White Camellia poetry 6 pieces, go to the pursuit, the white camellia in the Eastern and Western cultures
I am proud that the vast majority of the world's precious flower species originate in China. Camellias, for example, are produced in the eastern and southern parts of China.
In fact, the original camellia flowers should be white or pink single petals. Some of these varieties have been used for picking tea since the beginning of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and later formed a large-scale tea tree industry. In addition, because the leaves can provide few ingredients, they have developed into ornamental flowers because of their gorgeous flowers.
What I'm talking about today is the white camellia. White camellias are common in the southern mountain forests in nature, and tea gardens that plant tea trees are common, but as ornamental flowers, because traditional Chinese ornamental flowers advocate bright colors, few people see them in the ornamental trees of the city. But it's not completely absent. As an ornamental white camellia, the heavy petals are elegant.
For example, the traviata written by the French little Dumas should like and buy white ornamental camellias. In the cold autumn and winter, white camellias are paired with fresh green leaves, pinned to the clothes of margaret, a high-class social woman, to set off her pale and beautiful beauty. Girls all over the world love the purest white.
So when did camellia cultivation in France originate? The earliest tea imported from France is Chinese green tea, and around 1790, a flower and wood merchant in London, England, gave a tea tree to Paris, which should be the first record of history. However, it is also unknown whether the book has already entered France through other channels. Unfortunately, france itself is not suitable for the growth of tea, but camellia flowers have been preserved. In the high society common tea drinking, camellia has also become a fashionable consumer goods.
La Traviata was first published by Dumas in 1848, and in France at that time, tea drinking in social places was regarded as popular and fashionable. It's not hard to see why Margaret loves camellias. Presumably after the extravagant expenses, there is also a fashion push. Margaret buys a bouquet of camellias every day, which is a distillation of her image and a leader in fashion. What is precious is that Dumas gave Margaret white camellias the same crystalline inner beauty, because of pure love.
White camellias represent fidelity, purity.
Then in China, the white camellia has always been in the traditional society is not the mainstream aesthetic and existence, but it is precisely because of the minority, and especially people appreciate and like.
White camellias have always existed, and in the Song Dynasty, whether it is to see white camellias or tea tree white flowers, there are poetry records.
"Ten thousand wood deciduous wooden teeth, spring color first return to the ridge on the tea."
Shallow golden gardenia, white jade Qin pear blossom.
The west wind condensed into a sprout, and Beiyuan shouted that Lei should not bud.
Bitter taste is ultimately beneficial, and Mo will be more pleasant than floating. "Song Dynasty Yue Ke "Little Spring Six Flowers Camellia"
Yue Ke was Yue Fei's grandson, and like his grandfather, he was bold and talented, grounded, and had many places in his life, and was a really upright official. He was amazed to see tea trees blossoming in the tea plantations in the winter.
This is the season when the trees fall, but the spring of October is back here, and you see this camellia flower, the white petals, the bright yellow flower buds, like the Buddha flower gardenia, but the gardenia flower is the summer flower, the camellia blooms in the winter. Do you see this camellia flower, a delicate white jade-like flower, like a pear blossom? But pear blossoms only bloom in the spring.
"Shallow golden gardenia, tender white jade Qin pear blossom."
This is an ancient poem that I have seen the most beautiful white camellia, and you can imagine the excitement and joy of Yue Ke seeing the white flowers of the tea garden blooming on the green branches in winter. This is the cold season of the west wind, don't treat the camellia as an ordinary floating flower!
Yue Ke is the camellia flower of the tea garden that you see, the simple and beautiful white petals, and the golden flower buds, making people feel like they are in a fairyland.
"The spring sound in the corner of the house is good news, and the green clothes and jade face are bright.
For the sake of junzi to break the heavens and ask questions, rely on Qing Xiang to enjoy this life. "Song Dynasty Zhang Wei "Xie Ren Sent White Camellia Two Songs" one of them
This is a friend who directly dug a white camellia tree from the mountain forest and sent it to his home. A tree is fast with flowers and trees with eaves, and there are flowers, the so-called green skirt jade face, which is particularly moving. After the ecstasy, I refused to leave the flower tree, and promised that I would not be an official from now on, and I would make any money, and I planned to stay in this courtyard and accompany this tree to live my life with the white camellia tree.
Of course, don't believe that this is the real vow, but the joy in the middle is certainly true. You can see that this flower tree is at least a few meters high, and it should not be a tea tree in a tea garden, but a wild camellia flower.
"Strange winter queen, shy to see the east wind."
Unchanged frost, from his hundred hui red.
Peony wrapped in red brocade, orange blossom rotten pearl.
No longer remember the begonias, drifting in the smoke and rain. "Song ChenMi's "White Camellia Miscellaneous Flowers"
Then this Chen Mi, he said that the most peculiar thing about white camellias is that they begin to bloom after winter, because they are white and flawless, and they are unwilling to bloom with other flowers in the spring wind. Seeing this camellia makes people forget about peony begonia orange blossoms and the like. Although I have never liked to belittle anything in order to praise anything, there is a sentence in this poem, white camellia is ice and snow ethics, which I agree with. There are not many flowers in winter, and those who can open in the cold have their own nobility.
"Camellia pure white is naïve, and the cage seal is still new.
The beauty did not spare the three valleys of snow, and the fragrance first got the five peaks of spring.
Qionghua was scattered and final, and the jade rui depression was even dustier.
Send a branch with the messenger, want to divide the fangs and hate for no reason. [Song] Zeng Gong", "Sending Wu Zhongshu to See the Good Chapters of Yi Rhyme and Remuneration with White Mountain Tea"
This is a white camellia sent between friends. I like camellia pure white is naïve, he used the cage to pick the camellia branches to send to friends, said that the white camellia is whiter than the snow in the mountains, the aroma is like spring, I can only send you a branch, I can not send you the root, because I am afraid that the road is bumpy, the flowers will die.
In fact, the mailing industry in the Song Dynasty was very developed, and flowers like this could be delivered in time, so the originator of express delivery should be China. So why can't camellias be divided? This is because camellias have high requirements for water and soil, bumps on the road, and the climate of north and south is not adapted, and I am afraid that the survival rate is not too high. It is estimated that this variety is an artificially cultivated heavy-petaled white camellia, and the owner is not much, and dare not mail it easily.
"Trees show the garden double jade, Sun Rong builds hundreds of buds."
Half-life ice and snow festival, and then give white camellia. "Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's Elegy of The Guo Mother and The Widow Li Clan"
So is the status of white camellias in Classical China high? Of course, if you look at Yang Wanli's poem, Bai Shancha is a metaphor for the mother of Frost And Snow's life.
After talking about the classical Chinese white camellia, we will look back at Dumas's "La Traviata" and we will find some similarities and differences. In the same place, the camellia represents nobility, but the difference is that the 19th century French camellia is a social flower, representing fashion, representing a girl or love, but in China, it represents a kind of maturity and steadfastness after the wind and snow.
Although "La Traviata" spread throughout China in the early twentieth century, the meaning represented by the white camellia in it was not recognized by more Chinese, and when I thought about it, I felt as if it was not a Chinese camellia, and I felt too romantic, too poignant, and not grounded.
Chinese like the snow white of white camellias, low-key and natural. Like Murong Xi's "White Camellia"
"Every time, I couldn't ignore walking past a blossoming tree.
The white and warm flowers, starting from the little green buds, to becoming more and more full, to slowly blooming; from semicircles, to round circles, to full circles. ”
It is the consummation of spring in winter, the expectation and bloom of life, full of infinite vitality.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you.