The water lily in ancient poetry (Part 2): The four-colored lotus flower is rare in the world, and the beautiful lotus flower floats on the surface of the water
Native water lilies predate lotuses, known in the pre-Qin Dynasty as Apples, Large Apples, and in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasties, they belonged to the category of White Apples.
For the aesthetic of water lilies, in the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty, it was relatively extensive.
Their leaves are as solid as the lotus flowers, classifying them as apples, and when the lotus flowers are in full bloom, these water lilies are still present, just like the flowers and the lotuses.
But in the Song Dynasty, as the Song Dynasty attached importance to agriculture and flowers, and various flowers decorated the courtyard garden, water lilies began to be valued as a variety.
"The deep mountains and trees have their own strangeness, and the four-color lotus flowers are rare in the world."
In the Garden of Solitude, look at the eyes of the Buddha, and hold the heavenly robe on the pool.
After the White Duke was absent, Wang Jian returned to the shogunate.
The water is cold and the wind is not high, but the gulls and birds are dependent on each other day by day. "Northern Song Dynasty Zhang Shunmin."
"The small pond of the Kaili Temple where he lived, there are four-colored lotus flowers blue, yellow, white and red, and the red ones are thousand leaves, all of which have never been seen in the northern soil, and it is a pity that they have this strange hui"
Zhang Shunmin Yingzong Zhiping II (1065) Jinshi, that is, the jinshi in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Kaili Temple, in Wuxi, Zhejiang, is a Jiangnan temple during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
He was a northerner, when he arrived in Wuxi, he saw that in the pool of the temple, there were four kinds of lotus flowers, purple, yellow, white, red, red with thousand petals, all of which had never been seen in the north, he was surprised at such a remote place, why did there be such a flower?
In this deep mountain, the grass and trees are strange, and the four-colored lotus flowers are rare in the world. In such a lonely and cold place, the lotus petals are slender like the eyes of the Buddha, and the four-colored lotus flowers are like the colorful clothes in the sky.
It's so remote, very few people come here, only white gulls fly over here.
There was no doubt that what he saw was water lilies.
First, lotus flowers have the same root, and often the lotus flowers in a pond are often the same similar color.
Second, the pond of the temple is not a large release pond, and there are four colors of lotus flowers here, which are definitely not lotuses. Because there are very few lotus flowers yellow. And with so many varieties of lotus flowers planted together, the release pond in the temple is obviously not enough.
Three, which he said lotus chiba, usually refers to the water lily. Only four species of water lilies that do not use varieties can be released in a small temple release pond at the same time.
Then the water lilies here, he was surprised, had never been seen in the north, including the capital.
Where do the water lilies here come from?
In fact, the nature of the Buddhist temple here can also be seen, there are some, such as green lotus, that is, purple lotus, and yellow red may have come from India as early as. White, probably near Gangnam wilderness.
This also shows that in addition to the native water lilies, there are also some monks and transportation trade in the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which reached Wuxi, Zhejiang.
"Ten thousand bamboo outside the Taoist Temple, what a small pond of thousand leaves lotus."
The moon white wind is clear who shares this, and the heart is idle and silent.
Good toss the powder Juan Juan net, come to see the circle of the lotus beads.
Fei Xi Can Really Overtake Me, And I have to take advantage of the evening frost. "Song · Li Gang "There is a Yellow Lotus in the Ningxiang Pond after the Tokyo Five Mountains View"
Yuju Tongcheng monk's house Dongxuan Pond Lotus Bloom bamboo an old man intended to see the play to give this article
The Song Dynasty began to widely cultivate water lilies, mainly for appreciation. For example, this beam, the release pond in the temple of the Five Peaks Temple in the capital city,
There are yellow water lilies planted. This is also basically certain that some water lily varieties are spread through Buddhism.
The yellow water lilies here are surprising, and they must have been absent before.
Water lilies are called pond lilies and are suitable for cultivation in small tanks. The water lily, also known as the thousand leaf lotus, is a large number of delicate and beautiful petals in its petals, and it is full of lotus flowers.
Where do the yellow water lilies here come from? This is impossible to know. Is it circulation between temples, or is the new brought from India?
In short, in the middle of the Song Dynasty, there were many water lilies in the temples.
This yellow water lily is quiet and beautiful, the moon is white and the wind is clear, the bamboo green rain is deep, and it is quite Zen.
"Qianye Hibiscus white jade skin, a bottle of watery Bilin.
I know that everything is out of the atmosphere, and I am also autumn wind and mountain Zeze. Southern Song Dynasty · Lu You "In the summer for a long time do not put the wine pot pool Chiba white lotus suddenly opened a branch of happy drink because of the end of the sentence two songs one of the first "
Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty lived in Shanyin, Zhejiang In his later years, which was the source of lotus flowers, and he himself was very poor and insisted on farming and reading.
However, in the small pot pond in the courtyard, there are lotus flowers, and it is a thousand leaves of white lotus.
Can't help but make people wonder, what is this lotus flower?
And when the lotus blossoms, the mood is very good, and he has not drunk alcohol for a long time.
In fact, this is most likely to be a white water lily raised in a basin.
Only the white water lilies, which are thousands of white petals, make people marvel at the purity and beauty.
Because there is no shortage of white lotus flowers in Zhejiang, but there are no thousand petals of water lilies that stretch freely.
There were also song dynasties that cultivated lotus flowers with thousand petals, but larger ponds were needed, otherwise, the roots of the lotus flowers could not be unfolded.
So here it could only be a small water lily.
Facing the small water lilies that bloomed like jade, Lu You was in a good mood, holding a green wine glass to admire, a kind of enjoyment of the beauty of dust.
Water lilies are also Buddhist flowers, and Lu You must know it.
It's just not clear whether his water lilies originated from the nearby mountains or were gifts from others on the way.
"The beautiful lotus flowers float on the surface of the water, and the green cloud fragrance is a sand gull."
When to pick the middle leaves of the pool, drive as a middle stream Taiyi boat. ” · Tao An's "Missing Title, Late Yuan and Early Ming Dynasty"
In the Ming Dynasty, in fact, water lilies, as ornamental flowers, were already everywhere.
Garden ponds are also planted with water lilies.
Water lilies are different from lotuses, that is, the flowers of water lilies, which often float on the surface of the water, while lotus flowers stand tall.
In the Ming Dynasty and now more recently, rivers, lakes, seas, ponds and lakes have relatively accurate definitions. Ponds are relatively small ponds, unlike the Xiantang, huge lakes are also called Tianchi.
So, he saw the water lilies in the small pond.
Why is it that the water lily is not a lotus?
Because the first sentence sets the tone.
Brilliant lotus flowers float on the surface of the water.
Surely what is this stunning? Water lilies have more colors than lotuses, dark purple, big red, yellow, these are rare among lotuses.
This small pond, with its beautiful water lilies, floated on the water and opened, and on the continuous dark green leaves, there was also dew, the air was moist, and there was a white sand gull floating on it.
When did I have a boat, picking flowers and leaves in it, floating on top like a god.
I was able to be sure it was a water lily.
Because the lotus flower is in a small pond, this floating association cannot be produced, because the lotus lotus leaf has always been over the head.
By the Qing Dynasty, actual water lilies were common in Jiangnan and Guangdong, and it should even be said that they had always been common. It is used as a folk wild food and medicinal herbs.
The Qing Dynasty's "Outline collection" clearly records that Guangzhou has a number of leaves, "the number of water lily cloth leaves is heavy, the leaves are as large as the leaves, the flowers have five colors, when the summer day blooms, the night shrinks into the water, and the day comes back" The water lily fragrance has a hypnotic effect, and Guangzhou Gaozhou is abundant.
The Qing Dynasty physician Zhao Xuemin has a special study that the water lily is the ancient apple, which was used for consumption and sacrifice in the Zhou Dynasty. He said that the people of Zhejiang now call it the meridian lotus. Smaller than lotus flowers, the leaves have notches. Local people use its flowers as medicinal herbs to treat children's winds.
Using seven or fourteen water lily decoctions as a folk prescription, it has saved many people.
In contemporary times, water lilies are also cultivated and utilized.
In late spring, the young stems of water lilies are like lotus ribbons, which is a delicious taste of late spring and early summer, and also adheres to the ancient style.
In addition to ornamentation, the water lily is made into a flower tea that calms the mind and allows you to taste the lotus flower.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.