Every morning when you go out for a bike ride, it's natural to come into contact with the street trees. Suddenly, I was greeted by the fluffy purple flowers on the green leaves of a tree, which made people surprised, I didn't see it yesterday, why is it full of flowers today? Could it be that a night of spring rain has just spurred away the clouds of flowers on the tree? This is also too strange. Of course, I know that this is neem, but I still think it is magical, because today Gu Yu, and Gu Yu's flower letter, in the Song Dynasty, there are neem flowers. It is also a neem flower, which is the flower of the season of the valley rain. That's a coincidence, isn't it?
I have indescribable feelings with neem. When I was a child, my home was built on the side of a ditch, and no one planted a tree, but the sapling of a neem tree grew under the north window, and within two years, the neem flowers swayed on the window, remembering the green leaves and purple flowers, shading the window, and a room like the seclusion in the deep mountains. In another two years, on the way to school, there are also low-sloping neem trees on the side of Tuqiu, and purple flowers in the wind and rain, which make people think that it is a lilac in the wilderness. I know that the neem tree is so ordinary, so vigorous, but I regret why there are many lilacs and few neem flowers in beautiful poems, because they are not delicate enough, but the neem is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
In fact, in retrospect, it is to blame that I didn't read enough books, and it was a childish injustice at that time, which also proves that neem flowers have natural beauty, otherwise how could they touch a blank piece of paper.
The ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" has a record of neem. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of Zhongshan": "Twenty miles to the east, it is called the mountain of Li'er." There are many sparks and many trees on it. It is wood, square stems and leaves, yellow and hairy, in fact, such as neem, and do not forget. "It is said that there are many Tochigi trees in Nakayama, and the fruit of this Tochigi is like the fruit of the neem tree. Of course, modern people study the history of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and most of them believe that it is the Yu period, where sorcerers and officials who control floods, in the process of controlling floods, records of mountains, rivers and mythical properties. So these people, when they came to a mountain, found a new tree species, known locally as Tochigi, but for the man sent down from the central government, his eyes saw the neem tree that he already knew as a reference. And it is said that the fruit of this tree is like the fruit of the neem tree. Then it proves that in the Dayu period, the core ruling area of Dayu, neem has been used.
So what is the use of the fruit of the neem tree? First, it is medicinal, and this bitter fruit has the effect of killing poison and removing fire because of its bitterness.
Second, since the beginning of textiles, there has been the activity of cleaning and decontamination of textiles, and the fruit of this neem tree is the soap of antiquity, which can remove dirt from silk textiles and clothes.
Then there is also the neem tree that grows quickly, and the ancient small and medium-sized buildings will use neem wood.
At least in the Zhou Dynasty, there was a text about the neem tree as a building material for official residences, called Neem Yu. And the neem was later also used as a residential house for the common people. Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty advised the emperor, if you have a palace building, you should think of letting ordinary people live in Neem.
Therefore, the neem tree has always existed and has been valued.
"The bird comes when it flies high.
It should be governed by virtue and hope.
Peck the neem and drink the pond. "Eastern Han Dynasty · Cui Rolling》
Qin Zhuangzi, a master of natural landscapes and a thinker and philosopher who has influenced China for thousands of years, once said this about the phoenix. He said that the phoenix does not inhabit the sycamore, and does not eat the neem. Of course, what theory he is based on, I don't know. Because I don't know if he saw the real phoenix during that period?
However, when the neem tree blooms, the purple flowers bloom and cover the green canopy, which is indeed a bird-like beauty with purple feathers and green feathers. Standing above the neem forest, it looks as if it is covered with a large purple-green bird.
The ancient book has a purple phoenix and a green luan, which stretches in the wind and the sun, like a phoenix.
And the wild growth place of the neem tree, the good thing is the valley waterside, the huge neem tree and neem tree flowers, as if the phoenix bird near the water, fresh and magnificent.
Therefore, this phoenix poem of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I personally think that it is written about the vast beauty brought by the neem tree, such as the phoenix pond.
"The warblers in the courtyard are singing, and the butterflies are dancing on the wall.
The sky is fragrant and feathered, and the palace purple halo tassel.
晻暧迷青琐,氤氲向画图。
I should only say goodbye to spring and leave it with Boshan furnace. "Don · Wen Tingyun "Neem Flower"
There were not many poems about neem trees and neem flowers in the Tang Dynasty. I thought it was weird, too.
Or neem trees are everywhere, because they are abundant and cheap. In terms of the bright aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty, the flowers should be bright purple and red, and the scenery should be distinct, and there is no doubt that the neem tree does not have the grand beauty of the peony in late spring, the red and green contrast of the acacia tree, and even the beauty of the purple hibiscus that blooms and falls in the twilight. Its presence is widespread and homely, even a little slightly understated.
But I was still moved by Wen Tingjun's neem flower.
Because it is very similar to his suppressed life and sensitive and delicate heart.
He, like me, was indoors in late spring, suddenly struck by the purple and shade of a neem tree.
In the courtyard of this late spring, the yellow bird is old, and can no longer hear the sound of the turn, the sun is bright, the temperature is rising, only a butterfly is flying on the wall, it can't find its way home.
But in front of my window, there was a huge neem tree, the purple flowers blooming, and the fragrance was smoky, as if it were fumigating the emerald feathers of the neem tree. The neem flower is actually a light and beautiful purple, which makes people feel like a court purple clothes.
I sat under the purple flowers of this tree, and saw that the purple mist covered the window, which was different and cool, and the fragrance lingered into the room, and the furnishings and drawings in the room also had a different kind of depth.
This is the last flower event of late spring, so elegant, so quiet, as if the incense burner curling purple smoke, making the final farewell to spring.
I read the soothing sorrow. Because Wen Tingjun is depressed in his heart.
Because of this neem flower, he deliberately used "bitter".
Wen Tingjun and Li Shangyin were contemporaries and were equally famous at that time. He was suppressed in the officialdom, and the ambition of the phoenix was difficult to reach, and in the face of the passing youth, this deep beauty of late spring corresponded to the mood. Helplessly, the spring returns, and the neem flowers are purple like the heart.
"The rain passes through the sand of the birds at the head of the stream, and the savages are in the depths of the streams and mountains.
The peach and plum in front of the door are all flying, and the spring light is seen to the neem flower. Song · Zhan Yu "Ji Hu Ji Xi"
The Song Dynasty paid more attention to agriculture and forestry than the previous dynasties, so the cultivation of neem trees was more extensive, and it was a typical farm tree species.
On this basis, the aesthetics of flowers are also extended to neem. The neem flower is used as a late spring flower, the solar term flower of the valley rain flower.
楝花开，谷雨来。 莫到晚春花事尽，田园尤盛楝树花。
This is the beauty of the mountains in late spring.
After the spring rains, the birds leave footprints on the sandy bank of the stream, and by the stream, there are mountain and wild people's homes.
The peach blossoms and plums in front of the door have already bloomed. However, in front of the house and behind the house, the neem flowers were purple clouds, and the spring light turned to the neem flowers.
The neem tree is naturally a good material for farm buildings and farm tools.
Li Shizhen said that neem trees can be used as rafters for construction in three to five years. That's why farmers plant neem trees.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was Wei Zheng's wish, so in the Song Dynasty, it should be basically realized.
"Not long after I came to the official, the plum was yellow, deep and plum, and green manure.
It's only to blame the south wind blowing the purple snow, and I don't know the neem flowers flying in the corner of the house. Southern Song Dynasty · Yang Wanli "Shallow Summer Alone in Fengxin County Garden"
Neem is the flower of late spring, but the flowering period of neem trees is longer, often trees or a forest of neem trees in an area, can be as long as more than a month, spanning spring and summer.
Neem flowers still have the beauty of blooming and falling during the full blooming period.
The trees are full of flowers, under the trees are fine neem purple snow, and the air is fresh neem fragrance. A kind of forest beauty.
In the courtyard, if there are neem trees planted, the deep and cool beauty of late spring and early summer is really an intoxicating residential flavor.
Yang Wanli is an official in Fengxin, Jiangxi, and behind the official house here, there is a small farmhouse farm, which should be the farmland of the government office.
Not long after he took office, he took a walk here.
He said that the plums here were already yellow, and the plums were hanging among the trees, and the green fruits were full of loveliness.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew through a patch of purple snow and bathed him whole.
When he looked up, it turned out to be a neem tree planted on the wall, and the wind blew the flowers and fell, and the purple flowers were like snow.
Then it has the atmosphere and beauty of the forest in late spring and early summer. Because, Yang Wanli is walking under the shade of green, and the purple neem brings three-dimensional beauty, making people feel the beauty of the green forest.
"The sprouts of the valley rain are moving, and the neem wind flowers are coming.
The crab runs on the sand and fires, and the bamboo shoots grow in the thunder.
The swallow's nest was reset, and the owner's door was opened early.
Erlin's poetry opponent, first write a reminder. Late Song Dynasty and Early Yuan Dynasty · Shu Yuexiang "Spring Festival Gala Sending Erlin"
Valley rain neem blossoms.
In the rainy season, the seedlings in the paddy field and dry land grow together, and the sky is green, and there are more neem trees, warm wind flowers.
The crab began to come ashore, and the bamboo shoot grew with thunder. What a thriving season.
The swallow flies back, and the owner gets up early. It is said to be late spring, but it is actually midspring, come and come, friends, come and write poems.
Of course, it is not written that the spring returns, but that the spring is in full bloom, and the pastoral green is happy.
I love neem. Because the neem flower is elegant and fragrant, it reminds people of all the intimate and touchable home scenes. The neem tree outside the window, the book on the table, the path where the neem flowers fell, carrying the joys and sorrows of growth, the green clothes of the deceased, and the smile in front of the flowers, were only ordinary at that time.
Hatsui Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. #春日生活打卡季#