Author: Wang Yu
Spring flowers are the arrival of one after another, all kinds of flowers rise and fall, the second bloom, the air is filled with a faint fragrance of flowers, as long as you go out of the house, you will collide with the spring color.
April is the season when lilacs bloom. The lilacs of the trees are steaming and fragrant, and the air is filled with the fragrance of spring. Following the fragrance, I saw a sea of purple incense and snow in the distance.
The lilacs look very ordinary individually, but they are clustered in a sea of flowers, which is quite spectacular. The white lilac is light and melancholy, and the purple lilac is condensed. Their flowers are single or heavy petals, with split ends, conical in shape, four petals, and their smiling eyes sway in the sun.
Li Shangyin said, "Basho does not show the lilac knot, and the same spring wind is worried about each other." ”
Lilac flowers, also known as "hundred knots", the petals of the flowers seem to be a small knot, the sorrow of the heart is depressed, so in the poem it often represents the sorrow, is the symbol of love, is the sustenance of sorrow, like Dai Wangshu's lilac like a girl with sorrow:
Holding the grease umbrella,
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It wanders in the long, lonely rain alley
I hope to meet
A lilac like
A girl with a grudge...
This girl with the lilac-like sorrow walked in the smoke and rain of Jiangnan. Its rhythm is beautiful and graceful, which makes people tired of reading and feeling sad. Such a girl is perfectly integrated with the beautiful, noble, and melancholy cloves.
The poem was written by Dai Wangshu at the home of a friend in Songjiang in early 1927, when he was filled with confusion and helplessness in frustration.
The girl in this poem is not a portrayal of his mood and a carrier of hope? Who is this beautiful girl? Is the poem ideal or love? Such a girl, did he meet? This is no longer important, what is important is that because of this experience and mood, the poem he created has left a lilac-like melancholy for future generations.
"Spreading the Raccoon Creek Sand. Hand-rolled pearl on jade hook》
[Five generations] Li Jing
Hand-rolled pearl on the jade hook, according to the former spring hate lock heavy building. Flowers fall in the wind who are the Lord, think leisurely.
The blue bird does not pass on the cloud outside the letter, and the lilac is empty and sad in the rain. Looking back at the green wave three Chu Twilight, the sky flowed.
In poetry, lilacs are always associated with smoke and rain, with melancholy, and these poetic images give it a sad, elegant color, and it always makes us feel the slightest thought.
Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the father of the later lord Li Yu, and both father and son were sages of poetry, but they were equally overwhelmed in governing the country, and the Southern Tang Dynasty had been in turmoil in their hands.
Although Li Jing, the lord of the middle kingdom, once used troops to expand his territory on a large scale, due to his small national strength and excessive splurge, he led to political corruption, the people were not happy, and there were many complaints.
"It is really a great thing to be a talented person, but I have no choice but to be a king."
The throne of the king is not something that anyone can control, and the determination and pace of the powerful Song Dynasty in the north to unify the country and mountains are beyond the resistance of the weak Southern Tang. This world has always been a world of the strong, and the unique temperament of King Wenqing may have doomed them personally to the same tragic fate as the country he ruled.
Far away to the fragmented rivers and mountains of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the light and shadow of time, there is no eternity, only a short stay, whether you are a king on high, or an ordinary cloth, it is just an insignificant dust in the long river of time. After many years, you and I have returned to nature in the same way, and who knows who you are?
The lilacs that bloom in the monastery are a unique scenery in the northern spring. The annual lilac flower event at Fayuan Temple in Beijing is the most well-known.
According to records, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the lilacs of Fayuan Temple have been famous in the capital, and famous people such as Lin Zexu, Ji Xiaolan, gong Zizhen and others have left footprints and poems here. The Indian poet Saint Tagore also visited The Fayuan Temple accompanied by Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin to watch the lilacs.
In April, it is the season of lilac blooming, red walls and tiles, carved beams and paintings, Baosha quiet, lilacs with sorrow, ancient temple flowers, intertwined.
There are monks standing under the lilac tree, silently reciting Buddhist scriptures, thinking that the cloves in this temple have inherited the faith of a thousand years. Devout pilgrims sit in the temple, flipping through the scriptures, searching for an ethereal and clean world in their hearts. Every reading is a transcendence of the soul and the purification of the soul.
Through the narrow alleys of life and listening to the bells from the bottom of our hearts, we will understand that life is short, there are many desires, and the most beautiful state of life is to learn to give up and let go, in order to find happiness and serenity.
"Diligently untie the lilac knots, and indulge the branches and scatter the saliva."
Who does not love lilacs, sentimental people, especially so, it condenses the poetry of purple, releasing a faint sadness, how much luxuriant, how much beauty, all remain in the shadow of the rich flower.
Lilacs, thousands of knots, they are every spring twilight, adding sorrow and affection, in the colorful flower shadow of the wu zi blooming lilac fragrance. How many lingering thoughts do you want to say goodbye?
【Author's Profile】Wang Yu is the author of "Brazil: Looking Back at the Other Side of the Earth" and "From Rio to Xingu - Travel Documentary" (Chinese and Portuguese bilingual) and other prose collections.