All shadows are fragrant. Prose and essays

The fragrance of flowers

Those flowers are in full bloom. Early spring, midsummer, early autumn, Jiangnan Great Wall, yard, field.

I have never studied flowers. There are very few varieties of flowers beyond the Great Wall, and I am easily attracted by the shape and color, ignoring the name and fragrance.

Since I went to Xi 'an, I know that the kind of lively flower that exudes a very fragrant aroma on my daily road is lilac. This smell is aggressive. It haunts your nose in an overbearing way, regardless of your feelings, insisting on expressing yourself.

And I don't like excitement, so does the aroma. The strong aroma makes people feel that they are busy and have no space of their own. So you always have to hold your breath when you pass the lilac tree.

Someone sent a flower basket to my colleague's birthday. The perfume lily inside is very fragrant. As soon as the office door opened, the whole corridor smelled of fragrance. But I like this taste. Its fragrance is strong and mellow, and its temptation is elegant. It can be attacked and defended, and it can be advanced and retreated. Just like a charming woman, she is pure, sexy, charming and enchanting, so she can't be ignored.

The original is fragrant, but there are also differences.

(2) Medicinal incense

Those medicines are all kinds and packed in paper bags. I can't imagine how these bits and pieces of bark and grass roots cure diseases.

Just like I can't figure out, how can a good man get sick? And those pills, those medicine juices, which are extremely bitter and unpalatable, have cured all kinds of diseases.

Dad cooks medicine under the command of mommy. After a while, the thick smell of medicine spread and scattered in every corner of the room, just like an unavoidable reminder that someone in this room was sick.

If you are sick, it means a kind of fragility, a kind of helplessness and a kind of self-pity sadness. Many things can be replaced by others, but diseases can't. Disease is incredible. We don't even know when it appeared, but it can turn a lively and unruly man into a sad and sick sister Lin.

At this time, the savior born is medicine.

I have never felt how good this medicine tastes. With the growth of age, more and more medicines are taken, and different tastes can be tasted from different medicines in addition to bitter taste. Smell this medicine. It smells good.

Perhaps the medicinal incense is different from other incense types, which makes people see hope.

(3) Mo Xiang

Those words are swaying on the rice paper, calling me poetically. Kai, Xing, Li, Cao, Ou, Yan, Liu, Zhao.

Perhaps because my father picked up pen and ink after retirement, I like calligraphy more and more. Dad's handwriting is getting more and more free and easy. In order to write banners for my second brother and me, he wrote more and more frequently. In my spare time at home, my father is almost always learning Chinese characters. As soon as you enter his room, you can smell the faint ink.

I was always confused when I was a child. How can mo Xiang be called Xiang? Just like socks that haven't been washed for months, it's uncomfortable for the smell to get into people's noses, which will make people breathless.

The ancients used this incredible thing to write amazing words called Mo Bao. There are many legends about these, such as Pen Tomb, Xiyan Lake, Elegant Qushui and the essence of Lanting Preface.

After reading my father's handwriting, I'm used to the smell of ink. I actually smell something elegant from it, so this kind of ink smells really good. From the bottle full of ink, from the inkstone that grinds ink, from the pen dipped in ink, and from the strokes that carry ink, the fragrance of ink painting and the charm of ancient China culture waft out.

Perhaps, this ink really has nothing to do with taste.

(4) Body fragrance

Those women walked gracefully, leaving a faint fragrance and charming world.

The Vietnamese perfume bought by Rui seems to taste similar to that of chanel no.5, and it smells like a mature woman. Rui's husband said that he chose this perfume for me. Rui said it was a little strong. He said, I chose according to men's standards. Women wear perfume just to let men smell it!

Dior's true self perfume, for me, is always a little strong. Generally, you don't need it. You can smell it from a distance. It may be reasonable to say that it is strong and elegant. I like its bottle body best. It's charming. Lines, no decoration.

I like the smell of Fifth Avenue best, the elegant floral fragrance. I sprayed some on my wrist and smelled the charm. Simple and generous bottle lines are like capable and elegant urban white-collar workers, and even the back looks slim and confident.

The smell of women. Maybe the commonly used fragrance can really reflect a person's personality. But I haven't studied these, and I just feel that as long as the fragrance is not pungent, it is full of temptation to use it on women.

There is a song called "Love the Girl", which sings: Love your beauty, love your smile, love your little temper, and be feminine. But I think the fragrance of women here is not necessarily perfume, but the body fragrance of this little woman.

Body fragrance is a charming word. This fragrance is warm and intimate with the body temperature. It has nothing to do with perfume, but a fresh fragrance, which embodies the agility of life.

It is true that the smell of happy event is this feminine fragrance.

(5) Rice fragrance

Those dishes, such as Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Guangdong cuisine, are vegetarian dishes. They are delicious and make people move their fingers at a glance.

Moreover, I have never liked the smell of oil smoke, and I think the smell of fireworks is too heavy, just like this secular life. There is also a long time when there is no cooking at home. The home without cooking is clean and deserted, and there is a kind of cold that is out of touch.

So during that time, eating was also very harmonious. You can have a bite if you are hungry. If you are not hungry, you can eat nothing for a day. I don't think I am a foodie, and I will never be like a best friend. Where the noodles are delicious, where the rice noodles are delicious, where the stew is authentic, and where the environment is elegant, it is unambiguous.

Later, I began to wash my hands and make soup. Two people wash vegetables and wash rice together, talk about interesting things together in the kitchen, often chat, and use their mobile phones to search for dishes that they can't learn to cook, gradually making cooking a kind of romance of daily necessities.

Once upon a time, I wondered if there would be a person who "willingly took off my Hanfu, washed his hands and made soup for him, and cooked the unique taste of love". Now, I can wear an apron and "walk safely in daily necessities". Food is the most important thing for the people, and I have been practicing it unconsciously and faithfully.

In fact, we have always admitted that the smell of rice is the warmest taste of home.

(6) Tea fragrance

Those tea trees, nourished in the rain, dew and breeze, germinated and grew in the red dust, but gave birth to fragrance outside the red dust.

Tea, produced in the south, grows in the mountains and draws inspiration from the mountains. Ten famous teas, West Lake Longjing, Huangshan Mao Feng and so on, all come from beautiful places. These places have beautiful scenery and warm climate, and can grow tea with rich fragrance, unique taste and health care function.

Tea is divided into black tea, green tea, oolong tea, white tea and black tea, all of which have clear color classification, but they are used in tea. Between color changes, there is a fragrance outside the world of mortals, and there is also a charm inside the world of mortals.

A person who has been tasting tea for a long time can naturally taste the rich aroma of tea, which is related to the aroma of tea from the texture, temperature and quality of tea and soaking time. Tea sets also reflect a person's taste. It is said that the crystal cup is the first choice for making green tea, which can be colored and shaped; Teapots should be used for black tea and clay pots for oolong tea.

Drink tea quietly. Three or four people sat opposite each other, sipping slowly, speaking out of turn, and playing a few distant ancient songs. It would be better if someone could play a guqin by themselves. Tea slowly stretches in boiling water, thoughts quietly precipitate in the sound of the piano, and time quietly stops in the fragrance of tea. At the moment, the noisy downtown and leisurely heart are separated only by a cup of tea.

After a tea is picked, it needs to go through many processes such as kneading, baking and pressing before it can become tea for people to brew. The life of tea is tantamount to experiencing a phoenix nirvana and being reborn in a faint fragrance. When drinking tea, you should not "make tea slowly with cold water", but also make tea with boiling water. After repeated brewing, the tea keeps rolling and stretching, and finally blooms like a cloud, allowing us to taste the endless aftertaste of the four seasons tea.

Indeed, tea needs to be tasted calmly, so as to taste the fragrance of life from the fresh fragrance of plants between the lips and teeth.

(7) Bouquets

Those drinks, supported by historical stories, celebrities and legends, have become more and more passionate. It is rare to get drunk several times in life, and it is wrong not to get drunk once.

Northerners drink good wine. Perhaps it is because the north is a bitter and cold place and needs wine to keep out the cold; Perhaps it is because northerners are heroic and need wine to prove it. Taste wine and judge character. On the wine table, people who eat large pieces of meat and drink alcohol are the most popular; If you drink, steal or cheat, you will be looked down upon and even make people question his life. However, no matter how strong the wine is, it is just a world of sadness and joy.

Let's get together, have a drink and spend a few more poems.

The ancients drank wine in all fields. You don't know, Li Bai has the elegance of a till. I raise my glass and ask the moon, while Su Shi has the heart to ask the sky with wine. Ouyang Xiu has the heroism of a thousand glasses of wine, and Cao Cao has the desolate life geometry of drinking as a song. Du Fu has the charm of my song and the depth of my wine, and started me to go home on a green spring day. Tao Yuanming has a long charm, and the wine has a strong detached taste. Bai Juyi has a glimmer of green in the old bottle and a hint of red sincerity in the static furnace.

Wine can taste romance, wine can be strong and lofty, wine can tell the truth, wine can comfort people. What kind of wine to drink is often overlooked. At the banquet, the smell of wine is the icing on the cake of friendship, and friendship is the wine that gives timely help. How boring it is to drink a cocktail party with no feelings but only utilitarianism. It is estimated that "wine will not make everyone drunk" soon.

Wine should be lively, and a person will be lonely after drinking it. Even Li Bai sang, "From from a pot of wine among the flowers, drink alone. No one is with me. Until, holding up my cup, I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow and make the three of us. " If it is hot, it will be another realm: "The sober people and sages in the past have been forgotten, and only the drinkers will leave their names ... streaky horse, a thousand pounds of skin, and Hu Er will be called wine and sell it with you for a lifetime!" There is also a very romantic way to drink: "put moonlight in a hip flask and drink it with slow fire", which is an out-of-touch aroma when you think about it.

Perhaps, the highest state of drinking is that the past is like a cloud, not seeking a false name, and enjoying yourself.