Eight poems of mid-spring flowers: begonia pears on the pond, rain and red branches
The vernal equinox is up to 15 days long. This is the middle of the spring of the year, the sun is directly at the equator, the day and night are equally divided, the sun is warm, the grass is overgrown, and Shaohua is flourishing. However, although the overall temperature rises during the spring equinox, at this stage, it is when the warm and humid air flow of the sea occupies the mainland, and the cold and warm air fight each other, forming a changeable thunderstorm climate. When it is sunny, the sun is shining, when it rains, the temperature difference increases, and even the phenomenon of falling spring cold appears, a few days of sunny, a few days of rain, often flowers blossom and fall, in an instant, such as peach plum apricot blossoms, just in full bloom, often at this time the spring rain wind cold, flowers fall into disarray.
However, Rao is such a large temperature difference, which is worse than the cold of winter, but ushered in the flowering letter and flowering period of begonia flowers. They are like girls who are late and late, still with hazy sleepiness, but full of vitality, blooming in the spring rain and spring cold.
Twenty-four flower trade winds, the begonia is listed at the top of the spring equinox flower letter. Although the twenty-four flower trade winds were officially recorded in the Ming Dynasty, it can be seen from the poems of the past dynasties that in the Song Dynasty, the begonia flower was the spring equinox flower letter, which was accepted by consensus.
"The begonia flowers are dry in the swallow mud, and the plum branches are already sour.
Old age is lazy to find young dreams, and the spring equinox does not reduce the cold before the society.
Writing books dares to look forward to a thousand years, and alcoholism still needs to be hidden.
It is the idle time that no guests have passed, and the small courtyard is leaning on the sun. Southern Song Dynasty · Lu You (February 1176)
In addition to the sunny sun during the spring equinox, people feel the brightness of spring, and at the same time, there is spring cold or inverted spring cold, the intertwined confrontation of north and south air currents, not only thunderstorms increase, but also the north wind blows rain or snow, and its wet and cold is even worse than winter. So that many people will catch a cold and get sick at this time, and even hide at home to spend this cold rainy spring cold period.
However, the begonia flowers have bloomed, and there are hard-working swallows, holding the flowers in the wind and rain, building a new nest after migration.
At this time, Lu You was 41 years old, stranded in Sichuan and had been dismissed from his post, and opened a vegetable garden near Du Fu Caotang on the banks of Huanhua Creek, with continuous spring rain and muddy gardens outside the window. This was the place where Du Fu once lived, and for him, there was spiritual comfort.
It was the spring equinox, and the spring rain had been going on for several days, and he was locked up at home, just looking at the begonia flowers and swallows in the garden. At this time, the early plums in the garden are already leafy, and the green plums are like beans.
He avoided not only the cold of the spring equinox, but also the cold of the world, looking at the begonia flowers in full bloom in the garden.
Although Du Fu was alive, although there was not a single poem mentioning begonias, the Song Dynasty people believed that Du Fu loved them deeply because the begonias were good flowers and his mother's name. At this time, Lu You looked at the begonias in the dusk after the spring rain, what was he thinking?
The world has been turned upside down, and he has never wavered in his patriotism and concern for the country with Du Fu as the coordinate of the spirit.
Speaking of the absence of begonias in Du Fu's poems, it is really a puzzle worth solving.
At least in the tang dynasty when Du Fu lived, the begonia flower was a local mountain flower in Sichuan, and it was not yet known to the public. Or the Sichuan Caotang where Du Fu was located, there were no begonias at that time, or there were begonias, which were not famous flowers and did not have a palm. It is not unusual for Tang Xuanzong's court to plant begonias, because from the beginning of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, special flowers and flowers were paid tribute to localities. However, to say that Tang Xuanzong described Yang Yuhuan as a begonia sleeping in the spring is a fabrication. Because the begonias at that time were not called begonias, they were called begonias, which were wild pear blossoms.
Xue Tao of the Middle Tang Dynasty has been living in Sichuan, and she originally called begonias tang pears, which should be the consensus of the time, but this kind of tang pear blooms with red flowers, while the general tang pear blooms white.
"Wu Junhui moved Jiamu, just as the Spring Rains of Dongxi came.
The warblers cry out on the day and night, and the light and dark reds press the branches. "Zhongtang · Xue Tao, "Tang Lihua and Li Taiwei"
There is no data to show that Xue Tao left Sichuan, that is, transplanting and planting begonia flowers, all of which were carried out locally in Sichuan. Maybe it was thanks to Xue Tao's liking for begonias, so her Huanhua Creek was full of this red begonia pear.
She said that the stream here is rising in the spring and the spring rain is just right, which is a perfect time to transplant trees. Then the ancients planted trees often around the spring equinox, because the rain is sufficient, the temperature is suitable, and the survival rate is high.
She said why she planted tang pear blossoms, because this kind of tang pear, when it blooms, dark red and light red flourish, pressed on the branches, there is no moving spring color.
The so-called Huanhua Creek is xue tao who grows her favorite red tang pear here.
This red tang pear is hardy and the branches grow fast, and soon Huanhua Creek is famous for its red tang pear.
"Spring teaches the scenery to stay in Xianxia, and the fish on the surface of the water always have flowers.
The world does not think of the spirit, and the competition will dye the red valerian light sand. "Zhongtang · Xue Tao's "Begonia Creek"
Begonias should initially be called tang pears, red begonia pears, or begonia pears. Of course, it is impossible to know whether this "sea" is the local accent of Sichuan, or whether the literati specially justified the name of this red tang pear.
But Xue Tao is a begonia pear, begonia, both used, in the poem at that time, there are also many begonia pears, to indicate the difference between this flower and the white wild pear flower.
This is Xue Tao's proud raccoon stream, the flowers bloom like xia, the flowers are stained with water, and the fish in the water also swim in the flowers, with begonia petals on their bodies.
The flowering and falling period of the begonia flowers are dyed red with a stream of water, and the red shadow up and down is spectacular.
Sichuan people and Xue Tao originally called begonias tang pears for a reason.
Because this mountain tree, the flower type umbrella-shaped hanging, similar to the tang pear, and has the same strong wild ability as the tang pear. In the deep mountains, as a miscellaneous tree, a red cloud in mid-spring, it is still a relatively barren mountain soil. Once the artificial transplant is transplanted to the water's edge, the explosive vitality can be said to be like an explosion. The tang pear tree was once introduced to the United States as an excellent rootstock, and as a result, this tree became the most fertile tree species in the United States.
Begonias also have the characteristics of tang pears.
Xue Tao's Huanhua Creek, within two or three years, has been a spectacular ocean of begonias.
And the begonia really went out of Sichuan, it should be at this time. A large number of officials and scholars came to Sichuan, saw the flourishing and peculiarity of begonia flowers, and planted belt trees, which was originally a compulsory agricultural course for Tang Dynasty officials. Soon, begonias were everywhere.
"Emerald golden wisps of double partridge, hydrology fine spring pond blue."
Begonia pears on the pond, rain and red branches.
Embroidered shirts cover the smile, tobacco sticks to butterflies.
Qingzhuo to Fangfei, Yuguan to the letter is rare. "Don · Wen Tingjun,"Bodhisattva Man Part IV"
In the late Tang Dynasty, Chang'an Luoyang was also planted with begonias. This poem writes about the beauty of mid-spring in the garden of mid-spring.
The water birds on the pond are splendid, and the fine lines on the water ripple with the movements of the water birds.
The pond is planted with begonia pears, this flower tree, after the mid-spring rains, in the clear light, flowers full of branches.
The woman covered her smiling face with beautiful wide sleeves and looked at a spring light, butterflies flying under the flowers on the grass.
Suddenly she was not happy, because such a beautiful flower was in the spring equinox, but her husband was at the border and had not written a letter for a long time.
In contrast to this poem, there are Tang Dynasty song lyrics found in Dunhuang in the last century.
"The east wind blows the begonias open.
Fragrant musk fills the terrace.
Incense and red in a pile.
It was also broken by beauty and branches.
Embellished with gold noodles. "Don · Dunhuang song "Yu Meiren Qiyi Haitang Kai 2 Songs"
This is the lyrics sung by the singers who stayed here during the five dynasties of dunhuang in the late Tang Dynasty.
The east wind blew open the begonia flowers, and the fragrance of the flowers overflowed the terrace.
The fragrance of flowers and flowers is splendid like clouds, pile after pile. The beauties climbed the branches of the flowers and put them on their heads, embellishing the gold noodles on their heads.
This shows that in the late Tang Dynasty, Chang'an and Luoyang were also full of such blooming begonia flowers.
And the soldiers guarding Dunhuang, the most favorite to listen to is the song of the singers with the beauty of their hometown. Begonia blossoms, beloved lovers, wives at home, must be folded begonias, worn on the head, that is their home country and attachment.
"The thick and fragrant spring fills the Shu countryside, and the warbler intestines are half broken with the wind and rain."
Huanhua Creek is sad, and Zimei has no intention of carrying it forward. "Begonias in Shu (883) Late Tang Dynasty · Zheng Gu (Du Gongbu Ju Xi Shu, poems without begonia title)
When Zheng Gu of the late Tang Dynasty came to Chengdu, Sichuan, after a hundred years, it had become a sea of begonia flowers.
Du Fu's Caotang and Xue Tao's Huanhua Creek have long been covered by beautiful begonias.
After Du Fu's death, many people searched for traces of Du Fu's life, and what came into view in the mid-spring season was the begonias full of mountains and streams.
He himself probably did not know that the begonia flower was only carried forward after Du Fu's death, so he wondered why Du Fu refused to leave a poem to the begonia?
Or maybe there is, that first Xiao looks at the red wet place, the flower is heavy in the official city, is there no shadow of the begonia flower?
As for saying that Du Fu did not write begonia flowers because his mother was called Begonia, it belongs to the fabrication of the Song Dynasty.
The problem lies in the splendor and beauty of the begonia flowers.
"The head of the Maojin River has tens of millions of branches, and fangfei was not solved that year."
I have to see the King's family this morning, and I am not afraid of the cold spring rain and wet clothes. Northern Song Dynasty · Han Wei's "Du Junzhangjia Fu Haitang Second Song"
This is a begonia tree on the edge of the Jinjiang River in Sichuan, which blooms with thousands of branches.
When I was young, I didn't understand the beauty of begonia flowers, and now I see that you have begonia flowers at home, I am not afraid of the cold rain in spring, and I want to come to see ah.
So why did he dislike begonias when he was young and now?
Begonia flowers are delicate and lush, shocking people's vision, but this is not the whole beauty of begonia flowers.
Begonias retain the obvious characteristics of mountain flower trees, that is, hardiness.
At the time of the spring equinox, it is a period of severe spring cold, and many flowers, such as peach blossoms and plum blossoms and apricot blossoms, are in such a cold way, but in the face of this cold spring cold, cold rain and cool dew, dawn wind and night snow, begonia flowers, but with a delicate look, brilliant opening.
The flowers are rich and elegant, taking advantage of the spring rain and spring wind.
It represents tenacity, richness, low-key pride, although it is not only the begonia that can open in the cold, but there are not many people who can open like the begonia in the cold. It is beautiful, atmospheric, lazy, yet noble.
When you are young, or many people do not like the beautiful blossoms of begonias, but when you have experienced the storms of life, you have found her precious and cute. Because you can in the cold of life, will a posture, very natural to persevere to the end?
So although the Song Dynasty people wrote countless plum blossom poems, plum blossoms are simply the national flower, but I tell you, they prefer begonias.
They wish to be elegant all their lives, like begonias, rooted in cold and bitter, but they can have a graceful and rich beauty, the so-called Yutang Spring Rich.
"In February, the sun was windy, and the spring cold was not timid.
Begonias do not hesitate to carmine, independent in the drizzle. "Song · Chen Youyi", "Spring Cold"
This poem writes about the beauty of begonia spring cold.
In the middle of spring and February, the Bashan Shushui is full of harsh cold winds, and even people escape this cold and hide from it.
But the begonia blossoms, blooming rouge-like colors, it stands in the cold spring rain, is pretty, is watching, is proud, is the most beautiful red flower, is a smile.
Therefore, Su Shi loves begonias, Xin abandons the disease and loves begonias even more, that delicate beauty is the table, extravagant is the bottom, and it blooms in a storm.
Mo Dao's spring equinox spring rain is cold, and the cold begonias are full of poetry.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.