In the deep alley, apricot flowers were sold in the Ming dynasty, and an apricot went out of the wall.
For years, the taste of this world was as thin as gauze. Who will be the rider in Beijing?
Living in a small building and listening to the falling spring rain, you will hear the sound of selling apricots in the depths of the alley early in the morning.
Slowly spread out small pieces of paper sideways, every word is organized, carefully boil water and tea under the sun window, skim it and try to taste famous tea.
Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to the mirror house in Lake Ubak.
? [Song] Lu You's Spring Rain in Lin 'an
? The small building listens to the spring rain all night, and the deep alley sells apricot flowers in the Ming Dynasty? It's a poem in Lu You's Spring Rain in Lin 'an. In the thirteenth year of Xichun, Lu You, who had been idle in his hometown for five years, was called to Beijing and lived in a guest house near the West Lake in Lin 'an City. Looking back on his career in the first half of his life, poets who are over 60 years old enjoy passing leisure in the Beijing Guest House, quietly lying in the small building, listening to the drizzle outside the window, the rain of apricot flowers and the melodious cries of apricot flowers. In the depths of the alley after the spring rain, the news of spring in the south of the Yangtze River came. On this poetic spring day, the poet sipped foam tea under the window, casually wrote cursive script on short paper and missed his hometown.
Small building, spring rain, apricot blossom, these casually dotted scenery, constitute a poetic Jiangnan, contrast the poet's leisurely mood. ? The small building listens to the spring rain all night, and the deep alley sells apricot flowers in the Ming Dynasty? what's up Apricot news in the rain? (Chen's Visiting the Old with Wisdom) is another portrait of Lin 'an City. In the bustling capital Lin 'an, in the deep alley, who is selling apricot flowers? Imagine poetically, is it a girl in her prime, a young woman with a clear and long voice, or a rickety old woman with a slightly hoarse voice but full of vicissitudes? Lu You wrote in his poem:? Didn't you see the flower sellers in Hui Ji 'nan? They feed on flowers like bees. They sell a purple plant in the morning and a red plant at dusk. The house is broken and the corner is empty. The money for selling flowers is sent to the hotel, and the flowers are sold after the wine is finished. ? Kong Zhong Ping also has a poem:? Early in the morning, when I left Guxian, I only met Sanhuaweng and Peony, and the buds turned red. ? Then there are old people among the flower sellers. It is florists and gardeners who manipulate the flower market, while the urban and rural poor are peddling in the streets. There should be some desolation in the melodious crying.
Dream of Tokyo describes the flower selling scene in the capital Bianjing. It's the spring of the Chinese rose, and there are so many flowers. Peony, Paeonia lactiflora, Tang Di and Radix Aucklandiae are all on the market. Flower sellers decorate them with bamboo baskets with horseheads, and their songs are strange and audible. ? Paving the streets with brilliant seasonal flowers and melodious songs has become a beautiful landscape of the city. Song people's love for flowers is the embodiment of social mentality. The society in Song Dynasty can be said to be a leisure society. Goulan tile houses, restaurants and karaoke bars all over the streets represent the vitality of the city, and handicraft workshops have even become the embellishment of the city. Enjoy plums in the first month, peaches and plums in February, peonies in March and chrysanthemums in September. The miscellaneous history of notes records the grand occasion of flower viewing at that time. Four sets of geisha skills, people fighting for wine, choosing gardens and pavilions, and singing in the pool. , is the whole city. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, designated February 15 as the Flower Festival.
There are many kinds of flowers bought and sold at the flower market in Song Dynasty. According to the records, there are peony, peony, woody, tea, rose, golden gauze, jade hydrangea, peony, begonia, brocade plum, drifting, rose, pink ball, cuckoo, treasure, chiba peach and flying in the flower market in Lin 'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty. Among the colorful flowers arranged in the flower market listed in historical notes, apricot flowers are rarely mentioned. The reason why apricot flowers are not sold is that they bear apricots, and the second reason is that apricot flowers are all over the towns of Shan Ye, so they are not precious and somewhat tacky. But from the emperor to the literati, they are all chanting. The last emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty was forced to travel north by the Jin people. What he saw and felt on the road was the fragrant apricot flowers that he was ashamed to kill the ladies-in-waiting in Jolie. Mei Yao Chen's "The First Apricot Flower" chants apricot flowers:? Don't wait for the spring breeze, the smoky forest will open early. Light red deceives drunk powder, and believes that there are generals. ? Fan Chengda's "Apricot Flowers in front of Yunlutang" goes:? The pink clouds on the waxy red branches make it difficult to see the beauty of the sun. How to lock the apricot spring garden when the scenery is boundless? ? The apricot blossom described by Wang Anshi in "Apricot Blossom on the North Skin"? It is better to be turned into snow by the spring breeze than to be crushed into dust by Nanmo. Giving plum blossom personality is a rare description in Song poetry.
Scholars like to chant apricot flowers, of course, because apricot flowers bloom early, which is a spring flower. Apricot flowers are in the south of the Yangtze River and full of poetry. But the relationship between apricot flowers and restaurant singers is also the reason why scholars pay attention. According to "Old Wulin Stories", official restaurants in Lin 'an, such as Lehe Building, Zhonghe Building and Hefeng Building, all have official prostitutes, and the wine bottles that drinkers call prostitutes upstairs are all famous brands. Point the flower card? . When apricot blossoms are in full bloom, geisha wear apricot crowns on their heads and make them on so-called flower stands. The flowers of prostitutes are seasonal flowers, not limited to apricot flowers. In "The Old Man in the West Lake is Hard to Record", Dragon Boat Festival? Jasmine is in full bloom, with more than 100 people inside and outside the city. ? And then what? Every prostitute must wear three or two flowers for one day, day and night. It's cold, even in the house. ? "Dream of Liang Lu", the beginning of autumn? Inside and outside Beijing, women and children rushed to buy catalpa bungeana leaves in the early morning, cut them into patterns and inserted them in the temple to conform to the time sequence. ? At that time, the geisha will also insert the catalpa leaves cut into flowers to match the time sequence. But it is apricot flowers that set each other off with prostitutes. Song Huizong Evonne in The Banquet Pavilion? See apricot flowers in the northbound:? Cut the ice gauze, gently fold it several times, and evenly inject fat. New and beautiful makeup, full of fragrance, ashamed to kill Jolie's ladies-in-waiting. ? This fragrant apricot flower is a portrayal of the image of a prostitute in a brothel, while the image of a thin shirt lightly fanning and stroking red almonds at the head of the apricot flower building has also become a typical image of a prostitute in a brothel. Wei Zhuang, a Shu poet five generations ago, wrote in his ci:? Spring outing, apricot flowers blow all over the head! ? (Wei Zhuang's Sidi Township) The girl swims in the spring, overlooking a stranger, looking for the right person, and the wind blows the flowers, and the girl's head is full of apricot flowers. Geisha put apricot flowers in her head. Yan Rui, a famous prostitute in Song Dynasty, said Ciyun? What if there are mountain flowers in my head? (Yan Rui's Operator) The so-called mountain flower should have apricot flowers.
The relationship between apricot blossom and love makes the relationship between geisha and apricot blossom more unique. ? Flowers wither, red apricots are small? (Su Shi's Dead Hua Lian) Metaphors a girl's first maturity. ? A red flower goes out of the wall, but a householder lives alone on the wall? (Wu Rong's "Looking at Apricot Flowers on the Road")? Spring can't close the garden, but an apricot leaves the wall? (Ye Shaoweng's "Not Worth Visiting a Garden"), the apricot blossom that blooms in February of the lunar calendar, its delicate red color is a symbol of youth and life. The beautiful red apricot tree protruding from the wall next door is not only a sign of spring flooding, but also a metaphor of Chun Qing flooding. Zhang Xian wrote in "Inflorescence": It is better to hate it than to marry Dongfeng, and think about it carefully. ?
? Can the flowers be folded straight? Apricot blossoms bloom in time and brilliantly, just like a singer's youth. Scholars in the Song Dynasty no longer liked the bitterness of geisha like those in the Tang Dynasty. They like women like apricot flowers and women who live a lifestyle. Although vulgar, it is gorgeous and full of vitality. Whether it is an official prostitute or a private prostitute, kabuki art and literary talent are indispensable, but the literati, the frequent visitors of these restaurants, teahouses and dance halls, first pay attention to the beauty of prostitutes. Literati use the most beautiful words and all beautification means to describe the body of geisha in detail, with bright eyes and white teeth, rosy lips and cheeks, tender hands and white chest. From the first sight of feet, the wind ran down; See your head from your feet, and the wind blows upward? It can relieve anxiety and cure diseases. The so-called flower evaluation list initiated by celebrities and scholars, the most important criterion for its evaluation is the prostitute's appearance rather than talent.
Such an ordinary apricot flower has become the object of literati singing, and it is also because the gaudiness of apricot flowers is interlinked with the secular spirit of the Song Dynasty. Besides plum blossom, the favorite flower of Song literati should be apricot blossom. I love plum blossoms, because hanling blooms them alone. Her thin shadow and delicate fragrance, her first frost style, her high standards and integrity, and her loneliness symbolize the literati's persistence in the spiritual soul and their sustenance. Yongmei and Yong Xing actually represent two life choices of literati. On the one hand, it is the independence of personality and the pursuit of individuality, on the other hand, it is the secular life. Shan Ye's seaside, villages and towns are full of apricot flowers, which combine spiritual comfort with the secularity of life through geisha wearing apricot flowers. Geisha, the apricot blossom of this world, not only satisfies the emotional material life of male literati, but also entrusts the spiritual sustenance of male literati. Song and dance pavilions, earthen houses, make the literati dream, and it is difficult to give up the prosperity of the city and the beautiful young dancers like apricot flowers. Liu Yong, who was down and out all his life, dedicated his youth and feelings to prostitutes in brothels and exchanged his fame for romantic happiness. Later, as a prime minister, Ouyang Xiu declared? Even if flowers are often sick with wine, they are still romantic? (Langtaosha), Life is born with infatuation, and this hatred has nothing to do with romance? ("Jade House Spring"). Jiang Baishi, a poet in cloth, who is famous for Plum Blossom in a Dim Fragrance and Thin Shadow, spent his wandering sorrow in the world of mortals. Xiao Hong croons and I blow? (Crossing Hongqiao) In the deep melancholy singing and melodious flute, Jiang Kui and his confidante are carrying the dreams and worries of life, crossing the winding river, leaving 40 bridges behind them. Song Huizong, in particular, was threatened to go north by the Jin People's Association after the national subjugation, and still remembered the apricot flowers in the palace and Li Shishi, a famous prostitute in Beijing who was as gorgeous as apricot flowers.
Melodious flower selling sounds adorn the prosperity of Pian 'an City. In this melodious flower selling sound, the back of a dynasty gradually fades away.
Editor's note The favorite flower of Song literati, besides plum blossom, should be apricot blossom. I love plum blossoms, because hanling blooms them alone. Her thin shadow and delicate fragrance, her first frost style, her high standards and integrity, and her loneliness symbolize the literati's persistence in the spiritual soul and their sustenance. If you can understand, it is really a wonderful thing.
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