Lotus has a long history. As early as the Book of Songs, there was a saying that "one side is vicious and the other side is prosperous". There is also a saying in Li Sao that "the lotus flower thinks clothes, and the lotus flower thinks clothes". It can be seen that in the pre-Qin period, lotus had the meaning of symbolizing beauty and nobility. In the Southern Dynasties, picking lotus folk songs was popular. For example, there is a saying in Yuefu's long poem "Xizhou Qu" that "the lotus is picked in the south pond for autumn, and the lotus is over the head". Bow your head to get lotus seeds, which are as clear as water ",because the homonym" lotus seeds "means" Reiko Kobayakawa ". It was Zhou Dunyi, a scholar in Song Dynasty and founder of Neo-Confucianism, who really promoted the status of Lotus to a gentleman. He thinks lotus is a "gentleman in flowers". Later, the lotus flower was used as a metaphor for a noble and free from vulgarity gentleman who was not in company with the world.
There are many poems describing lotus flowers. The most well-known one is Yang Wanli's sentence "Lotus leaves are infinitely bright in the sky, and lotus flowers have different colors in the sun", which has written the beauty of lotus flowers to the extreme and has been widely praised for thousands of years. His other poem "Little Pond" also has unique charm. "Xiao He just showed its sharp corners long ago, and the dragonfly stood on its head", which is popular and simple, fresh and natural, and full of rich flavor of life. There is also a song "Twilight Tour of the Lotus Pond", which describes the lotus flowers in summer. "He is still worried about the heat in the evening, and his face is covered with an umbrella." The sultry summer is easy to make people crazy, as if being blinded by a huge thing, not feeling a trace of cool wind, and even the air seems to be stagnant. It's already evening, and the weather shows no signs of getting cold. Even the lotus began to feel sad, and its head was deeply hidden in the lotus leaf. These two sentences are about the sultry summer, but they reveal the joy of the poet. Use the "deep hiding" of lotus flowers to write about the heat of the weather and the beauty of turning static into dynamic. The whole poem is full of life and light in style, expressing the poet's love for the beautiful scenery of summer nights. Another poem, Ode to the Lotus Rain, is also very interesting. "But it is Chilian jumping in the rain, and the pearls gather when they are scattered." The rain on the lotus leaf is like a pearl, glittering and translucent, constantly beating. The rain fell on the lotus leaf for the first time, breaking into small pearls and instantly gathering into large pearls, and so on. At this time, the lotus leaf turned into a huge green cup, and every shake made the pearls roll together. There is too much rain, and the lotus leaves can't bear the weight. If they tilt slightly, water drops will flood into the pool like mercury.
Su Mu Gai by Zhou Bangyan in the Northern Song Dynasty? Wang Guowei was full of praise for the description of lotus flowers in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Zhou Bangyan's ci poems are famous for their rich beauty and exquisite workmanship, but the first one, such as the water lotus, especially the sentence "The sun on the leaves dries up, the water is clear and round, and the wind and the lotus blow at one stroke", was rated as "the one who can really get the spirit of lotus" by Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies. "Li Shen" should refer to spirit and charm, which accurately conveys the charm of lotus. The raindrops left on the lotus leaves quickly disappeared in the early morning sun. Lotus leaves on the water, such as round umbrellas, are constantly "swaying" under the morning breeze, and they are like lotus picking women in Jiangnan, dancing in a green Luo skirt, which is really lovely. The words are refined into the word "lift", which has a strong sense of picture and vividly depicts the appearance of lotus leaves emerging from the water. It is exquisite, lovely and full of interest.
Li Shangyin has a soft spot for lotus flowers. The most famous poem about lotus flowers should be "Stay in the lotus and listen to the rain". This sentence is the crowning touch of the whole poem. The emotion is extremely sad, but the artistic conception is extremely beautiful. The Remnant Lotus is the old clothes of Honglian. After the transition from summer to autumn, the sound of rain will not be so pleasant. However, on such an autumn night, apart from the rustling of wind and rain, the most beautiful sounds are probably the sound of rain and residual load. One sound at a time, dribs and drabs, patchwork, and finally better than spending a long night alone. The word "stay" expresses the poet's joy. Fortunately, I didn't miss it. Fortunately, I met him unexpectedly. He also said: "Only the lotus is green and red, and it is naive to roll it open." Here, the lotus leaf and lotus flower are perfectly matched, and the rolling of the lotus leaf and the opening and closing of the lotus flower set each other off, which is natural and beautiful. Before the lotus blooms, the lotus leaf has floated on the water, clean and round, and gradually unfolded into an umbrella cover. At this time, the lotus flower came slowly, like a shy beauty hidden in the lotus leaf. Both of them set each other off in harmony and nature, and their beauty can be displayed. Of course, the poet wrote not only about the relationship between flowers and leaves, but also about meaning. The poet compares the special beauty of lotus leaf and lotus flower with other flowers, in fact, it means that they are harmonious and love is like oxygen. Later, the lotus leaf represented the lingering hatred in his heart. "Lotus leaves hate spring life when they are alive and autumn life when they are dry." The use of two "lotus leaves" shows the weight of lotus flowers in the author's mind. These two sentences turned the heartless lotus leaf into a sentient thing, as if the life and death of the lotus leaf were related to the poet's grief. These two sentences properly express the deep feelings of mourning from the aspects of tone, words, rhetoric and writing.
There are also two quips describing lotus flowers in Li Jing's "Spreading Huanxisha": "Lotus fragrance sells residual green leaves, and the west wind worries about green waves". He only wrote about the withering of the lotus and even the withering of all things in nature, but Wang Guowei saw that "all flowers are filthy" and "beauty is dying". "Lotus leaf withered" means that the lotus fragrance has been reduced, the petals have fallen, and even the green lotus leaf has withered. The withering of lotus is different from that of peaches and plums. Peaches and plums often plummet, which is "full of sorrow", which makes people release all their worries instantly. However, the lotus is not like this. It grew old day by day, and the lotus leaf was broken and dried up until it finally stayed on the water. Its aging is very much like life, and it is a terrible haggard, which makes people slowly watch it turn from prosperity to decline and let people see their own life trajectory.
Li Qingzhao's famous "A Piece of Plum" wrote: "Red lotus root fragrance can destroy jade in autumn, and it is easy to solve Luo Shang's going to Lan alone." Of course, she is not concerned about the lotus, but the withered lotus is just the catalyst that causes her mood swings here. Bloom Flower Falls is not only a common natural phenomenon, but also a symbol of human joys and sorrows. Bloom will open again after her death. People are not sure whether they can meet again every time they leave, so it is called "it was a long time before I met her, but it was even longer after we separated". "Jade" means that the bamboo mat is cold, which is not only a sense of touch, but also the poet's inner feeling of desolation and loneliness. If the heart is lonely and sad, no matter how thick the brocade is, it will be cold. However, that kind of idleness cannot be ignored. "Just frown and go straight to my heart" has swept me. This thick autumn is just a thick idleness. When she was young, she also had an interesting encounter with Lotus. Finally, at dusk, the author was able to enjoy the Linglong Pavilion, so he sailed home, only to break into the depths of the lotus, resulting in "a beach of gulls and herons". "Lotus" is the lotus. Because lotus grows from lotus root, it is often called lotus in poetry. Here, lotus is used to meet the requirements of rice. Although these two sentences are notes, they draw a beautiful and clever picture for the girl in the lotus flower. Lotus leaves in the field are dotted with blooming lotus flowers. Suddenly, there was a commotion, and lotus leaves and lotus flowers were swaying. It turned out that a girl was rowing in. She was rowing wildly to find her way home. There is also a poem about the autumn tour of the lake, "Lotus seeds are old, washed clean, and flowers are Cao Ting". At this time, although the lotus leaves and lotus flowers have withered, the lotus seeds have matured and the lotus flowers stand upright on the lake, giving people a sense of joy in harvest. The apple blossoms by the lake and the grass on the shore have not improved, but they are as green as being washed by dew. These two sentences describe the scene of late autumn. "Lotus seeds are ripe" is an echo of "autumn is dusk" and a concrete embodiment of "red is rare and fragrance is rare". Although there is the word "old", it has no intention of decline or depression; Although there is no longer the feeling that "the water is clear and the willow is round, and the wind blows the lotus", it is also pleasant. Isn't that full lotus house full of hope? More importantly, the whole picture is full of vitality, showing the poet's different tastes and hearts.
Meng Haoran has a poem "Summer Sympathy in Nanting", two of which are about lotus flowers. Although it is just passing by, it gives people a very beautiful artistic enjoyment. "The wind brings lotus fragrance, and the bamboo leaves drop dew." The lotus fragrance is faint, mixed with the cool summer wind, and it comes as if nothing had happened. Dewdrops on bamboo leaves drip from time to time, making a crisp sound, as round and pleasant as pearls on a jade plate. Regarding these two sentences, Shen Deqian commented in "Tang Poetry" that "sighing for a while is the best way to clarify", which has a lot to do with their musical beauty besides the beauty of the scenery itself. The word "send" in the poem is powerful and powerful, which strengthens the cadence beauty of the poem; The sound of the word "Didi" is harmonious and comfortable, and it has a crisp sound. This wonderful sense of smell and touch can be felt when reading aloud, not to mention that the poet is still there.
Li Bai, a great poet, also prefers lotus flowers. He said that "the mirror lake stretches and the lotus blooms" and created a magnificent lotus picture from the beginning. Liu Yong said that the West Lake has "Sanqiu Guizi, a lotus flower in ten miles", while what Li Bai said was a lotus flower in three hundred miles. What he expected was the lotus leaf, dazzling and intoxicating. Not only that, he also invited Beauty Stone to continue to add icing on the cake to Jinghu Lake. Picking lotus flowers with stones, the lotus flowers are really beautiful. People who come to see them have blocked the Ruoye River. Li Bai's "Lushui Qu" is also a well-known poem, which integrates people with lotus flowers and is full of affection. "The lotus is charming and wants to say that it is still resting, but it is worried about killing the boatman." The lotus is slim and graceful, like a girl, fresh and charming. It is half open and half closed, as if talking, with a kind of shyness, very moving. Seeing this beautiful scenery, the apple picker suddenly swayed and became infinitely sad and disappointed. The most wonderful sentence of this poem is "Lotus is charming and wants to talk." Lotus is pure, just like a pure girl. She is clumsy and very shy. The word "desire language" has a special image. It personifies the budding form of the lotus, and at the same time, it metaphors the shy face of the apple picker in the poem-the seed of love. Probably because the apple picker regarded the lotus as himself, it touched her heart and even "worried about killing the boatman." There is also a poem "Folding Lotus to Give" that says, "Play autumn water in the river and love this red and fresh. Climbing the lotus has its pearls, and the ripples are not round. " A woman climbed a lotus leaf and saw glittering and translucent water drops rolling on the huge green lotus. After playing with it carefully, she suddenly found that the water droplets in the ripples were not round. There are objective factors that water droplets are not round. Of course, there is another meaning in the author's saying this, which subtly implies the woman's subtle inner activities. The homonym of "lotus" is "combination" and "climbing lotus" is the hope to converge into a double meaning; The "round" of "not round" is also a pun on the "round" of reunion. It implies that a woman's desire for love turns into a little disappointment. There is also a farewell poem, in which "the bamboo under the stream is green and the lotus is fragrant in the mirror" describes the scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Bamboo is born on the shore, not in the water. The poet did not say that bamboo is green, but that it is "green under the stream", which is obviously the reflection of bamboo in the water. Lotus is native to water. It is also a reflection that the author says "fragrance in the mirror" instead of lotus fragrance. The reflection in the lotus water is not fragrant, and the author's imagination is superb. The phrase "fragrance in the mirror" is quite Zen and seems counterintuitive. In fact, it makes people realize the truth in the metaphor of image, which is really wonderful.
He Zhu's Walking in the Sand? "Liu Gui Tang" is about the fate of the lotus, and it is also a portrayal of his own life. "I refused to marry Chunfeng, but was wrongly blamed by the autumn wind for no reason" is the heart that Lotus finally confided to the poet. Of course, this is the author's imagination, because the lotus in the poem is a person, and people and flowers are one, so the poet expresses this feeling. Lotus flowers bloom in summer, but summer is not spring in bloom. Spring is colorful, and the flowers finally choose to "marry" to the spring breeze, even falling is pays photogenic. However, Lotus doesn't understand and despise. It blooms in Grey Soup and Biepu in hot summer. She doesn't want to compete with flowers, and her narcissistic personality is similar to plum blossom. This is the character of writing lotus flowers, and it is also the writer's character cultivation, which expresses the author's elegant taste of not keeping company with the world. On the other hand, it is precisely because the lotus doesn't understand the spring breeze that it ended up in a bleak evening scene of "wearing a red dress to get rid of all the pain in the heart", which in turn reflected the author's sigh that he was too arrogant in his early years because of the conflict with social customs, and revealed the lament of the beauty in his late years.
Lotus is a flower in summer, and summer is a rainy season. Therefore, lotus flowers in ancient poems are often associated with raindrops, just as Yuan Haowen said, "After a shower, pearls are scattered all over the place, and new lotus flowers are also scattered all over the place." Lotus appears as an integral part of the landscape in many cases, such as the sentence describing the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, where people on both sides of the river paint eaves, the lotus bushes in Qiu Guang are a little light, the sentence describing the pond, the east wind dancing suddenly, lotus hearts ringing, and the sentence describing the summer, when the rain cools to a dream overnight, Qiu Lai is sent on the lotus leaf.