Seven-character Poems of Hongshan

Hongshan's seven-character poems are as follows:

Author Fu Yuan, Song Dynasty.

Countless mountain flowers laugh at the spring breeze, and the water is different. It's called Yingshan. It's very light, but it seems to reflect the Red River.

Yingshanhong is introduced as follows:

Rhododendron generally refers to rhododendron. Rhododendron, a deciduous shrub of Rhododendron in Ericaceae, is 2-5 meters high and has many slender branches. Leaves are leathery, often clustered at the ends of branches, oval, oval or inverted, with short and tapering front ends, slightly curly leaves and thin teeth.

Dark green above, light white below; Corolla is wide funnel-shaped, obovate, generally 2-6 clusters at the top of branches, with rose, bright red or dark red, flowering in April-May and fruiting in June-August.

Rhododendron is widely distributed in Europe, Asia and North America, mainly in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and concentrated in Southwest and South China in China. It is a typical indicator plant of acid soil in south-central and southwest China. Rhododendrons like acidic and fertile soil. Shade-tolerant and warm, evergreen azaleas can grow well in humid and cool places in mountainous areas.

Rhododendron was first recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic in Han Dynasty, in which Euonymus japonicus was listed as a poisonous plant. Rhododendron has been cultivated for at least 1000 years. By the Tang Dynasty, ornamental azaleas had appeared, and at this time azaleas had been transplanted into gardens for cultivation.

Bai Juyi (772-846), a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, had a soft spot for azaleas. He not only wrote many poems praising azaleas, but also transplanted and cultivated them himself. The first transplant did not survive, he wrote, "there is no reason to transfer them to others."