Text 丨 Lin Qingxuan
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The ephemeral flowers in the courtyard suddenly bloomed, eighteen in all. At night, turn on the lights in the courtyard, sit in the dark room and look out the window, the milky white ephemeral flowers have an indescribable posture under the lamp, each flower is a spring landscape.
Ephemeral flowers cannot be seen closely, it is suitable for distant viewing. The ephemeral flowers that look close up are only ephemeral flowers, a dazzling beauty, and the ephemeral flowers in the distance are different, it is like the water lilies in the pool waking up at night, step by step to the front and back yards of people's courts, and these water lilies standing in the pool climb to the ephemeral branches, bend down, and spit out the white fragrance.
The next morning the flowers were all gone, with their heads bowed. My wife and I discussed how to eat the withered ephemeral flowers. I said that stir-fried pork is the most delicious dish, which I used to eat when I was a child. The wife said that the ephemeral flowers belong to the Nirvana family, they are fasted, they cannot be fried with pork, they should be boiled with rock sugar, they can be raw and cough, and they can be spoiled and forgotten.
Later, we boiled the ephemeral flowers with rock sugar, and drank the ephemeral tea in the spring night with a fragrant taste, and when drunk into the throat, its aroma seemed to come from afar in the sky, which was no less than the orchid tea in Baiyun Mountain Villa on Yangming Mountain - if the orchid is the fragrance of the king, the ephemeral flower is the fragrance of the Zen, full of distant, faint, mysterious smell.
Sure enough, the wife said that another name of the ephemeral flower is "forgetting love flower", and forgetting love is "the one who is silent and unmoving, if he forgets", that is, the "saint forgets his feelings" mentioned in the Jin Book. In the world of colorful and splendid flowers, "Forgetting Love Flower" is not known which high person's name, it makes a note for the life of Ephemeral Flower. Ephemeral flower seems to be a hermit, in the world's gushing, ephemeral flower clings to her own love, spitting out the essence of a lifetime overnight. It is so beautiful, so short, because it is distinct, so moving, because it is short, it teaches people unforgettable. When it dies, we drink the ephemeral tea that is made of it, and for the ephemeral flower, it is forgotten, and for us, we drink the forgotten love of the ephemeral flower into the belly, and slowly brew in the belly.
Because of drinking ephemeral tea, I think of several tastes of eating ephemeral flowers in my childhood.
The first method is "ephemeral stir-fried pork", in which the ephemeral flowers and shredded meat cut into thin strips are thrown into the pot, and stir-fried over a fiery fire, which is a mouth-watering dish. The taste of the ephemeral flowers in this dish is like the shiitake mushrooms that emerge from the Xun Garden after the rain, smooth and light, and the entrance can not be forgotten.
The second method is "ephemeral stew chicken", the whole ephemeral flowers are washed one by one and stewed with chicken nuggets, put a little ginger shredded, the taste of the ephemeral flowers in this dish is a little like shiitake mushrooms, the soup is clear, and the ephemeral flowers fished up are still alive.
The third method is "fried ephemeral cake", which is beaten with sugar, flour and eggs, soaked in ephemeral flowers, fried in a frying pan until golden brown, and eaten. The ephemeral flavor of this dish is so crisp that no cake can match it.
In our childhood, under the tutelage of our father, almost every brother was a "flower-eating freak". At that time, when I was young, I didn't know the set of pity for Xiang Xiyu, but now when I think of those flower souls, I always have a feeling of guilt in my heart.
Is it really sinful to eat flowers? Can you really forget your feelings after eating ephemeral flowers? Once I read the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and knew that the ancients also ate flowers, and the ancients also ate herbs. When the "Compendium of Materia Medica" talks about Xuancao, it quotes Li Jiuhua's "Book of Life Extension" as saying: "Young seedlings are vegetables, and the moving wind of food makes people dizzy, and they forget their worries because of their names." ”
If the name of the grass "forgetful grass" is derived from it, I would like to make a note that the ephemeral flower is a "flower of forgetting love":
"Beautiful flowers are vegetables, and the food is unsentimental, which makes people indifferent and detached, because of the name of forgetting feelings."
The taste of "loveless flowers" is suitable for association. In our emotional world, "forgetting feelings" is almost impossible, because there is love and entanglement, there is entanglement, to pull out of the entanglement, to go to the empty world, it is necessary to open beautifully in a short period of time like "loveless flowers", and after withering, those entangled feelings are fried, fried, boiled, fried, and then swallowed into the stomach one by one, and buried it in the deepest part of the heart, waiting for another open moment.
Everyone's emotions are prosperous and negative, just like ephemeral flowers, even if they are unsentimental, they also have happiness. We are not saints, we cannot forget our feelings, and even the best singers have moments of trance and loss, and even the best dancers have moments of chaos and forgetfulness. We are all mortals, and we cannot have the realm of "loving to the point of forgetting our feelings and approaching the heart of the Buddha", but we can "hide our feelings". Roll up the completed and failed love like a scroll and put it in the corner of the soul, let it dive, let it fade, open it after the footsteps of the years have passed, and see your own blank part of the scroll, and the engraving that is still as vivid as ever.
We have fallen on the money, we have branded, we have cherished the incense, we have pitied the jade, this is enough, how about forgetting affection? What about ruthlessness?
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Author: Lin Qingxuan, contemporary writer, essayist, poet and scholar, author of "Ten Books of Bodhi", "Lotus of Purity", "Mahogany", etc., known as one of the "Eight Great Writers of Contemporary Prose".
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