Six poems of early summer mulberry beauty: apricots are green mulberry purple, and there are mulberries in the basket of islet feet
Mulberries are the fruit of the mulberry tree.
Late spring and early summer are the seasons when mulberries ripen and turn purple. Many people in their hometowns as children have had the experience of picking mulberries and eating in trees. Mature mulberries look like purple silkworms, but the sweetness that melts in the mouth is really delicious. It's just that mulberries are easy to pollute fingers and clothes, often let the children's mothers be anxious, because clothes are still more important living materials in ancient times, so lukewarm days, children do not wear clothes on the tree, will catch a cold, wear clothes on the tree, it is simply to bury clothes, sticks and bamboo poles are not angry.
Rao is so, many people in their hometown childhood, will remember the sweetest mulberry, that late spring and early summer, hanging among the green leaves of black and purple fruits, existence is temptation. Shake the mulberries that fall from the branches, and even the mud belt fruit must be put in the mouth, knowing that the tongue and fingers will be dyed purple and black that is difficult to wash off.
In ancient China, since seeing wild silkworms from mulberry trees and learning to weave cloth with silk, it is related to the cultivation of mulberry trees, which is one of the earliest wild trees domesticated and planted. In order to make the silkworm fuller and the silk more flexible, nature will work the mulberry tree, and the by-product is the domestic mulberry tree, which is larger and sweeter.
"Mulberry has not fallen, its leaf Wo ruo."
Yu Yu dove, no food mulberry.
Yu Yu nu xi, no delay with the soldiers.
The delay of the soldiers can be said to be also.
Female procrastination, can not be said also " · Excerpt from the poem "氓"
During the Zhou Dynasty, silkworm farming was an important agricultural economy. Naturally, commercial trade arose, such as exchanging my ramie cloth for your silk. Ramie cloth is cheaper than silk and silk, and most of the people who go from village to village for business and trade are physically strong men.
In the middle of this, it is easy to be handsome young man, and he meets the girl who raises silkworm weaving.
Late spring and early summer is the season when mulberries are ripe, and it is also the time when silkworm cocoons are ripe and can be traded.
See how this prevents young men and women from developing feelings because of their interactions.
The mulberry leaves did not sag and grew old, and the leaves were so verdant and luxuriant.
The bird that loves to steal food, don't come and take away the ripe mulberries.
You silkworm girl, don't laugh with others.
The man was willing to stay here, he had a legitimate reason, but also an improper psychology.
If you talk to him more, that's not yours, be careful that you're like a mulberry and are taken advantage of by him.
I see this hilarious. It turned out that in the Zhou Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, there were offensive and defensive battles between men and women.
What was the status of mulberries in the Zhou Dynasty? Productivity is not developed, and many people themselves have to rely on collecting wild vegetables from various seasons to live. Mulberries are undoubtedly the fruit of the countryside to be defended, and even the birds must be driven away. Of course, women who know how to raise silkworms must be watched. It was the property of the family and the village.
However, social progress is very fast, the Han Dynasty is unified, farmland development, silkworms are naturally an important part of agriculture, but after agricultural progress, it is these are not easy to preserve, seasonal fruits, not as important food, so do not care about birds eat.
And although the mulberries are sweet, they are difficult to preserve when ripe. This is certainly not possible to commodify.
Many people have eaten it, but people who are not in the countryside rarely taste it, and it is impossible to give it away as a precious fruit. Because you pick a basket and walk dozens of miles a day, and at night these fruits rot.
Because of the widespread cultivation of mulberry trees, mulberries are nothing in the countryside and countryside. People who cherish clothes, eat mulberries and eat forward-looking, not generous, so basic adults have things to do, rarely collect mulberries.
But one thing, in years of famine, even the bark of elms can be eaten, and these mulberries are certainly a delicacy to save the famine.
In the sixteen kingdoms of the Jin Dynasty, Liangzhou in the north, even Gansu, also had mulberry trees and mulberries, but due to different geographical and climatic conditions, there was drought and little rain, and the sunshine was strong, and the mulberries were more solid and sweet than in the south.
And there is little food there, and mulberries are still important fruits.
Former Liang The ninth monarch Zhang Tianxi ruled Liangzhou for 13 years, and later returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when someone asked him about the specialties of the north, he did not say grapes, he said "mulberry sweet fragrance, partridge leather sound, pure cheese nourishment, people have no jealousy."
What does it mean, say that the mulberries in Liangzhou Gansu are very sweet, the fierce birds eat it, the voice becomes gentle, the horse milk there is sweet and soft, and the people are simple and generous, without jealousy.
When he arrived at Xie'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he once talked with his friends about the fruits of the north, and Wang Mou, who came from the north, said that the mulberries in the north were sweeter than oranges. Xie An did not believe that this thing, everywhere, is still worthy of your boast? But the other party laid down the blood, when the mulberry was ripe, the horse and whip gave it to Xie An, and asked triumphantly, the taste is not worse than the orange, Xie An quickly distributed the mulberry to the prince and the minister.
So why weren't there any poems about mulberries during this time?
Because good mulberries are really niche and far away from home. The Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties really couldn't form a boom in eating mulberries. The nobles had no eyes or the energy to taste mulberries.
For example, cherries are also the fruits of this period, but people are delicate and do not hurt clothes. Cherry small mouth a little, eat mulberry, that is the crow's mouth.
"Pick up the chicks, slightly bamboo shoots into bamboo."
When things touch people's feelings, remember my hometown song.
The old garden is on the water, and it has been a pastoral for ten years.
Hand-planted elm willows, shade covered wall houses.
Rabbit hidden bean seedlings are fat, birdsong mulberries are ripe. "Don · Bai Juyi 《Mengxia Siwei Village Former Residence Hermit Brother》
Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty is different, he is a small bureaucrat from a declining family, the family situation is not good, direct childhood and adolescence are in the countryside, Bai Juyi should be the most peasant temperament of the Tang Dynasty high-ranking officials and poets. Because as long as his career is not smooth, he will find a way to reclaim the garden, recall his childhood, and of course, it is this simple tenacity that has made the life of a garden expert, an agronomic expert, a poet, and a high-level bureaucrat.
For example, when summer came, he missed his hometown and his brother. In the countryside, willow elm trees were planted and bamboo was planted.
But these are actually all introductions, deep memories of the hometown, the most important thing is to live rabbits and eat mulberries in the countryside with my brother.
The beauty of the hometown must ultimately be implemented in the sense of taste.
In the early summer, the countryside was free and carefree, and the two brothers were absolutely eating a belly round among the mulberry trees.
Seen in Bai Juyi's honesty, it is estimated that he was the one who was beaten the most, and the one who beat him was undoubtedly the grumpy mother, so Bai Juyi rarely wrote about this grumpy mother in his life. He reminisced about his childhood, remembering his brother, his neighbor.
Of course, this kind of mulberry joy is enough to make many people born in the city feel dazed.
"The yellow chestnut leaves the mulberry beautiful, and the purple cherry ripe wheat is cool.
Zhu Lun was ashamed of his love, and the white head came back to look like his hometown. Northern Song Dynasty · Ouyang Xiu, "The Three Absolutes of Ruyin (Four Years of Zhiping)"
The Song Dynasty paid more attention to Nongsang than the Tang Dynasty, and stipulated what trees the family should raise. Moreover, the officials in charge of the government were not as godlike as the Tang Dynasty, and followed the emperor to boast about Taoism, and most of the Officials in the Song Dynasty were officials who attached importance to agriculture and pragmatism. Agriculture developed considerably during the Song Dynasty. Mulberry jujube trees were planted in large quantities to enrich the people and prevent famine.
There is such a pragmatic atmosphere, so although the poetry of the Song Dynasty does not have the thick atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, there are many realistic substances, casually translated, are the flowers and fruits of various seasons, jagged and colorful.
For example, this early summer, the yellow oriole birds chirping, the mulberry fruit, that sweet. Ouyang Xiu must have eaten it.
Because this is the first poem to write the sweetness of mulberry on the front.
Of course, this season, there are sweet purple cherries, and the harvest of wheat is about to ripen.
In the early summer of this other country, like the hometown, there should be everything, including sweet mulberries.
"The mulberries are red like lychees, and the shoots are like arms and people.
At night, the water falls to know the depth and shallowness, and look at the five feet of mud of the plantain. Southern Song Dynasty · Yang Wanli "Water Falls Two Songs" One
It was a continuous heavy rain in the early summer, and in this endless rain of Jiangnan smoke, the mulberries matured, and the abundant rain made the mulberries red, only waiting for the last sunlight to shine, and turned black and purple.
Yang Wanli wrote the shape of the mulberry, which was densely bulging and hung on the tree like a lychee when it was hanging red.
Yang Wanli will definitely eat it, because his childhood, like Bai Juyi, was spent in the mountains and mountains of the water town, and he never forgot the pastoral flavor until death.
It is the abundant rain that makes the reeds in the lake white, fat and large, and delicious compared to tender shoots.
Do you know how big this rain and waterlogging is? After the banana tree receded in the water level, there was a muddy water stagnation more than a meter deep on the trunk.
If you want to come to this rain, it will recede in time, otherwise the time will be long, and the farmland will definitely be damaged.
But the cute mulberries like lychees hanging from the treetops also make people drool. Mature mulberries, the flavor is not worse than lychees.
"Ji Ji Yin smelled the bird rhyme, and returned the cow to drive the tide letter.
Children laughed at each other at the intersection, and there were mulberries in the foot basket. "Ming · Huang Zhen ,陳州杂迳にに
Zhizhou is Guiyang, needless to say, the early summer here is absolutely fruitful.
Sure enough, there were lychee trees everywhere, and there were many fruits hanging from the trees, of course, there was still a period of time before ripening, and the birds were already watching every day, hating that the lychees could not ripen early.
It is time to plant rice in the farmland in time for the rainy tide.
Huang Zheng sat under a lychee tree, and he was the official who inspected agriculture at this time.
He saw the scene that made him wan'er, and the children innocently ran past him, three or two, and said, in the bamboo basket under the hillside, the mulberries were picked, and everyone went to eat together.
Huang Zheng must have laughed because it evoked his childhood.
"Where the partridge cries, the east wind is the same as the climate in Jiangnan.
The apricots are green and purple, and there are yellow children on the trees. "Qing · Hong Liangji, "Forty-three Poems of the Ili Chronicle", "Nine"
Hanlin Hongliangji, 53 years old, offered to return to his hometown and wrote a letter to Prince Cheng lamenting the shortcomings of the times. He also endured for a lifetime and did not need to endure anymore. As a result, he was exiled to Ili by the Jiaqing Emperor.
In his later years, Hong Liangji was also calm and self-assured, and exiled himself. Treat the pain as enjoyment.
The result is in Ili, which is stuffed on Gangnam and sees the beautiful scenery.
In early summer, in the sound of partridges, spring is gone, and the climate here is actually not far from Jiangnan hometown.
When the apricots bear fruit, the mulberries are purple, and unlike Jiangnan, the mulberries here are sweeter, and there are yellow-haired children standing on the trees, picking mulberries.
But this is Ili in the end, and mulberries are also sweeter and more important, for the people here.
Modern preservation technology allows delicate mulberries to enter the market, but it is still one of the rare seasonal fruits, with the effect of refreshing the eyes. Have you ever eaten mulberries this year? That idyllic taste of memory.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.
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