Open to the cultural meaning of the clams
Li Li
The ancients took five days as a waiting, and three as a festival, that is, each festival has three kinds of flower letters. During the rainy season of the Valley of the Twenty-Four Flower Trade Winds, the three kinds of flower letters are: one waiting for peony, two waiting for the lotus, and three waiting for neem flowers.
Peony is a well-deserved national flower in people's hearts, thousands of delicate, pouring into the city, "only peony is the true national color, when the flowers bloom to move the capital." Neem is the last flower in the twenty-four flower trade winds, neem flowers are exhausted, the flower trade winds stop, it is summer, as the tail of the flowers of the fragrant spring, the presence of neem flowers is extremely weak, and the attention received is far less than that of the twenty-four flower letters "finale".
The spring flowers are in full bloom, and it is the time when the curtain of spring flowers is about to come. Just as humanity's greatest fear is the fear of the unknown, so is the tussock effect. The flowers are coming, the winter is coming, and the inner self thinks that something in the unknown may make you hurt, suffer, lose control, danger, be deprived, damaged, and do not want to accept all this, so you are afraid of the unknown and resist loss. When the neem blossoms, it is already early summer, the emotional separation from spring has been completed, the transition between late spring and early summer is completed, this is a melon ripening, the aftersound of the end, so instead of the most emotional ups and downs, the most intense stage, and the blossoming of the lily is different, it is a watershed, it is a watershed, it is to carry up the peony, the lower to the neem flower. Shaohua shengji will eventually decline, the most splendid, the most prosperous or the most unforgettable spring feast is about to be lost, the flower season is about to end, at this time, looking forward and backward, the most unwilling, entangled, sentimental, lonely, no matter how can not soothe the sadness, can only towards the beauty of yesterday that is passing away, has passed away, stretched out his hands, desperately love, and sad.
"Blooming to the flowers" means that spring has come to an end, implying that a relationship has also reached the end, and the flower language of the flowers is the flower of the end, implying the meaning of loss. The "flower affair" of spring competes to bloom, and as soon as the flowers appear, the spring flowers are completely separated from the summer flowers. What kind of flower is it? According to the description of the ancients, "do not be busy destroying the silver candle, the fermentation is like snow shining at dusk", "there is a fragrance everywhere in the breeze, it is known that it is a short wall of the lotus", it can be seen that the lotus is a vine that opens in late spring, the flowers bloom like snow, the branches are dense, the flowers are fragrant, and it is the fragrant snow piled between the green leaves in late spring. But unfortunately, such a plant that has been repeatedly sung has been lost in history: the specific kind of flower that the dragonfly refers to has not been determined since ancient times.
The true identity of the flower has always changed, both because the definition of it varies greatly from generation to generation/region, but also because there are too many similar species and similar forms, such as large-flowered white wood fragrance, hanging hook rose, heavy-petal hollow bubble, perfume moon season, all of which were once considered to be legendary dragons. Today, according to the definition of authoritative flora, it is no longer the official name of any kind of plant, and can only occasionally exist as a marginalized alias.
Many botanists think that the large flower white wood fragrance is very consistent with the appearance of the dragonfly recorded in the ancient books, and I do not believe this view when I first came into contact with it, because the ancient records have long placed the wood fragrance and the dragonfly, which shows that it has long been distinguished, and it is two completely different flowers. For example, in the classical masterpiece "Dream of the Red Chamber", there are only two places where there are dragons, and on the 17th time, Jia Zheng took Jia Baoyu and others to visit the garden, "After passing through Daoxiang Village, turn around the hillside, wear flowers and willows, stroke the stone yiquan, pass through the dragon's nest, and then enter the wooden incense shed, cross the peony pavilion, enter the peony medicine garden, and enter the rose courtyard." "In Cao Gong's pen, the trellises are juxtaposed with wooden incense sheds.
There is also a place, that is, the 63rd "Shouyi Hongqunfang Open Night Banquet" in "Dream of the Red Chamber", this time it is very critical, "grass snake gray line, fu pulse thousands of miles", borrowing the Baoyu Birthday Feast, the crowd gathered, the night banquet was drawn, for the decline of Jia Fu and the fate of each person to summarize and prophecy (most of the poems, riddles, and signatures of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are the author's use of "proverbs" to predict the storyline). Baoyu's beard Musk Yue drew the signature of "Opening to the Flowers of the Dragonfly", and Baoyu immediately "frowned" and quickly hid the signature. Sure enough, the day after the night feast, the story took a sharp turn - immediately it was the death of Jia Jing, and jia fu quickly declined. "Shouyi Hongqunfang Open Night Feast" is actually a spring feast and sending spring to the children of the Red Chamber, and no one can escape the fate of "a red face and old age in the spring". And the musk moon who signed the "blossom to the flowers" should be the only one who witnessed the whole process of Jia Fu's decline and witnessed the fate of his daughters, and was the only one who remained with Bao Yu after the defeat of the Jia family.
Not sure which kind of clam Cao Xueqin saw? Or did he ever see a tuna? The Grand View Garden may not have any butterflies at all. Cao Gong just used the sad dragonfly, and the fragrant snow came to send spring, heralding the end of the most romantic spring for the daughters of the Grand View Garden. Perhaps the dragon that Cao Xueqin saw was the big flower white wood fragrance, the ancients did not understand the modern plant taxonomy, although they knew the wood fragrance, but the appearance and wood fragrance there are many different large flowers white wood fragrance, as another plant, which is very likely. Perhaps what Cao Xueqin saw and the Song Dynasty poet who wrote "Blooming to the Lotus Flower" are completely two different plants. Because the terse was widely used in garden cultivation in the Song Dynasty, but after the Song Dynasty, it suddenly fell into the cold. That's because the war at the end of the Song Dynasty not only destroyed the prosperity of peacetime, but also destroyed some precious flowers and trees, and also destroyed the mood of creating the beauty of the garden and the corresponding flower and tree economy. For example, Qionghua disappeared in the Yuan Dynasty, while The Dragonfly, because of the change of dynasties, no longer formed and promoted the literati ya appreciation, and eventually returned to the mountains and was mixed with other rosaceae plants.
An era has an era of energy, it is impossible to be full of energy forever, to the peak, and then to the top, it needs to be slowed down, the energy decay of the times, but also the decay of people in the era, to go through a long period of hibernation and brewing, will usher in another journey of willows and flowers. In a certain era, it is moving towards a new flower affair, and ushering in a prosperous era of competition. As a vigorous end of the era, as a prelude to a new era cycle, it is unique in cultural meaning, and there is really no flower that can be replaced.