About Tu Tu.
Many people know that Tu Yu comes from "Dream of Red Mansions", on the night of Baoyu's birthday, the girl Musk Yue drew a sign to "bloom to Tu Hua Thing". So what kind of flower is the Mulberry, and why is the Musk Moon drawn? But it also hints that a feast of youth is coming to an end. The flowers are blooming, and the flowers must be extremely gorgeous and vigorous.
The Grand View Garden, planted with Tu Ti, at the beginning of the establishment of the Dream of Red Mansions Grand View Garden, there were, and specially ordered a section of the road after Daoxiang Village, with a Tu Tu stand. In the Wuwu Courtyard, there is also a tutu frame, because Baoyu poems have the beautiful sentence of "sleeping enough to dream and fragrant".
So has Cao Xueqin ever seen Tu Li? It's really hard to say. However, from the fact that he wrote in pairs with cardamom flowers and tulip flowers, both of which are late spring flowers, he must have seen them for real.
Tu is often seen in the poetry and writing of the Song Dynasty, but it is rarely seen in later generations. So much so that many people don't know what Tu Tu is.
"Xiangqiong ribbon snow tassels. "Don · Xue Xiong "Enjoying the Drunkenness"
This is the only poem listed as a poem of the Tang Dynasty.
But the age is unknown, and the author is actually unknown. It is very likely that it was from the late Tang Dynasty. Some people think that his name may be Xue Neng, because Xue Neng once served as a Jiazhou assassin in Sichuan. And Tu is written in many ancient books, originating or abundant in Meizhou, Sichuan, Chengdu area. "The Shu people take it to make wine".
But this poem also gives people a kind of amazing beauty, you see, the blossoms bloom, like fragrant white jade hanging on a ribbon, the flowers bloom as dense as snow, like snow-white silk knots, smooth and luxuriant.
So here it is pointed out that the tulip is a kind of vine flower similar to a rose, but more neat than a rose flower, with white flowers and branches hanging down, like ribbons and tassels, the beauty of a small waterfall.
"The non-smoking festival is here to coincide with the drunken incense.
In the first ten years of Myanmar, the scenery was chaotic. "Don · Chongsheng Temple Ghost "One Zhu Yiren"
Hanzhou Chongsheng Temple, cold food day, suddenly there is a person in Zhu Yi, a person in purple clothes, drive the palace servants and horses are extremely prosperous, each question a quatrain goes away on the wall, and loses its place.
This poem is legendary, because the Chongsheng Temple is in Erhai, Yunnan, the Buddhist center of the Tang Nanzhao Dali Kingdom.
Then this obviously refers to the period of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when there was also political turmoil in the Nanzhao Kingdom, which was barren and few people came and went. And there were men dressed in red and purple who rode here on horseback, and there were many servants. But when people found out and came here, it was still empty, with only two poems left on the walls.
Why, then, are these people ghosts? Some people may notice that the ritual pomp of these people, similar to princes, and even highly suspicious of the deceased lord, adds to the desolate and gloomy atmosphere of this place.
But this poem should have been written by a real person, and the Chinese language is of a very high standard.
I came here during the cold season, when the flowers were blooming, and the valley was sandwiched, and the banks were fragrant.
I reminisce about the past 10 years ago, and the scenery here is melancholy.
Of course, this missing legend gives people a lot of associations: Who is he, who are they?
I was fascinated by his paintings. In this Qingming season, the valley and streams are full of wild grass.
In the Tang Dynasty, Hanzhou also belonged to the category of Greater Sichuan, pointing out that the tulip flower was indeed lush in the southwest mountains.
In the woodlands of late spring, it is common to see the blossoms and flourish at the water's edge.
"Long memories of the cold night of the old mountain, the wild grass is dark and fragrant.
There is no plain hairpin Luo bun, and the frost is soaked in jade paste. Northern Song · Su Shi "Thirty Songs of Hewen and Keyangchuan Garden Pond and Its Twenty-three Tu Caves"
This is Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty in his 30s, going to his cousin Wen and Ke's house, Wen and Ke are also in Sichuan, his home is planted with Tu Tu, Tu Tu pressed frame, hanging into a huge hole. He said that when he was in Meishan, on the night of the Cold Food Festival, he often smelled the fragrance of the blossoms and emanation. I don't have time to put it on my head right now, so I can pluck the petals of the flower and soak it in the wine.
This shows that in Sichuan, it has long been a local custom to make wine with tulip flowers or fruits.
The Qingming Festival of the Cold Food Festival is usually a time to worship the ancestors and drive away diseases, and the wine is made with Tuli, and the Tuli flowers are soaked in the wine, which not only increases the aroma of the wine, but also has the meaning of pure and pious remembrance of Qingming.
Because the flowers are like snow, a piece of ice is in the jade pot.
In fact, when I write this, you should have some understanding of the tulip flower. It is a kind of vine-like rose-like plant native to the southwest of the mainland or the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with snow-white and luxuriant flowers and a fragrance like wine. If there is any difference with roses, it is that the flowers and leaves are more flexible than roses, the flowers are whiter, and in comparison, they are not as tough as the vines and thorns of roses, so they are more stretched when used as climbing plants.
After many studies by modern botanists, it is believed that this is a double-petaled hollow bubble of the Rosaceae family.
In ancient times, people in Sichuan took materials from the vicinity and put the fruits and petals of this flower into the wine, which increased the aroma of the wine and the effect of health preservation. Because the fruit of the rose and the tulip flower have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
It was popularized and cultivated in the Song Dynasty, which was related to the aesthetic atmosphere of the literati.
Because Fan Zhen, a famous minister born in Sichuan, once transplanted his favorite tulip flower to Henan Xu during his official time in Henan, and this tulip tree is also quite understanding, and soon the branches and leaves are stretched on the shelf, and more than ten people can sit below.
In the late spring when the Tulip flowers bloomed, Fan Zhen took out the wine and unlocked a new drinking method to the guests, that is, the local way of drinking in Sichuan, and soaked the Tulip petals in the wine. There are petals of tulip flowers on the shelves, and there is a unique fragrance of tulip in the glass, and of course this wine must have been brewed with the fruit and flowers of tulip. Therefore, the popularity of Tulip flowers and Tuli wine in the capital and metropolis has also led to the upsurge of planting Tuli.
"The forbidden Yu Chunwei has a long day, and Rui Sichen looks at each other.
The loop is full of moss, and the temple is full of incense. Northern Song Dynasty · Zhao Jigong's words are sixty-four
Who is Zhao Ji?
Huizong of the Great Song Dynasty, the monarch of the prosperous era is also the monarch of the last days.
The rose is certainly beautiful, but the newly developed tulip is called plain beauty.
In the wild history, it is said that Song Huizong likes Master Li, and Master Li is not particularly gorgeous, but Song Huizong said that let the women in the palace change into white clothes, and you will find that Master Li is the most beautiful in the middle.
Then we can know that the emperor's aesthetics are still quite outstanding, he likes the beauty of simplicity, durability, and fairy.
This is also the reason why Tu was popular in the Song Dynasty, in the midst of prosperity and splendor, it will make people tend to a kind of snow purity, which is a psychological buffer and comfort for reality.
Therefore, in the middle of spring and twilight, this emperor loves the visual coolness and fragrance brought by a tulip.
Of course, the royal tulip flowers must be even more spectacular. In the huge courtyard, the wind blows finely, and it is a fragrant temple.
It was a sea of white flowers, and the fragrance of late spring was conveyed.
"A bush of plum powder fades the makeup, and the new red begonia is smeared.
It's time to bloom the flowers, and the slightest thorn comes out of the berry wall. "Song · Wang Qi "Late Spring Trip to the Garden"
In the courtyard of the Song Dynasty, in addition to roses, there will be more planted.
Because there are many red flowers in roses, and there are many white flowers in the roses, and all of them bloom brilliantly, with the beauty of color contrast and harmony.
Of course, if the Song Dynasty was not a sudden cultivation of tulip plants, maybe this poem would have been written, and it would have bloomed to the rose.
But with the tulip flower, it's different.
Because the plum blossoms in early spring are more pink, and the begonias in mid-spring are more delicate red, and the last flowers in late spring are snow-white, these three colors also represent the three processes of spring flowers, from shy to beautiful to snow-white floating on the green branches, as if the final exit, unloaded rouge, and ended with a snowy and beautiful attitude.
It was late spring snow. When the snow falls, another kind of cyan emerges, that is, flexible branches that climb higher and farther.
This poem actually carries a strong breath of life. Although late spring is twilight, the summer of plants is more vigorous.
However, this line of this poem, in the dream of Red Mansions, has become a thin life that emphasizes the past of spring and the daughter flower.
After arriving at the Musk Moon, the girls of the Grand View Garden withered like spring flowers, and they either died, died, died, or became fish-eyed philistine women, and there was no more youth, no more youthful romance.
So here, let people study, why let the musk moon uphold the flower sticks of the tulip flower?
In fact, the character of the musk moon was set at the earliest, judging from the name, this is the musk under the moonlit night, judging from the early text of the dream of red mansions, this musk moon has always existed, of course, it was later covered by the brilliance of the attacker.
So in the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, the Tulip flower is the most fragrant and beautiful at night, the so-called Tuli night snow.
Or this is a real woman who Cao Xueqin has always existed in real life.
She was born ordinary, but she existed as silently as a tulip flower.
She probably stayed in the Grand View Garden, or accompanied Cao Xueqin for a long time.
It's just that a lot of information about her is omitted in Dream of Red Mansions for various reasons.
But one sentence to the end of the month also shows the importance and beauty of this musk moon.
It's just more stories that people need to uncover.
Hatsui Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. #春日生活打卡季#