As a child, I have an impression of trumpet flowers. Inside the door of the house, under the window roots, they all have to make room for the land, in order to "plant melons and beans" in the spring, what old melons, gourds, rack beans five, and "pig ears lentils", as soon as they climb out of the vines, they will open blue-purple fingernail-sized flowers, and in a few days, there will be a string of lentils on the inner beans. Anyway, as soon as xia yin tian'er arrived, under the window roots of the Beijing people, whether it was melons or flowers, it was a seed that could be planted in the inner land.
In the past, in the courtyard of the honest people in Beijing, they all paid attention to the "canopy fish tank pomegranate tree, Mr. Fat Dog Fat Head".
Although ordinary people's families say that their strength is poor, they also have the sweet days of "little boys, sitting on the door pier, crying and shouting for daughters-in-law", and also like to be busy stealing some flowers and grasses, such as "glass green, nail grass, dog tail flowers, string red, cockscomb flowers, Ci Zhen and so on." Speaking of this flower, I can't help but think of the trumpet flowers that are dangling in front of my eyes every year. I don't believe you smacked and touched, no matter where you go, everyone ~ hate can't be in front of the beijing suburban people's own children's own field has this trumpet flower!
Earlier, there was no flower market, and the people could not afford to buy flowers, so they could plant some flowers and grasses at the root of the front window of the house, according to the current fashion, it was to add a little joy to themselves and add some color to the day. Let's say that this glass green bar, its flowers are also finger belly is so big, but also slightly rustic, the color (shai) also belongs to the "thrown flower pile can not be seen" variety. This "string red" is slightly more conspicuous than the glass cui, because it is the growth (shape) of the "string", but its shortcomings are inseparable from the glass cui, although the string shape, it looks a bit "qi and blood loss". Why do you praise "mules" so much? It's not like flowers! If you like it, you can't avoid being picky.
Maybe it's genetics? The "boy" in the mu family is also, from the child likes flowers, as soon as he sees the flowers, he must smell the flowers pasted on his nose, crouch in front of the flowerpot and look at it! One year in order to welcome the National Day, Beihai Kindergarten set up a small flower bed at the gate, the boy in the family wanted to "appreciate the flowers" at close range, put his head next to the flowerpot, and as a result, the people broke the flowerpot, and the children pulled me to play with their lives,,, said that this is a year, such as tonight he is already tall and big. It is said that "the boy who loves flowers is afraid of his daughter-in-law", hey! This period is not in my control. Talking about running away.
Turning back to the stubble and saying that our trumpet flower, this trumpet flower is called "Xi Yan", and there are also people who call her "Chao Yan", but I call her "Beijing Little Girl". Since I remember, although the Beijing natives who have gone out of the city have really walked a lot because of the demolition, no matter where they go, or "left behind", there are still trumpet flowers in the flowers they plant. Especially before and after the autumn, you look at it, in the flower pot, in the small circle, crawling on the window edge, on the eaves, planing the melon, loofah, is the trumpet flower.
Trumpet flowers are strong in nature, climate, light, ventilation, soil, etc. Strong adaptability, drought tolerance, salt and alkali resistance to high temperature and heat, when the spring is open, you run to the soil to throw a few flower seeds, hey ;-) Her small plant stems have deep roots, but she is good (four sounds) fertile, good soft soil, but can not be watery.
It is said that this trumpet flower, her birthplace is the Americas? Or Africa? The color is gorgeous, the adaptability is strong, the cultivation is easy, and the slow flowers and vines climbed to China, and our country has her beautiful figure in the north and south, urban and rural courtyards, balconies, window sills, scaffolds, fences, street green belts, etc., all of which are missing her look back.
The ancients said: plum makes people tall, orchid makes people humorous, chrysanthemum makes people wild, lotus makes people light, begonias make people colorful, peony makes people proud, bamboo makes rhyme, pine makes people easy, tung makes people Qian, willow makes people feel, and locust makes people clear.
Oh, yes! The old Beijingers are also good to the ancients, praised by the Manggu people, many People in Beijing also have the custom of planting chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemums in the courtyard and halls, and they really experience the enjoyment of the beauty given by all things, and this pleasing object brings us a refreshing fragrance! But sometimes when you think about it, guess what? On the contrary, I feel that the biggest problem in life seems to be how to face "beauty".
Earlier Fengtai's "flower town", especially the flower and tree planting in the Caoqiao'er area, is the most prestigious, you are like our Beijing city flower month season, is also one of the flowers planted in the homes of the people in Beijing. In the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of April of the lunar calendar, the flower farmers sent potted and budding flowers into the palace, and the eunuchs served them in the inner court for the empress and concubines to see. Legend has it that when Qianlong Ye was in power, he ordered people to transplant many months of seasonal best to the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City in Laizhou, Shandong, but the Royal Garden was a place where Tianzi enjoyed flowers and leisure, naturally there were flower handles waiting, and when the people of pingtou wanted to get a few pots of children and monthly pendulums, one was that you could not take care of the flower maker, and the other was the entry of ordinary people's children's melons and melons, mainly used in the family's chewing wrap. Therefore, you can only make full use of the three points of the front and back window roots of the house, plant some old melons, loofahs, beans and the easiest to serve the most flowering horn flowers! Having said that, it has come back to haunt it, isn't it?
In fact, among the thousands of flowers, this trumpet flower is the most quiet flower, in the first few years of the popular TV series "The Biography of Zhen Huan": Concubine Hua likes rich and colorful dress, but Shu Jin Bureau sent plain clothes with Xi Yan patterns. So in a hurry, Concubine Hua gave her clothes to Zhen Huan. However, Zhen Huan (that is, at that time) said, "I think this flower is very different." It means a beautiful face under the setting sun." Remember that? When the Shu Jin Bureau customized the clothes for Huafei With the Xiyan pattern, it happened to be when the Seventeenth Master was on business in Shudi, who can say that this "Xiyan pattern" dress was not a gift from the King of Guojun borrowing the hand of Concubine Hua to present to the Guangui?
There is also a saying that this trumpet flower is a male and female love flower. There is a poem in the "Tale of Genji" as evidence: "White dew is wet and beautiful, flowers are fragrant because of the light of the water, it is suspected that if people are affectionate, Xi Yanhua is full of flowers, thin twilight is dim and hazy, how to peek at the true face."
Nagged for half a while, the low-key Xi Yan, the hot trumpet flowers, like our Beijing people coldly looking at the direction of the way, watching the attitude of the clouds cirrus clouds, all kinds of flowers in the daytime, purple and red, loved by thousands, and only the trumpet flowers are in the middle of the night when people are quiet in the early morning, quiet blooming, she is like our Beijing people's unobtrusive personality, micro-rolled bones, silently stretching funnel-like flower crown, stems and vines upside down with short soft thorns and fluff, like the personality of our Beijing people who are not afraid of trouble.
White is clean, red is fierce, blue is mysterious, pink is soft, purple is seductive. When night falls, she will quietly dress up, comb the lines, and open up calmly. And when the sun was shining hot, she silently put away the beautiful flower crown and crouched on the vines quietly waiting for the moon to be rare.
Xi Yan, Chao Yan or Morning Glory Flower - I call the trumpet flower of Beijing Xiao Yan'er, you have decorated the Royal Palace Garden, you have embellished the Luo skirt of the boudoir, you accompany the pavilion street, you render the Beijing rhyme, your full flower seed package, indicating the next, innumerable, continue to add color to the beautiful reincarnation!