After the first rain, the green leaves are as green as smoke. Approaching the Jilong River, the air is filled with the sweet fragrance of a bay of lotus flowers, refreshing the heart and filling the soul. Zhengying and a series of ancient poems: "Before entering the lotus country, first smell the incense on the surface of the water" (Qing Yang Eryou, "The Lotus Wind of the Great Temple"). To be precise, the lotus fragrance is divided into floral fragrance and leaf fragrance. The wind blows the lotus shadow, the flowers are elegant, the green is emerald green, and the leaves are fragrant.
Bamboo yin into the temple green without heat, lotus leaves around the door fragrant flowers.
- Qing Li Yan, "May 13th with Ding Jingshen Tour Zhiguo Temple"
In the water of a stream dyed green with willows, lotus leaves are in the sky. Nearby, the green disc rolls beads, thick and faint; in the distance, there are staggered and spread out. The lotus leaves are densely next to each other, lingering, all the way to the distance. The clear water of a river is also made more clear and deep because of this green mass.
In the late spring, the clear water surface of the lotus bush protrudes from the light green bud tips, the young leaves in the inner volume are relaxed and slowly blooming, and some of the small green leaves that are faint red are like shy and cute children, moving every day, from copper money to palm size, large fan, futon large, the color is getting stronger and stronger, "lotus fragrance across Pudu, lotus leaves full of fresh rivers" (Southern and Northern Dynasties, Liu Xiaowei's "Lotus Picking Song").
In the sun, the lotus leaves are layered green: light green, emerald green, dark green, dark green, as if dyed by carefully concocted watercolors. Inadvertently, the lotus leaves leave the water, and the thin lotus stems hold up the clusters of lotus leaves high. "Green clouds embrace the fan green crank" (Song Zhang Qian's "Sending Chao Yingzhi to the Lotus Flower Drama"), such as Hemei meeting a woman who is flowing and flowing. They are slender, holding up a green oil-paper umbrella, long hair flowing lightly, full of style. When it is really "a stem of lonely lead to green, two shadows share dividends" (Sui Du Gongzhan "Wing TongXin Furong") ah!
The lotus leaf is five inches of lotus flowers, and the sticker wave does not hinder the painting of the boat.
When it comes to Kaoru in April and May, it can also cover the waist of the beauty.
--Qing Shitao, "Lotus"
The oily turquoise lotus leaves, natural, plain, dignified, and fragrant, permeate with a special spirit and fragrance, quietly accompanied by a stream of pink lotus.
"Ten Thousand Handles Pavilion Pavilion Out of The Blue Ripple" (Song Lin Jingxi's "Lotus"), the lotus leaves are emerald green, lining the delicate flowers; only the infinite blue of the lotus leaves has the different red of the lotus flower; only "only the green lotus is red, and the Shu scroll is open and closed to ren innocence" (Tang Li Shangyin's "Gift of Lotus Flowers").
Pink, white, pink, pink lotus, delicate. The flowers are tender and yellow, and the fringed velvet of the golden flower buds is as fine and soft as the velvet. Could it be that the colorful xia and brilliant clouds in the sky are transformed into the Lingbo fairy of the Jilong River?
The pond surface is windy, and the waves are exposed to the leaf fields.
Who on the surface of the water opened the green cover, but the cover was red makeup and sang lotus.
--Song Ouyang Xiu, "Lotus Leaf"
This lotus flower, as depicted in the poem, "the lotus leaf is linfeng and green" (Song Su's "Lotus"), and the girl's green luo skirt is in harmony with the lotus leaf of Tian Tian. Dark green leaves, pink flowers, watery shadows, like delicate maidens: some are shy, some are charming, some are beautiful, and some are delicate and elegant. A few lotus flowers have just withered, and the lotus leaves reveal a pink and yellow lotus canopy, like the pink and delicate face of a newborn baby, squinting at the eyes of the stars, cute and timid, making people feel pity. The summer lotus is a little less natural when it comes out of the water, and a little more mature in the eyes of a woman: beautiful and elegant, but feminine and pretty.
Turning over blank birds is seen from time to time, and the water is red and fragrant.
- Song Su Dongpo, "Partridge Heaven"
He mei flew a few egrets, one large and two small. The great egret stretched its neck to peck at the fish and shrimp in the water, and the two little egrets who were just learning to feed were also attracted by the small fish floating in the water, and stepped on the lotus leaves into the depths of the river. The great egret whined worriedly on the shore, but the little white heron who was playing with it ignored it. The great egrets had to carefully wade into the stream to drive them away.
Three egrets, before and after, suddenly burrowed into the lotus, suddenly jumped on the lotus leaf, played "hide-and-seek", very interesting. With a "whoosh" sound, a red carp jumped up from the lotus leaf, and then "snapped" and fell into the water in an instant. The splash of water startled the little frog who had just been singing in the lotus leaf, drew an arc in the air, and quietly hid under the lotus leaf.
The wind is clear and the lotus is fragrant, the lotus is moving and the fish are frightened, and the frogs are popping the water, which adds a lot of elegance to the calm river.
菡萏, Hibiscus, Xike, Jingke, Hibiscus, Shuizhi, Zezhi, Shuihua, reading so many names of Lotus, you will have fragrant lips and teeth.
Green lotus covers green water, and hibiscus is covered with red fresh.
There is a root lotus under the bottom and a lotus on the top.
- Wei Jin Anon. "Qingyang Ferry"
This popular folk poem depicts the form and characteristics of the lotus to life. From the beauty of "dotting the lotus leaves and stacking green money in the spring" (Tang DuFu's "Nine Songs of Absolute Sentence Manxing, Seven"), to the meaning of "receiving the infinite blue of the lotus leaves in the sky" in summer (Song Yang Wanli's "Xiao Out of the Pure Mercy to Send Lin Zifang"), to the elegance of "leaving the dry lotus to listen to the sound of the rain" in the cold autumn (Tang Li Shangyin's "Su Luo Clan Pavilion Sending Cui Yong Cui Gong"), the lotus leaves have transformed from beautiful and elegant to vicissitudes and alienation, and they are still exposed to the otherworldly and poignant nature. A natural lotus leaf, from spring to winter, is beautiful all the time. Lotus leaves can not only be aesthetic, but also have many benefits for people.
The Compendium of Materia Medica records that "lotus leaves: bitter, flat, non-toxic". Fresh leaves have the effect of relieving heat, clearing heat, and dampness. After concoction, the lotus leaf has the miraculous effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, refreshing the eyes, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids. Lotus leaves make porridge, if there is no fragrance, it seems to be looming, and it makes people lose their heat after eating. Women often eat refreshing and delicious lotus leaf porridge, and can also slim down and beautify. Nowadays, it has also developed a health care lotus leaf tea. Shen Fu recorded the plot of his wife Yunniang smoking tea with lotus flowers in the "Six Records of Floating Life": "When the lotus flowers first bloom in the summer moon, they are late and dawn. Yun uses a small yarn sac to pluck a little tea leaves, put the flower heart, take it out tomorrow morning, and soak it in the boiling spring water, and the fragrance is particularly unique. "Yunniang, a real beautiful woman in ancient times, only because her mood is as elegant as a lotus, she has a poetic and romantic life of lack of oil and salt.
Qing Dynasty poet Zhang Baochen's "Late Step" poem Yun "Bamboo branches wind shadow is more suitable for the moon, lotus leaf dew fragrance is better than flowers"; Liang Shoucun's "Look at the New Lotus" poem Yiyun "seems to be through the rain and the wind, before the flower is early fragrance"; the fragrance of lotus leaves is actually more intriguing than the flowers themselves.
At this moment, strolling through the river, the breeze is gentle, the lotus leaves with different postures are turning with the wind, and the green leaves are refreshing, like the cool green of the garden fluttering in front of your eyes. You see, the green lotus leaf in the stream is "shaking, and the cold incense flies on the verse" (Song Jiang Kui's "Nian Nu Jiao, Noisy Red Ship").
-Author-
Zhu Shaohua, a native of Junan County, is a senior middle school teacher. Loves to write. Teaching papers, prose essays, poems, paper cuttings and other works have been published in many newspapers and online platforms. He has won many awards in the Essay contest and online literature competition.