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Speaking of autumn, it is natural to talk about luan trees, especially in recent years, the beautiful figure of luan trees can be seen everywhere. I first met Luan Shu in the fall of 2017, in Wujiashan.
Wujiashan is green, from spring to autumn, everywhere the green trees are green and verdant, row after row of street trees, a team of green belts, light green and green emerald green, green bumping eyes a derivative of life. In the autumn breeze, the unknown trees are tall and tall, and countless pale yellow flowers bloom at the top of the canopy, and the flower base is dotted with a touch of bright red, and the dense collection of fine yellow flowers is interspersed with thousands of golden ribbons, shining among the dense green leaves. Those high flowers and branches stand tall, composing dignified and beautiful in the distant sky; more branches that are slanted out of the side are also complex but not complicated, a good Qingjun and Juanxiu.
As the days passed, countless pale yellow flowers transformed into bright golden yellow among the delicate branches and leaves, and the whole tree was draped with countless gold ornaments, as if wearing a shining golden robe, and the whole row of trees was surrounded by green leaves and gold powder, like a jade tree facing the wind, becoming a splendid autumn scene of its own! I was amazed at how this unknown tree came from such a "golden branch and jade leaf" to make people stop, and the inquirer learned that this tree is called "Luan Tree", also called "Cash Cow Tree", it turns out that there are really cash cows in this world!
Autumn Wind is a mischievous baby who loves to cause trouble, and wants to blow off the leaves, but also blows off the flowers. The west wind is blowing, the luan flowers of the cash cow trees are flying, countless small yellow flowers are flying in the sky and flipping lightly, like the scattered flowers of the goddess of heaven, there is one beautiful "golden rain" after another in the air, "golden rain" sticks to the ends of the hair, attaches to the placket, attaches to the car body, lays the ground, falls on the dust, in clusters of piles, squeezed into the ground golden, I suddenly remember the harvest season of that year, the spacious threshing field in my hometown, the fresh rice that my father and fellow villagers took turns drying, and the ground was also covered with gold!
Inadvertently, the Luan tree is covered with dense layers of yellow-green fruits, the fruit is surrounded by three triangular skins like tissue paper into a cone, the west wind renders, the yellow-green fruit is red like a day, the thin peel is puffed up, looking up, row after row of Luan trees, pink and rose fruits are like countless small lanterns hanging high, layered and stacked into spectacular, just before and after the National Day, Luan trees are also named "National Day Flowers" and "Lantern Trees"!
What is rare is that no matter how much the rain blows and the wind blows the flowers, the branches of the Luan trees are still lush and colorful! It is also interesting that on the same Luan tree, the golden flowers are still blooming in the branches, or the pale green or goose yellow or rose red fruits are already in bunches on the green branches next to it, and the red, green and yellow makeup on a Luan tree is lightly colored, and under the glow of the blue sky and white clouds, a row of smoke Luan trees is full of purple and red, like a huge oil painting with thick ink and heavy colors, which is pleasing to the eye!
Walking across the road, Gu Panluan's prosperous and splendid appearance, in a trance, glimpsed the whiteness of one place in the green belt! Was it last night's heavy sleep, unconsciously falling a snow? Rubbing your eyes and looking again, it is still white one by one, some places are there, some places are not, and everywhere is the snow has melted? No, where is the winter snow falling on the autumn grass? Leaning closer, it turned out to be a small white onion orchid! Last night an autumn rain, this green onion orchid will spring up like a mushroom after the rain, only one night from the ground hula out, a round and delicate green stem to hold up a six-petal white flower, green stems such as onions, flowers warm yellow, small onion orchids are not shocked and pure, adding an elegance and expectation to the autumn color!
Whether it is sunny or misty, the early morning woods are the paradise of birds, and the sounds in the forest, melodious, thick and heavy, in one breath, intermittent, far, near, long, short, high, low, chirping, rejoicing, birds sometimes fly from this tree to that one, sometimes skimming over the head, leaving a seemingly innocent trace.
The bird stood on a high street lamp pole shaking its head, vigilantly looking around, it seems to choose a quietest time in the morning, plan another brand new day, nearby pedestrians have a little movement, it immediately walked away and flew high, leaving you a flowing hazy back. The cuckoo in the forest does not know that the seasons have changed, spring, summer, autumn, morning, noon, and evening, playing their own beats, tirelessly singing the moving songs in its heart!
Autumn is not just dead leaves, not just miserable, in the wild bushes beside the road, the green leaves are hidden, the purple morning glory flowers are all shy and shameful; the light purple pods are like a colorful butterfly limp grass, the tight and slender pods are ripe, and the butterflies next to them are flickering and do not want to leave, can it be that it thinks that the butterfly-like pods are the same kind of pollen it is picking pollen?
By the courtyard wall, the loofahs planted by the family bloom one after another with large yellow flowers, the ladybug flower sister is busy concentrating on collecting pollen among the flowers, and the butterflies in pairs are suddenly lingering next to the flowers. The folded petals are as thin as cicada wings like silk, a light rain the night before makes the petals still "tear" a little pitiful, the early morning autumn sun suddenly appears, and the delicate petals immediately break into a smile! In the face of such yellow flowers, how can you bear to get your hands on it, pick it as an ingredient to cook the flower porridge pancake?
The pumpkin vine next to it, and the loofah vine are like a competition, together with autumn fun, but also opened with large yellow flowers, the pumpkin flower shaped like a funnel, the lace is slightly inwardly rolled, and the petals are woven with fresh green warp threads to stretch and stretch freely, if the petals are five pieces, from the top, the whole flower is very similar to the yellow five-pointed star on the five-star red flag. The funnel-shaped pumpkin flower is still a rare heavenly dumpling skin, picked to wrap the dumplings to eat, fresh and chic, and another taste in the heart!
The colorful lanterns of the luan tree branches are still leisurely playing on the swing in the autumn wind, and suddenly, the osmanthus trees in the community, the park, and the roadside trees are blossoming, and the golden glittering fragrance is overflowing under the autumn sun, and the tens of millions of delicate short flower stems are embellished with tens of millions of inconspicuous small yellow flowers, and the dense turns are decorated with each branch of the long and short length of the osmanthus tree, and at a glance, the branches are like countless furry golden balls, and the bunches of flower branches are like strings of golden sugar gourds, and some are like golden ears of wheat!
This year, I was fortunate to encounter many dangui trees decorated with orange-red flowers in the community garden! In the garden, the golden gui dan gui qi fragrance, all the way to walk and stop, shuttle between nearly a hundred osmanthus trees, happy nose wing busy, frequent deep inhalation; raise the eyes beautiful, constantly look up, sigh its unattractive broken flowers gathered together, without reservation to enjoy its charming fragrance, the air is like spraying osmanthus freshener, the aroma is flowing endlessly in the garden, whether day or night, people walk in the garden, the old woman white hair has become an elegant person with fragrant spray! For a moment, if you can transform into a butterfly like Sun Dasheng, you will surely chase incense day and night among these blossoming osmanthus trees!
Imaginary and ethereal, the fragrance of flowers is seductive, staying at home is not guarded, and the next morning I came to a forest of osmanthus flowers on the side of the road again, and unintentionally flew a big bird in the tree. The sky is blue, looking at those dazzling osmanthus branches golden, still full of joy, and how greedy, want to suck every incense molecule in the air into the stomach and store it! If you say that the peach blossom is beautiful and beautiful, it is the beauty of the "shape", and the beauty of the fragrance of this osmanthus flower is the beauty of the "god"! Is the golden autumn beautiful? Golden Autumn Cinnamon Is Not Fragrant? The ancients told you: "Monopolize the three autumns to suppress the fangs, He Yong orange green and orange yellow." Since the planting of the middle of the next month, if the incense wafts into the sky..."
Shuttling and intoxicating in the flower tree, but seeing one after another small osmanthus flowers leaving the branches and falling, I had a thought flashing: instead of flowers falling in the mud, why not go back to the bag to pick it, how much can be picked, and the sun-dried wine and tea are not the value of the flowers again? I really went home to get the bag, worried about being seen, went straight to the osmanthus tree nearest inside, wore a strict mask, and lowered the brim of the hat, but even so, when my hands pulled the branches a little bit into the bag and pulled the osmanthus flowers into the bag, my heart suddenly became uneasy, I felt that what I was doing was obviously wrong, and suddenly from the stone courtyard wall of a person next to me, the barking sound of dogs came from the stone courtyard wall that was more than one person high, and barked in my direction.
Listening to the sound, the dog is very close, like it will drill through the gap under the courtyard wall about half a foot high at any time, I am more nervous and afraid, and I think that the osmanthus forest on the side of the road is the municipal green belt, not unique to the owner of this dog in the courtyard wall, so why should the dog be nosy? Is it telling me that it is not right to pull trees and pick flowers? Is it stopping me? Dogs know right and wrong, so why should people be embarrassed? I closed my hands, wanted to see the flowers again, wanted to smell the incense again, but found that the pleasure of enjoying the flowers just now seemed to no longer exist, and the osmanthus flowers that had just been picked into the bag were not as beautiful and fragrant as when they grew on the branches.
When the flowers bloom and the branches are in full bloom, everyone has a beautiful view to appreciate, if you pinch the flowers, how can he appreciate the flowers in the world, less greed, less desire, less trouble, more emptiness, more kindness and joy, public resources and cherishing, beautiful environment depends on everyone... Thinking like this, the mood is like the golden light of autumn.
The autumn of the stacked green flowing gold is golden and brilliant, and at the same time there is no lack of colorful foils and costumes, it is the autumn scene, but it is suspected that the spring is full of people, watching the autumn and autumn love autumn cherishing autumn also, quoting Liu Yuxi's poem "Autumn Words" as Xie: Since ancient times, autumn is sad and lonely, I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty. A crane in the clear sky lined up on the clouds, and it led the poetry to the blue sky.
This article was published by Liu Guiping with the authorization of Impression Huangpi
About the author Liu Guiping, a native of Qianchuan, Huangpi, engaged in financial work.