Li Sao: "Making lotus flowers as clothes and picking hibiscus flowers as clothes" is a typical example of ancient people's medicine collection. There are many examples of this custom in The Book of Songs, which is a folk activity of farming. The picking of "vanilla" in Chuci is the externalization and symbol of literati's "focusing on nourishing energy", such as picking Ficus pumila and lotus (hibiscus). It is more common to collect fragrant flowers and give them to each other in Songs of the South of China. For example, in Li Sao, it is said, "I visited this erotic palace and continued to admire it." "If you choose, you can keep your daughter", "If you choose, you can keep your daughter", "If you choose, you can keep your daughter" and "If you break your family, you can leave your legacy" by Priestess of Death. Under the influence of the cultural system of Chu Ci, picking flowers and giving each other gifts is the expression of love and lovesickness between literati based on personality.
There are some herbs and fragrant wood in Chu Ci, which symbolizes the noble personality of the poet. For example, "Mulan is as early as a lotus, and the island is as late as a wild one", "Tie a knot with the root of a tree, and penetrate the Ficus pumila into the pit", and "How can you stop taking a horse to Gao Lan?" "Take Tathagata to hide your tears and touch Yingbo." "Stop as soon as it's warm, and it won't go away." Orchids, peppers, Zhi and Hui are all precious medicinal materials, so the poet walked and stopped at Pepper Mountain, and Ruhui hid her face with tears. Orchids were beautiful, and even after being replaced, she continued to pick them. This symbolizes that the poet should cultivate himself with beautiful ideals and sentiments under any circumstances and show the poet's noble personality.
There are many poems in Chu Ci that equate virtue with vanilla and fragrant wood, and virtue and vanilla are almost synonyms. Take Li Sao as an example. "I don't know it's embarrassing, but I think it's trustworthy." "Fang and Ze lacquer are mixed, but they are still not lost." "It is difficult to lose, and there is no bubble." The poet has repeatedly complained that he is fragrant and moist. Although he can't get the trust of the monarch, his virtue and deeds remain on himself. Despite the ups and downs, the virtue of fragrance did not lose money, but it lasted forever. Another example is: "The purity of the past and the future is where the fragrance lies." "Mixing peppers and mushrooms is precious, but it's just a husband." Metaphor is virtuous sage, fragrant grass, flowers overflowing. "The orchid is nine miles long and the tree sticks a hundred acres; I stayed in the country and found this car, which mixed Du Heng and local chronicles. " The four plants mentioned in this paper are all vanilla fragrant wood, and the poet uses this kind of vanilla fragrant wood as a metaphor for moral education.
The emergence of Chu Ci is directly related to witchcraft in Chu, and the image of "vanilla incense wood" is the refraction and transplantation of witchcraft. Lotus, orchid, Hui, Ficus pumila and Gui constitute the image system of "vanilla fragrant wood" in Chu Ci. Witchcraft is prevalent in Chu, "Lu Chunqiu?" Luxury music hits the nail on the head: "Song decline is also a thousand points; The decline of qi is also, for; The decline of Chu is also a witch sound "; And "vanilla" is a sacrifice and prop for witches to sacrifice songs and dances. "Nine songs? Taiyi of the Eastern Emperor: "Although there is jade in the Yao Block, I will let it go." Steaming Ji, drinking cinnamon wine jiao pulp. ... Lingyan Xi Jiaofu, Fang Feifei Xi Mantang ",there have been nine songs of" Vanilla Xiangmu "such as Hui, Lan, Gui and Jiao? The soul of ritual also said, "When you become a ritual, you will know how to play drums, preach Ba Xi and dance, and your daughter advocates tolerance." Chunlan Qiuju lasts forever. "Wang Yi notes a sentence in Chuanba:" It is said that the temple worships and dances with the ba, which is mostly used by others. "The purpose of sacrifice is to realize the communication between man and god. All ethnic groups have used aromatic plants as sacrifices. In his Primitive Culture, edward tylor mentioned that early humans used incense to worship gods: "It is very reasonable that these offerings rose to spiritual objects in the form of steam. "The reason for the sacrifice of' vanilla' is mainly due to this; Most of the "vanilla incense wood" in Chu Ci smells very fragrant. Besides. Taking flowers as decorations and props for witches also has the intention of pleasing the gods.
There are a lot of vanilla incense wood used to decorate clothes and residences in Chu Ci, which is natural, simple and romantic. There are many descriptions of rooms and costumes in Songs of the South, but strangely, these romantic works such as Li Sao and Nine Songs are mostly decorated with herbs and natural colors. "Nine songs? In the description of the Palace of the Goddess of Xiang Water, Mrs. Xiang listed many flowers and trees. Lotus leaves are woven into the roof, covered with Cao Zhi, surrounding Du Heng, with Sun Cao as the wall, purple shells as the beams, Mulan as the slap, Magnolia as the door, Ficus pumila as the tent, white jade town seats, lotus leaves full of peppers, white Cao Zhi and deep red pepper. These descriptions not only make people feel fragrant, but also bring people into the colorful world and pure and simple nature. Shao Siming's residence is very similar to that of Mrs. Xiang. Shao Siming's yard also has Qiu Lan, with lush weeds, green leaves and white flowers, which are pleasing to the eye. All colors are born in nature and taken from nature. Planting the fragrant trees on the land one by one into the underwater dreamland constitutes a romantic realm. Look at the clothing description. In Li Sao and Nine Songs, the costumes of human beings and gods are all made of natural objects. " Li Sao describes the protagonist's initial costume as "Hu Jiang is detached and aloof, thinking that she is admired." "Lotus thought clothes, lotus thought clothes. "Wear Li Jiang and's on you, and wear Qiu Lan on your waist. Make coats with rhombic leaves and weave skirts with lotus flowers. The leaves of Li Jiang and water chestnut are green, and the leaves and stems of bluegrass are purple.