Like Red Clouds Floating —— Appreciation of Camellia Ancient Poems (I)

Liu Shu, a poetess in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in Walking on the Sand and Plum: "I don't want to be with peony, but I love the original camellia." Plum blossoms that bloom proudly in winter only regard camellia that blooms at the same time as their intimate friends.

Camellia, which blooms in winter and spring, is one of the top ten traditional famous flowers in China and one of the world famous flowers. Guo Moruo once praised: "A camellia tree is early pink, and a hundred clouds are proud." Camellia (Deep Black Dragon Pool) is a famous woody flower since ancient times, because it has both the heroic spirit of "Only Camellia can last for a long time, and exploring the moon alone can occupy the spring breeze" (Song Zengji's "Raccoon Poetry") and the bright color of Ling Peony "Colorful, Better than Xiao Xia".

Yao Ji, written by Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasties, contained "twenty-four a year" and listed camellia as twenty-three. Camellia has become one of the 24 famous flowers in China.

In the Tang Dynasty, the love of camellia became a fashion, and many poems chanting camellia appeared.

A new kind of black tea flower quilt was planted in the home of Tang Dynasty poet Zhao Lu. Later, when he went out on business, he found it stolen when he got home, so he wrote down "A new kind of black tea flower was accidentally picked for poetry":

Yan hates a tree flower in Chai Men, so she travels with Xiang.

Hua Ruyu replied and lied to me that Mr. Lang was not at home.

Zhao Lu (A.D. 8 18-882), a native of Yichun, Jiangxi, was the top scholar in the third year of Tang Huichang (A.D. 843). Successively in Zhangzhou, Xuanzhou, Chizhou, Jizhou secretariat. Everywhere he went, he had a good literary name and official reputation, and he was always praised by people because he was a proud pupil of Li Deyu in the Tang Dynasty and didn't intervene in the "Niuli Party Struggle" at that time after he became an official.

The first two sentences, "I hate a tree flower in Chai Men, and travel far with the fragrance", describe the poet's anger and disappointment after the camellia was stolen. The poet imagined the camellia plants in Chai Men when they were stolen: the camellia plants were dug up and put in a car, and the fragrance of the camellia plants went farther and farther with the car, which seemed unwilling to leave.

In the last two sentences, the poet further imagined that Camellia didn't want to leave her master's house, saying that if Camellia could talk, it would say that you bullied my master and secretly poached me, and my master would not spare you when he came back!

The poem is lively, and the love and pity for Camellia are beyond words.

Compared with peony, the poet Si Kongtu's Black Tea Flower in the Tang Dynasty strongly praised the beauty of camellia:

Landscape poets boast when they see it. How can they pity Gao Yun for saying black tea? ?

Peony is not a flower unless it blooms in white.

Si Kongtu (837-907 AD) was born in Yuxi Township (now Yongji, Yuncheng, Shanxi Province). The word represents holiness, and you know from the name that it is not a son, but also an anti-insulting layman. Poets and poetics in late tang dynasty. He was promoted to be the first scholar and was called a temple consultant during the reign of Zong Yi. God bless four years (AD 907), Tang died of illness. He collapsed and starved to death. His achievements are mainly in poetics, and Twenty-four Poems are immortal. The Whole Tang Poetry contains three volumes of poems.

The first two sentences of the poem, "landscape poets praise it, but don't pity the high rhyme to say black tea", mean that the poet is sensitive to the poet. Generally speaking, they should praise everything they see. I don't particularly like the elegant charm of black tea flowers. This is a problem-solving, prologue, as if the author said that the black tea flower was just improvised by the poet and had no special meaning. This sentence is very strange. After writing the title of "Black Tea", he said that this is just a general expression of the poet's habitual love at first sight, and readers don't have to mind it very much, and further explained that he didn't particularly like the high rhyme of "Black Tea Flower". Isn't this contradictory and puzzling? In fact, this is an expression that wants to promote first and then suppress.

Then, two sentences, "Peony loses its spring power, but it is not a flower when it blooms", revealed the mystery. It turns out that this black tea flower is so beautiful that even the graceful peony that took three years of effort is not a flower. Can this kind of black tea flower be boasted without saying? I really have to say, I can't help boasting. This kind of praise for black tea flowers often sublimates to the peak at once, thus receiving touching artistic effects. ?

Using side contrast to create a strong contrast effect is a common technique in the field of artistic expression. The beauty of Qin Luofu described in the ancient poem Shang Mo Sang is an example. ?

Si Kongtu loves flowers very much. There are many poems about apricot flowers and chrysanthemums in his poems. There is also a poem about peony, which reads: "Peony is rich in land, musk and morning dragon." Master hesitates, brocade curtain protects spring frost "("Peony ") does not write the color and shape of peony flowers, but only the master's love. Although there are many flower poems written by Si Kongtu, they seem to have one thing in common, that is, he does not care about the objective and concrete description of the shape, color and taste of flowers themselves, but mostly writes from subjective feelings. This kind of black tea flower is the masterpiece of his poems about flowers.

Mrs. Hua Rui, a poet of the Five Dynasties, praised camellia as beautiful as rosy clouds;

Tea trees in the mountains are like red clouds floating in the mountains.

Humanity is better than Tianchi flower.

Mrs. Hua Rui describes the life of a beautiful girl. "Flowers are not enough to imitate her color, and flowers are not as good as appearance." Mrs. Hua Rui was named after Xu, the concubine of Wang Jian, the founding emperor of Shu. At that time, both of them were favored by Wang Jian. Xu Fei Jr. is Mrs. Huarui, who can write poems, including more than 50 poems/kloc-0 and a volume of poems. (In ancient times, the author of Gongci was Xu Fei, the concubine of Meng Changjun, the master of Houshu. Because of her talent and beauty, she was named the imperial concubine, Mrs. posthumous title Huarui. According to the textual research of the famous scholar Pu Jiangqing's "A Textual Research on Madame Huarui's Palace Ci", the author of the palace ci is the princess of the former Shu emperor. )

The first two sentences of the poem "Tea trees in the mountains are floating like red clouds" describe that there are many tea trees growing in the mountains, and it seems that red clouds are floating in the mountains from a distance. It vividly depicts the magnificent scene of camellia as red as Xia. In the last two sentences, "humanity is better than Tianchi flowers", people say that camellia in Yongjiang area is as beautiful as brocade and better than Tianchi flowers. Highly praised camellia is more beautiful than fairy flowers, showing its love to the extreme.

Camellia written by Guan Xiu, a monk in the late Tang Dynasty, praised Camellia as a fairy flower in fairyland.

The wind cuts the sun and dyes the fairy, and the flower blood dyes the fairy. ?

Before the flowers fall today, I look at people complaining about Sun Xiu.

Guan Xiu (AD 832-9 12) was born in Lanxi, Wuzhou (now Lanxi, Zhejiang). Painting monks and poetry monks in Shu before the end of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. At the age of seven, he became a monk and a temple. He reads thousands of words of scripture every day and never forgets anything. When Tang Tianfu entered Shu, he was named "Master of Zen Moon" by Wang Jian, the former owner of Shu, and was given purple clothes. Guan Xiu can write poems with noble names. There is a cloud in the taste: "A bottle and a bowl are old, and Qian Shan can get thousands of waters." It's called becoming a monk. There is a collection of Zen moons. He is also good at painting, especially the arhat he painted, which is antique and unique. Sixteen Arhats is his masterpiece.

Camellia, also known as Datura stramonium, is a very beautiful and precious flower. It has a big flower shape and many colors. When it is in full bloom, it is really colorful and colorful.

The first two sentences of this poem describe its beauty in an exaggerated way: "The wind cuts the sun and dyes the fairy, and the flowers dye the blood." Camellia is a fairy flower in fairyland. Its shape is cut by the wind and its color is dyed by colorful sunshine. In contrast, all the flowers have lost their colors, even scarlet blood is not red.

The last two sentences of the poem turn to lament history, which seems to mean something. "Before the flowers fall today, people look at Sun Xiu." Sun Xiu, the prince of Zhao in the Jin Dynasty, conspired with Lun to abolish Jia, forcing him to be more nostalgic and killing Zhongliang. According to the Book of Jin, Xiu was also punished when Qi Wangdang and others set out to discuss ethics. So "now" and "before falling down the steps" should refer to loyalty. So, who is Sun Xiu, a loyal man and a judge of people? The author thinks that it was an era of peasant uprising, warlord scuffle and chaos in Huang Chao. Therefore, the image in the poem need not be too practical, and can be understood as a general reference. Today, we appreciate this flower-chanting poem mainly from two aspects: fresh and lively artistic style and exaggerated and contrasting artistic techniques.