▲ Southern Song Dynasty Song Ningzong Yang Hou "Hanging Yang Fei Tu"
I blame the East Wind, and secretly know that spring is coming home.
Cut the willows and cut them into snowflakes to fly.
——Song Bai Jade Toad, "Spring Festival Gala"
After the valley rain, before and after the summer, green fat, red and thin, snow white flying feathers fluttered in the blue sky, making people mistakenly think that it was snowflakes fluttering in the sky.
The spring breeze did not understand the forbidden Yang Hua, and The mist pounced on the pedestrians.
——Song Yanshu, "Tasha Xing, Trail Red"
"May flying snow" is pungent and confused, easy to cause respiratory diseases, causing trouble to pedestrians, especially people with allergies, and is a nuisance. If the willow ground accumulates, it is more likely to catch fire, leaving a safety hazard. But this annoying willow flower is so beautiful in the poetry and song of the ancient literati rioters. The flying willows contain meanings such as love, friendship, and nostalgia.
Poplar flowers, willow flocculents, in the modern botanical sense, "poplar flower" refers to the inflorescence of poplar plants, "willow floc" refers to the inflorescence of willow plants, both of which are soft inflorescences. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica: "Yang Liu... In the early spring, the soft grass is born, that is, the yellow bud. After the spring leaves grow, the buds are knotted with fine black seeds, and the buds fall and emerge, like white velvet, flying because of the wind. ”
The floating clouds and willows have no roots, and the heavens and the earth are far away and fly.
--Tang Hanyu, "Listening to Yingshi Playing the Piano"
A hundred flowers hate the wind blowing down, only Yang Hua loves the wind alone.
--Tang Wurong, "Yang Hua"
Yang Bolan of the Song Dynasty said in "Xuan Cheng Liu Hua Liu Shu": "Liu Hua and Liu Shu are very different. Born between the leaves into spikes as goose yellow, flowers also; flowers fade, it is strong, in fact, ripe, flying like cotton, flocculent also. Ancient and modern chants, often with flowers as flowers, with flowers as flowers, slightly indistinguishable, can make a laugh. ”
After the Sui Dynasty Emperor built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, he ordered the people to plant willow trees on the banks of the river, and gave the willow tree the national surname "Yang", enjoying the honor of having the same surname as the emperor, and since then the willow tree has been known as "Yang Willow". Therefore, the "Yang Hua" (杨絮) and "Liu Hua" (柳花) in ancient poetry usually refer to liu shu; of course, liu shu can also be called Yang Hua, which is a literary tradition.
Sentence search bright moon pear blossom inside, interesting into the spring wind willow fluff.
--Tang Yanqian, "Remembering Meng Haoran"
One of the main characteristics of willow is its lightness, when there is no wind it falls to the ground, and when there is wind it flies all over the sky.
▲Southern Song Dynasty Ma Yuan", "Spring Route Map of Mountain Trails"
Everywhere the east wind flutters the evening sun, gently drunk powder falls incenseless.
- Tang Luo Ye, "Willow Silk"
This poem vividly depicts the lightness of willow silk. Another feature of willow silk is that it is as white as snow:
Yang Huayu pods have no talent, but they can only solve the snow flying in the sky.
——Tang Hanyu, "Late Spring Two Songs, Part I"
The east wind cut the yang flowers as much as possible, and blew them all over the city to fly light snow.
--Song Bai Jade Toad, "Seven Absolute Treasures of the Northern Garden"
Xie Daoyun, a talented daughter of the Jin Dynasty, also won the reputation of "Wing Chun Cai" for "Not As If the Willow Rises because of the Wind".
Stirring up spring sorrow like willow silk, there is nowhere to be found in the dream.
- Wudai Feng Yanmi, "Magpie Treading Branch"
The willows are light and small, the color is light and fragranceless, floating with the wind, like smoke like fog, adding a lot of fun to spring. Therefore, in ancient times, the migrants, the wandering wanderers, and the women in the boudoir took the willows that flew freely in the sky as a souvenir of affection and lovesickness; hence the following verse:
He was moved away by the spring wind, and Yang Hua traveled thousands of miles in the snow.
- Tang Wurong, "Spring Returns to Jinling"
Where a spring wanders, in the dream still hate Yang Hua.
--Song Lu Zugao, "QingPing Le Liubian Deep Courtyard"
The willows of the yang flowers fly in the twilight spring season, when the flowers are withered, and people are prone to the early death of Shaohua and the feeling that life is easy to grow old.
Poplar flowers are like snow, peach blossoms are like rain, and curtains are full of high scrolls.
The grass marks around Fangzhou are all in place, and the early green arrives at the bank of Gusutai.
Urge Du Yu to return, return to the swallow, and stir up the confusion of the hometown.
With the dry and thick mountains, it has just reached half of the spring sorrow.
- Qing Shao Changsu, "Queqiao Immortal, Spring Day Climbing the Stairs"
Yang Huafei, peach blossoms falling, the ancients added a lot of homesickness to the parting of the mood.
The wind blows willow flowers full of fragrance, and Wu Ji presses wine to invite guests to taste.
——Tang Li Bai, "Jinling Liquor Store Farewell"
In the spring breeze, Shi Xian came to a small hotel in Jiangnan, and when she was a girl, she held out a freshly squeezed wine to persuade him to taste it. The willows are misty, the wine is fragrant, and Li Bai is full of farewell and sits alone to drink. A thousand years ago, the mood of the drunkard intoxicated by the spring breeze vividly and naturally appeared in front of our eyes.
In February, the poplar flowers are light and faint, and the spring breeze shakes people's clothes.
His family was originally a ruthless creature, flying south and flying north.
--Tang Xuetao, "Willow Silk"
Xue Tao fell in love with Caizi Yuanshu, her feelings were persistent, her heart was tied, and she was trapped by love.
It snows in the willows, and the pear blossoms are empty as clouds in dreams.
- Song Ye Mengde in "Huan Xi Sha"
However, people cannot be as light and free as Yang Hua, and they are envious of Liu Shu's "flying south and flying north".
▲ Ming Dynasty Zhou Chen's "Painting Idle Children Catching Willow Flowers Sentence Meaning"
The pear blossom courtyard dissolves in the moon, and the willow pond is lightly windy.
--Song Yanshu, "The Moral"
This famous sentence of Yan Shu depicts the happy moment when the lover meets under the flowers, leaving people with a rich imagination. "Pear Blossom Courtyard" and "Willow Pond", gorgeous and exquisite courtyards, show the noble identity of the poet, and there is love in the scenery; "dissolving moon" and "light wind" are deliberately rendering natural scenes. In the courtyard, by the pond, the breeze blows, the pear blossoms sway, and the "fine wind blows the willows" (Song Hezhu's "Ren Nandu And Grateful for the Emperor's Grace"), which is a charming and colorful, quiet and most charming and emotional realm.
No rain or flowers, no wind to fly on their own.
--Song Shi Shouzhang, "Late Spring"
Don't fight Andrwa doesn't occupy the red, and the snow in the snow is thick with flying haruka.
--Tang Wurong, "Yang Hua"
When the green plums are like bean willows, the day is getting longer and the wind is full of the city. People sigh that the remnants of flowers are withering, because the footsteps of spring are too hurried.
The desert spring shade is entangled with willows, and one day the wind and rain will go away in the spring.
--Song Zhang Xiaoxiang, "Butterfly Loves Flowers"
The good spring light is about to pass away, and in "The wind of the willows is light, the rain of pear blossoms is fine" (Song Xie Yi's "Tasha Xing"), the lonely si woman who keeps the empty veil is long and away from hatred, and has to "spring dreams and still fly with the willows, waiting for idle to fly over the east wall" (Song Wu Lizhi's "Butterfly Loves Flowers").
Liu Laochun was deep and oblique, letting him fly to someone else's house.
Who can learn more children's drama, looking for the spring breeze to catch willow flowers.
——Tang Bai Juyi, "Before there was a difference between the willow branches and the dream of the willow branches and the cloud spring flying as far as the fly can not go with the wind to fall whose house and repeat the drama answer")
The breeze is gentle, this little willow, unencumbered, flying freely, anything; wherever the wind blows, they fly to wherever they go; flexible and light, but not lingering. Let this fluttering willow blossom awaken our childlike hearts! Learn to be like a child, playful, curious, and catch willow flowers with the spring breeze.
The old azaleas do not care, and the willow flowers fly all the sunset red.
--Song Shi Sizhi, "Late Coming"
Use your most romantic vitality to keep this magnificent and tranquil spring!
-Author-
Zhu Shaohua, a native of Junan County, is a senior middle school teacher. Loves to write. Teaching papers, prose essays, poems, paper cuttings and other works have been published in many newspapers and online platforms. He has won many awards in the Essay contest and online literature competition.