Jiaoxiaoqiao
Erigeron is an inconspicuous grass, but it is leisurely. Small buds grow on the slender stems, and a whole circle of white broken petals is wrapped around the yellow core, which is as thin as silk thread and quite playful and sweet.
As soon as the inflorescence grows old, it becomes a mass of white hair, dancing with the wind, rising and falling, like a silver awn, like hair. Because of homelessness, everywhere is home, everywhere is life, everywhere is long. Underneath, it is a stubborn and patient heart.
Erigeron is a biennial herb, which is widely distributed in China. Erigeron can be seen anywhere where plants grow. Although erigeron is famous, the common ones are erigeron, erigeron, erigeron and vanilla. However, Erigeron is a common image plant in ancient poetry, and there are also many poems beginning with "Peng" in ancient poetry.
Erigeron, also known as Erigeron, plant name, Compositae. There are dozens of branches on the stem, and young branches are born on the branches, and the fine leaves are densely arranged. Because the outside is round, like a grass ball, it flies like catkins after flowering, or it is often blown off by the wind near the roots after drying, and rolled up and swirled.
"Peng" is often used as a symbol of wandering in ancient poetry because of its characteristics of taking root after dying, flying with the wind and drifting without help. A wanderer who leaves his hometown and lives in a foreign land is like a loose grass with broken roots, a wanderer who has no fixed place to walk and live, and a wandering loose grass.
Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty lamented that "I have been living like a cornice for too long." People's life is always in the realm of wandering, whether it is the wandering of the body or the wandering of the mind, it is a rootless state. He realized that his life was like a lonely tent flying around, and he never had a place to stay. Never stop dreaming, never give up longing.
"Here, you must leave me and drift away for hundreds of miles like loose grass." The poet Li Bai expressed his deep concern for his friends by comparing their wandering lives with lonely tents.
Bai Juyi's poem "I'm like a lonely goose moaning to the shadow, I'm like a grass torn from its roots in autumn" uses "Qiu Peng" and "lonely goose" together, which means that the Lai Bi brothers are scattered in five places because of the war and fall down one by one, like lonely geese flying thousands of miles away. It is also like a grass with a broken root in autumn, living in other places, which enhances loneliness and sadness.
In the exegesis book Ya Ya written by Lu Dian in the Song Dynasty, the name of Erigeron is explained as follows: its leaves are scattered, its ends are bigger than this, and it turns with the wind. Although the migration is impermanent, their meeting often happens, so words always meet. They are called flying roofs because they meet the wind.
The stems and leaves of Erigeron are bigger than the roots, and they are free from the wind. Since then, they have fallen in the wild and can't help themselves, so they have this sigh. "Peng" is a very small and light grass, which floats around with the wind. Therefore, in ancient poetry, it is often used as a metaphor for wandering life.
In ancient poetry, "Zheng Peng" symbolizes a wanderer. Wandering away from home and living in a different place is like breaking your roots; Wandering without a fixed place and living without a fixed place is like wandering without a grass.