Don’t envy the peaches and plums in the three springs.
The sweet-scented osmanthus blooms in autumn.
After the "summer heat", the flavor of autumn becomes stronger and stronger.
Autumn colors are often compared to "golden autumn". I think the representative flower of this golden autumn is the golden osmanthus tree.
As the saying goes: "In August, sweet-scented osmanthus blooms everywhere, and in September, sweet-scented osmanthus blooms thousands of miles away." Osmanthus fragrans is one of the most popular flowers in China because of its clearness that can catch the dust, its richness that can spread far and wide, its fragrance without being exposed, and its beauty without being delicate. It is a unique flower and has been deeply loved by people since ancient times.
There are many sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted in the community where I live and in the Linhe Park opposite the community. Every autumn, I often stop under these sweet-scented osmanthus trees that have been shaped into umbrellas by gardeners to appreciate the full-grown sweet-scented osmanthus trees and taste their fragrance. aromatic.
The petite, beautiful and elegant sweet-scented osmanthus blooming in clusters of lush green leaves are like shy little girls, looming among the green branches, and like golden flowers. The dolls hang on the treetops, making people want to pick them. Looking from a distance, the trees look like they are covered with golden gauze, shining golden in the sun, attracting swarms of butterflies, and bees hovering among the flowers.
Each sweet-scented osmanthus has about four petals, and in the middle of the petals are yellow stamens like millet. The fragrance emitted from the stamens is elegant and pleasant, refreshing, and will make people feel refreshed. Refreshing air and long-lasting fragrance.
Whenever the cool wind blows, the sweet-scented osmanthus trees sway in the wind, and the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers fall to the ground, instantly like a layer of golden sand.
Whenever night falls and the moon hangs high, the fragrance under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree will be more intense. At this time, it is most pleasant to enjoy the moon, taste tea, smell the fragrance, and talk under the tree with relatives and friends. time. This situation reminds me of Li Qingzhao's poem praising the sweet-scented osmanthus:
The body is dim and light, the body is soft,
The sex is far away, leaving only the fragrance.
There is no need for light blue and deep red,
It is naturally the best among flowers.
Osmanthus fragrans also has the meaning of "beautiful", "auspicious" and "noble" in the hearts of Chinese people. The sweet osmanthus in Sanqiu is the nostalgia and yearning of countless wanderers; the laurels in the toad palace are the ancients’ wishes and expectations for being named on the gold medal; the fragrance of orchid, osmanthus and osmanthus is a beautiful metaphor for the prosperity of descendants.
The literati of the past dynasties also loved Osmanthus fragrans. There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty: "The osmanthus falls in the middle of the moon, and the fragrance of the sky is floating outside." (Tang Dynasty's "Lingyin Temple") Song poetry also praises: "Beyond the dust of the world, there is a kind of cold pistil. It is suspected that Yue'e is drunk in the sky, playing with the yellow clouds "Broken." (Southern Song Dynasty·Xiang Ziyi's "Qing Ping Le·Reply to Zhao Yanzheng Envoy")
The beauty of the osmanthus in the pen and ink of the famous Chinese painting masters is another flavor:
Late Qing Dynasty During the Republic of China, the art master Wu Changshuo was famous for his freehand flower paintings. The osmanthus he painted was in the form of broken branches, with dense flowers and dense leaves, which was full of business. His brush is flexible, and his dry brush is used to write branches, which is light but not thin, with a balance of hardness and softness. The thick ink hooks on the stems and leaves, and the small yellow flowers randomly dotted on the branches, seem careless but beautiful.
Qi Baishi, a master of modern painting, also liked to paint pictures of sweet-scented osmanthus and rabbits in his later years, which has the implication of "the toad wins the crown". The osmanthus branches and leaf tendons are written in ink, and the osmanthus leaves are dyed green and yellow, with appropriate shades. The ink is dense, and the branches and leaves are dotted with light yellow osmanthus flowers, as if there is a breeze blowing on the face and a faint fragrance.
Among the people, many people also dry and store osmanthus, and combine it with other foods to make "osmanthus tea, osmanthus wine, osmanthus sugar, osmanthus cake", etc., so that the fragrance of osmanthus can be softened with different foods. It becomes sweeter and more delicious together, with a long aftertaste...
The beauty of osmanthus is unique. She is more like a gentleman among flowers, with a light and elegant appearance and a rich and broad interior. It is a flower but does not have the gaudiness and novelty of flowers. It is not a flower but has all kinds of styles and fragrances of flowers.
She is no doubt as graceful and luxurious as the goddess of Luochuan, the peonies that break through the morning glow; nor is she as enchanting and gorgeous as the peach blossoms that are full of tender red trees and thousands of branches of red flowers in the spring; and there is no water. The cold and aloof fragrance of the lotus, which blooms with the help of ice-bone jade and water, has the vitality of the tree, the prosperity of the leaves, and the evergreen all year round to nurture and grow, blooming its own beauty and spreading its own fragrance in the autumn colors.
I think that if a person's life can be like the osmanthus, experiencing the baptism of winter, spring and summer and then harvesting the fragrance in the golden autumn, then such a life must be rich and brilliant!