Five ancient poems of Laxue Plum Blossom: Laxue Lianxiao fei, plum blossom quiet to snowflake Yan
Waxing moon is the last month in the traditional lunar calendar, the snow at this time is called waxing snow, in addition to indicating the time period under the snow, there is another meaning, that is, cold, extremely cold, but also indicates that it is the first part of spring.
In such an extreme cold, there are plum blossoms blooming coldly. Is this a coincidence of creation and nature?
No. The plum blossom grows in the mountain forests of central and southern China, and in the long process of evolution, in order to gain an advantage in the competition for survival and continuation, it is one of the few plants that blooms in the cold season. In order to avoid the flowers being blown down by the wind, the small buds cling to the branches, in order to attract wind and insect vectors in winter, the plum blossoms are small and tough, with a unique fragrance.
They are not a clever creation, they are tenaciously grinding themselves for survival. They are not loving the cold, they are trying to survive.
And the memory in this gene has not changed, even if it is transplanted to a warm place.
Are plum blossoms afraid of the cold? Of course, any species, including substances, has a limit to stress. In the ancient Yellow River Basin, it was once full of plum blossoms, but with the change of climate, the north continued to be cold and cold, and the hardy plum blossoms gradually retreated south to the Yangtze River Basin.
Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty saw mountain plums in the fufeng mountains in the north, and the pavilions bloomed, poignant and moving, which were the remnants of plum trees and seeds of the pre-Qin Dynasty. Li Shangyin's sadness is why it does not bloom in the New Year, my sadness is that it is such a lonely, in the cold north, relying on what tree to live alone?
Plum blossoms are resistant to small cold, and it goes without saying. The temperature is about ten degrees below zero, and the roots are still vibrant. But beyond this limit, the plum blossom is not a superman and a fairy flower, it is a living plant, and it will freeze to death.
The plum blossom symbolizes the simple and tenacious people, which is very correct, people use their lives to adapt to various harsh environments, and life itself is a cold plum blossom.
Plum blossoms are more symbolic of a spirit, although plum blossoms fall, or although plum trees die, but their life in the barren cold, enough to inspire generations of people, to complete their own difficult life.
So today I read the plum blossoms, the coldest snow, the toughest blossoms.
"The cold plum leads the old branches, and the bamboo returns to the pool."
Dew opens deeply, and the smell of incense passes by.
Ling Jing invaded the snow and scattered into the spring poem.
Give me the cold color of the year, pity jun ice jade posture. Northern Song Dynasty · Wen Tong "Mei"
Cold plums emerge from old branches, next to the bamboo forest by the pool. Bamboo color green, plum blossom pink white or pink, is the most vivid corresponding color of late winter, such a color makes the cold winter, add green and spring.
The pine bamboo plum is also a cold three friends, because this is a small number of evergreen plants and flowering plants in late winter, especially plum blossoms, although the winter solstice season begins to brew buds, the actual opening is late winter and early spring.
The flowers were covered with cold dew, hidden deep in the bamboo leaves, but as soon as people passed by here, they would smell the strange fragrance of plum blossoms.
As mentioned above, why are plum blossoms colder and more fragrant? It is the cold that stimulates the motivation to survive, and the colder the period, the more intense the aroma of the plum blossoms will attract insects. Life is so short that plum blossoms are struggling to burn themselves.
This is the season when the snow is falling and freezing, but the plum blossoms are blooming one by one. In people's eyes, this is it in the spring, the second opening, at this time because of the heavy cold, not much open, as if it is a loose spring.
However, it is this kind of blossoming that does not bloom much of the beauty of proud upwards, and there is also a kind of upward in the cold ice and snow.
Ancient pity is now usually interpreted as love, but in fact this pity is the mutual liking of equal empathy.
I love the way you look like a jade in the snow, not because you are tall, but because we are all alike.
Plum blossoms are in the wind and snow of the season, and many people also stand in the extremely cold period of life. People who love plum blossoms see themselves on the road of life from plum blossoms.
"The knot is not greedy to taste, and the red apricots are even first occupied by nianfang."
From the teaching of Laxue to bury the shadow, but afraid of the spring wind leaking incense.
Do not resist the lead Hua know the national color, just cut the clouds want to immortal.
Shaoling was involved in Shixing, but he did not have the heart to give Begonia. Northern Song Dynasty · Wang Anshi "With the Micro With the Plum Blossom to Get Fragrant Characters Three Songs Part II"
This is a poem written by Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty.
He said that the plum blossom result was not to covet anything into the royal precious kitchen, because the plum was famous in the pre-Qin Dynasty, was an important sour ingredient, good plums were offered to the King of Zhou by the South Vietnamese tribes, plums had the reputation of blending Tianzi soup, and later also referred to talents who were good at governing the country and entered the national high-level for the emperor's reuse.
Wang Anshi actually pointed out the origin of the plum, its existence, perhaps even itself did not think about it, into the important map of Chinese culture. This is also Wang Anshi's self-humility. At least as prime minister, he is really not an enterprising and rich man who covets his career.
Plum blossoms bloom before spring and open during the New Year's period, which is also occasional and coincidental. At least the concept of the year, the Zhou Dynasty is in November as the year, after the Han Dynasty is the first month as the year. If November is the first of the year, then the chrysanthemum is the flower of the year, not the plum blossom.
Writing these, Wang Anshi is writing about the low profile of plum blossoms, which should blossom and bear fruit. It is not for the spring breeze of the world, but has its own life cycle, or rather, its own ideals.
In the heavy snow of the waxing moon, the flower shadow of the plum tree is buried in the deep snow, but no one can resist the moving fragrance. Wang Anshi certainly did not know that the aroma of plum blossoms was for the genetic continuation of life, but he also wrote about the characteristics of plum blossoms. Plum blossoms really don't have a beautiful aroma because of the arrival of spring and spring breeze. To put it cruelly, it is because it does not know that there is spring, so hard.
It is precisely because of this attachment to life itself that the plum blossoms in the snow are particularly fragrant.
Wang Anshi said, presumably Du Fu is precisely because the fragrance of plum blossoms is so moving that people miss their hometown, so Du Fu does not have a poem written about spring begonias.
Wang Anshi is compared with Du Fu's arduous tribulations and plum blossoms. This is also the reason why Wang Anshi loves Du Fu and Plum Blossom.
Why didn't Du Fu write begonia poems? Begonias gradually went out of Sichuan to become famous flowers in the late Tang Dynasty. In the Middle and Tang Dynasties, Sichuan, where Du Fu was located, either lived without begonias, or this wild flower tree was not so famous.
And plum blossoms, Du Fu's hometown of Chang'an Luoyang, there are also Sichuan mountains, familiar flowers, hard tossing, not to love is also difficult.
This also shows Wang Anshi's ambition, he is selfless to be prime minister. After retiring, Wang Anshi was shaped like a mountain man, living in seclusion in the mountains and practicing a simple life of plum blossoms voluntarily fragrant and not seeking Wenda.
"Laxue deceives plums drifting jade dust, and early plums fight in the snow in the spring."
There is no vulgarity that can be mixed, but the fragrance can be recognized.
Gu shoots immortal ice as a body, and the princess of the Qin family powder as a body.
Su'e has called herself Jiali, and she is also a person in the Guanghan Palace. Northern Song Dynasty · Zheng Badger,"Plum in the Snow"
The waxing moon flew and bullied the cold plums, so it sprinkled snowflakes on the sky.
However, the plum blossoms are skillful in the snow and bloom into the spring in the snow. Some friends said, why do you always say that cold plums fight snow, isn't snow the same as nourishing plum blossoms?
From the characteristics of the snow to protect the moisture, the snow can make the land more fertile, but it should be clear that these fertilities are used to prepare for the germination of seeds after the temperature rises in the spring. The plum blossoms that bloom in the snow may not enjoy the benefits of spring, and the plum blossoms in the snow at this time are indeed fighting against the cold ice and snow, and the spring in the snow and the spring before spring are blooming.
The following common words, not much explanation, Gu Shoot Immortals, Guanghan Chang'e, are all compared to plum blossoms and fairies.
But the plum blossom itself is a native flower of the mountain forest. It's just that the roots are in the soil, and the beautiful flowers bloom, and the cold fragrance that is rare in the world. The highlight of this poem is in the second sentence of the first sentence, plum blossom fighting snow.
"Late snow becomes spring snow early, plum blossoms quiet to snowflakes Yan."
From now on, he grew up to be Feng Dengrui, and the Yu family supported the family for nine years. Southern Song Dynasty · Excerpt from Lu Jiuyuan's "He Huang Siye Xixue"
If the snow in the waxing moon comes later and falls longer, it will be enough for the New Year.
It is also normal for a snow to fall from the waxing moon to the first month, such as the heavy snow on the 30th day of the 29th month of the waxing moon, and the next two or three days, the winter snow becomes spring snow. The more snowy it is, the more you can see the beauty of plum blossom snow.
Although they stand quietly in the snow, the passion of life is displayed on the blossoming of the branches.
How deep the snow is, how hard and proud the flowers are. However, it is a relatively static state of gaze.
It's a contest of internal forces.
Heavy snow represents severe winter, while the vitality of plum blossoms represents spring. What overwhelmed the snow with a smile was the tenacious vitality of the plum blossom and the coming spring standing behind it.
Just staring at it, let the plum blossom blossom in the snow with a gentle smile.
Spring is coming, and these snows will also turn into the most moist spring water, indicating that the spring seedlings will grow strong and the grains will be abundant in the coming year.
"Laxue received Xiaofei all night, and the Prince of Jinyuan did not know."
Get up and knock on the plum tree with your staff, and hold it lightly and crush the branches. Southern Song Dynasty · Xu Tang "Snow Dawn"
People who really like plum blossoms are people who love plum blossoms in detail.
A heavy snow did not stop all night, the morning was still falling, the sleep was heavy, the people lying in the splendid quilt, the fragrant dreams were deep, where to know what happened last night.
People who love plum blossoms first think of removing the snow that has accumulated on the branches and trunks of plum blossoms.
Heavy snow is so heavy that it is likely to break plum branches, and too much snow is stuck on the branches, most likely forming icicles of ice.
Plum blossoms are proud of the snow, and they can't withstand the depression of layers of ice and snow. For example, the most delicate flower buds are likely to be trapped in the ice, unable to breathe, resulting in real frostbite and death.
Plum blossoms are hardy, but they can't be completely ignored. Especially when the temperature drops sharply, it will also frostbite the trunk and branches of the tree.
Loving flowers is not a person who folds flowers, and loving plums is looking forward to long and spring.
I remember one year, I saw that plum blossom trees were also put on knitted warm covers by gardeners, and I thought it was very funny, so I asked, can plum blossoms be used like this?
He replied that if he did not take care of it, any tree would freeze to death.
Although this sentence is common, it has been lingering in the ears for many years.
Plum blossoms will also die, if not loved.
This did not make me cancel out my love for plum blossoms, but I loved plum blossoms even more, because it was so real, it was just in the cold, using the power of life to blossom.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.