Comment on Rain in Kunming

Wang Zengqi

Ning Kun asked me to draw him a picture with Kunming characteristics (1, why do you want to draw Kunming characteristics? Because Kunming is very important in Ning Kun's life course; Why let the author draw? Because the author and Ning Kun have the same experience in Kunming, it is also very important for the author. 2. Why did the author mention Ning Kun's request? Because the author wants to introduce his memory of Kunming and express his nostalgia for life in Kunming by writing its characteristics, this is the memory of a generation of literati. )。 I thought for a while and drew a picture. In the upper right corner, I drew a thick green cactus hanging upside down with a golden flower at the end. On the lower left are some blue mushrooms and boletus. I wrote these lines:

"Kunming people often hang a cactus on the door to ward off evil spirits. Cactus can still survive and bloom upside down. Here we can see the tenacious vitality of cactus and the humid air in rainy season in Kunming. There are cyanobacteria and boletus in the rainy season, which is extremely delicious. " The inscription further points out the reasons behind the landscape features, that is, rain and spots. )

I miss the rain in Kunming. (emphasis, full text)

I didn't know there was a rainy season. The "rainy season" didn't have a concrete feeling until I arrived in Kunming. In contrast, highlighting the rain is the characteristic of Kunming, which also explains why the rain left me a special impression and memory.

I don't remember how long the rainy season in Kunming is, from a few months to a few months, which seems quite long (the memory span is very long, more than forty years, and the length of the rainy season has been forgotten, but the affection behind the rainy season is always in my heart). But not boring. Because it is stop-and-go, stop-and-go, not continuous, it is endless. And it won't make people feel sultry ("rain is the most common and lasts for three or two days." Don't be upset. "This is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang rain in Zhu Ziqing's memory. Although it is continuous, it is not noisy or boring. Memories always beautify the impression. I have been in Chongqing for four years. At first, continuous or intermittent rain was boring, but in retrospect, it was beautiful. I think the air pressure in Kunming is not low during the rainy season, and people are very comfortable. The rainy season in Kunming is bright, full and emotional. Trees and grass turn green again in spring, and summer dreams have long vegetation. The rainy season in Kunming is dark green. The water in the branches and leaves of plants and trees is saturated (feeling full), showing excessive and exaggerated exuberance (this is something that makes people emotional).

My painting is realistic (while freehand brushwork is an explanation to avoid misunderstanding and weaken the reader's feelings). I did see a cactus hanging upside down and still blooming. In ancient times, Kunming used many things to ward off evil spirits: a small mirror with eight diagrams painted around it, and a cactus below it-a hole was pierced in the cactus, put on with twine and hung on a nail. There are many cacti in Kunming, and they are very fat. Some people plant a circle of cactus around the vegetable garden instead of a fence. After planting cactus, pigs and sheep dare not eat it in the garden. Cactus has thorns, and pigs and sheep are afraid to prick it. Write down the reasons why cactus left a deep impression, hanging upside down to ward off evil spirits, and cactus replaced the fence. The reason behind it is that it rains a lot. Although it doesn't rain, it still turns around the rain. )。

There are many bacteria in Kunming. When you visit the vegetable market in rainy season, you can see all kinds of mushrooms at any time. The cheapest at most is boletus. When the boletus came down, every restaurant sold fried boletus, and even a bowl could be served at the dinner table in The National SouthWest Associated University (at that time, the teachers and students in The National SouthWest Associated University had a hard life, but it was the pursuit of ideals and knowledge that made them surpass the lack of material, create miracles and become beautiful memories). Boletus is as smooth, tender, delicious as beef liver. Stir-fried boletus must put more garlic, otherwise it will easily make people faint. Penicillium is a little more expensive than boletus. This mushroom is still light green when fried, and its style is higher than that of boletus. The king of bacteria is chicken fir, which tastes fresh and rich, unparalleled. Chicken fir is a rare delicacy, but it is not really expensive. The price of a plate of Chinese fir in braised chicken is comparable to that of a bowl of braised chicken, because it is not rare in Yunnan. There is a joke: someone took a train from Kunming to Chenggong. On the train, he saw a chicken fir tree on the ground. He jumped down and picked it up. He can climb the train in a hurry. This joke is intended to show that the train from Kunming to Chenggong is slow, but it also shows that chicken fir can be seen everywhere. There is a kind of auricularia auricula, which tastes ugly and is called Ganba auricularia auricula. At first glance, it's really doubtful: can this kind of food be eaten? ! The color is dark brown with green, a bit like a pile of semi-dry cow dung or a trampled hornet's nest. There are a lot of grass stems, messy hair, a mess! However, if you work hard, you can choose the loose hair of the grass stem, tear it into thread as thick as crab legs, and fry it with green peppers. The entrance will make you dumbfounded: is this thing so delicious? ! There is another kind of fungus, ugly, called chanterelle. They are all about the same size. The sliding ring is as big as a silver ring and light yellow in color, just like chicken oil. This fungus can only be used for color matching when cooking, and its taste is not strong (this paragraph shows the author's superb description skills. From cheap to expensive, the hierarchy is orderly, even if you are cheaper than other places, because there are many jokes to illustrate your image and wealth; First suppress and then promote, the ugliness of vision contrasts with the beauty of taste; Contrast, the contrast between these two bacteria is very obvious.

The fruit in rainy season is Myrica rubra (this passage says that fruits and flowers are shifting from edible level to spiritual level). Myrica rubra sellers are all Miao girls, wearing flowered hats and shoes embroidered with flowers, sitting in a corner of someone's step stone, shouting "selling Myrica rubra-"from time to time, with a Jiao Jiao sound. Their voices make the air softer in rainy season in Kunming. Yangmei in Kunming is very big, as big as table tennis, and its colors are black, red and black. It is called "charcoal plum". It's a good name. It's like a hot briquette! It's not sour at all (write the shape and color of bayberry, the metaphor is appropriate)! Myrica rubra eaten in Dongting Mountain in Suzhou and Myrica rubra eaten in Jinggangshan seem to be inferior to charcoal plum in Kunming. The flower in rainy season is osmanthus. Osmanthus fragrans is white orchid, and Beijing is called "Balan" (this name is really unpleasant). Yunnan calls this flower osmanthus. Perhaps this flower was first introduced from Myanmar, and its fragrance is a bit like osmanthus. In fact, this has nothing to do with osmanthus. -but then again, it's called white orchid and Bayer orchid elsewhere, and it doesn't get along with orchids just because it smells like orchids. The Brando I saw in my hometown is one person tall, and the Burmese laurel tree in Kunming is a big tree! I live at No.2 Ruoyuan Lane. There is a big osmanthus tree in the yard with dense leaves, which makes the surrounding rooms green. When Myanmar and Guangxi were in full bloom, the landlord (a widow in her fifties) and one of her adopted daughters took a ladder to pick them. They pick better ones every day and take them to the flower market to sell. She is probably afraid that tenants will pick her flowers indiscriminately and often send some to families. Sometimes send a seven-inch plate, which is full of Burmese osmanthus! Sweet-scented osmanthus with raindrops makes my heart soft, not homesick (from fruit to flower, it is a natural transition, not homesick, what is that, it is a momentary touch when encountering beauty, and it is a feeling that the spirit lost in the vessel is suddenly illuminated by beauty and poetry).

Rain sometimes makes people feel a little homesick (clever transition, from scenery to emotion, what does this homesickness mean? Are you homesick in Kunming or miss Kunming now? Why should Kunming, a foreign land, be your hometown? Is this a home in the material sense or a home in the spiritual sense? )。 Li Shangyin's Notes for Friends in the North on a Rainy Night is written for many long-distance travelers. One morning, it was raining and we didn't live much. Sid and I went to the lotus pond from the new teaching building of the United University. After seeing the clear water in the pool and the stone statue of Chen Yuanyuan (it is said that Chen Yuanyuan became a monk after going to Yunnan in Wu Sangui and died in the lotus pond in his later years), it began to rain again. There is a small street and a small hotel near the lotus pond. We went in and asked for a plate of pig's head meat and half a catty of wine (in a blue glazed pottery cup). We sat down and it rained heavily. There are several chickens in the hotel, all with their heads behind their wings and one foot on the ground, standing motionless under the eaves. There is a big Muxianghua in the hotel yard, and there are many Muxianghua in Kunming. Some rivers are surrounded by woody plants, but such large woody plants are rare. A woody tree climbed on the shelf and covered the yard tightly. The dense and finely divided green leaves, countless half-opened white flowers and full flower bones are all soaked by the rain. We can't leave, so we sit in the afternoon. Forty years later, I still can't forget the feeling of that day and wrote a poem:

"There are few laymen in the lotus pond, and the wild moss marks are one inch deep. A cup of turbid wine is over noon, and the fragrant flowers are wet and rainy. "

I miss the rain in Kunming.

General comment: This article is about the rain in Kunming. Rain is actually not the subject, but the background, a clue. Through the rain, the author strung together unique fungi, fruits and flowers, strung together the life sentiment behind these scenes, and finally accumulated an unforgettable yearning. This is the author's second hometown and the author's spiritual home. The author's description of the rain in Kunming and the people in The National SouthWest Associated University is a memory of a great era that has gone far away and a declining spiritual tradition. To understand this article, you must know something about National Southwest Associated University.