Osmanthus is autumn
The taste
Author: Wang Weiwei
Reciter: Zhao Yalan
The four laurel trees downstairs are in bloom, and the golden flowers are dotted with branches and leaves, which is very eye-catching. Throughout the year, the laurel tree is only green, light or thick, not comparable to the magnolia of the new spring, the flowers are first branched, bright and brilliant; It is also not comparable to the cherry blossoms in March, a season of red pink, which is pitiful. However, in the middle of autumn, suddenly overnight, the laurel tree, which had been silent for a year, bloomed gladly. Clusters, clusters of small yellow flowers, or hidden under the leaves, or hidden on the branches, although the flowers are small, but each one blooms so carefully and delicately. That's not blooming, it's blooming with fragrance.
Osmanthus does not bloom as noisy as those red and purple flowers, and when the blossom season comes, under the shade of oily green laurel leaves, it is so low-key that it is almost invisible, but the fragrance is everywhere, making people unforgettable. This reminds me of the fairy tale "The Little Prince", where a domesticated fox friend tells the little prince that people can only see clearly with their hearts. The essence of things is invisible to the eye. Yes, osmanthus emits dark incense, floating incense, deep incense, and a slight drunkenness in poetic life. I often think that if there is no osmanthus fragrance, autumn will add regret.
When osmanthus becomes the protagonist, it leaves the branches and is dried and preserved as a material. Perhaps only time is the best seasoning. When I was a child, I liked my mother's osmanthus rice balls the most. Whenever the osmanthus was slightly darker than when it first bloomed, my mother spread a piece of plastic sheeting prepared earlier under the tree, and then shook the osmanthus pole with both hands, and the osmanthus flowers fell on the plastic sheeting one after another. The mother washed the collected osmanthus with water, exposed it to the sun, dried it and sealed it in a glass bottle. Every other week, my mother soaked the osmanthus in warm water, drained the water, tossed with sesame seeds and sugar, and then started rubbing rice balls with her hands free. Put the glutinous rice flour cubes on your hands, put them in the mixed osmanthus sesame filling, put your hands together, and rub them gently, and you're done. After the sweet wait, the rice balls are ready, pick up the spoon and send the rice balls to the mouth, one by one, a bowl of osmanthus rice balls, not only solved the gluttony, the moist and delicate taste, the elegant and elegant fragrance, unforgettable for a long time.
Osmanthus is not only considerable, edible and drinkable, but also can be used into cosmetics in Cao Xueqin's pen. For example, when Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, one of the snacks in the box brought by the maids was the "lotus powder cinnamon sugar cake" made of osmanthus flowers, lotus root, and white sugar; Among the pastries sent to Xiangyun, there is also the same "osmanthus sugar steamed new chestnut powder cake" made with freshly picked osmanthus, chestnuts and sugar. In addition to using osmanthus flowers to make seasonal pastries, the people of Jiafu also make them into fragrant dew. The Muxi clear dew that Mrs. Wang gave to Baoyu is a fragrant liquid obtained by distilling osmanthus - only one teaspoon in a bowl of water is very fragrant. Baoyu "tasted it, and it was really fragrant."
Osmanthus has been the embodiment of beauty since ancient times. Simple, fragrant, flowers like snow, reflecting the ghost, and forming a love with the moon, these are the good of osmanthus flowers. "There is a wooden name Dangui, and four times fragrant fufu. The flowers are bright at night, and the leaves are green in spring." In Wang Wei's eyes, the osmanthus flowers were like a clump, like snow, sprinkled with green branches, as if they were spring clouds in autumn. Although Li Qingzhao's osmanthus is not as hardy as plum blossoms, orchids are fragrant, and lotus flowers are clean, they also have a special style. Moreover, she is not just a simple chant, but uses the flower shape, flower shape, and floral nature of osmanthus to express the thousands of feelings in her chest and place her feelings on it. Such as "kneading the gold ten thousand points light, cut into layers of jasper leaves." The demeanor spirit is like Hikosuke, big and distinct. Mei Rui is heavy and vulgar, and the cloves are bitter and rough. Smoked through a thousand miles of dreams, but ruthless. "Then there is Song Zhiwen's" Guizi fell in the cup, and the aroma was cool in autumn. "It's a wonderful idea. Imagine, under the clear moonlight, drinking in the cool breeze, a few fine crushed osmanthus flowers fall from the cup, soaked in the floral aroma of wine, ignited is longing, but also homesickness, sublimation of interest, there are wind bones, there are also drunkenness.
As soon as the osmanthus blooms, it is like smelling autumn. In the morning, when you open the window, the fragrance of osmanthus flowers collides. If there is just a rain at this time, the rain is not heavy, it is the one that floats carelessly, and the fragrance of flowers is wet with a very textured feeling, and it is full of fingers. On the night when the full moon hangs high, sitting in the study full of faint elegant and elegant floral fragrance, although there is no laurel tree window, there is a comfortable feeling of "people idle osmanthus falling". Put a few osmanthus flowers that you went out early in the morning into the freshly brewed green tea, the leaves of the tea leaves have been completely stretched, sinking into the bottom of the cup, and the pale yellow osmanthus floats in the clear blue tea. The fragrance of cinnamon and tea swirls up, and when you taste it, you only feel that your teeth are fragrant, straight through your brain, and you can't help but think of the poem of the female poet Zhu Shuzhen: Under the window of a light storage book, people and flowers are each fragrant.
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Anchor | Zhao Yalan
Editor-on-duty: Yu Zhenzhen
Reviewed: Wu Fucheng
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