Introduction to books related to plants
Spring is the season when all things come back to life. As you look around, you can see endless green. Although spring is not here, the greenness is even greater. Feel the miracle of life. Below are some books related to plants that I have compiled for you. You are welcome to collect and share them.
The first book
The Utopia of Grass and Trees
Alai/Jiangsu People's Publishing House
One Cities have memories. Every memory must be supported by a carrier. However, when the buildings of a city can no longer carry the memory of the city, then what else will always accompany generations of people, but will last longer than human existence? That is plants and trees.
A Lai once said, I can’t stand being ignorant of the environment I’m in. Some people think this is arrogance, but he thinks it is humility. Since we are in such an open and open nature, why not try to enter it with humility and learn from it? Alai believes that to live in this world, we must try our best to understand the world. Hence, this unique little book was born.
Pamuk said: We must reflect at least once in our lives to lead us to examine the environment in which we find ourselves. This is the significance of this set of notes about flowers and trees in Chengdu written by Alai.
The Second Book
The Story of Plant Names
Liu Su/People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House
"The Story of Plant Names" is a book This is a rare plant book.
Liu Su, a cutting-edge popular science writer and Ph.D. from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, tells little-known stories about plant names in a relaxed and humorous way. He uses fresh and elegant writing to tell the humanistic background of plants and the hidden meanings in plant names. It contains all kinds of interesting knowledge and shows readers a lush and approachable plant world.
"The Story of Plant Names" has a simple and refreshing binding design, beautiful and concise text expressions, and a real and moving background story. While cultivating scientific literacy, it will surely also inspire your humanistic feelings.
The third book
Love between plants and trees
Pan Fujun/Commercial Press
This book is the result of the author’s many years of literature research and fieldwork The summary covers almost all aspects of the theme of plants and literature - the analysis and ancient and modern evolution of plant names in literary works, the literary artistic conception of plants, the plants that express the artist's emotions and interests in Chinese paintings, the history of the introduction of ceremonial plants and literary plants All are covered, and it can be said that it is the most systematic and concentrated display of the author's research results in the past half century, which can meet the readers' reading needs on this topic. The second edition draws on and absorbs the latest research results in related fields at home and abroad in recent years, with more than 100 revisions and more than 20 replacement pictures.
Do you believe that plants can solve public cases in literary history? They say that "A Dream of Red Mansions" was not written by Cao Xueqin alone. An average of 11 species of plants appear in each of the first 80 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions", and 3.8 species appear in each of the last 40 chapters.
This book describes for us the plant world in Chinese classical literature. The author, Mr. Pan Fujun, is a scientist who loves Chinese literature. In his spare time, he likes to immerse himself in poetry, travel in the world of literature in his study, and visit every plant in Chinese classical literature in the field. He compares the plants in ancient texts with Compare and compare plants in the modern botany system, trace their origins, research names, distinguish between true and false, evaluate the natural ecology of the plant's location, restore the original appearance of plants described by literati for thousands of years, and analyze the appearance of plants with different names and meanings in different eras , and find out the context of the introduction of plants into China, use science to confirm literature, and use literature to enrich the scientific dimension. He has literature on his left hand and science on his right hand. He explores and sneaks into two seemingly unrelated fields, weaves branches and leaves to build a magpie bridge between literature and natural science, and shows us exquisite, detailed and beautiful Chinese classical scenes. Let us follow the author's footsteps, get close to ancient poetry, and understand the world of plants.
The fourth book
Endless Green
Song Letian/Peking University Press
This is a book about Jiangnan with plants as the protagonist A collection of essays on scenery, involving memories, textual research, customs and crafts. In addition to the natural attributes of plants and the pleasure they bring to people's beauty, what is highlighted is the "material use" of plants in daily life with people, and the effects that these "material uses" have on people's lives after they come into contact with people. emotion. Because it is based on personal experience and hands-on experience, the writing is true, the words are simple and touching. The purple milkvetch and new green tea trees that shine continuously in spring, the black glutinous rice and magnolia tofu made by hand at the right season, and the fragrant osmanthus Qingyulu in autumn, these are the vivid colors in our daily life. "Endless green".
Book Five
One Hundred Kinds of Tails or One Thousand Leaves
Wang Dong et al./Beijing United Publishing Company
Collection It is a collection of selected articles by four young authors who are good at interpreting knowledge about animals and plants. They are unfolded in witty yet professional and precise writing. From the shallower to the deeper, they talk about it, aiming to promote a non-utilitarian, only from the perspective of love. To learn the natural history attitude of understanding the world.
Book Six
The Triumph of the Seed
[American] Saul Hansen/Yang Tingting/CITIC Publishing Group
"The Seed "The Victory" is a book about seeds, a book about the natural and cultural history of seeds. Do you want to understand how life works on this planet? Do you want to understand the role of seeds in human evolution and the prosperity of civilization? Let the little seeds answer your big questions.
We live in a world full of seeds. Seeds have long transcended forests and wilderness, and have spread throughout every corner of human history and life. They turn into fragrant and charming coffee beans, into comfortable and soft cotton clothes; or they inspire human beings' desire to explore, and use the aroma of nutmeg and pepper to induce human beings to start a new era of geographical discovery; or they bring inspiration and For inspiration, observe the beautiful curves of the shell of seeds and design the most lethal bomber appearance; or influence the process of human civilization and see how wheat, a plant in the Middle East, has affected the survival and destiny of several countries...
In this book, New York Times best-selling author, biologist, and wildlife conservationist Saul Hansen takes us across the globe to trace the story of seeds on this planet. From our backyards to the cafes of Seattle, from garden gardens to the spice trails of Kerala, India, we'll meet gardeners, botanists, explorers, farmers, historians, and monks along the way. Guide, experience a scientific adventure full of fun and intellectual pleasure, and witness the elegance and miracle of life together.
The Seventh Book
Botany Correspondence
[French] Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Xiong Jiao/Peking University Press
In the Confessions, Rousseau claimed that he might have become a great botanist: "For I know that there is no study in the world more suited to my natural taste than that of botany." The work written by Rousseau in his later years is not an academic work by this giant of thought, but a popular botanical sketch. The original book was nominally written for a 5-year-old girl. Beautifully written, the explanations of plants are clear and interesting.
This is also the greatest natural history classic written by the greatest philosopher in history.
The eighth book
The botanist’s pot is slightly larger than the Milky Way
Shi Jun/Tsinghua University Press
This book will let you The more you read, the hungrier you get, the more you read the plant book.
The most reliable guide for entry-level foodies in the technological age
In an era when “health knowledge” is overwhelming and food safety issues are emerging one after another , we must arm ourselves with reliable knowledge! A skilled and sentimental botanist, immersed in hundreds of academic documents, sorting out the history of vegetables and fruits, analyzing the secrets of nutrients and strange toxins, can finally seriously Answer the three most classic questions we face about plants: Can it be eaten? Is it delicious? How to eat it?!
The Ninth Book
Leisure Flower Post
Xin Dai/Tsinghua University Press
"Xian Hua Tie" collects Xin Dai's writings about flowers and plants. These words record the process of getting to know flowers and plants in daily life over several years, including finding flowers, photographing flowers, identifying flowers, planting flowers, etc. During this period, I gradually realized that plants not only bring beauty and joy to people, but also spiritual salvation. Also learn to face all things in the world with humility and their silence and confusion.
Book Ten
Seasonal Vegetable Stories
Amon/Commercial Press
This book is about vegetables in life A small collection of knowledge. In daily life, vegetables are inseparable from three meals a day and are one of the most familiar foods in people's lives. Just because we are so familiar with vegetables, we have long ignored the life experiences and interesting facts about vegetables. "Shishu Xiaohua" uses easy-to-understand words, funny and warm stories to give everyone a new understanding of these "most familiar strangers". It is not a profound textbook, but an elegant and refreshing vegetable appetizer, offering greetings from plants to everyone. In addition to introducing the basic origin and differentiation process of vegetables, the book also introduces the humanistic allusions, cooking methods and natural history memory corresponding to vegetables, making the image of vegetables in our lives clear and fresh.
Book 11
Identification of Plants
Wang Jinwu/People's Education Press
Introduction to "Identification of Plants": Beijing Professor Wang Jinwu, a well-known plant taxonomist at the university, has written articles introducing many families and genera of seed plants in publications such as "Plant Journal" for many years in his spare time from teaching. He has read extensively about ancient and modern works on plants and introduced many things related to them in the article. Interesting allusions and legends related to plants, etc., due to the short and concise content, and the vivid writing style.
Book 12
"Plants and Trees in the World"
Wang Zengqi/Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House
This book is on this book list The only one I've ever read. I really like Wang Zengqi's writing style. What impressed me the most was writing about the Grape Monthly Order, from how the grapevines sprout in the spring breeze, the leaves turn from red to green, and then put on the shelves, and finally how they bear grapes. It was so much fun. There are many versions of this little book, and I am looking for just one of them. In his later years, Wang Zengqi published a self-selected collection, which selected works he was satisfied with, including modern poems, novels, and essays, covering Wang's works from the creative period of his life.
Book Thirteen
The Secret Life of Flowers
Translated by Meshaman Apte Rosey Zhong Youshan/Beijing United Publishing Company
Understand all the natural mysteries of flowers, thereby understanding the earth we live on, and causing reflection on human behavior. "The Secret Life of Flowers", we all love flowers, use flowers to express love and nostalgia, and even make perfume to make ourselves emit the fragrance of flowers, but do we really understand flowers? The author Sharman tells us that we have more similarities with flowers than we know. Sharman is a well-known American nature writer. Her writing style is delicate and beautiful, and she is praised as "composing words with notes." Such a natural science work is not only easy to understand, but also as relaxed and charming as poetry. This may be the secret of this book's continuous bestseller for many years. When we are in a room, we clean and decorate it, but when we are in the wilderness or among flowers, do we do too little or too much? The earth is our home for survival. Although humans are already exploring space immigration, we do not want to lose this beautiful mother planet. Blue sky, white clouds, sea, green mountains, steep and majestic canyons, snow-capped world of ice and snow, spring breeze and drizzle on the red apricot branches, and the refreshing autumn air filled with golden armor all over the city, we don’t want to really Walking into the interstellar space, the yellow sand blocks out the sun, and I live in an underground castle, waiting for another vague exploration similar to the earth. For our own sake, we need to understand the earth and understand the singing of nature. The wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers are all told to us by the land. All this starts from reading "The Secret Life of Flowers" and understanding the natural history of a flower. Bar.
Book Fourteen
Chinese Flower Classic
Chen Junyu/Cheng Xuke/Shanghai Culture Publishing House
This book contains flowers 188 families, 772 genera, 2354 species, 1.47 million words, and more than 1,000 illustrations. It is divided into three parts: introduction, summary and individual monographs. An introduction, titled "Flowers in China", comprehensively introduces the development history and current status of Chinese flowers. In summary, the basic knowledge of flower cultivation is introduced. Each monograph introduces the flower names, scientific names, aliases, families, cultivation, families, genus, cultivation history, origin and distribution, morphological characteristics, species, varieties and varieties, habits, reproduction, cultivation, breeding, and the same genus of various flowers. species, application. There are also three appendices: "Chronicle of Major Events in the Development of Flowers in China", "Flowers of Chinese History", and "Famous Chinese Horticulturists". The flowers collected in this book include flowering plants, fruit plants, foliage plants, grasses, vines, etc. It mainly introduces flowers native to my country. Wild flowers with ornamental value and potential for development, as well as flowers introduced from abroad, which have been domesticated for a long time or are developing again, are also introduced appropriately. The order of arrangement of various flowers in the monographs of this book is to rank my country's 24 key flowers at the front, among which my country's ten traditional famous flowers are at the front; then, they are arranged according to the order of Engler's plant classification system (please refer to " "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Higher Plants of China"), among the plants of the same family, they are arranged in alphabetical order by the Latin name of each plant. The Latin names of species, varieties, and variants of flowers are in italics, and the Latin names of varieties are in regular font. The cultivar names of flowers should be added with single quotation marks or the "CV" symbol in accordance with the provisions of the "International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivation Plants", and the first letters should be capitalized. At the end of the book, there are "Stroke Index", "Chinese Pinyin Index" and "Latin Name Index" for the convenience of Chinese and foreign readers.
Book 15
The "wisdom" of plants
Ma Weiliang/Shou Haiyang/Peking University Press
The arrival of angiosperms For more than 100 million years on earth, they have gradually developed a variety of "intelligence" in the process of adapting to the changing environment, leading to the evolution of a rich ecosystem with more than 200,000 species, more than 10,000 genera, and more than 400 families. Colorful swarm.
Professor Ma Weiliang, a famous botanist, has been seeking the survival "wisdom" of plants for nearly 40 years. He believes that although plants stand still and cannot move, they can indeed actively seek out the opposite sex; plants do not have a nervous system, but they do have Reflex arcs that receive stimulation can respond quickly; when leaf-eating insects bite the leaves, the plant can secrete a substance to attract the insect's natural enemies to protect itself; the plant can design complex pollination routes to allow insects to provide it with Carrying pollen; plants have the ability to use the environment and can co-evolve with animals... In this interesting and illustrated popular science book, he combines plant taxonomy, ecology, environmental biology, behavior and other subjects to understand the characteristics of plants The Way of Survival, with rich examples and exquisite macro photography, convincingly reveals the various "wisdoms" formed by plants in the process of evolution related to roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, confirming that And enriched Darwin's theory of natural selection. This book is an example of "getting down and doing science popularization". The broad vision of interdisciplinary integration, rich and diverse cases, popular and clear language, and exquisite pictures will help naturalists and even botany professionals deeply understand the mysteries of life, and truly feel the vision and feelings of botanists. Problem awareness and thinking methods.
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