Bai Juyi's hydrangea poems

Bai Juyi's hydrangea poem "Ajisai": When planted on the altar, it will be transplanted to Brahma sooner or later. Although people in the world don't know it, Ajisai is famous with you.

Hydrangea is a kind of summer flower, which blooms in late spring and early autumn, spanning three seasons and suitable for summer flowering. This kind of flower is very similar to the woody hydrangea, but it is a low shrub herb with a height of only 3 to 4 meters. It often appears as low and vigorous potted flowers and lawn flowers. Each flower ball can reach 20 cm in diameter, but its colors are richer than hydrangea, such as red, purple, white and blue.

Wood hydrangea usually blooms in late spring, while grass hydrangea is moisture-resistant and hydrophilic, and the flowering period lasts for several months, mainly in midsummer and early autumn. In recent years, this flower has been widely planted in the garden streets in the south, so that many people think it is an exotic variety and call it foreign hydrangea. This kind of hydrangea blooms in summer and lasts until autumn, so there is a variety called "endless summer" and "eternal summer".

So the grass hydrangea is also called "endless summer", but the name is really vivid and lovely. But the ancestral home of grass hydrangea is in China. This hydrophilic small shrub herb is native to the Yangtze River valley and southern China, and loves the humid southern climate. Bai Juyi first recorded grass hydrangea in Tang Dynasty.

At the age of 50, he was transferred to Hangzhou Secretariat. At this time, the West Lake had already lost its prosperity in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the lake was overgrown with weeds. There is a "Zhaoxian Temple" built by secluded monks in the Qing Dynasty. It is small in scale and surrounded by weeds. Bai Juyi traveled around the world.