Scholars generally believe that "tomorrow's yellow flowers" comes from Su Shi's poem "Nine Kings" 3360.
"I was too drunk to sleep and was taught to work in Qingzhou.
Give me three thousands of feet to buy my temple ointment, and I'll pay you one hundred yuan to buy my poem.
I heard that my husband closed the East Pavilion and asked me to go to the South Building.
You don't have to go back when you meet, but the butterfly will be sad. "
Su Shi and his friends get together on the Double Ninth Festival, climbing mountains and enjoying chrysanthemums, gambling on wine and reciting poems.
Because friends seldom get together, he wrote a poem to persuade them to have a good time today and not to rush back, otherwise the chrysanthemums will wither and even butterflies will be disappointed tomorrow.
It's a pity that time has passed and we can't be together forever.
The "yellow flowers of tomorrow" in the poem refers to chrysanthemums that gradually wither after the Double Ninth Festival.
Later, people used it as a fixed word to refer to outdated or meaningless things. In the Song Dynasty, Hu Jizong wrote in Stories and Flowers that "outdated things are called the past."
The flowering period of chrysanthemum is obviously longer, and the flowering period is around the Double Ninth Festival. Why did it start to wither tomorrow after the Double Ninth Festival? Does Su Shi's "butterfly will be sad tomorrow" conform to the actual situation?
According to the metaphor and implication of Mr. Lin Heng's article "Tomorrow's Yellow Flower", we come to the conclusion that the answer is yes. Zheng Gu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, once wrote a quatrain "Ten Days Chrysanthemum":
"I don't know when I went to the sad butterfly of bees. Xiaoting is still entangled in broken branches. Since this heart is different, Chou-heung may not fail overnight.
When the ancients enjoyed chrysanthemums, they liked to fold a few flowers and put them in porcelain bottles, that is, "folding branches." Unlike daffodils, chrysanthemums grow in bottles and wither faster. "Ten" happens to be the tomorrow of the Double Ninth Festival. After a night, the chrysanthemum in the bottle began to wither and lose its ornamental value, which just corresponds to what Su Shi called "the yellow flower of tomorrow".
China Idiom Dictionary published by Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House 1987 first quoted Zheng Gu's poems and then Dongpo's poems, which shows the rationality of this statement.
The word "tomorrow's yellow flowers" is so elegant that many scholars like to use it. Bing Xin wrote in "To Little Readers" 27: "After four full moons, I can be in my mother's arms again, even if the children don't have to patiently read my calligraphy a month ago!"
With the development of the times, journalism has begun to rise, and news is the most time-sensitive and taboo. So tomorrow's yellow flower adds another layer: the report that its metaphor has lost its news value.
Because "tomorrow's yellow flowers" refers to outdated things, and tomorrow generally corresponds to hope. Yesterday is out of date, so people take it for granted that it should be "yesterday's yellow flower". Paradoxically, this misuse is generally accepted, and some people even suggest that "yesterday's yellow flowers" should be used instead of "tomorrow's yellow flowers" according to the principle of conformity.
Imagine today is the Double Ninth Festival. Yesterday's chrysanthemums should be in bud or blooming brilliantly. What do they have to do with obsolescence and expiration? Inexplicably, the definition of "yesterday's yellow flower" should also be the antonym of "tomorrow's yellow flower", which refers to something that is in the limelight or full of vitality.
Some scholars believe that culture must have roots. In the process of inheritance, we must not tamper with it for convenience. Trees without roots cannot become useful, and cultures without roots will eventually be submerged in the torrent of history.
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