What does Mei Lan Ju Zhu stand for?

1, Mei: I am proud of surfing, cutting snow and ice, and I am proud of myself. I am a noble and noble person.

2, Lan: the empty valley is quiet, narcissistic, elegant and elegant, and it is the sage of the world.

3, bamboo: screen the wind to make the moon, life is chic, elegant and elegant, is a modest gentleman.

4. Chrysanthemum: Shuang Ling is elegant, maverick and unobtrusive, and he is a hermit.

Plum blossom, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. Known as the "four gentlemen." Quality is: pride, quietness, firmness and lightness. Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum have become the symbols of China people's feelings for things, and they are also the most common themes in poems about objects and literati paintings. It is precisely because of their yearning for this aesthetic personality realm that they are also common themes in object-chanting poems and artists' paintings and calligraphy, and they are called the four gentlemen in flowers.

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1. In the eyes of the ancients, plum blossom blooms first because of the coldness of snow. It is a faint Leng Xiang, symbolizing seclusion and indifference, firmness and self-control. With the love of literati, I saw my ideal personality model, which is a kind of loneliness and self-worship, so there are many poems about flowers in Yongmei.

In the theory of painting plum blossoms, plum blossoms are also associated with Yi Shu in the Book of Changes, forming the "plum blossom Yi Shu". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people used five petals of plum blossom to give it the cultural implication of Five Blessingg.

2. Orchids are specifically referred to as "gentlemen in flowers", and because of their whole body, they have the "all-round virtue" of gentlemen. Compared with the three friends of pine, bamboo and plum, pine has leaves but few flowers, bamboo has knots but few flowers, plum has flowers but few leaves, while orchids have leaves, flowers and fragrance, which are famous for their clear breath, color, posture and rhyme.

Exquisite and pleasant, elegant and detached, not flattering the secular. Green leaves are elegant, slender and healthy, oily and shiny, beautiful and elegant, sweet and pure, elegant and warm. Orchids are practical and pure, and they are born without chaos.

It can grow up in the deep mountains and valleys, stay away from the hubbub without feeling sorry for itself, or be born in the vestibule of the hall and live in the secular world without being complacent. It will always be elegant, simple and elegant, comparable to the loyalty and integrity of a gentleman, and will not change the times or the world.

3. The straight part of bamboo was humbled and admired by modest gentlemen of all ages. Bamboo summarizes the noble character of a gentleman from four aspects: solid foundation, straight nature, empty mind and chastity.

It is precisely because of these four virtues: determination, integrity, modesty and chastity that ancient literati planted more bamboo in the court, accompanied by the sun, and attracted bamboo as friends. Bamboo has not only four virtues, but also six qualities: rigidity, softness, loyalty, righteousness, modesty and regularity.

Chrysanthemum is a famous traditional flower in China. It is beautiful and colorful, but it doesn't win favor with its exquisite beauty, but it wins with its simple elegance and firmness, and it blooms after the flowers wither. Its delicate and charming, first frost in full bloom, the west wind does not fall all over, there is the virtue of a gentleman.

It is quite in line with the literati's idea that "poverty is the only way to be immune, and wealth is the best way to help the world." There is a desire for seclusion in the hearts of literati. As the flower of Ao Shuang, it has always been favored by poets, and Gao Shi of the ancients especially liked to name his ambition with chrysanthemums as a metaphor for his noble sentiments.

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