Plum Blossom: Don't let people boast about the good color, just leave the air full of dry air

"Thousands of trees are cold and colorless, and the south branch has unique flowers." In the middle of winter, the grass and trees wither, the plum blossoms bloom in the cold, and the flowers sway in the wind, intertwined with the horizontal branches. His unyielding, outstanding, and icy character has won the respect of the world and has become the expression of the interest and ambition of the literati and scholars of all generations.

Plum blossoms are hardy, stubborn, nourished by suffering, and the colder they are, the more awe-inspiring they are. The patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You Aimei, became obsessed and wrote more than 100 plum blossom poems in his lifetime, comparing himself to "a tree of plum blossoms and a bloomer". When Lu You was 28 years old, he went to Hangzhou to take the exam and won the first place in the preliminary examination of the Ministry of Rites, but he was disqualified from employment because he violated Qin Juniper by advocating the recovery of Heshan. Since then, Lu You has been repeatedly framed by traitors, but he has always adhered to the ideal ambition of serving the country and the people. In more than forty years of eunuch sea ups and downs, Meihua has always been the spiritual companion of Lu You, and in "Bu Suanzi Yongmei", he borrowed Mei to express his feelings: "The side of the bridge outside the station is broken, and there is no owner in loneliness." It was already dusk alone, and the wind and rain were even greater. There is no intention of bitterly fighting for spring, and Ren Qunfang is jealous. Zero fell into the mud and dust, only the incense was as it was. "After the plum blossom withered and drifted to zero, it was crushed into dust by the carriage and horse, which can be described as the extreme of sadness and loneliness." However, the phrase "only incense is as it was", which shows the firmness and selflessness of plum blossoms. This spiritual temperament is actually a self-portrayal of the poet, who has no intention of competing for fame and favors, and is willing to sacrifice his life to recover his homeland.

The plum blossom fragrance is elegant and elegant, with a unique charm, and is called dark incense. This pronoun of plum blossoms originates from the poem of the Northern Song Dynasty hermit poet Lin Kui: "The shadow is shallow and shallow, and the dark incense floats at dusk." "Therefore, plum blossoms are also called dark incense shadows." Lin Kui had three hobbies in his life: poetry, plum, and crane. He felt that plum blossoms were elegant, proud of frost and snow, and very similar to his own personality, so he built a few huts in the small isolated mountain next to the West Lake to live in seclusion, and planted plum trees everywhere behind the houses in front of the house. When he stayed in the cold winter moon, he was in Merlin and watched the thin shadow of Mei, and the gusts of fragrance struck, refreshing his heart and spleen, which made him very intoxicated. Although Lin Kui is famous for his profound knowledge, he does not seek fame and fortune, and takes pleasure in planting plums and raising cranes all his life, known as "plum wife cranes".

The plum blossoms are cold and clean, like snow without staining. Xin Abandoned Disease praised: "More flowerless attitude, all with the spirit of snow." In just ten words, the plum blossom's unwilling vulgarity and self-improvement jumped out. Because the plum blossom inherits the meaning of advocating qing and purity, the Ming Dynasty literary scholar Feng Menglong once used plum to show lian when he was a zhi county in Shouning. Shouning is a poor small county where "it is difficult for people to reach the remote area, and the mountains are cloudy and easy to grow"; after Feng Menglong, who had reached the age of Hua Jia, took the honest and honest predecessor Zhixian Dai Bo as a model for study, and was not afraid of bitter cold and diligent in his duties. He wrote a poem for Dai Qingting, built under an old plum tree when Dai Bo was in office, which included the sentence "Old Plum Standard is cold and interesting, I am with Er Qing", expressing his incorruptibility aspirations. Feng Menglong served in Shouning for four years, like Lao Mei, not stained with dust, leaving behind the reputation of "simple politics and clean punishment, shoushang literature, meeting the people with grace, and treating soldiers with courtesy".

"Don't let people boast about the good color, just leave the air full of dry air." This poem of the Yuan Dynasty Crown praised the virtue that plum blossoms do not ask for praise, but only wish to leave a fragrance on the human world. Wang Mian planted and painted plums all his life, and called himself the "Plum Blossom House Owner", and he actually wrote this poem to express his attitude of life of not being flattered to the world and his noble sentiment of selflessness and desirelessness through plum blossoms.

Plum blossoms leave a fresh breath, leaving not only fragrant, elegant, high, clean, but also refreshing friendship. According to the Southern Dynasty Song Shenghong's "Jingzhou Chronicle", Lu Kai and Fan Ye had a very good relationship, but the two were thousands of miles apart, and it was difficult to get together, so they could only exchange greetings by means of emissaries. Lu Kai sent a plum blossom branch from Jiangnan to Chang'an and Fan Ye, and gave him a poem: "Fold the plum and send it to the Longtou people." Gangnam has nothing, talk about giving a branch of spring. Because the plum blossom primrose, "one branch of spring" is a borrowing method, using plum blossoms to symbolize the arrival of spring. In the poem, the friendship between the two is not mixed with worldly materialism, but is all condensed on a small plum blossom, which is similar to "the goose feathers are given thousands of miles, and the people who are important are the same". Such a fresh and natural, back-to-basics friendship has achieved a good story of gentleman's friendship.

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