Early Spring Flower Trade Winds Plum Blossom Six Songs: Who will flatten the ground with thousands of piles of snow, cut and carved into this smallpox
Usually we all say peach and plum spring wind, contemporary people have seen peach blossoms, but not necessarily many people have seen plum blossoms. Plum blossoms and peach blossoms are indeed very close, and they are spring flowers that begin to bloom in rain or in the stinging of the festival, usually at the end of January and February of the lunar calendar.
The third flower of the early spring rain festival in the twenty-four flower trade winds is set as plum blossom, which is because in the Song Dynasty and The Ming Dynasty, the cultivation of peach and plum was quite common, almost simultaneous, and in some places the plum blossom bloomed earlier, so the plum flower was slightly earlier than the peach blossom. Plum blossoms are white and peach red, and their blooming period is in the second month of the lunar calendar, and the most beautiful spring hugs each other and resonates with infection.
Therefore, there is a most brilliant word to describe the beautiful spring in February, called peach and plum spring wind.
The history of plum trees being discovered and used by people is as old and old as peach blossoms and plum blossoms.
There is Lee in the oracle bones. From the glyph of the Li character, you can see that this is an important fruit tree in ancient times, and the wooden tree is full of fruits, almost hanging to the ground.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the plum tree was an important fruit tree, "there is a plum in the north mountain", "vote for me with a peach, repay it with a plum" "vote for me with a wood plum, and repay it with Qiongjiu." "Plum fruit, sweet and sour, easy to digest, quench thirst." Compared with plum trees, plum trees grow well in the north and have excellent varieties, unlike plum fruits, the best plum fruits are produced in South Vietnam, although they have stronger flavoring acidity, but because of the limited ancient planting techniques, it is easier to plant than plum trees and peach trees.
Then when it comes to Li, it involves the origin of the Surname Li. Dongyi is a tribe centered on the ancient Yellow River Valley to the east, the leader of the Dongyi tribe was once a senior official in charge of criminal law in the era of Emperor Shun, with the official as the surname, this clan is called "Li" clan, and itself is the middle and lower reaches of Huai, rich in plum trees, and plum trees as tribal totems, later, the people here are surnamed "Li".
Of course, the Surname Li will also migrate.
The Zhou Dynasty had Lao Tzu Li Er, and the Han Dynasty had Li Ling, a Longxi man. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, a native of Longxi, established the Tang Dynasty, and he pulled Li Er, the ancestor of Taoism, to be his ancestor.
Turn to The Plum Tree.
The Han Dynasty has been widely artificial planting of plum trees, the Wei and Jin Dynasties were popular in early spring to see peach and plum flowers, to the Tang Dynasty, the country was unified, productivity was more improved, peach plum is not only an important agricultural tree species, but also an important ornamental flower. The royal garden, the countryside, and the peach and plum were planted everywhere, and they formed a scale. The plum blossoms bloom at the end of the month or in February, which is the most beautiful time for people to travel to the spring and enjoy the spring.
The Tang Dynasty had a large number of poems about Li Hua.
"At the end of February in the west of Gangneung City, the flowers did not see the peach but saw the plum.
The wind rubs the rain and practices the snow shame, and the waves turn over the air without a trace.
You know what the flowers are like here, and the white flowers are upside down and the candles are bright at night.
Shine on the thousands of trees like a pile, remember the old youth with a swallow. Zhongtang · Excerpt from Han Yu's Li Youhua
The 35-year-old Han Yu impeached local officials for inaction in his post as inspector of yushi, lied about the disaster, and caused people to be displaced and miserable, and as a result, he was squeezed by the magnates, first demoted to a small county town as a county order, and at the age of 38, he was demoted to another level and sent to Gangneung as a deputy of the county official.
He arrived in a depressed mood, and in the early spring, he went to see the peach and plum blossoms on the outskirts of here.
The plum blossoms in full bloom shocked him and lingered until late at night.
This is a huge plum blossom forest, although there are also peach blossoms inside, but the magnificence of the plum blossoms is completely overwhelmed by the peach blossoms.
And he saw it at night, when the red peach blossoms were submerged in the night, and the brilliant snow-like plum blossoms bloomed in the moonlight of the night, and the flowers rolled from the waves, and there was no wind to roll themselves.
The plum flowers after the spring wind and cold rain are whiter than the snow, reflecting the moonlight and making the night as clean as day.
So he went out of his way to say, do you know what such a blossom looks like? I tell you, like a white candle burning in the night, a thousand trees and plum blossoms, flowers like snow, let me return to the youth of youth, in Chang'an that kind of bitter and romantic years.
Then the plum blossom in his eyes, pure, brilliant, with the youthful spring cold, opened here fearlessly.
Just flowers like teenagers, and he also has the feeling of returning to youth, but the reality is cruel, he is 38 years old, strong and depressed, and degraded to this hopeless little place, the heart is touched by Li Hua, like a dark night flower, proud of himself.
"Pingdan entered the West Garden, and several pear blossoms were exaggerated.
There is a plum next to it, and the color is miserable like a hilarious one.
The question refused to be asked, so he went around the hundred turns alone to the sun obliquely.
Suddenly remembering the time before passing through this tree, I saw the first teeth of Fang Yi.
Why don't you take advantage of the wine to be unconscious, and you don't see the jade branches holding frost.
The east wind blows away, and the night is full of air. Zhongtang · Excerpt from Hanyu Li Hua's Second Song (February 811).
The magnificent plum blossom appeared in the low period of Han Yue, giving him a huge resonance of the soul. So later, when his situation improved and he regained his career, he still wouldn't forget Li Hua. For example, in the West Garden of Chang'an, he saw a plum blossom that was already a noble Shang Shu, and obviously there was no pear blossom flourishing, but he did not go to see the pear blossom, but went around the plum flower.
Say, how did you drive so dismal this year? I saw you beating your buds some time ago, why can't you see the flowers blooming at this time? Later, he thought that this was because the plum blossom did not have enough spring wind and sun, and the vast tree was guarded in the desolate spring night, and the vitality of growth was covered by pear blossoms and night air.
In fact, this Poem of Li Hua brings into Han Yu's personal sense of hardship and bitterness in life.
He loved Li Hua, because on the brilliant and cool plum blossoms, he saw his own silent hardships.
"When the spring land is luxurious, luoyang garden is particularly diverse.
Who will flatten the ground with thousands of piles of snow, cut into this even smallpox.
The sunlight is not good, and the bright moon is temporarily added.
Qing Han Ying's bones and liver were awake, and his lifelong thoughts were innocent. Excerpt from Han Yu's "Li Hua Two Songs and Two Songs"
He was willing to wait for the plum blossom to bloom, it was his own life flower, the lucky flower.
When the spring heaven and earth are all open and luxurious, the gardens of Luoyang are full of red peach blossoms and brilliant peonies.
And I love this plum blossom alone, who will pile up thousands of piles of snow in this place overnight, and the plum blossoms are continuous, as if the ceiling is in full bloom, like snow like silver.
The plum blossom is not necessarily the best looking under the red light of the sun, its best look is the night, the bright moon plum blossom, brilliant into a silver ocean.
That kind of cold and white flowers are connected into one piece, the cold fragrance is fragrant, let people have a kind of liver and gallbladder ice and snow sobriety in the spring, I just like plum blossoms, facing the sea of plum blossoms, I am pure as a teenager, full of that kind of young and innocent calm and atmosphere.
This is his 38-year-old Li Hua from Jingzhou who has penetrated deep into his soul, bringing him the beauty of constant memories throughout his life, allowing him to always inspire himself, not forget his original heart, and achieve himself like Li Hua brilliantly.
"The night is suspicious of the mountains and the moon, and the dawn is like the snow on the battlefield."
He once made the Western Regions come, and the lust transcended.
Will be endless, want to say what they say.
Is it a flower that touches people, and embraces self-pity and loneliness. "Zhongtang · Lü Wen,"Li Hua in the North Building of Daozhou City"
Plum flower. Lü Wen was in his 60s, and he went to Hunan to see plum blossoms in spring in the north of The city of Hunan Province.
Plum flowers are like the moonlight of Guanguan Mountain at night, and the sea of flowers in the morning is like the snow on the battlefield. I once returned from the Western Regions, saw such a familiar beauty, and suddenly forgot the unsatisfactory reality.
In this brilliant white of plum blossoms, I have a lot of thoughts, but I can't speak, a kind of insight, a kind of understanding, speechless.
I thought about it, this is not the flower that touched me, this is my own strong and lonely like Li Hua, alone to hold on to their own feelings.
This is the second heavyweight Tang Dynasty high-ranking official, who loves this white plum flower, and it is the kind of heart-stirring and resonant life.
Li Hua represents a splendid atmosphere, but also represents loyalty, purity, and perseverance.
Of course, what they insist on is their own spiritual values. Han Yu was like this, Lu Wen was like this, and so was Li Shangyin.
"Li Jing came alone to count, and his sorrow was hanging.
Self-evident moonless night, strong laughter and windy days.
Reduce the powder and garden, and divide the incense into lotuses.
Concubine Xu has been married for a long time, and she is like a jade. Don · Li Shangyin "Li Hua"
Why did I start to emphasize the relationship between Li Hua and Li Shi, because Li Shangyin's surname is Li, which is the flower of his surname. As a descendant of the royal family, Li Shangyin has a kind of respect and affection for Li Hua. When he was down and needed mental support, he would take the initiative to see Li Hua.
On the road full of plum blossoms, he wandered alone and came independently several times. Li Hua and I were facing each other, looking at each other wordlessly.
Li Hua bloomed on her own in the night without moonlight, alone into the fragrant snow that shone in the sky, And Li Hua smiled in the cold spring breeze of spring, waiting for one wind and rain after another.
The plum blossom sprinkles the white falling flowers on the newborn bamboo shoots to bless their growth, and the plum blossom scatters the fragrance into the pond and transfers it to the lotus, while it itself grows old.
Obviously, the plum flower is married to the spring wind, but it still maintains its usual compassion and purity, decorating itself with plain flowers, and not noisy in the spring.
For Li Shangyin, whose family has declined, his grandfather and father have long since died, and his long life path relies on his own struggles and the glory of his inner family as a faith to support him.
Li Hua is the flower of his family, but also his flower, the loneliness and suppression of reality, let him firm up his self, just like Li Hua, to maintain the quality and purity of the heart.
"Jia Li is prosperous, and the garden is indifferent to spring."
Qi Yi cut his clothes thinly, and Wu Yan got off the machine to make a new one.
The color is chaotic with the sunshine, and the incense and dew are even.
All the trees in the hope are jade trees, and the ring blockage is not poor. Northern Song Dynasty · Sima Guang's "Li Hua"
Sima Guang, a high-ranking official of the Northern Song Dynasty, was also in love with Li Hua. Love the luxuriantness of plum blossoms, love the indifferent beauty of this white flourishing.
He said that the plum blossoms were made of the freshest white silk yarn, and the flowers cut out were as pure and beautiful as the flower clouds, and a piece of spring snow was decorated in the prosperity of spring.
The color of the plum blossom is like the glow of the bright sun, and the fragrance is light and delicate, with spring dew.
My little burrow, because it is surrounded by plum blossoms, like a jade tree, I feel that I am not poor, but full as a fairy.
Writing here, I suddenly found that although we are always used by peach and plum spring wind, in fact, we have not carefully looked at the plum flower like the ancients and appreciated the unique and atmospheric beauty of the plum flower. For example, the plum blossoms are white and luxuriant, and the night is more beautiful, and the snow-colored sea of flowers touches the unique charm of people's hearts and souls.
It made Liu Yuxi remember the pride of his youth, it made Lü Wen return to the generous years of joining the army in biansai, it made Li Shangyin firm in a noble spiritual pursuit, and it made Sima Guang forget poverty.
Or, we should re-aestheticize the plum blossom, which blooms in the rain festival and blooms in the spring wind in February, which is not the ordinary ordinary and tacky we think.
Have you ever seen a plum blossom?
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.