1, the story of the pomegranate flower
During the Tang Tianbao period, there was a virgin named Cui Xuanwei, who lived alone in his own house in the east of Luoyang City, and was immersed in Taoist techniques. One clear spring night, he was walking in the backyard, and suddenly heard a maid probe asking: "We live in the garden over there, we want to go to the East Gate cousin's place with a few sisters, and we want to stop at you, can we?" ”
Cui Xuanwei agreed.
In a moment, a dozen women came. One of the women in the green dress said: "My surname is Yang", introduced: "Her surname is Li" and "her surname is Tao", and finally pointed to a little girl in red and said: "Her surname is Shi Ming Vinegar Vinegar." ”
These beautiful women all carried handmaidens.
One by one, Cui Xuanwei asked about the reason for the trip, and they said: Go to see "Feng Eighteen Aunts".
As soon as the words fell, the eighteenth aunt outside the door reported that she had come. The women hurriedly got up and went out to greet them, and Lady Yang said: "The owner of this house is very good, the courtyard is also spacious, far better than other places, please ask Aunt Feng to sit here." ”
So I put on a glass of wine and sang. All the women were very different, and Cui Xuanwei was in the middle of it, only to feel that it was full of fragrance and aroma.
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"Feng Eighteenth Aunt" looks delicate and generous on the outside, and after drinking wine, she reveals a frivolous and arrogant attitude. She drunkenly spilled a glass of wine on vinegar and stained her skirt. Vinegar said angrily, "Everyone else flatters you, but I don't flatter you." "With her sleeves flicked away, Aunt Feng Eighteen also mourned and left."
The next day the group of women came again, and they discussed: "Let's go to Aunt Feng Eighteen together and apologize to her." ”
Vinegar vinegar said angrily: "Where is the need to ask for the old lady again, it is better to ask for a cui virgin, I don't know if it is OKAY?" ”
Last night, the vinegar offended eighteen aunts, and they were afraid of retaliation.
"If a virgin can shelter, he should be rewarded with a generous reward."
Vinegar vinegar said.
"How can I help you?" Cui Xuanwei asked.
Vinegar vinegar said: "On New Year's Day every year, the virgin prepares a zhu banner, paints the sun and the moon and the five-star pattern of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and stands on the east side of the garden, so that we can protect us." This year's New Year's Day has passed, please on the twenty-first day of this month, when the sky is just dawn and the east wind is slightly rising, immediately erect a Zhu Banner, and my generation can be safe and sound. ”
On the twenty-first day, Cui Xuanwei raised a flag according to his words.
Soon, the east wind suddenly made, starting from Luonan, flying sand and stones along the way, destroying wood and breaking branches, only the flowers in the garden did not move!
At this time, Cui Xuanwei woke up: the women's surname, Li, Tao, each dressed in a different color, it turned out that they were all flower fairies in this garden!
The red-clad girl vinegar vinegar is a pomegranate tree in the garden, and the eighteenth aunt is the god of the wind, who will rise up evil winds to destroy the flowers.
After that, these beauties brought peach and plum flower petals for Cui Xuan to eat, saying: "Eating petals can prolong life, I hope that the virgin can live here for a long time and always guard us." ”
Fifty years later, during the Yuan He period, someone saw Cui Xuanwei, who grew even younger, looking only about thirty years old.
Source: Tang Dynasty legendary novel "Bo Yizhi. Cui Xuanwei
2, pomegranate flowers, Flowers of May
"Spring flowers bloom in deep red, summer leaves begin to bloom bright and light green, only know that the knots are ripe in autumn, and do not recognize that there is bamboo when they come."
When the spring flowers are finished, the light green thick green is smeared and the pomegranate flowers bloom. Everywhere the cool breeze passed, a little, a bush of red jumped like a burning fire in the shade of summer leaves, that color, that wind posture, indescribably brilliant, gorgeous to the extreme.
Pomegranate flowers bloom in May, so the lunar month of May, also known as the durian moon, "May durian flowers shine brightly". According to legend, Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Western Regions and introduced it from the An Shi Kingdom (present-day Iran), so it was also called "An Pomegranate", and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rebuilt the Shanglin Garden and planted 10 trees. Since then, there have been many cultivations in the royal gardens of the past. For example, the official garden of Zhao Yidu after the Sixteen Kingdoms period at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Huaqing Palace in the Tang Dynasty were planted with excellent varieties of pomegranates.
Durian flowers have a variety of big red, pink, yellow, white and so on, of which the big red is the most distinctive, and it is also the most loved by the literati and rioters of the past generations. My favorite is this one:
The scarlet pomegranate flowers bloomed in the lush green leaves, full of fragrance, attracting a group of bees that collected flowers and made honey, but they saw the dazzling red, mistakenly thought that the branches were on fire, and hurriedly flew over the short wall and fled in the south wind.
3, a slight rain has passed, a small lotus has turned over, and the durian flowers are about to burn
I was most impressed with the pomegranate flowers, the afternoon I stayed in as a child. In the corridor outside the middle school classroom where the eldest sister reads to shelter from the rain, the playground under the corridor, there is a pomegranate tree that does not know how many years it has grown, I have eaten a few pomegranates on that tree, and the eldest sister's classmates give it, which is particularly sweet. Soon the rain stopped, and the sunlight shone through the clouds and fell on the big pomegranate tree, and I saw that one pomegranate flower after another seemed to suddenly bloom in full bloom, and the leaves were washed by the rain, and the green and oily were dripping, and some of the leaves were still dripping with water droplets, and on this large cluster of green and green leaves, on this crystal shining water droplet, the pomegranate flowers one by one seemed to be beating like a ball of burning flames, and the elves in crimson long skirts were dancing. Some people say that "durian flowers are like fire", probably, I have also had such an experience, such a trance.
4, eyebrows will be grass color, red skirt jealousy kill pomegranate flower - pomegranate skirt
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Pomegranate skirt refers to a skirt with a fiery red color like a pomegranate flower, which was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and Yang Guifei especially liked to wear a pomegranate skirt, and it is said that the allusion of "worshiping under the pomegranate skirt" is derived from this.
In the sixty-second time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", there are also "Xiangyun drunken sleep peony medicine yin, dumb Xiangling love to dissolve the pomegranate skirt"
5, flower language
Mature beauty, wealth, auspiciousness, full of children and grandchildren.
It's nice to give it to a friend, relative or colleague.