China people's love for plum is 2 words.

The silence of the extraordinary plum blossom in winter has not yet awakened. When the vitality of spring has not yet arrived, thousands of flowers fade and all trees wither. However, only plum blossoms, proud frost and snow, and cold wind are blooming alone. A little bit of red plum is like deep red blood, and pieces of white flowers are like holy powder. In this vast world, only this beautiful, not frost and snow, aloof and proud. A gentleman. No wonder people praise and praise Mei, and respectfully call him a gentleman. Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and the ancients called them "four gentlemen", and plum blossom ranks first among the four gentlemen, which shows that China people love plum deeply. Pine bamboo and plum are also collectively called "three friends who are old and cold". People in China have a long tradition of loving Mei, and there are achievements in cultivating Mei. Plum blossom is originally wild, and our people domesticate and cultivate it, becoming a treasure among flowers and a famous flower in China. It has long been recorded in ancient books about plum blossom that "Mei Shi was born in Hanzhong and Sichuan Valley" has been introduced and domesticated for more than 3, years. Now plum blossoms have spread all over the country, and they can be seen everywhere, even made into bonsai. If you put them on hold for a few times, you can appreciate them when you lift your eyes. China people's love for plum blossoms can also be seen in calligraphy, painting and poetry. Plum blossoms have always been an artistic expression and an image of eulogy. Plum blossom was once the national flower of China, but there are still many people who pay attention to plum blossom among the opinions collected in the mass initiative to elect the national flower. Of course, people love plum for no reason, and the beauty of plum blossom is very attractive to people, which is its natural beauty and artificially cultivated beauty; It also has the beauty of spiritual symbol, and its property of not being afraid of cold has become the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation's fearlessness, unyielding, strong and proud. The natural beauty of plum blossoms is quite charming, with beautiful flowers and branches, and there is a kind of charm in the posture. Old cadres and beautiful flowers, iron bones and red hearts, strange posture, sparse density, horizontal oblique. There are many varieties of plum blossoms. Plum blossoms are easy to mutate, and there are many varieties. China's forestry work has taken many years of investigation, and there are more than 2 varieties in 18 provinces and cities in China. Twelve categories and thirty groups constitute a system. Such as Jiangmei, Gongfen Plum, Dahongmei, Jade Butterfly Plum, Cinnabar Plum, Sprinkled Golden Plum, Huangxiangmei, Zaomei, Xingmei, Zhao Shui Mei and Longyoumei. Different varieties have different colors. The flowers of red plum are pink, the flowers of apricot plum are red, the flowers of Bai Mei, green sepal plum and ice plum are white, and the flowers of fine plum are actually green. When plum blossoms bloom, there are no leaves; In addition, the pedicels are short, as if flowers were born on branches. It is still a wonder of plum blossoms. People in China love plums, which are also reflected in the way they are planted, or they specially open plum gardens, divide regions, and plant plums exclusively, or they are planted densely in large areas by streams, and their names can show their scale. For example: Meiyuan, Meiling and Meixi. When the plum blossoms are in full bloom, the plum blossoms in the forest are more spectacular, piling up into pieces, like fire and snow; It's a wonderland to walk among the colorful flowers. There are ten thousand plum blossoms in full bloom, and the fragrance is attractive, and it is intoxicating for miles away. No wonder, at this time, people often go to watch together. Only when you are there can you appreciate its beautiful momentum. People praise that this realm is called "Xiangxuemei", which is indeed worthy of the name. Its floral design and color, I do not know how many literati moved to write many famous sentences. When Su Shi wrote "Red Plum", there was a sentence of "throwing dizzy muscles on jade for no reason", and the color of plum blossom was like the charm of a drunken beauty. Liu Houcun's "Han Gong Chun" writes plum blossoms more incisively: "The ice layer is covered with snow, and the only point is to coagulate fat; You should sneer at Haitang's drunken sleep, and peony is too muscular. ""I am not greedy for beauty, but I appreciate the quiet posture. " Plum blossoms are so shy, aloof and full of interest. Plum blossoms are divided into five petals, which are rich in decoration. In handicrafts and architectural design, plum blossom patterns can be seen everywhere. The trademark of plum blossom, plum blossom, plum blossom commemorative medallion, plum blossom-shaped fruit box, and even on Dengwei Mountain in Suzhou, Meiting itself is a plum blossom-shaped building. The predecessors also described the five petals of plum blossom as a symbol of Five Blessingg: happiness, happiness, longevity, smoothness and peace. These are the traditional auspicious ideas that people entrust, and these contents are still valuable today. Of course, their connotations have changed. The beauty of plum blossoms has also been transferred to the field of beauty and makeup. There was also a story quoted in Taiping Yu Lan: Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Song Wudi, was lying on her royal highness in Hanzhang during the day. Plum blossoms fell on her forehead and became a five-flowered flower. She couldn't get rid of it until three days later. The ladies-in-waiting were surprised and imitated, and later spread to become plum blossom makeup. This is a kind of beauty decoration method of accidental hairdressing. Until today, there are five pink spots on the forehead of children, which look like plum blossoms, as a decoration. Against the red dots, children's skin is more bright and beautiful. This is probably the development and legacy of plum blossom makeup. The beauty of plum branches is also unique and occupies an important position in the aesthetic feeling of plum. Lin Fu's poem "Xiaomei in the Mountain Garden" reads: "The shadows are horizontal and the water is shallow, and the faint fragrance floats at dusk." It's no exaggeration to say that it is considered the best sentence in Yongmei. It not only summarizes the beauty, habits, tastes and realm of plum blossom, but also expresses the branches of plum blossom poetically, so his poems are superior. The beauty of branches is not as striking as the beauty of flowers, so it is often ignored. The vigorous and graceful beauty of plum is in the branches, and other trees do not have this situation, which is even more unique. Mei's branches are "beautiful with music", and straight is without posture; Taking beauty as beauty, regularity has no scenery; Sparseness is beauty, and secrecy is no state. "Pan Qu, deflection, sparse for beauty, in the form of aesthetic law is also strange, and so Mei Cai outstanding posture, extraordinary scenery. Gu Mei and Lao Mei, with their branches bent and bent, are quaint in posture, old and sparse in flowers, and old in moss, which is in sharp contrast with the delicate buds, bright red petals and bright forms. Obviously, Mei's "beauty in bending" is related to Mei's antiquity. Plum is the longevity among flowers and trees, which usually grows for 3 to 5 years, and even older for more than 1, years. Mei in Sui Dynasty 1,3 years ago and Mei in Tang Dynasty 1, years ago are still flourishing. Song Mei, a mountain beyond Hangzhou, is said to have been planted by Su Dongpo himself. "Taking the past as beauty" is even more a wonder of Mei. There are four expensive things to enjoy plum, and it is also advocated that being old is expensive. Four expensive is: expensive or not. "The beauty of Mei's music, sparseness, inclination, old age and harmony is only the beauty of form, while China's aesthetics values God over form, and the beauty of Mei naturally has the beauty of God. The beauty of Mei's deity can be summed up in four words: clearness, strangeness, thinness and strength. This is favored by poets and painters in art. China painter's artistic creation is the most typical, painting plum is quite interesting among painters of all ages, and there are many excellent works. The image of plum in Chinese painting has both form and spirit, and is more characteristic. Mei's beauty is exaggerated and strengthened: her figure is eccentric, her body is curved like a dragon, her old stem is strange, her thickness is horizontal and oblique, her branches are clear and healthy, like a sword, her feathers are flying and arrows are flying, and her body is covered with old spots in Long Lin, scarred like a crane's knees, with beautiful flowers and flowers, and her buds are fragrant, leaning forward and retracting, and in various poses. The beauty of plum enhances its ornamental value in flowers and trees. In places of interest and parks, there are many plum trees planted, or planted along streams, or decorated by rocks, or even built plum gardens based on them. In the small courtyard of the home, the fence in front of the window leans sideways, and the branches are bent, which makes it interesting. Or make a plum blossom bonsai, scatter red dots, and put them on the desks, which is also elegant and refined. The fragrance of plum blossoms is also praised by people. Of course, the sense of beauty is felt by sight and hearing. Although some people explored and studied the sense of smell, they tried to upgrade it to art, but they failed. Fragrance is not an aesthetic category, and there is no sense of beauty. However, the fragrance of plum blossoms is strong but not bright, cold but not light, and it is unique and quiet, which is unified with the elegance of plum blossoms and can still enhance people's feelings about plum blossoms. There is also a kind of Chimonanthus praecox among ornamental flowers and trees, which is often called plum when mixed with plum blossom. In horticulture, they are actually two varieties of different families and genera, and Chimonanthus praecox belongs to Rosaceae. But in aesthetic value, it is similar to plum blossom. The beauty of flowers, branches and stems are close, and the fragrance is similar. Their flowering periods are close, so Chimonanthus praecox is often intercropped with plum blossoms. The flowers of Chimonanthus praecox are yellow, and the surface layer is like wax, which shows the unique beauty. It can be in harmony with plum blossoms, and the delicate yellow and tender red are competing to reflect, which is more rich and beautiful. Although they are not from the same family, it is also rare to share their elegance when the cold is long. In the eyes of the connoisseurs, there is no need to separate from each other. The beauty of plum is still in bud, but when it is in full bloom, it loses its charm. Red plums, in particular, are beautiful in bud and fade as soon as they bloom. Plum grows in nature, and the beauty of plum should also be natural. All beautiful things are most taboo for affectation, and some are arbitrarily cut down and decorated in order to force the branches of plum to buckle, but they are not beautiful. Gong Zizhen, an outstanding thinker and writer in the Qing Dynasty, denounced this kind of artificial trimming for damaging the natural beauty of plum, saying, "To correct its integrity, to raise its sideline, to delete its secrets, to kill its young branches, to hoe its straightness, and to curb its anger, in order to increase its price, while plum in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all sick." He was saddened by this, and he opened a plum pavilion. "It's an oath to treat it, longitudinal and smooth" to untie the rope, so that Mei can restore the beauty of nature. Of course, bonsai is also artificially constructed and decorated. The advanced bonsai is art, and it is the creation of artists with traditional experience and skills. It is artistic beauty, so we can't think that Gong Zizhen's theory is biased. Of course, his call for help for the sick plum focused on the liberation of personality, but Gong Zizhen emphasized that the natural beauty of plum was very insightful. Mei's beauty has spiritual value because it has become a symbol of the spiritual beauty of the China nation. Its peculiar natural attributes conform to China people's concept of high morality and ideal pursuit. Plum is independent and cold, resists frost and snow, and smiles proudly, which symbolizes the virtue of the industrious, brave and hard-working Chinese nation, unyielding in adversity and standing alone. It blooms in spring first, and a flower blooms alone, reporting spring but not flattering it. When spring comes back to the earth, she is full of emotion. This is a noble moral character, proud but not arrogant, noble but not vulgar, pursuing but not overbearing, and ethical, containing but not revealing. Isn't this the nationality of the Chinese nation? In this way, China people's love for Mei has a double aesthetic significance, which is not only to appreciate the natural beauty, but also to express their own embrace. Those who love Mei and appreciate it as one of the "four gentlemen" are by no means humble in their spiritual realm. People who love Mei deeply often show their nobleness by this. In Yongmei's poems, we can often see the poet's mind. Among the ancients who loved Mei, Lu You was also a prominent one. He likes plum blossoms best and compares himself with them. "Who can incarnate hundreds of billions? A plum blossom in a tree blooms. " He has written many plum blossom quatrains, among which "Yongmei, the Buji Operator" can best reflect his integrity and spread widely. Its word is: "The bridge is broken outside the post, and I am lonely." The twilight came, the plum blossoms helpless, already tired, but also suffered by the wind and rain. The plum blossom does not want to go to struggle to struggle Blooming, the envy and repulsion of flowers do not care. Scattered into mud and ground into dust, only the fragrance remains the same. " Loneliness and desolation are expressed directly. The same plum blossom, another spiritual realm will have another feeling. Mao Zedong also wrote a poem about the word Lu You, deliberately "using it against its meaning", which has different images and emotional appeal. "Qiao doesn't compete for spring, only reports spring, and when the flowers are blooming, she laughs in the bushes." Both of them are plum blossoms, showing different aesthetic views and ideological realms, and plum blossoms show different beauty. Two poems, one depicting Ren Qunfang's jealous lonely flower, the other depicting a member of a group who first bloomed in the mountains and welcomed the snow and ice to greet the spring, the other expressing the temperament of an ancient poet with unpaid ambitions and the first expressing the spirit and lofty sentiments of a revolutionary leader. In art, when appreciating the beauty of life, people focus on different aspects, and this difference is also widespread. Everyone loves Mei, but their aesthetic tastes may be quite different. China people love Mei deeply, which is quite typical. There are many stories and interesting stories about this in the past dynasties. Lin Fu, who wrote Yongmei's famous poem in Song Dynasty, is widely legendary. He was once known as a "beautiful wife and crane". He lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of the West Lake, and did not enter the city in 1998. He was unmarried and childless. He planted plum blossoms all over his house and raised cranes. People are strange, and poems are also strange. Finally won the top prize in Yongmei. The famous contemporary gardener, thin cuckoo, also calls himself a "plum fan" who loves plum. In his courtyard, there are plum houses and hills, more than a dozen plum trees are planted, and there are dozens of bonsai with plum piles. There are also many famous paintings of plum blossoms in the plum house. During the plum blossom season, he is also "beautiful." He also has many poems by Yongmei, one of which is like this: "Leng Yan is fragrant and dreamy, and the red buds and green calyx clusters are in a circle;" There is also a nest in the pavilion here, and I don't envy the corner of the fairy. "Nest pavilion is Lin's reward for Meijia. Comparing your plum house with the nest pavilion with a thin cuckoo, you will be clearer than Lin and Qing. The plum blossom is in the cold season, and the ancients often took a trip through the snow in Xun Mei to appreciate the beauty of life. Sometimes plum blossoms bloom late, so they even bring bedding and wait under the plum blossom. Zhu Xi's poem of exploring plum blossoms records the poet's mood and activities in this respect: "It's a cold plum blossom to meet the frost and break the snow. Why do you want to open it alone this evening?" It is because the flower god has no intention of taking care of it, so he bothers my generation to rush with poetry; Prosperity is not afraid of the Sui and Qing Dynasties, and those who shed light will pity the green cup; Cherish the wine companions in the south and find a way to talk about incense. " Tang Dynasty brought Wang Wei a harvest, but it reflected the general people's love for plum: "you who have come from my old country, tell me what has happened there!, tomorrow, leaning against the window, cold plum blossoms?" Poetry is not intentional at all, but love for Mei is true, and Mei has become an overwhelming miss in the hearts of wanderers. There is something strange about plum blossoms. Although they are not afraid of the cold, they are naturally fond of warmth. So the famous plum blossom viewing resorts are mostly in the south. For example: West Lake Gushan in Hangzhou, East Lake Meiling in Wuchang, Xiangxuehai in Suzhou and Meiyuan in Wuxi. When plum blossoms are in full bloom, tourists from far and near are rushing to watch them. Compared with China people's love for plum blossoms, plum blossoms are cultivated too little. When will there be more bonsai of Merlin and Mei? For more people to come here to inquire about plum blossom information, linger and cultivate feelings? ! China, the hometown of Mei, was introduced to South Korea in the 16th century, and then to Japan. Japanese gardeners grafted plants, which increased to more than 4 varieties, but doubled that of China. Our country, which loves plum blossoms, has unique aesthetic views and can keep pace with horticulture, so it is worthy of the world.