China has been the home of peach trees since ancient times.
"Poetry Classic, Wei Feng, Garden with Peach" Yun: "The garden has peaches, in fact, it is a death." ”
For 3,000 years, whether it was the "Divine Anomaly Sutra" "There is a tree in the East, called a peach." And the core soup is delicious. Or Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin", or Cui Huo's "Human Face Peach Blossoms Reflect Red", or Wang Anshi's "Thousands of Doors and Thousands of Households Dawn Day, Always Replace the New Peach with the Old Charm". Peach culture has become a unique culture of our Chinese nation.
The ancients always liked to use peaches to symbolize spring, love, and the yearning for life.
Peach's hometown is long and long
In the pre-Qin "Book of Poetry, Zhou Nan, Tao Yao", there is a popular sentence "Peach of Death, Burning Its Glory", which describes the appearance of a married woman. And what is used to reflect this festive scene is the gorgeous peach blossoms.
"The mountain trip is in spring in February, and the flowers are green and peachy."
Common in ancient poetry, peach is a variant of the plant peach, belonging to the ornamental peach blossom class, peach likes sunshine, drought tolerance, hardiness, flowers are plump, bright and colorful. The flowering period is from March to April, which has a high ornamental value. Native to China, there are many introduced cultivations in various countries in the world.
In the outdoor exhibition area of the Chinese Garden Museum, The Taying Garden, and the indoor exhibition garden, the stone mountain house, are planted with peaches.
The Metaphor of the Peach: A Spring Ode
The phoenix blew like a rainbow, and I didn't know whose house was outside the wall. The heavy door is deeply locked and there is no place to be found, and there are suspected peach thousand tree flowers. ”
- Don Lang Shiyuan, "Listening to the Blowing of the Neighbor"
The gardens of the ancient nobility allow tourists to enter the green, but the inner house allows people to peek at the doorless, only to see the high courtyard wall with blooming peach blossoms, can't help but imagine the pavilions of the peach blossom sea in the garden and the beautiful natural song, like the heavenly queen mother Yaochi wonderland.
"Before the twelfth floor, I said goodbye, and the spirit wind was full of peach branches. If there is a heaven and earth in the pot, it will be wounded and separated from the pot. ”
- Tang Li Shangyin, "The Giver of the White Path"
In the spring breeze of countless peaches swaying, between the Yushu Qiong Building, with great sorrow, Li Shangyin bid farewell to here, left the fairyland-like place where the peach blossoms bloomed, far away from the love in his heart, and found another way out, far away from the red dust.
Peach Fairy House Seclusion World
“...... Edge creek line, forget the distance of the road, suddenly meet the peach blossom forest. Hundreds of steps between the shores, no miscellaneous trees in the middle, delicious herbs, colorful fall..."
——Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "The Tale of the Peach Blossom Origin"
Tao Yuanming's peach blossom garden depicts an isolated worldly paradise, with good fields and beautiful ponds, which make people yearn for it, and has become a secret place that countless literati and scholars have dreamed of for thousands of years.
Ming Dynasty Qiu Ying's "Taoyuan Wonderland Map" axis partial
Department of Garden Culture, China Garden Museum
"Taoyuan Wonderland Map" is based on the "Peach Blossom Origin" by Tao Yuanming, a hermit of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which describes the world of sunrise and sunset, like a fairyland. The mountain stone stands in the picture, and the pine is coiled. Three coats sit next to the stream, one plays the piano, and a song "Mountain Flowing Water" echoes among the trees. The stream under the bridge is clear, and the peach forest on the slope is hidden among the rocks and trees.
Yuanmingyuan Wuling spring color plate
Department of Garden Culture, China Garden Museum
Located in the north of Wanfang Anhe, Wuling Chunse is a garden within a garden that imitates the artistic conception of Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin". It was built in the 59th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1720) before the first name of Taohuawu. When the Qianlong Emperor was crown prince, he lived and studied here. At its peak, there are 10,000 peach trees in this area, and the southeast is stacked with rocks, which can be taken by boat along the creek, through the Peach Blossom Cave, and into the "paradise".
Classical Chinese gardens are a comfortable environment that can be lived and traveled, and colorful garden life is an important part of garden culture. The feudal emperors discussed the government in the royal garden, scattered their ambitions, and enjoyed the fun of heaven on earth; the literati flowed in the private homes to repair the elegant collection, let go of the landscape, and pursue the dream of paradise.
China Garden Museum "Garden Lecture Hall"
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