Author: Chen Shixu
In the summer, I remembered the lotus lake in the park near my home, and the lotus flowers should bloom, so I jumped to go.
The lotus flower really did not live up to the concern.
In the early winter of last year, the last time I left Lotus Lake, only a piece of decay and withering, I could only sigh "leave the lotus to listen to the sound of rain." And now, on the surface of the great lake, the stems and leaves of the head are not yet too late to have the grace in the wind; The buds of the first flowers, with purple and red, are waiting to bloom towards the sun; The flowers and branches of the impatience have been jagged and towering. With lotus flowers, the waters are another three-dimensional landscape. Go to the turbid lotus lake in winter, because of the bloom of lotus flowers, it becomes a beautiful jade. The green fat and red of the pond are bright, the vitality of the pond is full of vitality, and the exuberance and vigor of the pond are full of vigor and vigor. As if the spring that had just passed had moved from the ground to the surface, the fairy in the dream returned to reality, and the haze in his heart was swept away.
Since ancient times, the poetry and paintings praising lotus flowers have been vast, and the most extensive and far-reaching influence is Zhou Dunyi's "The Saying of Loving Lotus". The theoreticians gave the lotus flower the supreme personality meaning, and the lotus flower became the "gentleman" who was extremely respected by the sages, "out of the mud without staining, mao qing lian without demon, straight through the middle and outside, not vine without branches, fragrant far and clear, pavilion pure plant". Cold, innocent, noble, "can be viewed from a distance and not blasphemed", which is awe-inspiring and the scenery is stopped. "Eilean Says" has thus become a classic of saying lotus, and even a classic of literature.
Outside the wall, there is a large lotus pond, and when the lotus blossoms, the fragrance fills the air. On the other side of lotus pond, it is a small village with dense woods. Above the woods, there is a pale green mountain shadow floating in the distance, that is, Lushan Mountain.
The above quotation is from my rural memories.
Maybe it's because of the long country life, my love for lotus flowers, more worldly feelings.
Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf He Tiantian. Fish play between the lotus leaves. Fish play lotus leaf east, fish play lotus leaf west, fish play lotus leaf south, fish play lotus leaf north.
(Han Le Fu "Gangnam")
It's time to pick lotuses in Jiangnan again, and the lotus leaves surface, squeezed and squeezed, overlapping and overlapping, dense as a cover. Lotus boats pass through the lotus leaves, and fish chase and play under the lotus leaves. The simple and bright lotus song swirls repeatedly, picking lotus and chasing fish, portraying the original secret male and female love.
Plant more than 100 roots, and high lotus only four leaves.
Flying blue cloud fan, reunion green jade stack.
The pavilion lifts itself, and it is difficult to hide it.
Don't learn tsutters, grow a long and compassionate.
(Yuan Shu,"Gao He")
Lotus is persistent, calm and confident. There are more than a hundred roots of lotus, and only a few leaves come out of the water, overlapping like cyan jade, and lifted into a huge ball fan in the water. There is no need to be humble, let alone pander, undisguised, and unflinching. Where it is, it is the stage for its grandeur.
The thatched eaves are low and the grass on the creek is green. Drunk in Wu Yin is charming, white hair who is weng mi?
The eldest child hoes the bean creek east, and the middle child is weaving a chicken coop. The most favorite child is dead, and the creek head lies peeling the lotus.
(Xin Abandoned Disease, "Qing Ping Le Village Residence")
During the busy farming season, young and middle-aged people have already gone to the fields. Under the eaves of the cottage, a family of five, the old husband and wife are intimate and homely, the eldest child hoes beans, the second child weaves a chicken coop, and the youngest child is the most naughty, sleeping on the ground and peeling the lotus. So idyllic and tranquil, so quiet, permeated with the smell of earth.
The lotus flower is the flower god of summer, stirring the feelings of countless troublemakers:
"Ruoye Creek picks lotus women, laughing at the lotus flowers." Li Bai's lotus-picking girl laughs across the lotus flower, only hearing its voice and not seeing its people.
"The lotus leaf skirt is cut in one color, and the hibiscus opens to both sides of the face." Wang Changling's lotus picking women, Biluo skirts, hibiscus noodles, drunk in the summer, bitter lovers.
"Feng Lang wanted to bow his head and smile, and Jasper scratched his head and fell into the water." Bai Juyi's lotus picking woman, Chunxin shook, chaotic square inches.
"Only green lotus red han, roll shu open and close Ren naïve." Li Shangyin's lotus flower is a girl with a rambling temperament.
"There are three autumn guizi and ten lotus flowers." Qiangguan makes it clear, Lingge pans the night, and plays fishing for Lotus Baba. "Liu Yong's Qiantang, a few words, ten miles of style, is full of lotus flowers.
"The first sun on the leaves is dry and rainy, the water surface is clear, and the wind is lifted." Zhou Bangyan's lotus flowers, "clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve", "really can get the lotus of the divine reason" (Wang Guowei", "Words and Sayings on Earth").
"A hibiscus, opened still Yingying." Su Shi wrote lotus flowers, Yi pen grass.
"Return to the boat in the evening and stray into the depths of the lotus flower." Li Qingzhao wrote lotus flowers, with the gentleness of women.
"The lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different red." Yang Wanli wrote lotus flowers, sung through the ages, and became a household name.
The lotus flower is the brilliance of the seasonal performance, and it is also the test question that shows the talent.
River flowers, a thousand leaves, Rokuro buy drunk endlessly. Thousands of times back to Ding Liu Niang, until the morning glory looks at Hebei. Want to rain Wushan Cui Cover obliquely, pieces of clouds rolled to Kunming black. The pearl of the gift is not enough, and it is painted with the ink of the heart. Mr. Hui Yan pitied the yu boss without encountering it, in case the fist was too white, too white to say: Bowang Hou, the sky is as big. Ye Rusuo, outside the heavens, The Sixth Lady's swordplay practiced Fang Mai. In August, Wu Jianhui will be held, and the immortals on the river are drawing. Sixty feet of abdominal support, hot and cold as a high crown to wear. Yu Yue: Kuang Lu Mountain dense forest, Eastern Jin Dynasty Yellow Crown is also Pengbi, counting one hundred and eight thoughts to wear. Donkey Kong, Little Qiongjiu, scrambling to draw pictures. Reality has no phase, a lotus seed, calling the lotus of the world. Still Dan Wei? Music and song, spring flying stacked flowers follow. The east, west, south, and north are strangely the same, and the dynasty is still difficult to repeat, and I still want to see the Zhishan people.
The lotus flower praise that impressed me the most was the painting "Picture Scroll of Flowers on the River" by the early Qing Dynasty painter Bada Shanren and the "Song of Flowers on the River" inscribed on the painting.
Weak crown, the country is broken, the family is destroyed, and the Zen monks are escaped. Half a hundred years later, he was still crazy and vulgar, fell into the street market, painted and begged for food, and was driven by others. After experiencing too much hardship in life, the Bada Shan people chose to immerse themselves in art. His flowers and birds, quiet and empty, deep and distant, far away from the dust, the most unique is those independent and uninhibited images, indifferent and stubborn and cold to the world, let people face their bumpy and sad life. However, in his "Picture Scroll of Flowers on the River" and "Song of Flowers on the River", we see another Bada Shanren.
This year, bada Shanren was 72 years old, and this artist who entered his heyday was full of the last splendor of his life on a long scroll of 1292 centimeters.
The fine works of the Bada Shanren painting lotus have survived in many kinds, most of them are a flower leaf, and a large piece of white space, but the "Picture Scroll of Flowers on the River" is full of wind and clouds, the weather is ever-changing, and the ink color is full of dryness. The water is babbling, the strange flowers are blooming, or the head is low, or it is upright, or a branch is blooming, or the clusters are competing. Unstricted by space, dynamic perspective, thousands of miles away, there is the brilliance of peach and plum, there is the beauty of Lan Zhi, there is the fluttering of willows, there is the sparseness of bamboo reeds, and the sudden symphony makes people's blood flow.
The inscription poem "Song of Flowers on the River" sprinkles hundreds of words, meaning, tone, tone, and tone, living away from Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine". The Bada Shan people are saints, and the saints also worship. Writing poems, he admired Li Taibai, who was a poetry immortal. Taibai said to him: Bowanghou, the sky is as big. Ye Rusuo, outside the sky... In August, Wu Jianhui will be held, and the immortals on the river are drawing. "At this time, the Eight Mountain People seem to be possessed by poetry immortals. In a trance, the painter will silently understand the image of confusion, fully understand the "phaseless" and "lotus", dripping and cheerful, eclectic, from the surface and the inside, super-shaped into the mind. The mind is connected with all things, in harmony with nature, and the rhythm is unique but natural. The painter gives the lotus the warmth of life, and the lotus gives the painter the strength of life.
The lotus flower is full of life force and anthropomorphic vividness. People's love for lotus flowers goes deep into the soul. The beauty of the lotus flower is real, its roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, are the earliest food of mankind; The beauty of the lotus flower is clean, it is born self-purifying, without desire or desire; The beauty of the lotus flower is upright, atmospheric, and dismissive of ugliness; The beauty of the lotus flower is healthy, enchanting and not morbid, and no one will ever sing "man is thinner than a lotus flower".
Rather than saying that the lotus flower is long, high, quiet and indifferent, it is better to say that it is a song of life indulgence!
Guangming Daily (2022-07-22 15 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily