lotus". Most of these friends are members of the "Mandarin Duck butterfly sect", which is the cultural tradition of Jiangnan talents that must be faced squarely.
Zhou Shuangjuan traditionally created flower bonsai in literati calligraphy and painting, and opened an unprecedented pattern of "flower talk" articles. He will carefully cultivate the garden flowers and trees, collect and see the paintings of famous artists of the past, the ancient poets and famous flowers, the history of flowers, the combination of virtual and real and blend seamlessly, it is: watching the bonsai intoxicating, reading the article pleasantly. Zhou Shuangjuan is a scene for the text, and the title is often lyric poems with prominent personalities and bright colors: such as the temperament of Furong, "can reject the soft branches alone"; even if there is no quotation of ready-made verses, the five or seven sentences are naturally arias, such as "basho opens green fans" and "decorates a poinsettia in severe winter"; life is lyrical, happy people "acacia flowers put together with family fun", lonely and tall people "Lin HeJing wife plum crane", "Meng Haoran stepping on the snow to find plums".
The old style poems that Zhou Shuangjuan quoted at any time were almost accustomed to noticing, but they would bother the reader, which was a continuous humanistic vein that was later cut off. Zhou Shuangjuan, who was a translator, studied through chinese and Western, and "Rose Open Temple Spring Wind" was written in the Qing dynasty word Yong Rose, far echoing the British poet Pengsi, there are Han and Tang allusions, involving the stories of Han and Tang Dynasty letters of Emperor Wu of Han, Rose Dew and Han Liu, and also led to the Nanyang Rose Frost Dew, which was wrapped in his own screen of wonderful fragrance of Yellow Rose, and the grand and atmospheric rational road can be called a relative flower/literature.
Comparing Zhou Shuangjuan's article is the historical narrative of the literati planting flowers. He admitted that he had been a flower slave for many years" and that "the habit of flowers and trees, deep into the bone marrow, could never be eliminated". Busy with flowers a year, hundreds of bonsai, spring pots, summer watering, autumn pruning, winter burial, every day want to create new bonsai, the early years of "word labor" into the flower garden Laosuo. After one or two hundred years of those old dry potted plants, flowers and trees are both successful in shape, and it is often seen that "during the War of Resistance" they lost their lives and died, but the owner tried to save it, at least to find a person of equal character as compensation. At that time, three plants of dried old Gui were found from Deng Wei Mountain, and purple sand bonsai were planted, and none of the three Gui survived the War of Resistance Against Japan. "An old dry mountain gardenia,...... After the victory, he returned to his hometown, but he was already dead, and he regretted it more than once." Chrysanthemums were once in full bloom, and after the war, I sighed that "autumn without chrysanthemums is too lonely and boring."
In the 1950s, the bonsai of "Viewing chrysanthemums on the eastern fence" and "pine chrysanthemums still exist" were praised, and the chrysanthemum exhibition at home was opened to the public for more than a month. Contemporary literati Yiju, he and Lao She north and south of the reflection, Lao She's wish at the end of the War of Resistance is to belong to the WenHua, "a generation of articles for thousands of years, the rest of the year wish half a garden flower." Wang Zengqi, who loves flowers, recalled that Lao She had invited literati friends to "appreciate chrysanthemums" for many years, facing a courtyard of various chrysanthemums, and drinking all kinds of wine at will. Zhou Slender Crane and Lao She committed suicide in the water during another "period", leaving those flowers and trees but "undead flowers"?
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