In Bai Juyi's Cold Food Wild Hope, "Li Tanghua reflects poplar trees, all of which are dead and alive." Wrote a bleak and tragic scene when sweeping the grave in Qingming. Among them, pear flower is a bleak image. In Fan Chengda's Pipa Trip, there is a sense of desolation, in which "there are willows all over the sky without wind and pears all over the ground without rain". During Tomb-Sweeping Day, pear blossoms are in full bloom. Li Tangli's flowers are white, similar to pear flowers. Therefore, it is also nicknamed Wild Pear. White has the meaning of sadness, and the flowering period is clear, so it is naturally used to express sadness and desolation.
In Xue Tao's "Pear Blossom and Li Taiwei", there is a song "Wu Junhui Garden moved to Jia Mu, which coincided with the spring rain in Dongxi. What do songbirds do at night? They are pale, crimson and greasy. " The "pear flower" in the poem title has always been controversial in academic circles. One theory refers to begonia flower; Another thought refers to wild pear flowers. They all say that "the depth is red and greasy", and begonia flowers are more likely. Li Tang is sometimes made into a begonia flower. In Hanwo's "Looking at Flowers" in the Tang Dynasty, the blood-stained Shuluo Mountain lingered, and the flesh and blood were as red as the sea.
Li Tang's common name is Wild Pear, but few poets directly use this name in ancient poetry. Author of Ming Dynasty: Zhang Yining wrote in "Tibetan Birds in Li Tang": "Do you know that Tibetan birds hate people and kill wild flowers?" Li Tang has many aliases, also known as Luli. Feng Youyun, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: A fairy is old and a small town is full of deer and pears. I'm talking about Li Tang. Li Tang is also known as the bean pear and the black pear, but Li Tang is widely used in poetry.
Li Tang's fruit is small and brown when it is immature. When cooked, it is black and edible. Autumn is the season of failure in Li Tang. Its leaves are reddish brown and quite lonely. Therefore, Li Tang's leaves have also become the poet's image to express his feelings. The most famous one is "Red Leaves Fall in Li Tang" in Wang Yucheng's "Journey to the Country", which depicts another kind of beauty of failed leaves in Li Tang.
There are also some unknown poems, which also write another style of Li Tang leaves. Song Qi wrote in the poem "Seeing the red leaves of Li Tang on the wild road, especially lovely under the sunshine":
The branches and leaves of pear trees struggle with the strong wind, and the mourning of the branches means autumn red.
There is no solution to the reward, and it is thrown into the empty city.
But don't have a taste. Li Tang's Epitaph, a Tang poem, wrote: "Li Tang is white in spring and its leaves are as red as blood. In the spring, I went to Qiu Lai pear branches, and the night was long. " Describing the seasonal changes in Li Tang is unique.
Li Tang is edible not only for fruits, but also for flowers. In the southwest, there is a custom of eating Li Tanghua. Collect the flower bones of Li Tanghua, blanch them with boiling water and eat them.