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Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

Hu Yanyun

Mr. Wuliu loves chrysanthemums is famous, and the poems he composed are also often seen in chrysanthemums: "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the South Mountain", "Autumn chrysanthemums have good colors, different peach and plum branches", "Fangju opens the forest Yao, because the wind spreads cold incense"... Perhaps it is precisely because of him that there is a famous sentence of Zhou Dunyi in "The Saying of Loving Lotus": "Chrysanthemum, the hermit of flowers is also; peony, the rich and noble of flowers; lotus, the gentleman of flowers is also." "Borrowing material metaphors is the strength of classical Chinese literature, so later generations will imitate those dusty masters with chrysanthemums." And whenever the chrysanthemum is mentioned in the ancient notes, it is always a little less strange and more elegant.

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

First, there are Ju Xian in Hezhou, and the two are beautiful people

Autumn is high and refreshing, it is the time to read, idly read the Ming Dynasty notes "Ancient and Modern Qing Talk Ten Thousand Choices", see a story about Hezhou Yiju, although the writing is a male and female rhyme, but it is different from the ordinary fox fairy.

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

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"Hezhou's Hanshan Villa, looking around, flourishing with grass and trees, spring flowers and autumn birds, several degrees of age, and rare people." During the years of Hong Hee (Akihito), a man named Dai Jun'en got lost on the journey and came here unconsciously, but saw "stacked Zhumen, heavy Pavilion, smoke and clouds, looking like a painting and calligraphy". Dai Jun'en was very surprised, standing for a long time, just did not know whether to spend the night, suddenly the door opened, out of the two beautiful people, one dressed in yellow, one dressed in white, please Dai Jun'en to go in and rest. Dai Jun'en followed them all the way, "through the heavy doors, ascending the chongjie, and even the middle hall." The two beauties brought wine and good fruits, Dai Junen felt slightly drunk after using it, he watched the calligraphy and paintings in the room, "see the two paintings of yellow and white chrysanthemums hanging between the walls, the flowers are beautiful, the pen ends are full of autumn colors", and they suddenly felt pleasing to the eye, so they and the two beauties wrote poems with paintings, first chanting Huang Juyue: "Butterflies do not know that autumn is twilight, still wear the fence to fall in love with residual gold", and also chant Bai Juyue: "Lonely who knows the late festival, the white hibiscus on the autumn wind river". The next night was a night of wind, and there was no need to repeat it.

The next day Dai Jun'en wanted to continue to hurry, and the two beauties repeatedly could not keep them, so the yellow-clad lady gave gold to cover her sideburns, and the white-clad lady gave a silver phoenix as a souvenir. Over the years, Dai Jun'en went to Hanshan Villa again, although he found the old site, but he did not see the place, and in his sorrow, he "rushed to cover his sideburns, and the phoenix looked at it, all of which were the yellow and white petals of the chrysanthemum", and only then did he realize that what he encountered was two chrysanthemum fairies.

The description of this note, if placed in the story of the talented beauty, of course, will inevitably fall into the cliché, but if compared with the content of the fox fairy's illusion to confuse the students, it is obviously much more elegant.

This is true of the "fairy", and so is the "male god". The Qing Dynasty notebook "Autumn Lantern Cong Dialect" records a person named Liu Yuetan in Taizhou, Shandong, "Yahao Chrysanthemum, there is a great habit of ming, every time you smell a good seed, you must buy it from many sources, autumn flowers bloom, brilliant as a splendid embroidery", Tai'an locals publicly promote Liu Yuetan as the crown of chrysanthemum art. On this day, a Taoist monk came to him and said that he had planted chrysanthemums under the South Mountain, which was quite allegorical, and invited him to appreciate it. Liu Yuetan gladly followed, "through the forest and the stream, about tens of miles, to its place, then cong ju Ying Valley, flowers are like plates, no less than a hundred species, dazzling, crystal can be learned", Liu Yuetan could not help but be stunned, only to know that the so-called rare and exotic products he planted in the past were not worth mentioning at all. At this time, he found that the roots of a chrysanthemum blossomed with several young shoots, long, and felt strange, so he asked the daoist what was going on, and the Taoist priest said that this was because of the fertile land and the special planting technology, "so it was a unique ear." Liu Yuetan had a unique vision and hoped that he could give this young bud to him, but the Daoist priest did not agree at first, and later could not help but plead repeatedly, "First divide the two buds to teach the fire." Before leaving, Liu Yuetan folded a white chrysanthemum and brought it home, "Insert the bottles, the middle of winter is like a si, and it wilts after the spring equinox." As for the two young shoots, he planted them very carefully in the garden and carefully cultivated them, "the flowers are no different from those planted by the Taoists, the first is less crystal ear, the next year it is smaller and smaller, and the three years are the same as the mortal quality." Liu Yuetan also wanted to ask the Daoist priest to give flowers again, so he searched for his hometown, who knew that in the old days, there was only a piece of barren smoke and vine grass left, and Fang knew that the Daoist priest was transformed by the flower god.

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

Autumn Lantern Talk

Second, the fall of autumn chrysanthemums can be eaten for eternal life

Regardless of whether the flower god has it or not, the ancient Chinese chrysanthemum cultivation technology is really superb. According to historical records, chrysanthemums have been cultivated artificially in China for three thousand years, and Tan Qian's notebook "Zaolin Miscellaneous Tricks" quotes Zhao Jungu's "Juju Spectrum": "Its famous works are in the "Moon Order", the meal is in Lingjun (Qu Yuan), the ji is in the "Materia Medica", and it is in Nanyang. Tao Qianzhi, Du Fu Congyan. The rate of the ghostly people is to send chants, to the Song people's genealogy and preparation, the special color or such as ink, or chonghe and the search for zhang, the color product is prosperous, Yi Kui and the garden. The middle is suitable for the wilderness, the lower one is the manyan hill..." The "to the Song people's genealogy and the preparation" mentioned in the text refers to the emergence of a large number of relevant monographs that record chrysanthemum cultivation technology in the Song Dynasty, and in practice, it has also achieved results, in addition to the traditional yellow and white colors, peach and rouge colors have also appeared, and the chrysanthemums recorded in Shi Zhu's "Hundred Flowers Collection" are as many as 131 products. In particular, it is worth mentioning that Song Huizong also cultivated a small silver chrysanthemum, but the technology is highly confidential so that it will not spread to the people, so the palace gave this chrysanthemum a name called "no out of the palace chrysanthemum".

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

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Song Yongyue of the Qing Dynasty recorded two famous allusions to the Song Dynasty related to chrysanthemums in his notebook "Yifu So", both related to Wang Anshi. One said that there is a sentence in Wang Anshi's "Wing Chrysanthemum" that "the dusk wind and rain pass through the garden, and the chrysanthemums are full of gold", and Su Dongpo saw it and continued two sentences to the people as a mockery: "Autumn flowers are no better than spring flowers, and the poets are carefully chanting for the newspaper", which means that chrysanthemums have been blown down by the wind. Later, he was demoted to Huangzhou and found that the chrysanthemums there were petals everywhere as soon as the autumn wind blew, "first ashamed". Another cloud: the person who satirized Wang Anshi's "Wing Chrysanthemum" was not Su Shi, but Ouyang Xiu, and Wang Anshi laughed when he heard about it: "Ouyang Jiu did not learn the fault, did not he hear Chu Ciyun's 'Autumn Juju's Fall of the Sunset Meal'?" However, Song Yongyue's writing of this note is not a record of old news, but a test of its authenticity. He said that he had been to Huangzhou, "the right time for juyue, just wanted to test its fall, so he stopped in the moon, and after the chrysanthemum bloomed, it gradually withered and withered, the same as everywhere else, only the single-petal purple chrysanthemum even fell a few petals, and it was not enough to know that the Huangzhou chrysanthemum fell."

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

"Too"

"Blowing chrysanthemums full of gold" is not worth a word, but "autumn chrysanthemums fall into the uk" is very much said. Chrysanthemum bitter cold, cool, has the effect of removing wind and heat, beneficial to the liver and yin, its edible and medicinal value has been recorded in many ancient books, especially soaked wine, the so-called "light body in the cup, immortal food also". However, Su Dongpo did not believe it, "Thinking that the soldiers did not meet, the poor can also be, as for the hunger to chew grass and trees, it is too much", until he was later demoted to Mizhou, so poor that he could not even eat enough, so he had to run to the ancient city waste garden to dig up goji berries and chrysanthemum seedlings to eat, only to laugh and laugh, knowing that what the ancients said was not false. He said in the "Houqi Jufu": "Our side takes the berries as food, the chrysanthemums as the rice (referring to the fried rice), the spring food seedlings, the summer food leaves, the autumn food flowers and the winter roots, and the life expectancy of the West River and the Nanyang In such a predicament, it is really optimistic to think of the high life expectancy of the immortals.

Third, the so-called flower god is a flower keeper

Raising chrysanthemums, eating chrysanthemums, and drinking chrysanthemums can indeed enable people to achieve the way of longevity, which is actually not a mysterious truth, but most of the people who love this are avoiding the world and living in seclusion, and the people who are pure in their hearts and desires are of course conducive to health.

Xu Chenglie, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, wrote about family affairs in the "Notes on Listening to Yuxuan": "The first eldest father (grandfather) retired from the garden, sex chrysanthemum, and was known as chrysanthemum in his youth, because of the seal of engraving, after middle age, he fell in the family business, and the accident changed, so there was no time to do this." During the Qianlong Ding Dynasty, Xu Chenglie occasionally picked up a chrysanthemum in the Middle of the Dao and planted it in the courtyard, and his grandfather saw it and touched the old place, "because he was looking for good seeds everywhere." Every year, more than 200 chrysanthemums are planted, "before and after the spring equinox, the seedlings are divided into gaps in the garden and in the tile pots, watered and cultivated in the morning and evening, and are not tired", so that in the autumn, the chrysanthemums in the garden will bloom like clouds. Nearby celebrities come to watch, inevitably inscribed poems and paintings, retired pu gong's favorite is the poem written by Cai Fengxiu: "The north of the north mountain, the west of the west mountain, there is the retreat garden, the Yuanming period; half an acre of hoe garden, planting chrysanthemums, people are juju, and the evening festivals are in harmony." "When the flowers are gone, they are named with bamboo sticks and inserted into the pots to prepare for the next year's planting."

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

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After that, he retired to the gong to plant chrysanthemums for thirty years, without interruption, so that when he was ninety-three years old, on the day of New Year's Eve, he suddenly had a dream, in which he saw an old man, a scarf in a wild suit, bearded and green, holding a yellow chrysanthemum in his hand, and a staff near the front: "I have been circling with the gong for decades, and now I will say goodbye, but the time of the meeting is not far away, and rong should see my ears again." The retreating father woke up very surprised, and told his family about this strange dream, not knowing how to understand. By the spring equinox, there was not a single one of the chrysanthemum seedlings in the garden, and the retired garden was depressed and unhappy, like a lost friend. Xu Chenglie remembered the dream his grandfather had made, knowing that the old man's limit had arrived, but he did not dare to tell him. In the late autumn, the retired couple felt slightly ill, although he took the medicine bait, but the illness did not decrease, and the old man also had a clear mind at this time, and said to Xu Chenglie: "The former sorcerer came to invite me, and I went to the house." "I was blinded. In addition to Xu Chenglie's grief, he secretly sighed: "The public temperament is broad, and at the beginning it is not related to his heart with poor life and death, so he comes and goes, and there is no stay, and Yi Ju has been in harmony with it for decades, and it is the next life, the flower god is expected to tell his ears, and it is also strange!" ”

So the author remembered an allusion recorded by the famous literary historian Mr. Shi Jichang in the "Old Events of Chunming", the modern Jinghua Yiju famous family first recommended the Zhao Mansion on the slope street outside Xuanwu Gate, the owner's name is Lu, the character Xiang'an, the former Qing Dynasty was a cabinet secretary for many years, very good at chrysanthemum cultivation, every flowering period, whether the flower appreciator knows it or not, but the door-to-door people are all warm hospitality. Chrysanthemums generally bloom in September, the flowering period is about a month, and the chrysanthemums of Zhao Zhao can bloom through the winter solstice, and the cold plums of Xinzheng are connected, which is surprising, people ask Zhao Lu what secret recipe is used to achieve this effect, Zhao Lu's answer is "spring and summer cultivation irrigation, autumn and winter offerings and cherishing." When the people sighed, they praised Zhao Zhao's chrysanthemums with a joint: "Straight to the chrysanthemums as life, sure enough, Pine Snow is a god." The word "Songxue" in this union is a simplification of Zhao Mengfu's name "Songxue Daoist", implying that Zhao Feng is the true flower god!

Su Dongpo twice "quarreled" with Chrysanthemum |

"Chunming Old Story"

Probably nothing can be more illustrated than this joint sentence, "The so-called flower god is the flower keeper"!

Editor-in-Charge: Gu Ming

Proofreader: Zhang Liangliang