Six poems of late spring lilac flowers: under the lilac tree, the heart is discussed, and the lilac is sad in the rain
A very interesting phenomenon is that the flower trees that bloom in late spring are mostly beautiful purple. For example, aster, neem, aster, and of course, beautiful lilacs. The flowers on these trees, often growing in the treetops, absorb more of the sun's ultraviolet rays, or do they attract flying birds with light purple and teach them pollen? Standing on high, these purple flowers do have more contrasting colors in the sun than white pink.
Cloves, which existed in the Han Dynasty, are not appreciated as flowers and trees, but their flower stems have the function of fragrant wetness and bad breath.
Han Dynasty Ying Shao "Han Guan Yi": "Shang Shu Lang contains chicken tongue incense to play things, Huang Men Lang kneels on his knees, so he is called Shang Shu Lang Huai Xiang holding the orchid, tending to take away The Dan Qi."
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ying Shao recorded the court duels of the Han Dynasty, using the state of cloves, Shang Shu Lang kneeling on the ground with chicken tongue incense to play the chapter, and the eunuch kneeling to collect the book, but it was transferred to the emperor, so there was a shang shu, and when he went to the court, he must have the etiquette of holding spices and orchids in his arms. Chicken tongue is the dried flower pedicle of the mother lilac flower, like a slender chicken tongue, containing a fragrance.
So why did the court of the Han Dynasty do this? In fact, it is also related to defilement and prevention of disease transmission.
Cao Cao wrote a letter to Zhuge Liang: "Now I offer five pounds of chicken tongue incense to show my subtle intentions." Why did he send Zhuge Liang five pounds of cloves? It's a reverie. It is said that Zhuge Liang has bad breath. Cloves are a precious medicinal spice, and Cao Cao can only get his hands on it.
The cloves of the Han Dynasty should be local products, because in the north of the mainland, there are primitive lilac trees. Just made into finished cloves, it is definitely more expensive, and the yield will not be much. And in times of war, transportation costs are high.
The widespread cultivation of lilac trees should be after the Han Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty.
With the stability of society, the flowers and trees grow in, and the aesthetics of lilacs are improved. Lilac flowers are clustered, and the petals are cross-shaped when they contain buds, like small closed cross knots, which are quite similar to the cross knots embroidered by ancient women, and are also very similar to the knots used in ancient clothing. And lilacs, naturally neat. Concentric and knotted, in line with the traditional Han aesthetics.
The buds of lilacs have the reputation of concentric knots. It contains many meanings about love, commitment, wish, lovesickness, and so on.
"Even the same oath before the branch, under the lilac tree to discuss the heart." Grievance Poem (1st Sentence) Tang · Han Xiangke
This is a Hubei song and dance girl of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and Meng Haoran, also a talented son of Chudi, wrote poems for her.
Then at least in the Tang Dynasty,Hubei was also planted with lilac trees, and the love of lilacs was already widely spread.
So this broken poem is so firm and beautiful.
Let us swear together under the acacia flowers, under the lilac tree, to express our determination about love.
Then the acacia flower and the lilac tree are the trees that bloom in late spring and early summer, and love matures in late spring, and the acacia and cloves are the most beautiful natural witnesses.
Do you dare to make a vow under the acacia tree, under the lilac flowers?
Enthusiasm is as strong as the exuberant romance of late spring.
"The embroidery collar is draped in a bun, and the lilac is idle in the spring.
The remaining Ken New Year is not returned, and the green grass in Jiangnan is full of water. Don · Du Mu Sent Six Words and Two Songs (One Book and One Song)
In the late Tang Dynasty, Du Mu and Li Shangyin both had beautiful poems about lilacs.
Spring is almost over, and the weather is so lush and vigorous, like a woman's most prosperous youth.
She opened the embroidered neckline slightly, and the tangled bun and long hair flowed down to her neck, showing her delicacy and irritability.
The lilac flowers outside the window were already hanging from the treetops, and countless purple flowers were knotted in the spring breeze, just like her depressed mood.
Lang Jun, this spring is almost over, there is not much time left, you can't come back.
I was anxious, and I saw only countless green grasses spreading to the sky.
If you don't come back, the cloves won't open. Like my heart, it was knotted into purple sorrow and irritability.
"Upstairs at dusk desire to rest, jade ladder across the moon in the middle of the hook."
Basho does not show the lilac knot, and the same spring wind is worried. "Don · Li Shangyin's "Two Gifts of The First"
The most famous lilac poem is this one by Li Shangyin.
It's spring twilight again, and spring twilight is not counted, or dusk.
Late spring gives people a feeling of depression close to summer, and of course, the beautiful and happy family, at this time there will be a kind of full stability to meet the summer. But for many people whose lives are still unstable, such a late spring, because of the mutilation of life and feelings, will aggravate sadness and irritability.
For example, such a woman whose husband and lover are far away.
Spring is about to pass, knowing that her husband will not return at this time, but I still can't help but want to go upstairs and look into the distance.
But at dusk, in such a spring twilight, what about looking into the distance?
The moon in the sky is like a hook hanging in the sky, which can neither express reunion, but also is so beautiful, and I have no ladder to go up. Or that the moon also bullies people, not putting the ladder, how can I stand on the moon and see my lover.
This deep spring time, the quiet courtyard, the plantains rolled the heart, the cloves did not open, and the branches were full of purple sorrow.
This scene, far away, you must be the same as me, without wings, standing in the last evening wind, infinite sorrow.
The plantain does not show the lilac knot, which is a metaphor for people's unhappiness. Grieve for love and separation.
What if the spring breeze blows? At least in Li Shangyin's poem, the spring breeze at dusk did not blow open the purple lilac knot.
Li Shangyin and his wife are very affectionate, but because of poverty, Li Shangyin must go out to be a staff member, how many years to gather less and leave more, and the youth of himself and his wife is consumed in one long separation and waiting after another.
Until the death of their wives and themselves came, they still did not achieve the desired stability. When his wife died, Li Shangyin was not at home, and when Li Shangyin died, there were no new people around him.
The weeping purple lilac was their lifelong hatred and sorrow.
"Hate is the same as reclamation, and love is long enough to resist the river."
The cloves are knotted from small knots, and the lotus seeds are full of branches.
The bun flowers are used as sills, blowing lights in the moon at the window.
Qintai is not a long-term plan, and sooner or later it will descend to the neon building. "Late Tang Dynasty · Wu Rong's "Drama (a book with writing)"
Although the name is "Drama", it seems to have the flavor of a ridiculous play, but in fact, this is a deep poem describing the love of a lover.
Love to the depths, hate can not be the same as the jingwei bird, both fly into the sea, holding the stone to fill the sea of separation.
The love is deep and long, and the hatred cannot be turned back by the river, and the sea is dry and rotten.
The thousands of complexes of lilac flowers are born when they are young, and my love with you is a green plum bamboo horse, which comes from nature.
The two lotuses grow from the same lotus root, and we are naturally paired in pairs.
I combed my most beautiful bun and waited for you in the blossoming bushes, and we turned off the lights and went together to watch the moon fill the window.
You go to the land of rich gods and immortals, how can it be long, you will return sooner or later, abandon the gods and riches, and be willing to be with me.
The most touching thing here is the heroine's belief in love, faith, and the innocent friendship of our lilac knot.
It's just a man, love is not the whole of life, or he loves you and makes you an eternal faith, xiaofang of his hometown, and will not stop his dream of soaring in the day, marry a princess, and then think of you at night, and remember lilac.
"Willows are densely planted with smoke, and lilacs are delicate in the rain.
Carefully push the physics of how to reason, and do the East Wind rotten roaming. "Song · Cao Xun's "Spring Festival Gala Five Songs Part III"
In late spring, in the green smoke and rain, the lilacs, with their beautiful purple, opened.
In the branches that did not shine in the sun, the purple fairy clothes were locked in the rain of late spring, with unspeakable, unspeakable sorrow.
What's more, there are dense buds, like a thousand knots in the heart, hanging in the rain.
Hundreds of years later, the modern poet Dai Wangshu wrote that I would like to meet a girl with sorrow like a lilac. The repressed youth, and the cloves in the rain, resonate with the melancholy of much youth.
In fact, the sad beauty of lilacs in the rain was already appreciated and familiar in the Tang Dynasty.
"The blue bird does not pass on the letter from the clouds, and the lilac is empty and sad in the rain." Southern Tang Li Jing As an emperor, why did he feel so sad? It can only be said that regarding love, what about the emperor?
Cao Xun must know the allusions about cloves, and he must be like me, with a lot of myths, why are cloves purple, why are cloves so beautiful, but also make people feel melancholy?
But since these answers are unsolvable, leave them there.
Let us lift our mood and appreciate the beauty of late spring, the willows like smoke, the lilacs are purple, and breathe in the fresh floral fragrance of late spring, let the wind blow through the clothes, go to the fullest mood, and travel through the last spring.
Lilacs bloom, it's spring still there, don't indulge in too much sorrow.
"Purple flower He is too beautiful, Jing Nu ruo for look."
The shadow curtain dawns, the incense sinks into smoke and rain.
Fang Fei has a heart, and there is no reason to think about it.
A harvest returns to the golden house, and the spring is deep and the fence is not leaning. "Ming · Xie Hazel "Lilac"
But the late spring in the smoke and rain, the lilacs, do give people a different kind of beauty.
That purple flower, why is it so feminine, let the quiet girl, see a deficiency.
You see, the lilac blossoms bloom outside the window, swaying with the branches of huge flowers, hanging in the smoke and rain, a fragrance in the rain, so that the smoke and rain in March have a different kind of coolness.
It is said that the lilac bud is the sustenance of love. Why I see lilacs falling all over the ground. What kind of unspoken mind does that lilac have, opening and falling here?
Girls prune lilacs and put them in the boudoir to raise them, the fragrance of the room.
But how do I tell her about Lilac's past?
You have not experienced the parting of the girl in the world, you know that there was an empress in the Han Dynasty, called Ajiao, Emperor Wu of Han once used the golden house to spoil her, but her youth, later unfortunately, like a lilac flower, locked in the Changxin Palace, day by day like a lilac frown, looking forward to the return of her lover.
Silly boy, you are still young, so fond of cloves, don't you know that it represents hopelessness and sadness?
The girl must have laughed, the future thing, far away.
It's a matter of the future, far away.
It's the late spring of lilacs again, why should we think more about the future, come, don't you love me? Say your vows under the lilac flowers, your heart is like my heart, the lilac is from the small knot, the love is never abandoned, and the love is not broken.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.