Six poems of apricot blossoms in the Tang Dynasty: a red apricot comes out of the wall, and the apricot blossoms are like snow willow weeping silk
Although the twenty-four flower trade winds arrange the flower letters of the apricot blossoms at the time of the rain in the first month, the full blooming period of the apricot blossoms is mid-spring, that is, from February to March of the lunar calendar. Or maybe it's because there are too many flowers blooming during this time, the flowers are luxuriant, and the small flower calendar is not enough to arrange. However, in the moon flower god, the apricot blossom was given a position of the lunar February flower god. If you know that in February of this lunar calendar, a hundred flowers bloom, and the apricot blossoms can occupy such an important position, it is really because the apricot blossom tree is tall, the apricot blossoms are beautiful up close, the atmosphere is far away, and the flowering period is long from south to north.
"At dusk in February, the stars are set in the evening. Apricot blossoms. This is a folk proverb of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it can be known that at that time, the apricot tree was a common tree species in the countryside, and it bloomed in mid-spring to take care of the farmland.
The Sui Dynasty has the saying of "looking at apricots to open the field", that is, when the apricot blossoms bloom, it is the best time for spring ploughing, and the apricot blossoms bloom, and you should also go to the field to work. Although the peach blossoms are also in bloom at this time, the apricot blossoms are tall, and when you look up at the village entrance, the huge apricot blossom treetops, with pink light smoke, you don't have to look at the calendar.
"Spring doves sing on the house, and apricot blossoms on the edge of the village are white."
Holding an axe to cut far away, the lotus hoe to the spring vein. Sheng Tang · Wang Wei's "Pastoral Works in Spring"
Sure enough, Wang Wei was a pastoral master, heard the spring yellow orioles on the roof calling, pushed open the window, and saw that the apricot blossom treetops in the distant village had blossomed, and under the clear blue sky, the apricot blossoms were faintly pale in color, so what could be said?
At that time, ordinary families did not have clocks, and the so-called leaks were also only found in the big palaces in the city.
Although Wang Wei is also a landlord, he can't always arrange such a luxurious timing tool in every residence.
When he worked at sunrise and looked at the sky, he liked pastoral farming, and he took an axe and a hoe to his vegetable field.
Although Wang Wei is a large landlord, he owns a farm in Yuanchuan, and there are many farmers who cultivate the land for him, but the pleasure of the countryside is nothing more than doing it himself. Even the landlord worked in the fields, which somewhat obscured his status as a hugely wealthy official and had good relations with the peasants.
You can see that he has a sense of style, the axe is used to cut down the weeds of autumn and winter, and the hoe is used to dig a ditch to divert water.
The almond tree stood far and wide, and he knew that the harmony of the apricot blossoms was lucky. The tree of luck guards the green mountains and rivers of this side, and the people of the countryside.
"The grass on the Suxi Pavilion is long, who leans on the twelve gates of the east wind."
Swallows do not return to spring late, a ting of smoke rain apricot blossoms cold. "Don · Dai Shulun "Su Xi Ting"
In addition to the common apricot blossoms in the countryside, the apricot blossoms are planted on the waterside buildings of the gardens in the city.
Because the apricot blossom tree is taller than the peach blossom cherry blossom and straighter than the pear blossom tree, it has a good ornamental cover effect. For example, where there are high-rise buildings, planting apricot blossoms, you can enjoy the flowers upstairs, and it has an excellent shading effect in summer, protecting the building and reducing the room temperature.
Of course, the most beautiful thing is when the apricot blossoms bloom, covering the terrace, so that the building is not monotonous. And in the building of people, apricot blossoms are the most beautiful natural barrier, like translucent curtains, forming visual layers and floral beauty.
Noble women mostly live upstairs, with the company of apricot blossoms, life is more elegant, wind and rain, half covered and half hidden, but also let the spring girl live in the privacy and openness, there is the best balance.
The waterside pavilion of the garden is also planted with apricot blossoms, isolating a certain amount of wind and rain and sunlight, so that tourists and buildings are comfortable.
This is a long pavilion by the water, the pavilion is built on a high stone or high slope, and the apricot blossoms are planted below, and the apricot blossoms are tall, just when the branches are open, protecting the long railings. Li Shangyin has, the long pavilion window presses the microwave. This long pavilion, like a wind and rain bridge, has long and winding railings, or continuous windows.
Who is standing here in this season of apricot blossoms, wandering alone.
Outside the long pavilion, there is a lake or a stream of spring water, long waves of green blue, smoke and rain, and countless grasses on the shore.
The apricot blossoms bloomed and the swallows had not yet flown back, showing that the time was earlier in mid-spring, when large-scale swallows returned home because of the spring equinox season.
She is here, on this long bridge of apricot blossoms, waiting for her lover.
Ancient letters were always late and varied, or had not yet arrived home after the agreed time, or he had not said that he would be back this year.
But this apricot blossom bloomed so well, like her youth, standing in this misty spring rain.
I love people, when I put on the most beautiful clothes, and you are not there, you are not returning.
Smoke and rain apricot blossoms, is the beauty, but also her.
"In the upper forest garden, the green gui is folded into a good husband."
The apricot blossoms are like snow willow weeping silk, and the spring breeze flutters different branches. "Don · Liu Shi (Du Lamb's wife) "Miscellaneous Words"
The poem is beautiful. The husband folded a laurel branch in the royal garden, which is the spring and the first, and the spring wind is proud.
But the woman who was about to become the official's wife was extremely unhappy.
Her husband was in the Royal Garden, and she was a long distance away.
All the people congratulated her, including herself, and also complimented her on the surface, oh open, knowing that you have a glorious future, a bright future, and a noble wife.
But where is the real her, and what does she think?
She was in her hometown, in her homeland, and in the spring when the apricot blossoms were like snow and the willows were like silk, and the spring wind blew open the apricot blossoms and softened the willows, a good spring light. But she suddenly took a turn.
"Spring breeze flutters different branches". There are two interpretations here.
First, you are in Chang'an, I am in my hometown, such a good thing, can not be shared at the same time.
Third, you are your guizhi, pursuing a peaceful step, but I think of the apricot blossoms and willows like keeping each other, the two are separated from morality, the appearance is not separated from God, and there is a husband and wife name. The two did not know each other at all.
If it is the second kind, this woman can be described as ice and snow smart, so thorough how should she choose her own life?
Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty's attitude toward marriage was more open than that of the Song Dynasty, and this arrogant and desperate woman may have a new choice.
Because she pursues knowing and loving each other, not you rich and noble, I love that little bit of false name.
"The wind of the apricot blossoms is good for the spring wilderness."
At dusk, the five horses stopped, and the Mandarin duck flew to the green river sky. "Zhongtang · Yang Shichen "Wild Hope Two Songs Part 1"
Let's go to the countryside. The apricot blossoms are delicate up close, and the countryside is idyllic from a distance.
You see, on the long side of the green wheat field, there are clusters of apricot blossom trees in the spring wind, pink dotting the green fields, red is bright and eye-catching, green is vigorous and fresh.
How happy is it to drive a carriage on such a suburban road, and the flowing and magnificent scenery on both sides of the eyes?
I like to race on this country road, all the way to dusk, stop at the river, go to see the spring river sunset, Mandarin ducks flying.
In fact, such a landscape is still preserved in the plains.
It was just that the carriage of the five horses was replaced by a more comfortable and faster carriage.
The pleasure and beauty of that spring tour is like a large picture.
The warm wind was late and the willows were beginning to be contained, and Gu Ying looked at himself and was ashamed.
What is the Ming Dynasty alone, apricot blossom season in Jiangnan. "Don · Du Mu's Fables
This is the beauty of Jiangnan in mid-spring February and March, the warm spring wind, the sun out of the half-cloudy day, half-cloudy and half-sunny, the willow smoke is new green, and it contains endless spring. What was Du Mu thinking about in such a beautiful season?
Du Mu was actually quite unambitious, he originally wanted to become a military general, or pass the imperial examination close to the emperor, for the sake of the national military contribution, the result of the examination, found that there are layers of passes in front, moreover, at this time the emperor is incompetent, the power was divided between the eunuchs and the court's heavy ministers, into a party dispute, the result he can only be a writer step by step.
Moreover, when he was in Chang'an, he happened to encounter the change of eunuchs killing courtiers, he was lucky to avoid the disaster of killing, and later transferred to Jiangnan, and his mood was depressed for a while. Because he didn't have much foundation in his career, he didn't know what he would experience in the future.
The apricot blossoms are usually the flowers of luck, but by this time the meaning has faded.
His hometown is Chang'an, apricot blossoms are in full bloom, close to the traditional Qingming Festival Cold Food Festival, for the hometown of the hometown, for the remembrance of the ancestors, can only stay in this apricot blossom smoke and rain in Jiangnan.
The name of the poem is fable, which means that there are many things that I want to say but can't express.
Is it home that you miss and can't go back to? Are you worried about your future? Is it a colleague who is ashamed to have died innocently in the change of manna?
Although Du Mu's situation was slightly better than Li Shangyin's, fortunately they all lived in the late Tang Dynasty when they could not choose, and in the past, they may not have been so distressed, suppressed by party struggle, and later, the chaotic world produced heroes, or more of a kind of pain.
But he and Li Shangyin were both suppressed in the times, but it caused the poetry to be beautiful and subtle, which was particularly reminiscent.
A red apricot came out of the wall, and the pedestrians outside the wall were worried.
It looks like a hate, but it's harder to stay everywhere.
The forest sky color warbler arrived first, and the spring light fragrance cold butterfly did not swim.
More memories of the emperor's township thousands of trees, smoke cage day dark God State. "Late Tang Dynasty · Wu Rong,"Seeing Apricot Blossoms on the Way"
The reason for choosing this poem is that this poem is the source of the Song Dynasty Ye Shaoweng's "full garden spring color can not be closed, a red apricot out of the wall" source.
However, this late Tang poem expresses the sorrow of the last days.
He lived for 54 years, and only entered the jinshi in his 40s, and in the more than ten years of his career, he witnessed the darkest and most chaotic time of the late Tang Dynasty. He himself was forced to leave the capital several times, once belittling and fleeing. He saw the empire sinking and falling apart.
This is the apricot blossom seen in Fuxiang County, which fled chang'an.
A beautiful apricot blossom protruded out of the wall, and I saw it outside the wall and sighed.
All the Jinshi once held a welcome party in chang'an Xinglin, which was the highlight moment for all Jinshi, showing that their life path would be linked to the country, and the prosperity of the Xinglin also witnessed the stability of the country and the dynasty.
But now, the soldiers are in chaos, I see this apricot blossom that symbolizes good fortune and prosperity, how can I not have feelings, but this hasty trip, I miss it, just like missing the prosperity, fate is destined.
During this short stay, it was already dusk, the yellow orioles returned to their nests, and the bees and butterflies came into the future.
I can't help but think of the apricot blossom forest in Chang'an City, the ten million trees and apricot blossoms, which are dim in the dusk at this time, this apricot blossom is also the depressed state of thousands of chaotic disciples, they are like me, such a situation, what can they do?
The atmosphere of this poem is to connect its own destiny with the fate of thousands of imperial talents and the fate of the country.
He was not thinking about himself, he was thinking about his fellow hardships in the last days, he was thinking about the fate of the country.
This is Chinese simple patriotic feelings, there is a country to have a home, prosperity to have the beauty of apricot blossoms.
And in the chaotic world, the freshest apricot blossoms will also be miserable and rainy, and it is difficult to become a pillar.
Of course, if it is a prosperous world, this wall of apricot blossoms is the beauty of its own spring love, see the Song Dynasty Ye Shaoweng's "A red apricot out of the wall." “
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Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.