Zhang Ailing's "Nightmare of the Red Chamber" has a famous saying: "Some people have said that the three major hate things are one hate anchovy thorny, two hate begonias are fragranceless, and the third thing is not remembered, perhaps because I subconsciously feel that it should be three hates the dream of the red chamber unfinished." So we also seemed to follow her rhythm, taking for granted that the begonias were fragranceless.
Of course, begonias are fragranceless, this statement is not put forward by Zhang Ailing, because further back to the Song Dynasty, it is popular to say that "begonias are fragranceless", saying out of the Northern Song Dynasty Huihong's "Cold Fasting Night Talk", his uncle Peng Yuancai is a painter hermit, he has a strange language in his life, and he speaks unexpectedly, saying "The first hates the eels and bones, the second hates the kumquat acid, the third hates the cold cabbage, the fourth hates the begonias are fragranceless, and the fifth hates Zeng Zigu can not be a poet." This kind of witty remark was recorded by the talented nephew, and the "Cold Fasting Night Talk" became a note text for the Southern Song Dynasty to commemorate the allusions of the Northern Song Dynasty, so the idea that the begonia was incenseless was handed down.
But many people don't know that in the previous chapter of this passage, Peng Yuancai clearly said, "Changzhou Begonia is a good county." "At least Peng Yuancai knows that the begonia flowers in Changzhou have a fragrance."
Begonia is fragranceless, it is certainly a relative statement, but for ordinary people, this sentence seems to be reasonable, because the begonia flowers are gorgeous and swaying, compared to rose plum blossoms, there is really no refreshing fragrance.
But the begonias must have an aroma, and I went to the park to look at it, and sniffed it carefully, a very faint breath of flowers and plants, and talked about it almost nothing. But it is also so good, the blooming begonias are like splendid silk flowers, presumably the ancients loved the hairpin flowers, and there must be people who do not like the rich floral fragrance, but it is an extremely amiable flower, placed on the head, are elegant and quiet enough.
"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 Song of Dunhuang in the Tang Dynasty, at that time, begonias had been widely planted in Chang'an Luoyang, becoming a blooming spring flower in the second and third months of the lunar calendar. Maybe this is the side plug people recall the picture of chang'an begonia blooming, recall imagination added points, in a sea of gorgeous begonia flowers, beauty swimming spring, flowers light beauty face, is the fragrance of the beauty, or the smell of musk burning on the terrace, the beauty people climb the begonia flower, it is a bunch of branches and strings of gold noodles?
The begonia flowers in this song seem to have a charming musky smell, as if they are not very credible.
"The four seas should be free of Shu begonias, and a city of incense should be opened at one time."
The sun came to make the house low on the sill, and after the rain, the people scattered out of the wall.
The ground is fine and floating, and the short pavilion is deeply divided into the yang.
From the point of view of the poetry who is bitter, not as good as the joy of traveling and painting will be. Don · Xue Neng", "Begonia"
In the late Tang Dynasty, Xue Neng traveled extensively, worked as an official in many places, and in Sichuan he was a Jiazhou assassin, he was in Sichuan, especially liked the begonias here, specially planted begonias in Guanya, and looked for Du Fu's relics in Sichuan, he said that begonias have incense, it should be believeable.
Many places are not as lush and beautiful as Sichuan begonias, and when the begonias bloom, the aroma of the city is full.
When it is sunny, the begonia flowers of the official court are low in pressure, and after the rain, the begonias grow strongly, and the begonia branches of the family protrude out of the wall.
Begonia flowers bloom and fall, petals floating on top of the moss, and a tree blossoms in the distance, covering the edge of the weeping poplar station.
There are very few poems written about begonias, because writing poems cannot catch up with the sea of begonia flowers, and it is impossible to simply paint begonia flowers more directly.
This is the city of begonias in spring, and begonias bloom everywhere.
Then in another poem, he mentions that the real aroma of begonias is light incense.
"With drunken tourists plugged in, even the yin was moved."
The morning dew is wet, and the wind blows badly after the sun.
Xiang Shao passed on He Xu, and Yan Duo painted half a relic.
The island su lian water vein, the garden blooms pine branches. "Don · Excerpt from Xue Neng's Begonias
Begonia flowers are beautiful and delicate, the posture is beautiful and hanging, as if there is a drunken state, tourists like to plug in the head, and many people old people, also like begonias, this is the time to take advantage of the rainy day to transplant begonias.
Begonias bathe in the morning dew and sway in the fierce mountain breeze here at night.
The fragrance of begonia flowers is not very famous because of its light and thin, but if you see a real begonia, you definitely want to paint it.
On a small island in the spring of Sichuan, begonias bloom to reflect the flowers and landscapes, and in the courtyard, begonia buds bloom in green leaves.
At this time, the begonias were the most beautiful and prosperous in Sichuan, but he also affirmed the begonias, which were fragrant, but the aroma was slight. However, the whole city has planted begonias, and the aroma is naturally objective.
"I hate that the road is long and cannot be moved, but no one will return with the painting."
There is already a new spring laurel in the hand, thanks to the smoke and incense into the clothes. "Late Tang Dynasty · Zheng Gu "After entering Shu through Luocun Road to see the begonia blooming occasionally inscription"
Zheng Gu, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, entered Sichuan several times, especially after the Huangchao Uprising, he spent several years in Sichuan, and he especially liked the begonia flowers here. After the Huangchao Rebellion subsided, Zheng Gu was admitted to the Jinshi and returned to Sichuan for the first time to migrate his family who were stranded here.
He loves begonias, but the woody begonias are tall and cannot be transplanted with them.
He was even sad that he could not paint the begonia flowers here.
The poems he has left behind, at least two, written about begonias, are "smoke incense". Begonia flowers are very real and rich, not as light and thin as cherry blossoms, so the "smoke fragrance" here is to describe the light aroma of begonia flowers.
"Flourishing in peach and plum in plum, cold food before the society opens."
Half moon and stay in a beautiful state, two times the wind and rain to avoid damage.
People pity and poetry are re-endowed, and butterflies love incense for many nights.
Judah's remnants of red turned to the spring twilight, and the peonies were successively sent to the pond platform. "Late Tang dynasty to five dynasties · Qi Ji "Begonia Flower"
In his later years, the monk Qi Ji most wanted to go to Sichuan, but he was left behind in Jingzhou, where although there was no splendid Sichuan begonia, but begonia flowers were also planted in the temple. He lamented that the begonia blossoms, more prosperous than the peach and plum plum blossoms, bloomed around the cold food Qingming.
Half a month of flowering, the begonias are extremely gorgeous, and this period is just separated by the two solar terms of spring equinox and valley rain, so that the begonia flowers are gorgeous and sunny in a short gap between wind and rain.
Qi Ji is a monk, affinity for grass and trees, he said that people like the style of begonias, more poetry, and the aroma of begonias, only more at night, so butterflies fly in the middle of the night.
Even if it is a begonia flower, it is waiting for the peony to bloom, inheriting the past and succeeding the future, with unique elegance and generosity.
However, the too light aroma of begonias was quite insufficient in the prosperous and peaceful Song Dynasty.
"Qunfang avoids the demon, and the thin leaves are pitiful."
Bright and thick is often warm due to the sun, and the fragrance is secretly forbidden to be spread by the wind. (Note to yourself: This flower is not fragrant.) ）。 Northern Song Dynasty Han Wei "Double Begonia Flower in Front of Xitang"
Han Wei said that he planted two begonia flowers in front of the West Hall, which were beautiful and open, with long thin leaves and flowers.
Bright and beautiful in the sun, but specially pointed out, this flower is not fragrant, but in the poem, it is expressed that it is a fragrance, but this fragrance, not a strong aroma, does not allow the wind to spread.
"The red grits makeup strips are long, and the human world does not fit the heavenly fragrance (self-note: this flower has no fragrance. ）。
Qianyan did not pay enough to get a beautiful lady, and looking back at the east wind, she was even more broken. Northern Song Dynasty · Han Wei's "Four Songs of Begonias in Zhan Jiang Ting", Three
In another begonia, it also talks about the beautiful femininity of the red buds of the begonia, perhaps it is this beauty, it does not or refuses to emit heavenly fragrance to the human world.
Perhaps it is this low-key gorgeousness, so the begonia is fragranceless, not favored by the spring wind, and the popularity is not as high as other flowers, so it is the sorrow of the flower, but also the sorrow of the person.
It can already be seen here that the begonias are fragranceless or not intensely fragrant, which is a regrettable thing.
Begonia is fragranceless, becoming the consensus of flower appreciators, of course, Peng Yuancai said that the Changzhou begonia is a different kind, about its rich aroma, has now been lost.
"Lao Tzu invaded the stars, and the bees were busy with me first."
Yuancai has no nostrils and nostrils. Southern Song Dynasty · Yang Wanli February 14 "Dawn to See the Eight Begonias, Seven"
I trust Yang Wanli more because he is a high-ranking official of the Southern Song Dynasty who loves to plant and grow naturally.
He wears a court dress with a gold belt, but he lives a simple life close to nature, preferring to stand by the lotus pond in the summer to feed mosquitoes, and to find innocent pleasure in the life of natural grass and trees and farmers, rather than to live that kind of powerful life in Gaotang Huaya.
His observation of plants is far superior to that of the poets of his time.
For example, when he went to see the begonias in the middle of spring this time, he found that the begonia flowers had a fragrance.
And he wrote proudly.
The old man got up in the morning with starlight just to see the begonias, and it turned out that the bees were busier than me.
That Peng Yuancai himself had no nostrils, talking nonsense, and the begonias were fragranceless.
Begonias are fragranceless, how can bees come over in the early morning?
I could smell the fresh fragrance of this begonia in the morning.
So is begonia fragrant or not? In fact, there should be some, but there are more varieties of begonia flowers, such as weeping begonias, the aroma is close to nothing, and Xifu begonias, people who have smelled know that there is a light fragrance.
But if you are in the sea of begonia flowers, when the begonias bloom in the middle of the night, you can smell the elegant fragrance like grass anyway.
It's just that the begonias have exercised a strange survival skill in the mountain climate, that is, they try to make the flower stalk sway, and the small wind can complete the pollination, without the need for other flowers, relying on the aroma to attract bees and butterflies.
And it is precisely this kind of swaying and hanging, the beauty of the breeze, so that the begonia has a flexible style.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.