1, outside the broken bridge, lonely and empty. -Song: Lu You's "Yongmei"
Commentary: By the broken bridge outside the post station, plum blossoms are lonely and no one asks.
2. There are some plums in the corner, and Ling cold opens them alone. -Song: Wang Anshi's Plum Blossom
Interpretation: Several plum blossoms in that corner bloom alone in the cold.
3, suddenly fragrant overnight, scattered like Gankun Wan Li Spring. -Yuan Dynasty: Wang Mian's "White Eyebrows"
Interpretation: Suddenly, the fresh fragrance of the night came to my face and scattered into the Wan Li Spring Festival between heaven and earth.
4. The Jade Emperor blows the Yellow Crane Tower, and plum blossoms fall into the river in May. -Tang Dynasty: Li Bai's "Yellow Crane Tower Smells Flute"
Interpretation: The flute sound of plum blossom falling from the Yellow Crane Tower made Jiangcheng see the fallen plum blossom again in May.
5. Meiling flowers are in the early stage, and the snow in Tianshan has not yet opened. -Tang Dynasty: Lu's Plum Blossom Fall
Interpretation: When Meiling blossoms, it has not started to snow in Tianshan Mountain.
Introduction to plum blossom:
Plum blossom (scientific name: Prunus armeniaca. ): small trees, sparse shrubs, 4- 10 meters above sea level; Bark light gray or greenish, smooth; Branchlets are green, smooth and hairless.
Leaf blade ovate or elliptic, leaf margin usually with small sharp serrations, grayish green. Flowers solitary or sometimes two peanuts in 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, with strong fragrance, opening first and then leaves; Calyx is usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx are green or green purple; Petals obovate, white to pink.
The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose and sour; Mucosal nucleus; The nucleus is oval with slightly flattened sides. It blooms in winter and spring and bears fruit in May-June. 2n= 16，24 .
Plum blossoms are native to southern China and have been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. There are many kinds of plum blossoms, both ornamental and fruit trees. Many types are not only cultivated in the open field for viewing, but also planted as potted flowers to make plum piles.
Flowers can be refined, and flowers, leaves, roots and seeds can be used as medicine. The fruit can be eaten, pickled or processed into Senecio scandens, or smoked into ebony, which has the effects of relieving cough, stopping diarrhea, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Plum blossom can resist the harm of root-knot nematodes and can be used as the rootstock of drupe fruit trees.