Original title: "Hengshan Roadside Durian Red | Gong Fa Qin》
The pomegranate gradually became a mascot and gradually became known to the world, and was regarded as a symbol of "many children and many blessings".
Hengshan Road is a new road in the eastern part of the new city of Mingguang City, Anhui Province, named Hengshan, which originated from Dahengshan, Xiaohengshan and Hengshan Townships (now Mingnan Office) in Mingguang. The Hengshan Mountains here are not the Hengshan Mountains in the territory of Hengshan County in Shaanxi Province, not the Hengshan Mountains that separate the northern and central parts of Vietnam, nor the Hengshan Mountains in other parts of the country.
Hengshan Road is a two-way 6-lane asphalt road built at the end of 2015, with a 3-meter-wide green belt, a 5-meter-wide non-motorized road and a sidewalk of more than 10 meters wide on both sides. North to Jiashan Avenue, south to Chengnan Avenue, more than 2500 meters long. The green belt on both sides of the road began construction in June 2016, divided into two sections, the northern section of Jiashan Avenue to Zhaoxin Road, about 1300 meters long, the middle of the sidewalk is planted with sidewalk trees camphor, ginkgo biloba, pomegranate and palm plants in the green belt, the green screen under the pomegranate tree is holly, Privet, Phnom Penh boxwood, Japanese coral, the green screen under the palm tree is honeysuckle, sea tree, red leaf heather, safflower ebony; the southern section of Zhaoxin Road to Chengnan Avenue, the green belt in the osmanthus and camphor plants, the green screen under the osmanthus tree is flat branches, wolfberry, broom cypress, The green screen under the camphor tree is Japanese Privet and Ivy.
The pomegranate flowers are red, red in the northern section of Hengshan Road, the west of the road is the Liangyin Resettlement Community, the Jinxiu Community, the Chengdong Farmers' Market, the reserved five-star hotel development zone, and the east of the road is the Longquan Resettlement Community, the Nanxiang Triumphal Arch Community, the Chengdong Park, the Sunshine School, and the Yingbin Park. The northern section of Hengshan Road is a popular area in Mingguang Dongcheng, and the green trees are mainly pomegranates, which are more interesting.
Pomegranates are very common in the Jianghuai area, mostly planted in the garden, easy to manage, can effectively prevent the fruit from being picked by passers-by after ripening. The most famous of the wild cultivation as an industry is Huaiyuan County on the bank of the Huai River, more than 80 kilometers away from Mingguang, which is the famous hometown of Chinese pomegranates, and "Huaiyuan pomegranate" is a national geographical indication protected product. The new brother of the Gong family who served in the county's finance bureau invited our whole family to pick pomegranates there, and there were many varieties, good taste, fresh and chic, and unique taste, which was really worthy of the name.
However, pomegranates are native to Persia (present-day Iran, Afghanistan and other places), located on the ancient Silk Road, where there is an Anshi country, producing pomegranates, so pomegranates are also known as Pomegranates. It was only brought back to China in the second century BC by Zhang Qian, an envoy of the Han family who had sent to the Western Regions. The Jin Dynasty literary scholar Zhang Hua's "Naturalist" has a clear record: "Han Zhang Qian went out to the Western Regions, and tu Lin An Shi Guo Guo Durian species to return, so the name An Pomegranate." Tang Dynasty Yuan Shu "Inscribed Pomegranate" poem 20: "He Nian An Shi Guo, Wanli Gong Durian Flower." Passing the source of the river, because of the Han dynasty. "Confirms Zhang Hua's record." According to legend, Zhang Qian obtained pomegranate seeds and returned them for the imperial court, first planting them in the Shanglin Garden and Lishan Hot Spring Palace in chang'an. Han Shanglin Ling Yu Yuan once recalled the scene of Shanglin Garden, planting 3,000 strange flowers and exotic flowers, including "Ten Plants of An Pomegranate". Emperor Wu of Han fell in love at first sight and ordered people to transplant them to the Lishan Hot Spring Palace. Since the beginning, the cultivation of pomegranates in China has a long history.
In his "An Pomegranate Endowment", Pan Yue praised: "The durian, the strange tree of the world, the famous fruit of Kyushu." During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, pomegranate poems and pomegranate skirts appeared. The pomegranate gradually became a mascot and gradually became known to the world, and was regarded as a symbol of "many children and many blessings". The Tang Dynasty people loved pomegranates for a while, and the pomegranate skirt inspired by pomegranate flowers was a popular costume that was particularly favored by young women in the Tang Dynasty. This skirt color is like the red of the pomegranate, warm and unrestrained, not dyed with other colors, feminine women will wear it will be more youthful, beautiful and moving, dazzling; wearing it will be more feminine, more attractive, more attractive; wearing it will highlight the temperament, noble and elegant, otherworldly. There are poems as evidence: "Mei Dai snatches the color of xuan grass, and the red dress is jealous of killing pomegranate flowers" (Tang Wanchu's "Five Days of Viewing Prostitutes"), "Don't hate the red dress is broken, Hugh is suspicious of the white house is low" (Tang Dynasty Wei Zhuang "Gifting Ji Ren").
Not only that, the Tang Dynasty has become popular in the ceremony of giving pomegranates to marriage, and the myths and legends of "pomegranate fairies" have not gone away, and people's love for pomegranates is deepening. In the Song Dynasty, the popular "pomegranate fertility cult" began to prevail pomegranate couplets, such as: "Pomegranate amorous, about the window wind with drunken moon; begonia snoozing, do not understand the spring wine can destroy the soul", "the sun side pomegranate leans on the clouds, the moon under the golden chrysanthemum pillow sleeps"; riddles, such as: "The leaves are green and green, the blossoms are red and red, the children are countless, and the results are like lanterns." "Hit a plant (puzzle bottom: pomegranate)," "thousand sisters, ten thousand sisters, sleep in the same bed, each cover is" hit a plant (puzzle bottom: pomegranate). At the same time, the number of seeds inside when the pomegranate fruit is split is used to predict the number of people on the list of scientific expeditions, and over time, the word "durian denko" spread, implying the title of the gold list.
During the Golden Yuan, the "pomegranate song" was popular. Pomegranates were planted in the courtyard, and potted pomegranates began to become popular. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the Mid-Autumn Festival was the pomegranate market season, it formed a folk custom of "August 15th round, pomegranate mooncake worship the gods". Our neighboring county Wuhe folk song "Picking Pomegranates" is wonderful, once swept the north and south of the river, and has been widely circulated for a long time. With the passage of time, pomegranates have more cultural connotations and erotic connotations.
The original value of pomegranates is edible and ornamental. Li Shangyin's poem "Pomegranate" is very clear: "The durian branch is graceful and dense, and the durian film is light and bright." Can envy yaochi peach tree, peach red cheeks for a thousand years. "But in ancient times, the viewing was dominated by literati and scholars, and the common people mostly tasted first. Nowadays, pomegranates are listed as green trees in urban communities, which shows that people's living standards have improved rapidly, and the cognition of pomegranates has risen to the spiritual level, the pursuit of elegance, pleasure first, and viewing pomegranates has become very common. Pomegranate trees are beautiful, the branches are beautiful, the young leaves in early spring are green, graceful and colorful; the flowers are blooming in midsummer, the colors are bright; and the fruits are hanging in autumn. Or lonely plants or clusters planted in the courtyard, the edge of the garden, the plant echoes the source of the doorway, the plant is scattered on the path, the stream, the slope, the side of the building, it is also suitable to make a variety of stump bonsai and flower arrangement vases for people to watch. The strong aroma of pomegranate leaves, the fragrance of flowers and the fragrance of fruit are unforgettable.
In the early summer of 2017, the pomegranate flowers on Hengshan Road bloomed brightly. It lasted for two or three months, and I went to see it many times, including evening walks and bicycle rides. I am different from Lu You's feelings of "Seeing Pomegranate Flowers for the First Time": "Wuzhong is still cold in April, and the drizzle is timid. Lao Tzu is really not shallow, and the durian flowers are folded into a branch to see. I found pomegranates shortly after the pomegranates bloomed on Yokoyama Road and began to see them again and again.
When the pomegranate flowers bloom from few to many, they gradually become full of fiery red flowers, gorgeous and blooming, looking at the distance, like a fiery red splendid sunset, the enthusiasm is high; up close, it is like a raging fire, dazzling and dazzling; at night, under the illumination of neon lights, snuggling with green leaves, shyly answering, poetic hazy, like smoke. It seems that countless small trumpets are hanging on the branches and sounding, and the yellow flower buds tremble with the wind, like a silent piece of music, which can only be heard with the heart. The buds and petals of the pomegranate are attached to the branches very firmly and do not wither. From the appearance of red buds to the ripening of the fruit, from spring to summer to three autumns, each pomegranate flower has been hanging on the tree for several months without falling. That is to say, when viewing pomegranates, there is no need to worry that she will "fall into the mud and dust", only poetic feelings, no loneliness, and it is really endlessly interesting.
However, I only watched the pomegranates from the beginning. When you look at the fiery red pomegranate flowers, there is an inexplicable excitement that cannot be described in words. This year, the pomegranates on Yokoyama Road have flowered for the second year, and the pomegranates on Yokoyama Road are red again, and I have to watch it carefully, try my best to turn my feelings into words, and share them with everyone.
The first draft was published on May 8-9, 2018 at the Office of the Committee of Culture and History
The second draft was published on June 15, 2018 at the Office of the Committee of Culture and History
About the Author
Gong Faqin (born October 1965), pen name Yalu, Gong Hui, senior high school Chinese teacher, third-level lawyer, special researcher of Anhui Provincial Museum of Culture and History, member of the Standing Committee of the Mingguang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Anhui Province, director of the Cultural, Literature, History and Learning Committee of the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a member of the Chinese Literary and Art Critics Association, the Chinese Folk Writers Association, the China Prose Literature Society, the Chinese Poetry Society, the Chinese Documentary Literature Research Society, the Chinese Popular Literature Research Society, and the Chinese Poetry Society. He is a member of the Anhui Writers Association, the Anhui Literary and Art Critics Association, the Anhui Historical Society, and the Anhui Provincial COMMITTEE Literature and History Data Research Society. He is a director of the Chinese Society of Modern and Contemporary History and Historical Materials, a director of the Anhui Folk Writers Association and the Reportage Literature Society, a member of the presidium and deputy secretary-general of the Anhui Essayists Association, an executive vice chairman of the Chuzhou Civic Writers Association, and an executive vice chairman of the Chuzhou Essayists Association. There are poems such as "Toddler", "Shallow Singing and Low Chanting", "Soft Whispering", "Understatement", etc., the prose collection "Dixiang Sanji" (388,000 words), "Dixiang Scattered Memories" (420,000 words), "Nostalgia in the Old Garden" (300,000 words), "Mingguang History" (400,000 words), "Shi Lin Scavenging" (340,000 words), literary and art criticism collection "Guan Jian Kong Zhi" (270,000 words), historical monographs "Wu Tang Historical Materials" (350,000 words), "Mingguang Historical Figures" (500,000 words), "Mingguang Humanities Overview" (160,000 words) , "History of the Mingguang CPPCC" (two volumes) (first and second volumes, 1.15 million words, chief editor), "Jiashan County Chronicle" (800,000 words, point school) and other works collections of 22 books. His works have been selected into more than 30 anthologies such as "2010 My Favorite Prose", "Chinese Poetry Yearbook", "Sixty Years of Chuzhou Literature", "Selected Essays of Chuzhou", etc., of which the essay "Looking for Reeds" was selected as a national high school Language Examination Paper Reading Question, and books such as "Mingguang History" and "Shi Lin Scavenger" were included in Baidu entries. He has won more than a dozen provincial awards or above, such as the Anhui Provincial Social Science Popularization Excellent Reading Award, the Anhui Jinsui Literature Award, the Chinese Prose Annual Conference Award, the Chinese Literature Creation PEN Association Award, the Qu Yuan Poetry Award, and the "Literary Circle" Excellent Works Award.