Yesterday, I was riding as usual on Saturday. I rode to the countryside with a group of cyclists, but I saw layers of fields and ridges on the slopes. The vast white field was full of Ogum flowers, and there was a beautiful woman riding with me. The rider shouted, "Ah, what a beautiful reed" and hurriedly got into it to take pictures. I know it's not a reed, but what does that have to do with beauty?
Senior beauties like Luwei, perhaps because of Miss Teresa Teng’s lingering song “On the Water Side” a few years ago, or Aunt Qiong Yao’s TV drama story that made the audience cry.
The green grass is lush and the white mist is blurry,
There is a beautiful woman on the side of the water;
The green grass is luxuriant and the white mist is blurry,
There is a beautiful woman who lives by the water;
I would like to swim upstream and nestle beside her,
But there are dangerous shoals ahead and the road is long and far;< /p>
I would like to go down the river and find her direction...
Since then, many people have known that "on the water side" refers to reeds. Later, I, an ignorant guy, also learned from the lyrics and story that this allusion came from an ancient book called "The Book of Songs", and I also learned that reeds can also be called Jian Jia.
The jianjia is green and the white dew is frost. The so-called beauty is on the water side. If you follow it back, the road will be long and blocked. Traveling back from it, Wan is in the middle of the water.
Jianjia is miserable, and the white dew is still there. The so-called beauty is on the water. If you follow it back, the road will be blocked and you will be able to advance. Traveling back from it, you will feel like you are swimming in the water...
Jianjia has many poetic names. Later, I learned about too many plants that are similar to reeds, which are reeds. They look a bit like reeds but are definitely different from reeds: Dig, rush, cattail, Imperata... Many people confuse them. But I gradually distinguished them.
Reeds are actually rare in our Suizhou, at least they don’t grow into reed marshes around us like in the TV series. It is a tall grass that grows aquatic or wet for many years. It grows in rivers, ditches, lakes, swamps, wetlands, etc. In short, it has to grow in water. The reeds are light in color, have broad leaves, the plants are tall, and the stems have large cavities that can be easily split and spread into one piece. The reed flowers are dark in color and large.
The most beautiful season for reeds is in autumn. The autumn wind blows, and in the reed marshes by the river, there is a vast white expanse of indescribable reed flowers, which are so vast that it makes people feel homesick for no reason. No wonder Aunt Qiong Yao and our ancients all praise reed flowers. They sway in the autumn wind and are only responsible for beauty and melancholy.
The most popular flower in Suizhou is Dihua. Ophiophyllum grows near water and on low hillsides, grows on both land and water, and is tolerant to both waterlogging and drought. The leaves are long and narrow, with sharp edges. Dizi is more drought-tolerant than reeds, that is to say, it does not need to grow in water. The main difference between reeds and reeds is that the reed stalks are hollow, while the upper part of the reed stalks is solid and the middle and lower parts are hollow.
Folks often refer to the two together as reeds, and it is also common to call reeds as reeds. Therefore, there is a couplet in Xie Jin in the Ming Dynasty: "The reeds on the wall are top-heavy and have shallow roots; the bamboo shoots in the mountains have thick tips and thick skin." The belly is empty. "In fact, it is impossible for reeds to grow on the wall unless you can ensure an adequate supply of water. The thing growing on the wall should be Di, which is more drought-tolerant than reeds.
In addition to reeds, cattails and thatch grow in ponds or wet places, especially in spring. They are similar to reeds, but they are not the same species of plants.
Cyperus is a perennial aquatic or swampy herb that grows in shallow waters of lakes, rivers and ponds, and is also common in swamps and ditches. It also has a nice name called cattail. It is not like a reed, with a straight stem piercing the sky. The stem of the cattail is not obvious, but its leaves are hugging each other and jumping up. Only the cattail leaves are visible on the water. It grows taller than a person and fills the lake with huffing. pond. The "luminous pool" in front of the Suizhou Library in Shennong Park is full of cattails. Every time I come to borrow books, I will look at the cattails by the pool, watch the koi carp swimming by the grass, and watch the children playing in the pool. Playing in the transparent water tank.
There is a sentence in "The Peacock Flying Southeast": "You are like a rock, and I am like pampas grass. The pampas grass is as tough as silk, and the rock has no transference." Dao Qian of the Song Dynasty also had a poem: "The wind hunts the soft cattails." , The dragonfly is not free to stand. In May, there are countless lotus flowers all over Tingzhou.
Let’s talk about thatch. Thatch, also called thatch, is a perennial herb that grows in low mountain plains, riverbank grasslands, sandy meadows and deserts. It has strong adaptability, tolerates shade, barrenness and drought, and likes moist and loose soil. "The color of the grass looks far away but is invisible up close." The color of the grass here refers to thatch.
"On March 3rd, the grass shoots out." In the spring, the buds of thatch are particularly sweet. Peel off the light green and red outer coat, and it will be as white as jade. Take a bite and it will be sweet. But this sweetness It's not the overwhelming sweetness of cane sugar, but the kind of sweetness that's embarrassingly refreshing. Take a bite and your mouth will be full of spring. The young shoots of thatch also have a name, called "Gu Di", which is a very poetic name. In my childhood memory, Maojian is a special surprise to my taste buds in spring.
When thatch grew all over the mountains and plains, it became a perfect place for us young people to play hide and seek. I remember that the Book of Songs described a couple two or three thousand years ago having a tryst among the white grass bushes, using the blue sky as their bed. I can’t remember which chapter it was.
When I was in high school, there was a text called "Song of Thatched Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind", a poem by Du Fu. "The high autumn wind roared in August and rolled up the triple thatch on my house." I knew that the down-and-out Du Fu lived in a house built with thatch. I also remembered the poet's most famous sentence, "There are tens of thousands of buildings in Anhui. It will protect all the poor people in the world and make them happy."
Times change. Nowadays, there are many high-rise buildings in the city, and there are more than tens of millions of them. But for some reason, the more prosperous high-rise buildings there are, the more lonely people feel when they live there. So, those of us who were lonely at heart got together and rode to the suburbs. We saw reeds, cattails, and grasses. But thatched houses built with thatched grass have already quietly entered the depths of history.