Love is a universal and abstract emotion of human beings, an eternal topic of human beings. Plants are often used as a token of the spiritual world, and the implicit Chinese ancestors have done many demonstrations for us on how to express love. Aside from the familiar rose (or moon season), who can represent the heart of a lover?
Gardenia, gardenia, the hand of the holder
Gardenia, a hot flower in the graduation season, blooms mostly in the graduation season in June, white and flawless, fragrant and sweet, becoming the "graduation flower" in the hearts of students.
Gardenia is an evergreen shrub of the rubiaceae family, gardenia, with elegant flowers that emit a charming fragrance. Its dried ripe fruit, which extracts gardenia yellow pigment, can be used for dye applications and is a natural colorant.
As early as the "Han Guanyi" recorded: "Dyeing garden garden out of gardenia, akane, for dyeing imperial clothes", it can be seen that the ancients have long discovered this characteristic of gardenia, and applied to clothing dyeing. The fruit of gardenia contains deoxy gardenia glycosides (dài), which has certain medicinal properties.
Gardenia is native to China and is cultivated in most parts of the country, and the excellent characteristics of gardenia make it very widely used in gardens and also suitable for family cultivation.
Gardenia (Source: China Plant Image Library)
"Death and life are broad, and Zi cheng said." Holding the hand of the son, and the son with the old", this high-frequency verse expressing love to the death comes from the "Drumming" section in the "Shao (bèi) Wind" in the Book of Poetry, which was originally a convention between warriors, and is now extended to describe the eternity of love. "Gardenia" is homophonous with "Zhizi", and the petals of the gardenia are born of the same heart, which means "one heart", which is the endorsement of love.
Gardenia is the taste of early summer, not like the fiery intensity in hot love, more like the green and budding little beauty of first love. So, when you want to express your love to someone and are ashamed to open your mouth, you may wish to use gardenia to assist!
Peach Blossom Beauty The heart yearns for it
Last year, in this door, the faces of people were peach blossoms.
People don't know where to go, and peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.
After the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hu went to Chang'an to take the entrance examination and fell in the first place, he met a beautiful girl in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, and the girl's beautiful face and blooming peach blossoms reflected each other, looking extremely crimson. The poet is full of admiration and thinks after parting ways. Later, Cui Hu revisited this woman and did not meet, leaving a sentence that has never been seen for eternity.
Peach blossom beauty, at first sight, looking for but not meeting, thinking and not thinking, for thousands of years, the pain of the ancients and the present people chasing love is the same. And the peach blossom-like woman has also become a very high evaluation of the woman of her choice.
"The peach is dying, burning its glory, the son is returning, and it is appropriate for his room." Peach of death, there is a (fén) in fact, the son of Yu Gui, suitable for his family. The peach dies, its leaves are in the womb, and the son is in the return, and it is appropriate for his family."
This is a narrative lyric poem in the Book of Poetry Zhou Nan. The poem describes the beautiful scene of a young woman who is fragrant and rich when she gets married, and uses bright and lush peach blossoms to compare the beauty of women. Yao Jiheng of the Qing Dynasty commented on this poem in the "General Theory of Poetry", saying: "Peach blossoms are the most colorful, so they are used as a metaphor for women, and the ancestors of beautiful people have been endowed with ancient words."
"Peach blossom luck" has always been a symbol of having a "opposite sex" in Chinese culture. The mid-spring when the peach blossoms bloom is also regarded as a good time to talk about love.
Peach, a plant of the rosaceae family, is native to the mainland, widely cultivated in various provinces and regions, and is cultivated all over the world. As a relatively common cultivated plant, peach is deeply loved by people, and in recent years, a number of peach blossom towns and peach blossom scenic spots have emerged in various places. Peach is mainly divided into two categories of peach and peach, peach ornamental tree species are many, common peach, peach, safflower peach, peach and so on.
Peach blossoms are plump, colorful, bright and brilliant, like the beautiful face of a girl, and in line with the beautiful and romantic love image in people's hearts, so it is most appropriate to use peach blossoms as flowers representing love.
Can peppercorns also represent love?
People who like to watch the theme of palace fighting know that in film and television dramas, the sleeping hall where the empress of the Han Dynasty lived was called the Pepper Room Hall. Peppers have many seeds, and the fruits are full of branches, giving people a sense of abundance and joy. Pepper has a kind of solid clustered house, also known as pepper room. The Han Dynasty used the pepper room to refer to the residence of the empress, which is to take the auspicious meaning of its many sons.
Peppercorn (common name), also known as pepper (poetry sutra), 檓 (huǐ), large pepper (Erya), Qin pepper, Shu pepper (Materia Medica), rue family pepper is a small deciduous tree. Peppers, whether flowers, leaves, and fruits, are fragrant and resistant to storage, and were used as spices in ancient times. Later, the "hemp" in the pepper became the sixth taste in addition to the five tastes of China, which was closely integrated with the life of the Chinese.
See Er ru qiáo (qiáo), mutton I hold the pepper. In the "Book of Poetry, Chen Feng, the Fang of the East Gate", it is written that young men and women meet and exchange gifts, and men send women a bouquet of mallows, and women send men a handful of peppercorns. Peppers are often used to describe women, and in ancient times, women gave male peppercorns, which also means to make a promise to each other.
In the ranks of many flower givers, holding a bouquet of peppercorns for courtship, this uniqueness may give you a few more chances of winning.
In the earth wish for the branches of the lianli
In the first year of Tang Xianzong and the first year, bai Juyi, a great poet of the late Tang Dynasty, crossed time and space, looked back at history, and heard the whispers belonging to lovers on the Hall of Eternal Life.
On the seventh day of July, the Hall of Eternal Life, when no one whispered in the middle of the night.
In heaven wish to be compared to a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch.
The days go on and on, and this hatred lasts forever.
"Long Hate Song" is a long narrative poem created by Bai Juyi, which reproduces the moon and night vows and poignant love of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. People in that era insisted on believing in love and expressing feelings were also strong and unrestrained. "In heaven wish to be likened to a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch." It has also become a poem that has been passed down through the ages to express the loyalty of love.
So the question is, what kind of plant is "Lian Li Zhi"? "Lian Li Mu" began in the Tang Dynasty poems, Bai Juyi's "And Sleepwalking Spring Poems A Hundred Rhymes": "Caged lone birds, swords divided into Lian Li Mu." "Ciyuan" "Lian Li" Tiaoyun: "Different roots and trees, branches and branches, used to be considered auspicious omens." "Lian Li Zhi" is not a certain plant, but refers to the form of two different trees growing together, and the literati and inkers use such literary images to express their lingering love.
Some plants in nature have synthosis or associated phenomena, as long as the form of tree entanglement and symbiosis is satisfied. Think about it, you have me, I have you, bathe in the wind and rain, grow together, is simply a model of perfect love. Plants show affection, and there is nothing for humans to do.
Objects that have been blurred like lianli branches also have flowers. The peduncle is a phenomenon in the plant kingdom, and the peduncle flower is a common phenomenon in flowers, the peduncle refers to the part of the flower or fruit connected to the stem, and the peduncle refers to the two flowers connected to one peduncle. Our common ornamental flowers such as lotus flowers and chrysanthemums will appear and splicit. Chinese most like to rely on things to say, borrow things lyrically, see and blossom, and naturally have hopes and yearning for beautiful love.
The incense of eternal knots of concentricity
Knotted incense, a deciduous shrub of the genus Fragrant in the family Ruixiang, also known as knotted flowers, blooms in the snow. The incense branches once a year, and each branch divides into three small branches, and the nodes are three-pronged, also known as the three-pronged tree.
The incense blooms in February, when it is warm and cold, and it is considered to be an early spring flower that blooms very early. The fragrant flowers are golden yellow with fur, and the yellow flowers are clustered on the branches, which is very cute. When flowering, the fragrance is strong and full of floral fragrance.
The incense also has the title of "Dream Flower". It is said that if you have a dream at night, get up early in the morning, and tie a knot in its branches when no one sees it, if it is a good dream, it can be realized, and if it is a nightmare, it can be resolved.
Fragrant branches are soft, bent can be knotted and continuous, and the flowers are many and fragrant, so the name is fragrant. Because of the bending and non-folding nature of the incense, some couples will tie a concentric knot on the incense, hoping that the eternal knot of concentric love will last a long time. In some parts of China, the incense tree is called the "love tree".
Red beans This thing is the most acacia
"Linglong dice ann red beans, into the bone acacia do not know."
When I first saw this verse, I was deeply struck by the beauty of Chinese poetry. Red beans are embedded in the dice, a metaphor for the love of love in the bone. Can you play dice in such a high position?
This poem comes from the late Tang Dynasty poet Wen Tingjun, who was good at writing about girlfriends. Even more popular is Wang Wei's song "Red beans are born in the southern country, how many branches will be sent in the spring?" May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia. ”
There are more plants called red beans, so which kind of acacia red beans mentioned by the poet? At present, it is generally believed that there are the following two types.
Acacia
Acacia seeds, also known as chicken hen beads, acacia beans, vines of the genus Acacia in the legume family. The seeds are a seductive bright red on top, and the lower part of the red seeds has a small piece of black, also called "black mouth", also known as "lover's tears".
Acacia, image source: China Plant Image Library
On the market, there are many jewelry products made of acacia seeds, such as bracelets. It should be noted that the seeds of chicken beads contain a protein called chicken mother bead toxin (acacia bean poison protein), which is very toxic, and can be poisoned when eaten by mistake, and even killed when severe.
The Tang Materia Medica treats red beans and acacia seeds as the same plant, and the name "acacia seeds" is often used as evidence of acacia red beans.
Sea red beans
Sea red bean is a small deciduous tree, a type of red bean tree, commonly found in the Lingnan region in mainland China. The seeds of the sea red bean are slightly flattened, a bit like a heart shape, and the seeds are bright red, which also has the meaning of acacia.
The fruit of the sea red bean is hard and can be made into jewelry. Because the fruit is relatively hard and not perishable, it is also used to symbolize loyal love.
Sea red beans, image source: Wikipedia
Currently, the seeds of acacia seeds are composed of red and black colors and are highly toxic. The seeds of sea red beans are all red, and the fruits are heart-shaped, which tends to be more like the sound of sea red beans as Wang Wei said "acacia red beans".
However, because of the long age and relatively few clues, wang Wei said that the red beans belong to which family of red beans, and it is still impossible to accurately argue.
Some people have also suggested that the red beans that make red bean paste and red bean porridge do not deserve such a romantic meaning?
Red beans, the herbs of the legume cowpea genus, that is, the red beans that we often eat in porridge soup, the seeds are slightly flattened, dark red, rich in protein and vitamins, and are often used for consumption.
The foodie said, red beans are convenient and delicious, I will take it as a love keepsake can not? Of course, the cultural meaning of plants is also given by people in long-term social and cultural life, diet and love are red dust fireworks, and using red beans as love keepsakes is also full of romantic atmosphere.
epilogue
"Zheng Feng Qinhuan": "Yi Qi sneered at each other and gave him peony medicine." "Wei Feng Papaya" "Vote for me with papaya, and repay it with Qiongju." Bandits also, always think good also. "Our ancestors also used peony, hibiscus, lotus, calamus and so on to express their admiration.
Throughout history, in the pursuit of love, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign human beings have always shown amazing imagination and creativity. Along the way from agricultural civilization, people have established deep feelings with flowers and trees, and have gained a lot of wisdom in nature. Those plants and people have realized the communication of things and hearts, and have been endowed with human emotions and become sweet assists in obtaining beautiful love.
(Popular Science China)