There are many plants and trees in "The Book of Songs". If you browse it casually, you will see countless bright-eyed coriander, kudzu, weed, wildflower, waterlily, endive, peach, plum... I don't know them all. List one.
Let me tell you this, this kind of plant grows inadvertently in the vegetable field directly opposite the window sill of my house. Its fiery red color attracts attention. In the bleak autumn season, it is really rare that she is still so energetic. Use color search to identify flowers and you will find them right away. This flower is called Polygonum japonica, commonly known as "dog tail flower".
It’s tacky to call Dog Tail Flower, but she also has a domineering name - Youlong!
There is a poem in "The Book of Songs·Zheng Feng" that says: "There are bridges and pine trees in the mountains, and there are bridges and pine trees in the mountains. "There are wandering dragons." This means that tall pine trees grow on the mountains, and polygonum flowers grow on the moist waterside.
Because the stems and the entire red inflorescence of Polygonum are relatively slender, they resemble the shape of a dragon, and the unfolded branches and leaves resemble dragon's claws. In addition, Polygonum often grows near water, and The habits of dragons are also similar, so the ancients named this wild flower after dragons.
Although her flowers are small, when you look at them in clusters, they are hot and bright red. The small flowers have great energy, just like I was amazed by them.
Speaking of Polygonum, there is a classic folk story about Polygonum. It is said that an official named Tie was going to work in a distant place. When he was leaving, his friends from all walks of life came to see him off. The farewell team was mostly composed of literati, but there was also a seemingly vulgar military attache who seemed out of place with these literati. The literati planned to embarrass the military attache, so they proposed that everyone present improvise a poem and give it to the official named Tie. After this group of literati recited poems one after another, it was finally the military attache's turn. The literati wondered what talents a military attaché could have and waited to see him make a fool of himself. Just listen to the military attache say: "You also write a poem to send me a poem, and I also write a poem to send you a message." These two lines of poems were so vulgar that the literati were secretly proud of themselves. Just when they were thinking of how to laugh at him, the last two lines of the poem by the military attache , but they were shocked - the red polygonum flowers in Jiangnan and Jiangbei were all bloody in Liren's eyes. Although this poem is simple, its artistic conception is very consistent with the mood of farewell.
Sikong Tu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem about polygonum flowers: "People often see each other off on the river embankment, and a clear stream separates the polygonum flowers." In the poem, the scene of people saying goodbye on the dock embankment and the The polygonum flowers on the waterside echo each other. It was from this time on that polygonum flower officially appeared in the lives of ancient people as a wild flower representing farewell.
Polygonum is destined to be associated with poets and poetry. Then come and enjoy these poems about polygonum flowers!
"Fragrant Grass Crossing"
Five Dynasties? Feng Yansi
The parasol trees fall and the polygonum flowers fall. The smoke is cold at the beginning, the rain has just stopped, and the depressing scenery is sad.
After the person passed away, how much hatred remained in my heart.
Yan Hong is far away, the Qiang flute is resentful, and the clear waves are vast. The mountains are like black daisy, and the moon is like a hook.
The music and songs are scattered, the dream soul is broken, and I lean against the tall building. See the Polygonum Flower on the Road
Polygonium Flower on the Road
Fan Chengda, Song Dynasty
The autumn wind reveals the fresh flowers,
Last year is now Fishing boat.
I saw red polygonum on the west side of the gate of She County.
I was in front of the white gull.
Four quatrains on garden vegetation and four polygonum flowers
Song Dynasty Lu You
For ten years, I have been a poet and drinker in Daozhou,
Every time Famous flowers travel by candlelight.
It is a happy event for the old fisherman,
A few branches of red polygonum are drunk in the autumn.
"Polygonium Flower"
Zhenggu, Tang Dynasty
The clusters of grass grow slowly again,
The current blows over them every year.
The misfortune is accompanied by yellow chrysanthemums,
Qingqiu is spent indifferently.
The singing insects are anxious in the evening,
The herons are worried when they are hiding in the cold.
The stream cannot be returned,
Relying on the fishing boat