◆ Implication
The word "three friends who are old and cold" comes from Lin Jingxi's biography of Wang in Song Dynasty: "If you live in a tired place, you will grow into a hundred plums, and you will be a cold friend." Bai Pu, one of the four masters of Yuan Qu, wrote in Zhong Chao CuO: "Flowers are pine and bamboo, and thousands of trees are jade and pear flowers. What a cold friend, it is better than red and white camellia. "
Pine and cypress, colorful bamboo and winter plum are also called the three auspicious plants in winter. People often use them to describe people's noble character and virtue, and don't go with the flow. Therefore, it is called "three-year-old cold three friends".
Pine, evergreen all the year round, is a symbol of eternity.
Bamboo, gentle and honest, is a symbol of life elasticity and longevity.
Plum blossom, a noble symbol, is also called "four gentlemen in flowers" with orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums.
◆ [Explanation]
◎( 1) refers to pine, bamboo and plum. Pine and bamboo will not wither in winter, but plums will open cold, so they are called "three friends of old cold"
The pines and bamboos are hidden, and thousands of trees are blooming. What a cold friend, more like red and white camellia. -"Zhong Chao CuO" by Bai Yuan Pu
After late autumn, all the flowers withered except pine, bamboo and plum. -Ming anonymous "Yuqiao Gossip" is 60% off.
In Song Dynasty, Lin Jingxi's Ji Shan Ji and Wu She Ji: "I live in Shan Ye, grow hundreds of plums, and make cold friends with Huang."
◎(2) Cold at the age: a metaphor for a turbid world. Three Friends: Shanshui, Songzhu and Gin. The three are lofty things in the troubled times.
◆ 【 Other explanations 】
Ancient China literati loved to send things to express their feelings, and expressed their ideal character and spiritual pursuit with natural objects. The indomitable pine and cypress, colorful bamboo and winter plum, although belonging to different families and genera, all have noble styles that are not afraid of severe frost. They lived together in the cold of the old days, and they have always been admired by China ancient and modern literati, and they are called "three friends in the cold of the old days", which is a metaphor for loyal friendship.
Loose, evergreen; Bamboo will not wither after years; Plum blossoms are hardy.
Pine, bamboo and plum have the same habit of not being afraid of cold, firm, unyielding and noble characteristics, and also have noble styles, which have been noble symbols in the minds of China people since ancient times. Because of "like-minded", it is called "Old Cold Three Friends".
The stiffness of pine, the elegance of bamboo and the elegance of plum show the beauty and charm of nature, and also make people intoxicated by the elegance of pine, the drizzly sprinkling of bamboo and the crystal touch-up of plum.
In the cold winter, with heavy snow, "Heart" rewarded three old cold friends, who had bowed their heads and carried flowers on their backs. Striking the strings of one's mood in quietness, perseverance, emptiness and clarity, staying away from the noise and troubles of the world in the lofty seclusion of three old cold friends, and entering a quiet and uncontested paradise in the deep heart. ...