Classic prose: Purple Sycamore Tree
Sycamore, as a common image in classical poetry, has a unique and complex meaning. Among them, the most famous should be the words and sentences in "Slow Voice" by Li Qingzhao, a Yi'an layman--the sycamore is more drizzle, to dusk, bit by bit. This time, what a sad word. After experiencing the change of Jingkang, the female lyricist who suffered the destruction of the country and the death of the family was lonely and guarded the window alone, and finally survived from day to dusk, but the autumn rain dripped bit by bit, beating the sycamore leaves in the heavy twilight, and also beating the heroine's broken heart. This bleak and lonely situation really made her unbearable, and she burst out with a cry of pain from the bottom of her heart: This situation and this scene, how can a word "sorrow" be tolerated! The words came to an abrupt end, and this heartfelt cry moved the hearts of readers under a thousand years old, which is a very famous sentence that uses environmental ammonia to set off melancholy. The sycamore and drizzle here are the language of scenery and love, and this technique of blending scenes has produced a strong artistic appeal. It is no exaggeration to say that Li Qingzhao has brought the meaning of melancholy, melancholy, loneliness and loneliness in the sycamore to the extreme.
In fact, in addition to such an imagery meaning, the sycamore is outstanding because of its tall branches, and it is a symbol of noble conduct. In ancient poems, the first to give this meaning was Yu Shinan, who sang in "Cicada" - weeping and drinking dew, and flowing out of the sycamore. Raising his voice from afar, not by the autumn wind. The cicada dwells on the sycamore, and this poem is resounding far and wide with the tall and clear sound of the sycamore trunk, alluding to the nobility of the poet's aspirations. When Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he had a word: "The lack of moon hangs and dredging tongs, and the people are lost at the beginning of quiet." Pick up all the cold branches and refuse to perch, and the lonely sandbar is cold. (Su Shi's "Fortune Operator") in front of the sycamore with the word "sparse", more show that the sycamore tree is lonely and independent, and Mr. Dongpo's outstanding character can be seen from this. There are also poems written by Li Shangyin in Mengjiao with such intentions. "The sycamore is withered, and the sound is like a mourning bullet." (Meng Jiao's "Autumn Huai") paulownia wood is the beautiful material for making pianos, but the beautiful piano made of magnificent paulownia wood is discarded and not used, so as to convey the poet's frustration and sorrow of a lifetime of hardship and poverty. Tung flowers can also play a role in setting off extraordinary talents. Li Shangyin wrote "Tonghua Wanlidan Mountain Road, and the young phoenix is clear in the old phoenix" when he expressed Han Donglang's talent of being blue and blue in blue. Legend has it that the phoenix likes to inhabit Danshan, which is full of tung flowers, so the tung blossoms have become the background of the life of Juncai. From here, we can simply summarize the emotional direction of the sycamore - one is to introduce the sycamore as a confidant, and also compare the confidant to the sycamore, and the sycamore image contains the meaning of the confidant; Second, sycamore is often used by poets to express friendship and farewell; Sycamore is an important botanical image in Chinese literature, and in the pre-Qin allusions, the sycamore is closely related to the beautiful personality, and later developed into a symbol of personality. The sycamore is a good piano material, so it has become an image and allusion related to the guqin, and the literati stroked the qin to convey their hearts, so they put their hearts on the sycamore. The theme of sad autumn is also often inseparable from the sycamore, and it is also related to love. The sycamore has a noble gentleman's character, so the ancients often put the spirit and sentiment on it, and the sycamore has become a symbol of the poet's spiritual home.
Going back to the beginning, we can also explore the reason why the sycamore is associated with melancholy and resentment. The leaves of the sycamore fall earlier, when it comes to early autumn, you can see the leaves fluttering, and in autumn, it is closely associated with melancholy, so the image of sorrow in the sycamore is not difficult to understand. Among them, Li Yu's "Seeing Huan" in the "Lonely Wutong Deep Courtyard Lock Qingqiu" connects the Wutong and autumn best, and the taste of autumn, the loneliness of autumn and the infinite artistic beauty are fully revealed. Of course, there are several other poets who have also written similar poems, "The golden wind is thin, and the leaves and leaves are falling." (Yan Shu's "Qing Ping Le") reveals a faint sadness in the plain and subtle depiction. Yujing people go to the autumn Xiaosuo, and the eaves of the painting rise and fall. (Geng Yuzhen's "Bodhisattva Barbarian") Xiao Suo's autumn sycamore leaves fall, people go to Beijing, how can the people in the boudoir not be disappointed? Liu Yong's "Jade Butterfly" has the sentence "The sycamore leaves are yellow, and the love is sad", rendering the sparseness, tranquility and decay of autumn. Among them, Wen Tingyun's "More Leaks" is moving. "Sycamore trees, three more rains, not to be separated from love is bitter. A leaf, a sound, the empty steps drip to the light. From the sense of hearing to write "three more rain", "drop to the light", the protagonist listened to the sound of the rain all night, must have not slept all night, it can be seen that the depth of the love, the night rain is not like falling on the sycamore leaves, but more like a drop smashed in the hearts of people, this is compared to "frightened geese, from the city black", it can be said that it has been sad. The beauty of the artistic conception and the quiet environment are also fascinating. It's just a drop of rain and dew, I don't know how much sorrow I have, and I can't let go of my sorrow until I am clear. This method of using movement to set off stillness is similar to "the cicada noise forest is more quiet, and the birdsong mountain is more secluded".
Listing so many poems related to the sycamore, we simply comb, it is not difficult to find that the wood of the sycamore is tall and detached, and the wood is excellent, so there is "The phoenix sings, in the high hill of the other side." The sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the sun. There is also a derivation of the idiom of "good birds choose trees and perch", and there is such a proverb among the people: "Planting the plane tree attracts the golden phoenix." And once the sycamore is associated with the autumn rains, the sorrow in it will be overwhelming, moving the fragile and sensitive poet to tears, and drowning the ordinary readers who have loved poetry for thousands of years.
In fact, in my memory, the plane tree, whether it is its purple flowers or its huge green leaves, even after a rain, always brings me happiness and pleasure. In the hometown, the plane tree can be divided into two types, one is the indigenous tree species and the other is the paulownia. In comparison, the indigenous tree species grow more slowly, the wood is stronger and denser, and the paulownia grows well and grows quickly, but the wood is loose. In my memory, in front of the breeding room of the production team, there is a row of indigenous sycamores with tall crowns, and in the alfalfa field, one by one, there are also such sycamores with a crown of 100 square meters. Paulownia is an exotic tree species, which is generally found in the front and back of the house in the field. Every year around the time of the valley rains, when the apricots and peaches grow green and smooth, the purple paulownia flowers will bloom. After a rain, as if overnight, the plane tree, whose texture has become moist and tender, is adorned with clusters of fluffy and plump flower buds, looking like waking up from a dream. In another day, the tree will bloom with purple flowers, still bunches of branches, trumpet flowers nearly two inches in size, as if they have completely woken up in the wind, holding their breath and shouting, puffing out their cheeks and breathing, the feeling of vigorous vitality infects you. Standing under the plane tree with thousands of paulownia flowers blooming, you seem to float into a purple dream, a pure and pure fairy tale world. The fragrance of tung flowers, in the diffuse air, tempts your snort taste buds, tilting your head, you feel that you can't see enough and smell enough. When you close your eyes, you seem to hear the happy laughter of the trees and flowers, and the childish smiling faces of children are conjured up in front of your eyes. When you go into the distance, the purple paulownia flowers of the trees are connected, they are solidified clouds, just frozen in the sky above the countryside, it is a kind of intoxication that can make people tremble and even suffocate when they think of it to this day, and they are wrapped in memory like a tide.
At that time, I can't experience such a sense of beauty, but I feel that I am very happy to play in the mud or play under the flowering plane tree, occasionally a flower falls, several villains run over to snatch it, grab it, gently pull off the brown receptacle, the bottom of the flower is in the mouth, and suck the little sweet fragrance beautifully, when the taste disappears, we can tightly pinch the edge of the petals, blow a breath from behind, the flower becomes swollen, open another small slap, and slam the past, There will be a crisp sound - click, it is a natural firecracker that we found ourselves. Favorite after the rain, at this time the paulownia flowers have withered, we can't pick it up, we can't pick it up, it's full of colorful belly embroidered with five poisonous patterns, one by one busy face full of mud and rain like a naughty and happy little monkey, risking the risk of going home and being beaten up, so happy to shout and shout and play.
When the purple paulownia flowers are about to fall, the turquoise paulownia leaves begin to wake up. On the criss-crossed branches, there is immediately a stage of turquoise leaves. First of all, it is a piece of tender green and a little fine fluffy thumb-sized, and within a few days, it is a round leaf the size of a palm, the color is greener and the leaf surface is brighter, and the maximum can grow to the size of a lotus leaf, which is as big as a foot and a half in diameter, like a round pot lid at home. We still play under the green plane trees, pile up the houses and roll the hoops, and no matter how poisonous the sun is, we don't feel the heat. Soon, of course, the wheat harvest began, and we were chased by adults to pick ears of wheat in the fields, or to cut pigweed in the cornfields, and with great reluctance we carried wicker baskets to say goodbye to the shady plane trees. Of course, we would go up to the tree at any time, pluck a few huge paulownia leaves, and walk to the fields with the sun on top of our heads, picking up ears of wheat and cutting pigweed in the little shade on that side.
When I think of this, I really feel that the image of the sycamore as a classical poem has nothing to do with us when we were young. In autumn, in the sound of falling leaves, we gather together the flying sycamore leaves all over the ground and put them into wicker baskets, and the brown or pale leaves, together with the fallen branches, are the firewood we burn on the kang in winter. One is about age, the other is about the state of mind, such a carefree, simple and simple childhood, sad and depressed, lonely and lonely, what do we have to do with it? Of course, at a certain age, after experiencing some things, walking into these ancient chapters, we feel another beauty of the plane tree, which is worth chewing and tasting for the rest of our lives.
In this world, there are not many species of trees with purple flowers, so whenever I encounter a purple flowering tree, I pay special attention to it, and I always have to take a look at it more than I have a chance, and even stand under the tree for a long time, looking up at the purple clouds, and I am confused. When I left, I was always so reluctant to say goodbye.
Every morning and dusk, passing through the entrance of the community, going in and out, I have to look at the blue cherry blossom swaying in the early summer wind for a long time, as if I haven't seen it for a day, and my heart is extremely lost. Because I saw her, I couldn't help but think of this season, the thick and simple loess plateau of my hometown was full of plane trees, purple flowers, and green leaves, so I wrote a topic - purple and blue cloud plane trees.
In fact, in my hometown, in addition to the plane tree, there are catalpa trees with purple flowers, and the flowers are slightly smaller, and the flower color is slightly lighter, almost pink. And I seem to be particularly fond of tung flowers. I also know in my heart that the sycamore in the traditional culture, in the pen of the ancient literati, is synonymous with sorrow, sad or even broken, however, the sycamore flowers left in my memory when I was a child are also endless joy, which will not disappear with the memory.
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