Every New Year's Pass, small farmers always like to collect some items with auspicious meanings, such as gourds representing Fulu, koi carp representing auspiciousness, etc., hoping that in the new year, there will be a good color head.
Today, what the small farmer wants to talk to you about is that when everything is silent in autumn and winter, the red "smiling face" hanging on the branches is comparable to the nectar of the world - persimmons.
"Xi Jiang Yue Wei Hua Lin Fang Di"
Zhongshu
"Tasted hualin fangdi, color and yangjing Shen Zhu." Lightly evenly salted in the puff pastry, no more than the manna of the world. Shending was very fiery, and the dragon plate was three inches of red beads. Qing contains ice honey to wash the clouds, only afraid to fly lightly. ”
The precious flowers were not as good as persimmons, and the red color in the gold was even better than shen zhu li in the shanglin garden of emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Its shape is round and bright, and it is lightly wrapped in a layer of white frost, just like a wax glaze. But its inside is soft and tender, it is simply the nectar that has fallen from the immortal world to the human world. It was like the elixir carefully refined by the gods from the gods, and the tribute fruit that was presented in the dragon's plate. If I eat such a sweet and delicious fruit, will I soar into immortality?
I think the author is a person who loves persimmons very much, so he praised persimmons to the sky. What is the good story of persimmons?
persimmon
Persimmon is native to the Yangtze River Basin of the mainland, is a wild tree, because the persimmon fruit is not tolerant to storage, so for a long time, its fruit will quietly ripen in the mountain forest garden.
Persimmon trees can be as tall as 10 meters or more, and have a long lifespan, with a tree age of more than 300 years.
The small farmer found a record of persimmon trees in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Wei Shun is dongping xiang, and rewards and punishments must be believed." There are persimmon trees on the house, in the courtyard of The Mao, shun to filial piety, pedestrians think that they are born of heaven and earth. ”
It is said that there was a persimmon tree that grew on the roof of the house of the beggar, and people transplanted it from the roof and planted it in the garden, and the result was lush and fruitful.
Because Wei Shun was a very filial piety, people said that his filial piety touched the heavens and the earth, so persimmons grew on the roof of his house.
Now it seems that the persimmon trees "planted" on the roof are likely to be birds or some small animals, not because they have touched the heavens and the earth. However, this passage is also enough to describe the preciousness and rarity of persimmons in people's hearts.
After all, in that era, persimmons were so precious that only emperors could enjoy and enjoy them. Emperor Jianwen of Southern Liang also wrote poems to show off to everyone. "Ganqing jade dew, heavy taste of gold liquid, although fuan Yi qiu offering, lingguan late fruit, can not be this jia name, Fang Zi is good at beauty." My persimmons are super delicious, but unfortunately, you can't eat them.
True Versailles
In the Tang Dynasty, there were more and more texts about persimmons, and persimmons became more popular in the folk.
The stars are shining, and the sun is hanging in the evening.
Ben was left behind and turned over to protect himself.
- "Wing Red Persimmon" Liu Yuxi
Persimmons are delicious, persimmon leaves are also a unique beauty, in history, there is a person who practiced pen on persimmon leaves, and finally achieved extraordinary achievements.
Persimmon Leaf Study Book
"Persimmon leaf learning books are not short, and the apricot blossoms are long."
"Drinking the Heavenly Palace Daoist Courtyard when Giving Gifts to the Emperor" - Xu Wei
In the New Book of Tang there is such a record:
"Pious shanshui, often bitter and paperless, zhi'an Ci'en Temple stored persimmon leaves in several houses, so he took leaves to learn books in the past, and over the years. Try to write his own poems and paint them to dedicate, and the emperor signed his tail as 'Zheng Qian's three absolutes'. ”
Zheng Qian (Zheng Guangwen) was intelligent and studious when he was a teenager, and his qualifications were outstanding. When I lived in Chang'an, my life was difficult, I didn't have money to buy paper to practice calligraphy, and I saw that there were many persimmon leaves in Ci'en Temple.
So Zheng Qian moved to the temple and lived in the monk's house. Every day, I take red persimmon leaves and use them as paper to practice calligraphy diligently. Day after day, without interruption, it is said that the persimmon leaves in the temple have their ink marks.
Later, Zheng Qian finally became a generation of famous artists, and his cursive writing reached the realm of "sending clouds like a swift wind, collecting the sun and pushing the moon".
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang called it "Zheng Qian's Three Absolutes", set up a school for him, and awarded him the title of "Doctor".
Later generations used the "persimmon leaf study book" to compare it to hard work and diligent reading, in order to encourage the world's readers.
Persimmon trees are sealed
Can you believe it? Persimmon trees have also been knighted in history.
Source: Han Dian
"Proud Frost Hou"
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the drought in Anhui was severe, and the Huangjue Temple could not collect rent grain and incense money, so the abbot drove Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a monk there, out of the monastery under the pretext of being a monk. Zhu Yuanzhang was cornered, and came to Henan all the way to ask for food, preparing to flee to Xingyang Donglin Temple. When he reached the Xingyang Realm, he was so hungry that he almost fainted. He struggled to come to a persimmon forest, at this time it was already frost, the red persimmons on the treetops were very tempting, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted a few times: "Is there anyone in the woods?" When he saw that there was no sound, he picked a few ripe persimmons to eat, which were really sweet and thirst-quenching and full of hunger, and unconsciously ate a lot.
Before leaving, he gave a slap to the old persimmon tree and said, "Thank you Very much elder brother persimmon tree for saving my life, and in the future, if Zhu Yuanzhang can win the emperor, I will appoint old brother persimmon as the 'Marquis of Proud Frost.'"
Who knows, someone behind the tree said: "That dare to be kind, then the little old man will definitely go to the persimmon tree to ask for the seal." Zhu Yuanzhang quickly thanked the old man, and the old man saw that he had no relatives here, so he sent him dry food, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very grateful.
In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor of Jinling, and the old man did indeed enter Beijing to seek the title, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not eat the preface, issued a holy will, named the old Han as a serving official, accompanied the Minister of Qin to Xingyang, and sealed the old persimmon tree as "Proud Frost Marquis", and from then on it was known as the world.
A story about persimmons,
Do you like it?
Small farmers write to this day,
Hunger has already begun.
Among the many ways to eat persimmons,
Which one is the deepest in your heart?
Smallholder favorite,
Count the frozen persimmons in Lao She's pen.
"He bought a frozen persimmon and took a bite out of it, his mouth full of ice!" The coldness of the root of the piercing teeth slowly cooled from the mouth to the chest, making his whole body tremble. After eating it in a few bites, the tongue was a little numb, and the heart was comfortable. ”
- "Shoko the Camel"
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