When I was a child, my family lived in a park, and behind the window, there was a wood. In the rainy season of late spring, the most beautiful thing is the woody hydrangea blooming.
The four or five meters tall tree is not usually strange, but in this season, the branches grow huge flower balls. At the beginning, the color of the petals is tender green, that kind of freshness, as if the girl's lightest pink green clothes, and then, three or five days, the green flower cluster stretches into snow-white flower balls, take a closer look, each flower is stretched into four petals, symmetrical, such as the wings of a pink butterfly, delicate and lovely. It is like a huge white hydrangea, giving people that full visual beauty. The trees are full of flower bulbs, spectacular and shocking. The most beautiful thing is that in the smoke and rain, the huge flower cluster bears the rain and dew and hangs low, right at your hand, you want to fold, but you can't bear to destroy the beauty of the hanging.
Standing under the flower tree, people are extremely fairy, and they are surprised that there are such beautiful flowers in this world.
When I was a child, my intuition was that this was Qionghua, because only Qiong could show this vigorous and full late spring snow. Later, when I saw Yangzhou Qionghua, it refers to another kind of disc instead of a spherical flower, and I was very disappointed. Because hydrangeas are more beautiful and spectacular than Qionghua.
In fact, the wood hydrangea, like the Qionghua, is produced in the mountains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River basin on the mainland. Because of the warm and humid climate, it is suitable for the breeding of this wild wood.
"Childish and crazy walking, embroidered flowers in front of the hall.
As soon as the sick body arrived under the curtain, he also slept on the stairs. "Zhongtang · Yuan Zhen, "Eight Songs of the Sixth Year of Spring, Seven of Them (811)"
The earliest poem about wood hydrangea is from the Middle Tang Dynasty. At the age of 31, he was relegated to Jiangling Mansion in Jingzhou, Hubei Province to join the army as a soldier, that is, to manage the judicial proceedings here. From the imperial court's promising supervision of the imperial history, offended the powerful and degraded to such a relatively remote place, Yuan Zhen's body and mind were devastated.
Yuan Zhen must have lived in an official residence near the government office. A flourishing hydrangea tree is planted here, and the flowers are moving.
Because the children in the official house saw the hydrangeas blooming, they were so excited that they invited their partners to run under the flower trees.
And Yuan Zhen saw such beautiful and pure flowers blooming as snow in late spring, and his mood was much better, so he simply moved his chair and slept under the hydrangea tree, because the thick green shade of the flowers just shaded the sun in late spring.
This flower is blooming so well.
Hydrangeas are so beautiful that they are not found in the poetry books of the Tang Dynasty, only in a spring twilight poem of this Yuan Zhen, why?
First, this is the Yangtze River Basin, this kind of flower tree, has not yet been famous in the capital, it is a local mountain tree, artificial transplantation.
Second, hydrangea should be a common name among the folk, because it is round, fat and cute, so it is called hydrangea.
Of course, Yuanzhu is happy and strange, because the hydrangea blooms, and a tree flower cluster, like a splendid curtain, this is the wild interest of Jiangnan brought to him by Gangneung. Even the local children, when the hydrangea blooms, seem so excited and fanatical, the beauty of this flower can be described as a beautiful nature.
"There is no grass in the month (original note: not from planting. ), dead wood flowers in front of the mountain (original note: fragrant all over the world. ）。
After the geese returned to the sand plug (original note: wind and frost. ), who will fall on the anvil and pestle. Northern Song Dynasty · Shi Yiqing "The Ninety-ninth Floating Mountain Embroidered Ode"
It should be from the late Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, in the area south of the Yangtze River, there began to be the cultivation and appreciation of hydrangeas.
This is a poem written by the poet monk Yiqing in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and this hydrangea tree is obviously in or near the temple in the mountains.
And Fushan is a famous Buddhist mountain in Anhui, and there are great monks and great virtues who meditate here in the past dynasties.
And such a mountain forest is also the place where wild wood hydrangea grows. The hydrangea blossom is extremely spectacular and beautiful, and because its flowers are mostly pseudo-flowers, it is difficult to bear fruit, so Yiqing sees the hydrangea tree blooming, and it is easy to associate it with the moon fairy.
It is a rootless tree that falls from the moon, and hydrangeas bloom like a full moon in the mountain forest. When hydrangeas bloom, the flowers often overshadow the new green leaves, which can be described as a dead tree blooming and a fragrant snow.
This is the medicine pestle used by Chang'e in the Moon Palace, because she missed her lover in late spring, she lost her mind and slipped the medicine pestle in her hand, fell into the world, and grew such a beautiful fairy tree.
In fact, hydrangea does not bear fruit, but compared to its lush blooming, the fruiting rate is too low, and in the mountains and forests, most of them obtain species continuation by root spawns. This also made people quickly master the cultivation method of wood hydrangea, that is, cuttings to live.
However, this kind of flower and tree likes a humid and shady mountain environment, so after artificial cultivation, it also grows best in the high wetland zone of the Yangtze River Basin.
"The jade butterfly is soft with wings and feathers, and the eight immortals are shy.
The remnants of spring should hate that there are no flowers, and the green branches play as a ball. Northern Song Dynasty · Guo Xiangzheng "Jade Butterfly Ball"
This is also a wood hydrangea poem in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, because at this time Yangzhou Qionghua was famous, and the Jiangnan area was also widely planted with this kind of wood ball flower similar to Qionghua. In fact, Yangzhou Qionghua should be a variant of Wood hydrangea, but it is more rare and rare.
Qionghua is surrounded by petals around the flower plate, as if the eight immortals sit around and get the name of the eight hydrangeas.
And the wood hydrangea is simply a clump of butterflies, which is more spectacular than the hydrangea.
Therefore, the petals are described here as jade butterflies, and the butterflies dance in groups. But this petal is similar to the qionghua.
So how does the poet describe hydrangeas?
Said that it was a large mass of white butterflies, because there was no flower nectar, simply huddled together to play the branches, round, pink, and cute.
"It is when the red is sparse and the green is dark, and the flowers are as round as jade.
Who threw the snow high and froze on the branches in the spring. Song · Gu Feng "Jade Embroidered Flowers"
With the peace and stability of the Song Dynasty, as well as the importance of agriculture, forestry and flowers, wood hydrangea, with its ornamental value, quickly spread and planted.
There are in the palace, planted all over the place, to supplement the vacancy of flowers in late spring.
Then the first time to see the blooming of the luxuriant wood hydrangea naturally gave birth to all kinds of associations and metaphors.
It is the late spring season when there is less red and more green, and the wood hydrangea blooms, and the flowers are clustered, such as snow and jade, white and flawless.
That is who threw the snow on the branches, the beautiful snow ball, spring comes, does not melt, as if not knowing that spring has already arrived, just like ice and snow frozen on the branches, is a rare coolness and fairy in late spring.
Of course, there are more bizarre analogies, for example, it is a ball played by the goddess of heaven, rolling down on the treetops at night, and what you want is the kind of spring breeze swaying, and the magnificent beauty under the bright moon.
In short, the wood hydrangea blooms, and the main thing is a pure, atmospheric, smart, and fairy beauty.
"Don't dream of the willow branch house in the last spring, and the night is still quiet.
The moon outside the window by the poolside, the blue and dry leaning on the embroidered flowers. "Late Qing · Li Ciming "Don't Dream"
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, wood hydrangeas were mostly planted in courtyards in the south of the Yangtze River.
In the lonely late spring, the hydrangeas in the courtyard bloomed, like snow flowers, shining on the bright moon in the sky.
What year is it tonight? The flowers are full and the moon is full.
Li Ciming thought of his lover, who was looking down at the window under the hydrangea at this time, looking up to see the bright moon, and bowing his head to play the pipa.
She walked to the window and saw the hydrangeas sticking out of the flower cluster for a long time.
It's her lovesickness, and it's also that he's missing.
What a beautiful love scene, pure and moving.
It's the spring twilight of hydrangeas blooming again, and there are only green and white fairy clothes, which are worthy of seeing hydrangeas.
Are you ready?
Hatsui Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. #春日生活打卡季#