-Thoughts on Reading Love between Plants and Trees
Du Chunyu Yucai Middle School Grade One1Class 5
I like to study the flowers and plants around my grandmother's pavilion since I was a child. Until an encounter on the Internet, and an encounter with Love between Plants and Trees, I bought it at first sight.
The full name of this book is Love between Plants and Trees: Literary World in China Classical Literature, which is the work of Professor Pan Fujun. As the name implies, the main content links flowers and plants with China classical literature. It has always been thought that literature and science seem to be two fields separated by a wall forever and will never be together. But this book is like building a bridge for them to communicate smoothly, which makes people admire together.
Perhaps in normal times, we always want to read the text, and hope to find the author who listens to the rain of residual lotus, and try to achieve * * * with him ideologically, but it is always in vain. But if you open Professor Pan Fujun's book, you will find all the unknown plants you have never seen before. Or light names are elegant, but mysterious, and they are presented one by one. It suddenly dawned on me that the perspective of the ancients could be truly restored like this! It used to be strange and confusing. Why did the ancients always like to describe the figure of a young woman with a small family and a light posture? It also makes people wonder why the ancients like to describe women with the most common vegetables. All found the answer in this book. In fact, green onions grow in Shui Ze, with hollow stems, slender and straight whole plants and extremely bright colors. It seems that water can drip from the roots to the top. So the ancients used this plant to decorate women, which became so appropriate, as if a slim and beautiful woman appeared in front of people. No wonder in Dream of Red Mansions, one of the four classical novels, Xifeng flatters the old lady and makes Yuanyang look like an onion. It is really interesting!
In this book, not only the bridge between literature and science is interlinked, but also some paragraphs describing a famous color are very beautiful and worth reading carefully. Below, I will extract several representative paragraphs for you to enjoy later.
In poetry, the color of flowers is often used to describe red. Red is one of the most gorgeous colors, including pink, scarlet, orange red, crimson red, vermilion and so on, changing from shallow to deep. The most commonly used plant to describe pink is peach blossom, such as Sauvignon Blanc written by Su Xiang in the Tang Dynasty: "The willow green is drooping, and the peach and plum flowers are uneven." Pink is another name for young girls. Or it can also be used to describe a woman's delicate face, such as Cen Can's poem "Drunken Bucket Beauty": "A little peach blossom on her lips, shy makeup, awkward."
Ye Shaoweng, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem that "the small garden is not worth visiting": "The spring garden can't be closed, and an apricot comes out of the wall." Ancient emperors had a permanent "apricot garden", which was specially used to entertain new champions. Liu Cang's poem "Banquet Qujiang after the Spring Festival" said: "Choose a winning tour in the Spring Festival, and the apricot garden will feast Qujiangtou at the beginning." It is to describe the scene of the apricot garden, the champion of the new department. "Red apricots are full of branches in spring", which represents the love and praise of ancient people for apricots. The rain before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day was called "apricot blossom rain", which paved the way for the famous sentence of Zhi Nan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty: "If you want to wet the apricot blossom rain with clothes, your face is not cold."
As for orange and crimson, they are mostly named after pomegranate flowers. For example, the poem "Watching Prostitutes in May" by Wan Chu of the Tang Dynasty: "The eyebrow platform wins the color of day lily, and the red skirt envies pomegranate flowers." Even pomegranate has become synonymous with crimson, such as Yan Deyin's poem "Wang Xue Zhu Hua Xing" in the Tang Dynasty: "Acacia brocade with peach blossoms is a fragrant skirt pomegranate flower." And Bai Juyi's poem "Silver candle throws willow songs, golden saddle sends pomegranate skirt", pomegranate skirt refers to red skirt. There are many poems about pomegranate, the most famous one is Wang Anshi's poem about pomegranate: "A little green is red from the middle, and there is not much touching spring scenery."
These paragraphs mainly describe red. Among them, the author first summarizes it in general and then tells it in detail, which can be described as using the writing structure of total score. In the section, the author mainly talks about pink, orange, crimson and other colors, all of which are accompanied by famous sentences, which not only attracts readers' interest in reading, but also increases readers' interest in ancient poetry and effectively explains the author's point of view, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Five thousand years in China, the ancients left countless treasures. It is still necessary for modern people to explore, think, comprehend and learn bit by bit, so as to carry forward the profoundness of China culture.