List of China's Top 10 Famous Flowers (4)
Jiang Baobing
Water hibiscus – lotus
I like the grace and magnificence of the peony flower, I like the orchid of the empty valley orchid, I prefer the lotus flower that "out of the mud without staining, Mao Qing Lian without demon, through the middle and straight, not vines and branches, fragrant far away, pavilion net plant, can be viewed from a distance and can not be blasphemed." "High purity of character.
The lotus flower, also known as the lotus flower, has been a symbol of qinggao since ancient times. Zhou Dunyi once wrote "Love Lotus Saying", the cloud "to the only love lotus out of the mud without staining, Mao Qing Lian without demon", even in the mud can still be born clean and free, full of tears, silently for nature to dedicate a touch of light red, to human beings to dedicate lotus seeds, to add a light fragrance to people. "Out of the mud without staining, mao qing lian without demon." The Northern Song Dynasty theorist Zhou Dunyi should be said to be his confidant. Reading lotus lotus is just reading its spirit. To write about the lotus flower is to write about this character of it.
The noble character of the lotus flower "out of the mud without staining, and the clean water without demon" has always been one of the subjects of the paintings of poets and poets in ancient and modern times. Li Yu wrote in "Furao": "There is a wind that flutters, and there is no wind that is not windy." Qu Yuan also has a good sentence in "Leaving the Troubles": "Making a lotus thinks it is a dress, and ji Furong thinks it is a dress." Qu Yuan liked to wear strange costumes, and it is unknown whether he really sewn clothes from lotus leaves and lotus flowers.
The lotus is beautiful and the lotus is noble. Because of this, for thousands of years, countless literati, inkers, scholars, and heroes have regarded lotus as a state of life that they yearn for. Take the lotus as a model for your own life cultivation. In the dirty society, in the materialistic society, the lotus gives people a lot of confidence and courage, so that people have the courage to adhere to the truth, goodness, and beauty, and fight against false ugliness. How many people are like lotuses in the filth, in the darkness, releasing fragrance, beauty, light, releasing a wisp of heart fragrance, a piece of heart light, illuminating a world, creating a cool.
The world loves the beauty of the lotus, the elegance and temperament of the lotus, and also calls it the water hibiscus. If it is said that lotus is loved by people in secular life. Then the lotus flower is more praised in Eastern Buddhism. The perfection of the lotus, the otherworldly breath, is seen as a spiritual symbol of eternal transcendence. In the temple frescoes, sculptures and texts, the Buddhas and great bodhisattvas often sit on lotus flowers. Here, the lotus is one of the important symbols. It embodies people's desires and ideals for eternity, the future, and a transcendent and beautiful world.
Lotus, noble, solemn, holy, but by no means cold, not cold, but there is a sense of simple affinity, let people go and be close to the heart, murmuring intimacy. In fact, few flowers in the world can penetrate into the heart like a lotus, give people the touch and wipe of the heart, soothe the tired scars in the earthly struggle, wipe away the various dirty desires and messy entanglements in the soul, and let the tired soul gently stretch like a lotus. It is no wonder that the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and arhats in the Buddhist family all sit on the lotus seat, and the lotus flower represents the ultimate in nobility, solemnity, and holiness.
In Buddhism and Hinduism, the lotus flower symbolizes the sacred and immortal, and the lotus flower appears in the myths and legends of these religions, such as Shakyamuni Buddha, who walked when he was born, and gave birth to lotus flowers at his feet. Lotus and pity are harmonized with compassion. The Buddha said, "The lotus flower on earth has only a few dozen petals, but the lotus flower in the sky has hundreds of petals, but the lotus flower in the pure land is above a thousand petals." It is said that there are lotuses in the world, and there are also thousand petals of lotuses. I have never seen any of this, if I have the opportunity, I must go and take a good look.
The so-called Zen is nothing more than transcending oneself in the quagmire of reality and letting the mind blossom into a quiet lotus.
About author:Jiang Baobing, Zi Jianmei, Owner of Jianmei Building, Master of Qingfeng Hall, Member of China Prose Literature Association, Member of the Whole Committee of Dezhou Writers Association, Member of Dezhou Calligraphers Association. He is a director of the Yucheng Writers Association and an editorial board member of Yucheng Literature. The work "Night Reading Lu Xun" won the second prize of the national "Walking with the Republic, Good Books Grow with Me" Reading essay competition, and "Looking at Social Changes from Dietary Changes" won the first prize of the National Day Essay contest for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. "The Green Plane Tree" won the third prize for outstanding literary and artistic works in practicing the core values of socialism. "Growing Up with the Great Motherland" won the first prize of the "Lucky Color Cup, I and New China" with an award for essays.
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