When it comes to seeing willows, it’s the spring and the bright season. By the rivers and lakes, the willow branches are green and as bright as blue. “One tree has thousands of branches in the spring breeze, tender as gold and soft as silk.” , revealing vitality inadvertently and reporting the message of spring.
Strolling along Yanglan Lake, you can see rows of willow trees blooming with green stamens, graceful and graceful, just like dancing girls. It has become an internet celebrity place for many tourists to check in.
"The tender color contains light rain, and the soft silk brings early spring." When I stopped at the shore of the lake and wandered on the trestle, the beautiful poems about willows by ancient poets automatically started looping in my mind. I finally understood that willow trees are easy to cultivate without cultivating them. They stand upright, spread their leaf crowns, and are green. The waves are brushing, the smoke is hanging on the water bank, embracing the world with a soft appearance and a strong inner attitude, and charming the people.
No wonder He Zhizhang so ingeniously described the new willows in early spring with their fluttering and fragile grace: "The jasper is made up into a tree as high as a tree, with thousands of green silk ribbons hanging down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, The spring breeze in February is like scissors.”
No wonder Du Fu’s thatched cottage is surrounded by willow trees and woven with green smoke, and he chanted “Willow branches reveal the spring light”, “The willows in the thatched pavilion on the sand are new and dark”, “Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascend to the blue sky” Famous sayings throughout the ages.
No wonder Zuo Zongtang loves willows so much. When he carried the coffin into Xinjiang to suppress the rebellion, he ordered officials from all over the country to plant hundreds of thousands of willows on both sides of Tianshan South Road, called "Zuogong Willow" and "Xinxin Willow". Planting willows three thousand miles will attract the spring breeze to Yuguan."
No wonder Bai Juyi was so fond of willow trees. When he was the governor of Hangzhou, he built a long embankment on the West Lake and led the people in commoners to plant many willow trees. Recalling the bank of Qingqing River, I wonder who Panzhi is."
No wonder Tao Yuanming planted five willow trees next to his house during the twenty years he lived in seclusion and farmed. He called himself "Mr. Five Willows" and became friends with willows day and night. .
No wonder Liu Zongyuan was demoted as the governor of Liuzhou and ordered willow trees to be planted on both sides of the Liujiang River. He was called "Liu Fool". ".
No wonder that when Tao Kan was the prefect of Wuchang (today's Ezhou), the government took the lead in planting large-scale willow trees outside Ximen City and beside the Hanxi Pond, called "official willows", forming today's Ezhou "leaves with thick dew like crows" You can see the beautiful scenery of "Nanpu's soft branches are hanging down on the ground, Wuchang's official willows are new every year" as if their waists are dancing in the breeze.
In my imagination, there is a willow tree standing tall and graceful beside the clear stream in my heart. It is tall and graceful, flexible and graceful.
Ah, she has smoked the young leaves into wisps of tobacco to announce spring to people!