Nine poems of jujube flowers in early summer: wild jujube flowers contain new honey, and low-branch pressed hat jujube flowers are fragrant
Dates are common agricultural wood fruits, and the ripe dates we eat are usually red. When new dates are on the market, the dates are round, usually cyan, and when the time is longer, they become red, so there is a color called jujube red.
Fresh dates are sweet and thirst quenching, and ripe and dried dates can be used as grain, medicinal herbs, medicine and food.
It's just that people in the city rarely see jujube flowers, so what does a jujube flower look like?
The jujube flower is indeed a strange flower, and if you look at it, you will be surprised that its flowers are small and dense. In early summer, small yellow-green five-petaled yellow-green flowers grow densely on flexible branches, as if they were yellow-green calyxes, but they were indeed flowers. This color is different from other pink-red jujube flowers, densely growing on cyan branches, without showing mountain dew, often overlooked. But when the branches of the jujube tree are full of fruitful fruits, you will have a strong sense of contrast, is this the huge fruit of the jujube flower that is so small that it is ignored? There is a ratio of flowers and fruits, ants and elephants. But the jujube tree does not speak, offering abundant fruit year after year.
Chinese love of dates, there is a very mythical period. For example, in the pre-Qin mythology, there was a god an Qisheng, and the reason why he was able to become a god was to eat an immortal jujube as big as a melon. People always think that where the alpine jungle is close to the sky, there will be more peculiar jujube trees, which are eaten by immortals, and mortals can live forever without eating human food after eating a few, and it is said that Emperor Wudi of Han met the Queen Mother of the West, and the food given to him by the Queen Mother of the West has dates.
This is because in ancient times, in the Qin and Han Dynasties, not only fruits, but fruits that can be used as grain, in times of famine and war, people long for a kind of jujube, after eating, free from the total hunger of life.
Because of this, there are always people who like jujube flowers, even if they are so inconspicuous.
"Under the jujube, he saves, and the glory is sometimes."
When the jujube is about to be red, people come from all sides.
Whoever looks up to the date shall look up to him. "Han · Two Han Le Fu "Ancient Songs"
This is the first poem to praise the jujube flower, during the Han Dynasty.
The branches of the jujube tree are hanging down, and the jujube flowers are so dense that the jujube blossoms bloom in the summer, at different times than other flowers.
When the jujube fruit was about to ripen, people came from all sides to pick the fruit.
When you eat ripe fruit, who really looks up to those once inconspicuous little flowers?
This is a Western Han poem with emotion. The Han Dynasty planted a large number of jujube trees, the purpose of which was to obtain the fruit of jujube trees, but how many people really loved and liked those tiny jujube flowers, which bloomed in early summer, so inconspicuous.
If this is a folk song, it is an emphasis on neglected youth and destiny.
If it is done by a cultured person, then it is a kind of gratitude from the heart, grateful for the silent and silent payment of the jujube tree and jujube flower.
The saving is the appearance of the small and dense jujube flowers.
"Weeping flowers on the green stream, knotted with the emerald Isan."
Non-direct entry into the palace, concurrently on the spiritual garden.
The sunset is fragrant and the spring twilight, and the tourists sing in the evening.
The weak thorn led Luo Yi, and Zhu Shiling was still mournful.
And huan luopu word, no envy and long term. "Nanliang · Xiao Gang "Jujube Under He Lun"
As a monarch who carries the national community, there is no shortage of people who understand. For example, Xiao Gang, the Jianwen Emperor of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He loved fruit gardens and praised the humble jujube flowers.
On the side of the stream near the mountain, the jujube tree hangs green branches, on which are densely packed small flowers, and the flexible branches hang on the surface of the water. I stood here as if I had entered a fairyland.
The slanting sun in late spring hits the trees, and the people who play will disperse.
And I stood by the jujube tree, climbing this delicate and lovely jujube flower, and was hung by the thorns on the jujube tree, but I knew that when the jujube tree was ripe, the red fruit would sway directly on the hat.
I stood by the river full of jujube trees, singing the praises of the jujube flowers, expecting the fruit to ripen, and I did not envy the immortals for their birth, because I, like him, also owned this jujube tree in a fairyland.
Obviously, Xiao Gang had read and liked the two Han poems "He Saving Under the Jujube", but he used "纂纂", which was also small and dense. Since then, jujube flowers have become specific adjectives for jujube flowers.
You only really know the beauty of this compilation when you see the really dense jujube blossoms. When the jujube blossoms are not blooming, like countless small fists clenched together, when they bloom, they are densely packed together, about the ancients want to come and go, and only this painting of the complex "纂" word, and the soft tone, can be roughly expressed.
"In April, the south wind is yellow, and the jujube flowers have not fallen and the trees are long.
Qingshan saw him at dusk, and hissed out to miss his hometown. "Sheng Tang · Excerpt from Li Ji's "Send Chen Zhangfu"
Needless to say, jujube trees will never be lost in China, so important, it will only increase. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, it was already common to plant trees in the idyllic countryside. In the early summer of april in the lunar calendar, it is the season when the south wind rises and the barley is ripe, and in the village, the jujube trees in the family courtyard blossom and the tung trees spread their leaves.
Only those who have lived in the countryside will always smell the fresh aroma of jujube flowers in their green homes.
Although the jujube flowers are not obvious, it is precisely by the aroma that they attract the pollination of bees and butterflies, and they are also small and dense, and they bloom in the warm wind and accept wind pollination. This is the time when the jujube blossoms flourish without withering.
Sending people in such a field, whether it is hometown or not, the aroma of jujube flowers makes people have a strong sense of home, and makes people remember to yearn for summer homes.
"The spring shirt is thin and light, and it is a delay in entering the journey in one day.
Wild date flowers contain new honey, and mountain fowl with broken chirping. "Don · Bai Juyi "Shou An Xie Ma Chong Yin"
Bai Juyi liked jujube flowers, he spent his childhood in the countryside, and was a high-ranking Tang Dynasty official and poet with a very idyllic feeling.
This is during a trip to his hometown, and in late spring I smell the aroma of wild jujube flowers in the mountains and forests.
He dismounted from the coaching inn here to rest, and went out of his way to find the jujube flowers.
The aroma is fresh and sweet, and the birds here are particularly crisp.
April, although it is the season when urban people sadly return from spring, but for those who love the mountains and countryside, this is the most beautiful early summer, with the fragrance of jujube flowers, the yellow oriole calling, and the yellow of the wheat field.
Then jujube flowers are also one of the important sources of honey for bees, and the honey we drink often has jujube nectar.
The sweetness that bees like is also the favorite taste of people.
"Of all the words of man, only jujube is despised.
The skin is like a turtle's hand, and the leaves are as small as a mouse's ear.
February qu jiangtou, miscellaneous ying red beautiful.
Jujube is also in between, such as 嫫對 西子.
Junqiu is pleasing to the eye, and does not dare to compete for peach and plum.
If you are a big car, the axle material must be this. "Don · Excerpt from Bai Juyi's Jujube Tree in the Apricot Garden
I said that Bai Juyi likes jujube flowers and jujube trees. He said why. In the Tang Dynasty, jujube trees were everywhere, because of the many and lowly.
The bark of the jujube tree is not good-looking, and the leaves are too small, like mouse ears. Jujube blossoms can not be compared with the beautiful flowers of spring, if you compare, there must be some people who say that jujube flowers are too ugly, like the distance between the ugly woman and Xi Shi.
But Bai Juyi compares the jujube tree to a gentleman, if pleasing to the eye, the jujube tree and the jujube flower really have no ornamental value, but if it comes to great use, the jujube is definitely a good fruit to save the wilderness, and the jujube wood can be used as an important load-bearing wood such as wheel axles.
This is the noble selflessness and dedication of the jujube tree.
"The jujube forest covers the sky, and there is no umbrella in the shade."
Look up at the reality and remember the flowers. Northern Song Dynasty · Huang Tingjian,"Fenghe Wang Shibi Sent to Mr. Seven Brothers with His Rhyme"
The Song Dynasty paid more attention to agriculture, and many officials were also pragmatic, attaching importance to nongsang, and the beauty of jujube trees and jujube flowers was once again promoted.
In the summer, the planted jujube forest, shading the sky, although the jujube tree is not like the locust tree, a tree can have a wide shade, but the jujube forest is arranged, the dense green leaves overlap together, blocking the sun, the shade, dense.
Walking among such jujube forests, you can look up and see the fruits hanging down.
Only when you see this fruitful fruit, people will suddenly recall the blossoming of its jujube flowers, how dense and small and cute it is.
As I said above, it is the jujube flowers that are small and the blossoms are ignored, but when the dates are ripe, there is a huge sense of contrast, which makes people recall the jujube flowers.
Because of this, jujube flowers symbolize healthy and ordinary rural girls with amazing nurturing ability and dedication. When people get married, they often use dates to bless the newlyweds, give birth to noble children early, and have many children and many blessings.
Although the name jujube makes contemporary people feel very nostalgic, if you see the fresh and dense beauty of jujube flowers, or the name, there will be another change.
"The jujube flowers can be fruited at a small age, and the mulberry leaves can only be softly dissolved."
The peony is as big as a bucket, and it is not an empty branch. Northern Song Dynasty · Wang Shu's "A Poem"
This is a famous poem about jujube flowers, very positive energy, simple and relieved.
Although the jujube flowers are so small, they can bear fruitful fruits. Mulberry leaves are very flexible, but they can eventually become flexible silk.
I am laughing peony, this Beijing peony artificial planting bigger flowering, the better, grow like a bucket, how bright. But what do these peonies do?
For people to enjoy, empty of their watches, whitewashed taiping.
It is difficult for peonies to have fruit, and even if there is, it is difficult to have real value.
Peony's life, to put it bluntly, flashy and shallow, nothing has been achieved, what is worth praising? Just satisfies people's entertainment curiosity.
Of course, as a rich flower, peony naturally has its aesthetic value.
But if the social environment is full of prosperity and vanity, then this is very dangerous.
Therefore, this poem praises the real jujube tree, has a kind of simple and determined idea of attaching importance to nongsang root, and satirizes a hot phenomenon and characters that are as vain as peony flowers.
Being a person should be like a jujube flower, pragmatic and low-key, in order to harvest long-term.
"At night, LinYuzu Xizhuang, Bo drunk with the child to see the seedlings."
Shore trees are wet and heavy in rows, and low branches press the hat to the jujube flower fragrance. "Ming Dynasty · Fan Fengyi 《田居》
It's really a pastoral beauty of late spring and early summer. A rich rain fills the farmland, which is the season for rice planting.
The old blessing can no longer be summer, with grandchildren, or come to the field, responsible for delivering food and bringing grandchildren.
Nurturing their own land, working for generations, there is also a continuous happiness in the hardships.
Walk through the wet woods, take the children to see the hardest and most lively planting site, passing by a forest of jujube flowers with leaves and water.
The jujube flowers were tired, the branches were hanging low, and the dew had wet the hat, but it was still happy to hold the grandson.
In the aroma, the grandchildren are talking, and the gossip is all inheritance.
For example, when will the jujube blossoms bloom now, when will they bear fruit, such as the father in the paddy field, why plant seedlings?
The hearty tone of the grandfather's drunken voice, the warmth and determination of holding the child, they walked through the jujube blossoms and walked into the future.
The future is you and me today.
"The jujube flowers are delicate and delicate, and the spring breeze is chaotic.
Not only is it free to pick by hand, but it is better to invite guests to see.
Yanjiao has a thousand trees, and I will be the old garden official. "Qing · Zhu Yizun's "Jujube Flower Joint Sentence"
Few people write about the fragrance of jujube flowers, because jujube trees are rare in cities, and it is difficult to enter the eyes of poets, which is common in rural areas, but there are few poets in rural areas. Simple people are just happy perceptions.
It is rare that three cultural people of the Qing Dynasty were able to come to see the jujube flowers in the late spring and early summer when the jujube blossoms were blooming, and wrote this poem.
The aroma of the jujube flowers is such a fresh and delicate beauty, and the long strips of jujube trees sway, stirring the fence of late spring.
We don't pick the jujube flowers, but together we appreciate the beauty of the jujube blossoms.
It is rare that I have my own garden of jujube trees, transplanted a thousand trees from the outskirts of the capital, and I invite you to come and admire the jujube flowers, because I finally have a little bit of my own land, and I know that you are distinguished guests, but I still invite you to come, not to look at the peonies, to see the jujube flowers.
Three close friends, who experienced the turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty, struggled all their lives and longed for stability.
So when a friend has a date garden, he also comes to celebrate.
After the vicissitudes and turmoil, even if a friend has such a jujube garden, it is a happy thing. Reading is ultimately about survival and stability. The beautiful aroma of jujube flowers carries their yearning for Taiping.
The aroma is particularly intoxicating, why envy peonies.
Jujube flowers are not the kind of stunning beauty, but a small turquoise yellow tenderness, a dense endless life, a pleasant floral fragrance, all make people feel that there is no unbearable suffering, has always been on the road to a good harvest.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.