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It’s time again when the lotus flowers are fragrant
Xi Murong once said: No one can understand Lian’s thoughts Understand.
I am a lotus that emerges from the mud but does not bloom, standing pretty by the river nearest to you. Day after day, year after year, I bloom and thank you, thank you and bloom again, waiting for the day that you love me for life after life!
When the bright sunshine adorns the beautiful summer day, I am dressed in silver in the watery night, creating romantic and warm nights. When you and your friends come to the small river where I am At this time, the wind blows gently, making me graceful and charming, attracting your attention. Sometimes the sky is filled with continuous drizzle; it is nourishing my lonely soul, ah...at this moment! Lotus flowers also have a touching style when accompanied by rain!
You see me standing in the middle of the water, you see me standing next to the green leaves, you see me sometimes competing for beauty, sometimes enjoying myself, my heart is actually infinitely desolate... I have a broken heart, and tears often roll down my face. Falling next to me, my heart is shouting, my heart is panicking; because there is no shadow of me in your loving eyes... Don't blame me for coming from the mud, don't blame me for being beautiful enough for the public to appreciate, But I am always secretly sad. I can only hide my roots under the bright appearance and bloom for you next year!
You who have no chance...either come too early or come too late. How can I let you see my most beautiful moment? I think, this summer; I will still try my best to show my beauty and release my fragrance. I hope to keep your sight, because we are destined to be together, as time goes by, I believe that one day, your gentle eyes will be locked on me, and your words of praise and loving eyes will make me become a person named "Lotus" Beautiful woman, you will kiss the sleeping princess like a prince in a fairy tale. I am looking forward to it with hope, looking forward to this day in a certain year and month!
I am a lotus that emerges from the mud but does not bloom, standing pretty by the river nearest to you. Day after day, year after year, I bloom and thank you, thank you and bloom again, waiting for the day that you love me for life after life!
●A different kind of lotus article/Li Zhongguo
Reading the article "Appreciating Lotus in Summer" published in the "Tea Pavilion" column on July 4th triggered the author's love for lotus complex . Because my hometown, Jinan, Shandong Province, is a place where lotus flowers are on all sides and willows are on three sides. (Liu Fenggao of the Qing Dynasty wrote a poem about Jinan). Relying on the geographical environment of "one city with mountains and half a city with lakes", patches of green lotus branches and red bunches are rendered and dotted with the scenery in summer and autumn.
However, when it comes to appreciating lotus, the author dares not agree with many lotus lovers in ancient and modern times who subjectively and metaphysically regard lotus as the incarnation of a pure and pure "master", or impose some kind of spiritual symbolic song. Rather, I pay more attention to its inherent physical properties and connotation as a plant, hoping to read a different kind of lotus that is not seen in the eyes of literati.
For example, Zhou Dunyi's "Love of the Lotus" in the Song Dynasty praised the lotus as an aloof, arrogant, and self-sufficient gentleman among the flowers. The lotus farmers who make a living by planting lotus roots on hundreds of acres of Daming Lake in Jinan laughed when they heard this: "If there was no silt, where would the lotus bloom? If the lotus relies on the nourishment of silt to achieve its beauty, how can it be dyed? What about non-dyeing?"
Modern literati will also develop new ideas for lotus according to the inspiration of the lotus farmer: flowers that open to the sky are like the noble orientation of the human spirit, rooted in The mud under our feet, in order to obtain endless nourishment, is a rich foundation for the lofty spirit to be carried forward. This reminder has shortened the distance between people and the lotus. They no longer respect the lotus from a distance, but also have a sudden love for the mud.
This is true if you think about it carefully.
The author consulted a variety of lotus root planting information and consulted some botanists. I believe that if this view can be recognized by experts and scientifically supported, it can create the image of lotus in the times.
But something else was discovered:
For example, judging from the habits of this large aquatic plant with a domestic planting area of ??more than 100,000 hectares, its life and beauty do not mainly benefit from the nourishment of "silt", but It is a product of the unique blessings of "the sky", that is, the high temperature and sufficient light in summer - relying on the organic matter nourishment provided by the "photosynthesis" of the green leaf shield covering the water surface. The cells of the petals are full of bright pigments. In the language of poetry, they are the embrace and accumulation of sunlight!
The "silt" at the bottom of the pond is the unfortunate birthplace of the lotus.
The planting technology of modern agriculture places the growth of lotus in a three-dimensional mixed cropping food chain. Let its beauty and life be mutually beneficial and dependent on the floating matter, aquatic species, organic debris, solar energy, nutrients and carbonic acid gas in the sky and on the ground. Here, it is said that it is better for lotus flowers not to be "stained", but it is better to say that they "benefit" each other. It can be seen that the vigorously rising posture of the lotus leaves not only expresses the spiritual dimension, but also enriches life.
And the meaning of this kind of gain needs to be achieved when the autumn mood gets stronger, the lotus holds out a rich lotus room, and people discover the rich lotus roots it nourishes from the deep mud, and they begin to grow. It is only when it dies and rots that it is deeply understood. One can hear the overflowing spirit of dedication from the patter of rain hitting the remaining lotuses. Such an image is not comparable to the Zhou family who "comes out of the mud but remains unsullied" - a person who aims at cleansing himself and taking good care of himself, or the Lingbo Fairy!
Here, when you are wandering around the lakeside in summer, paying attention to "the endless green lotus leaves that touch the sky", or "returning to the boat late after your excitement and straying into the depths of the lotus flowers", you will definitely read something The unique red lotus blossoms.