1, peach blossom
Peach Blossom: Peach Blossoms in full bloom, with a wide variety and bright colors. China's earliest poem about peach blossom is The Book of Songs Nan Zhou Yao Tao, which is also the earliest poem comparing peach blossom to a woman.
Later generations closely linked peach blossom with love, the most famous of which was Cui Hu's "South Village of Capital" in the Tang Dynasty. Later, people called the love between men and women peach blossom luck.
Last spring, in this door, the girl's face contrasted with the peach.
Today, I came here again. I don't know where the girl went. Only the peach blossoms are still there, smiling in full bloom in the spring breeze.
Peach blossom has been the favorite of literati since ancient times. Yuan Mei s Peachtree Poems in Qing Dynasty;
In February, the wind and rain returned in spring, and the peach blossom felt fleeting.
There are still three thousand trees in the residual red, which is not as good as a blooming flower.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Daiyu wrote peach blossom poems, and the poetry club was named "Peach Blossom Club":
Spring is warm outside the peach curtain, and morning makeup is lazy inside the peach curtain.
There are people in the peach blossom curtain outside the curtain, and people are not far from the peach blossom.
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What kind of rouge is bright, and the color of flowers is charming.
If a person's face is compared to a peach blossom, then from the perspective of peach blossom and safflower, the face is beautiful.
Peach blossom, with its unique charm and charm, has bloomed for thousands of years in the long river of history and the pen and ink of literati, and has never withered.
2. Gourd
"Bitter leaves", eh, is the ancient name of gourd in China, also called "Zan", "pot" and "Gan Zan". Gourds are widely used as containers. People divide the gourd into two halves in the middle as a ladle for holding water.
In ancient times, when couples got married and entered the bridal chamber, they all needed to drink "Jieju wine", which was roughly similar to our current toast. This custom began in the Zhou Dynasty. At the wedding, a gourd was cut into two spoonfuls and connected with thread. Husband and wife each hold a spoonful and drink the wine, which is the wine. It means that husband and wife will become one from now on, never separate, and share weal and woe. The reason why the gourd is chosen as the container in such an important ceremony is that it is one of the most primitive mascots in China. It is a climbing plant with rich fruits, which means "generation after generation". Moreover, its name is also called "Hulu", which is homophonic with "Fu" and "Lu", so it is still a symbol of wealth. Connecting five gourds with a red line is called "Five Blessingg", which symbolizes the most perfect luck.
Legends about gourds are also circulated among many ethnic groups in China, symbolizing longevity and well-being. Gourd, as a mascot and daily necessities, its humanistic value has far exceeded its natural value. Such an ordinary plant fruit has been widely loved and worshipped by people because of its beautiful meanings.
3. Hemerocallis
In Feng Weibo Xi, there is a proverb, "How can I get grass?" The word "behind the tree" means to forget that the girl without sorrow, also known as day lily, is a common perennial herb. Its flower buds are edible, delicious and nutritious, and it is a Chinese herbal medicine with hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effects. Hemerocallis is the earliest basis for girls to have no worries, which should come from the Book of Songs Bo Xi. In compendium of materia medica, it is called "treating worry", which means forgetting worry. In the Tang Dynasty Wei's Hemerocallis, he wrote that it was originally used to forget troubles, but now it is sad and reborn:
Who planted daylily? This county is remote.
I forgot my worries, but tonight I will be born again.
The condensed dew began to drip, and the butterfly stayed.
I still miss Ling Du Garden, leaving a cloak for rain and autumn.
Hemerocallis is also the flower of China's mother, and Meng Jiao has "Wandering Poems":
Hemerocallis are born in the hall, and wanderers travel all over the world;
In front of the main hall, the loving mother didn't see the day lily.
It is said that ancient wanderers would plant daylilies in the yard before going on a long trip, so that loving mothers would forget the troubles of missing their children. Comrade Dong also sent his wife He Lianzhi four sentences: "Make me laugh, repay the girl for not worrying about her children, and always laugh at me for being old" to comfort her not to worry too much about family affairs.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Xingqing Palace planted a large number of day lilies. It turns out that day lilies can not only forget troubles, but also have a legend that pregnant women wear them and give birth to boys. It can be seen that HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS is a legendary popular plant in the history of flowers in China.
4. Fox tail
In Xiaoya Picking Green, "In the end, picking green doesn't make money." "Green", also known as Wang Zhu, is a kind of millet plant, which grows mostly in the grassland or wet places on the hillside. It is a kind of plant that can be widely seen all over the country. In ancient times, copper salt was added to its juice to make it green, while branches and leaves were boiled with water and mixed with gray juice and aluminum salt to make it yellow, which was used to dye silk and wool fabrics. It is also a medicinal material. In the Tang Dynasty, Joe's Miscellaneous Songs and Love are:
"Unfinished romance, mining has surplus basket.
* * * You are newly married, and you are chilling.
Spring Garden in You Xiang, depending on the situation.
You miss Acorus calamus, and I feel bitter and cold bamboo.
The flowers of calamus are more colorful, and the cold bamboo has German leaves.
I am stronger than you at this time, and your heart is not as good as my concubine.
Stepping on the bank of the jade river, the demon Shao helped the green man.
My home is Wushan Yang. How long is the way home?
I haven't finished my feelings, I have made a profit.
Sang Yu reflects the sun, and the grass is full of Gorkon.
There is running water under it and osmanthus fragrance on it.
In the poem, the bride who tied the knot with her beloved * * * told her husband her feelings. Before she had time to enjoy herself, she had collected a whole basket of Chu kings. It can be seen that when lovers are together, they always feel that time passes very quickly, but when they miss each other, they feel that the days are like years.
5.plums
Plum, also known as green plum, is sweet in nature, high in acidity and sweet in acid. Plum fruit is rich in nutrition, contains a variety of organic acids, vitamins and minerals, and can prevent cardiovascular diseases, so it is known as health food. In Song Dynasty, Zhao Fan Ceng wrote "A neighbor sent plum Zhu Ying" to describe the scene when eating plum;
There are few fruits and vegetables in the mountains, and everyone works hard.
Plums are new for the first time, and cherries are new.
If the salt supply is poor, you can recommend cheese for no reason.
You can call a cup spoon and count the rainy days.
In fact, plums were an important condiment in ancient times, and Deng Guo in Ming Dynasty was a person who loved plums. From his Plum, we can see that:
Only when you are greedy can you say that your mouth is full of saliva, although you have a strict taste and are afraid of alcohol.
Don't treat you like a spoon, and some people frown.
It is also recorded in the Book of Scriptures and Life Stories that when Yin was appointed Prime Minister, he encouraged him to say, "Harmony is precious, only for salt plum." I hope you will become the most needed talent in the country. Like salt and plums, cooking is indispensable.
Plum and "media" are homophonic, so in "With Plum", "Plum" is used to cheer up, hoping that someone can bridge the gap and fulfill a good thing. Zhao, a transfer envoy of Yizhou Road and a bachelor of Jialong Tuge in Song Dynasty, passed through Chengdu and met a fireworks woman wearing apricot flowers. She felt quite attractive and casually boasted: "It's lucky to have apricot flowers on her bun." Hearing this, the woman smiled and said, "Is there no matchmaker in Meizhi?" This pair of antithesis is neat and appropriate, "apricot" and "auspicious", "plum" and "media" are subtle and humorous.