In Zhou Nan in June, Litchi Dan quoted the following poems respectively: 1. The flame is flying through the sky, and the red clouds are heavy. 2 greet the lotus petals before the wind falls, and the peach blossoms are beautiful after the rain.
Ripe lychees are mostly dark red or purple. Born at the head of a tree, of course, you can't see its shell structure from a distance, only red comes into view, so it is very realistic to compare it to "crimson capsule", "red star" and "coral bead". As for the whole tree, even a forest, it will become a beautiful scenery of "flying flames want to wear the sky" and "red clouds are heavy".
The so-called "film is like purple gauze" refers to the white film that clings to the inner wall of the shell. To call it "like purple gauze" is to mistake the pattern on the inner wall of the shell for the pattern of the membrane. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Bo wrote a poem "Ode to Litchi Membrane", which describes throwing the shell and membrane on the ground when eating litchi, as if "the lotus petals fall before the wind and the peach blossoms are beautiful after the rain", which is an exaggeration.
The above excerpt is from Zhou Nan June Litchi Dan by Jia Zuzhang.