The "snow" in the lilac knot refers to the white lilac flowers covered with branches, which can be seen from the words "snow color" and "fragrance" in the article. There are three white lilacs outside the house where I have lived intermittently for nearly thirty years. Every spring, I look up at my desk and see the snow in front of my eaves. The author uses figurative rhetoric to highlight the snow-white color of lilacs.
Lilac Knot is a collection of essays by writer Zong Pu, originally published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House with the same name. The author uses lilac knot as a symbol of the sadness that can't be solved in life, indicating that the knot can't be solved. Problems in life are endless. Not only the mood of enjoying flowers, but also the mind of solving the knot. Life gives you fragrant lilacs, but it also gives you bitter lilac knots.
Lilac knot, these three words give people a lot of imagination. When I think of those poems again, I really feel that they are burdened with unfinished business. Everyone has many unhappy things in his life, one after another. So lilac knots are found every year.
The role of cloves:
Lilac, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried bud of Syringa oblata of Myrtaceae. Lilac is slightly rod-shaped, the corolla is spherical, the petals are imbricate, brown to brown, and the petals are stamens and styles. After crushing, many yellow fine-grained anthers can be seen. Lilac is pungent and warm, and enters spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of warming middle warmer, lowering adverse qi, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.
1. Warming the middle warmer and lowering the adverse qi: Clove enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, which has the effect of warming the middle warmer and lowering the adverse qi. Commonly used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, hiccup and vomiting, anorexia and vomiting, chills and pains.
2. Tonifying kidney and strengthening yang: clove is pungent in taste, warm in nature, belongs to the kidney meridian, pungent in nature, capable of dispersing, warming kidney and strengthening yang, warming the main body to dissipate cold and tonify deficiency, and is suitable for deficiency of kidney yang, and is often used to relieve impotence due to kidney deficiency. It can be combined with Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Os Draconis, Concha Ostreae, Herba Cistanches, Herba Epimedii, etc., and has the effects of invigorating kidney, consolidating semen, invigorating qi and strengthening yang.