Huo Xiaohui
The rain kept falling, and the weather was as cool as autumn. Downstairs I met a few hollyhocks, which bloomed red and white flowers in the rain, scorching and shining brightly.
I used to have no feeling for hollyhock flowers. Not only hollyhocks, but also summer flowers in the impression are not very beautiful. I once wondered, why did Tagore write "Life is like a summer flower"? Aren't spring flowers gorgeous? Or do summer flowers bloom longer?
On a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, I looked through ancient poems at random and read Cen Shen's "Song of Hollyhock Flowers". The whole poem goes like this: "Yesterday a flower blooms, today a flower blooms." Today's flowers are just right, and yesterday's flowers are old. I know that people are not as good as flowers, but it is a pity that the flowers are not swept away. Life is not a young man, don't hesitate to buy wine money at the bedside. Please have money to the restaurant, you don't see, hollyhock flowers. ”
Cen Cen always mispronounced "ceng" when I was a child, and after correcting it, I felt that the name of the poet "Cen Shen" was awkward to pronounce, but his poems were stirring enough, heroic enough, and good enough. Such a heroic person also has such delicate sentimental moments to write such a poem as if he blurted it out. This contrast makes me have a different feeling about hollyhock flowers.
I sent this poem to Mr. Wu Zehao along with my feelings. Wu Lao's reply was very quick, he said: "This poem is like a cool cloud in summer, coming leisurely from the window and sweeping away the heat. That night, he had a dream in which Cen Shen came on horseback and gave him a hollyhock flower. It's amazing! So, in that summer, with the flowers blooming and falling, the 80-year-old painter, chanting flower songs and painting hollyhocks, completed a series of creations and launched the "Hollyhock Flower Song" calligraphy and painting exhibition. I remember that on the opening day of the exhibition, there was a cool light rain, and the heat disappeared. I wonder if Cen Shen knew about the exhibition and participated in the opening ceremony?
"Hot Summer Cen Ginseng Dream Gift Flowers" Wu Zehao
Everything in the world does not know who and what will meet us when, where, and by chance. With the link of culture, with the circulation of emotions, ordinary things become different, and they quietly enter our lives.
In my hometown, a small county in southwest Luxi, a kind of flower of the mallow family also blooms in summer, the flower plant is smaller than the hollyhock, the color is richer, the petals are small, both simple and exquisite. It's so quiet, I can't describe it precisely, but it's beautiful anyway. I didn't know its name, and I didn't want to search for evidence, so I named it "Lu Jin" myself. Yes, let it share a name with the beautiful home-woven coarse cloth of Southwest Lu. One summer afternoon when "Lu Jin" was in full bloom, I picked a purple and white flower and put it in my mother's hand. This scene is so clear, like a painting frozen in my mind.
I once enjoyed hollyhocks with my friend Sister Yu on Thousand Buddha Mountain, and I also collected a lot of seeds like crazy. There were many times when I went out with the seeds and sowed them in different places, parks, campuses, in front of buildings, behind buildings...... Hey, it's not illegal anyway. The hollyhocks downstairs are most likely the flowers that grow and bloom from those seeds, red and white, and they are scorching and bright.
Ordinary days, the slight rays are immortal, the bits and pieces are beautiful, and they become poems in the painting. Thank you Cen Shen for writing the hollyhock flower song; Thank you hollyhock, brilliant summer.
2024.7.2 Seeing hollyhock flowers bloom after the rain, write a paragraph that is more scattered than prose.
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