Plum blossoms, with their brilliant colors, intoxicating fragrance, and graceful demeanor, have been loved by people since ancient times. Plum blossoms therefore play a very important role in people's daily life, planting plums, appreciating plums, painting plums, and singing plums, becoming a unique scenery.
Throughout the ages, countless literati and artists have been attracted by it, either depicting its posture, describing its spirit, or using it to express their nostalgia, or singing their aspirations. Plum blossoms have become an important theme of literary and artistic creation, leaving a strong meaning in the history of Chinese culture.
By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, plum blossoms began to become famous all over the world as flowers and were widely cultivated. In the "Jinling Chronicles", it is recorded that when Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, was sleeping under the eaves of Hanzhang Palace, the plum blossoms fell on her forehead and could not be brushed off, so it was called "plum blossom makeup", and the palace ladies followed suit. This shows that people's aesthetic of plum blossoms has been meticulous to the simple petals, and it is associated with ordinary makeup, adding a very coquettish feeling, which is enough to see that plum blossoms have penetrated into people's lives. Nowadays, in the ancient makeup TV series, you can still see the image of this plum blossom makeup.
When the poet Lu Kai of the Southern Dynasty walked in Hengpu Yimeiling, he suddenly remembered his friend Fan Ye in Chang'an, so he broke off a branch of plum, sent it to the post envoy, and attached a paper to give the poem cloud: "Fold the plum and send it to the Longtou people." Jiangnan has nothing, talk about sending a spring. "Fold plum blossoms, so that plum blossoms are closely linked to romantic elegance from now on.
In the Song and Song dynasties, plum blossoms were promoted as the "head of the group", and Yongmei poems have reached their peak so far. The author's portrayal of the times, life and destiny, as well as the sustenance of aesthetics, thoughts and emotions contained in the plum blossom, have all contributed to the plum blossom becoming one of the special flowers with special literary meaning. Lin Kui's sentence "The shadow is sparse and the water is shallow, and the dark fragrance floats in the dusk of the moon" is known as "the swan song of Yongmei through the ages", and countless people have fallen for it. And Wang Anshi, who returned to seclusion, used "a few plums in the corner, Ling Han opened alone" to express his loneliness at that time, which had a different taste.
The prosperity of plum blossom culture, but also the plum blossom imprint has gradually spread into people's lives. For example, the plum vase, such as the plum blossom symbol. The plum blossom pattern appeared in the Warring States Period, and gradually became popular among the literati and ordinary people in the Song Dynasty, and then began to appear in large numbers in furniture, clothing, porcelain and other fields. The plum blossom pattern is mostly presented in a concise form, and the posture of the plum blossom front is composed of five round petals around the stamen, which means "plum blossom five blessings", representing people's good wishes for life.
In the newly launched "Original Fruit Original Brew" series of products, which is the head brand of domestic plum wine, people can see the symbol "plum blossom" of Umemi, which is inspired by the ancient plum blossom symbol.
Umemi is the first brand to use plum blossom symbols in the design of alcoholic products, such as plum blossom symbols and ice plum patterns, showing Umemi's oriental aesthetic productism. Plum blossom dot text is the ancients of the plum blossom round highly refined and summarized expression techniques, plum see in a minimalist and highly summarized way, to complete the tribute to the ancients, and international expression.