What are some interesting stories about plum blossoms in China?

Where does the word "Mei" come from? Li Shizhen explained it in Compendium of Materia Medica. He said, "Mei, ancient prose is like a child stepping on a log. Mei is apricot, so apricot is certain, and calligraphers misunderstand it as "fragrant wood" After Mei Cong, the voice was harmonious. Or the cloud: Mei, the media is also mixed ... "Li Shizhen tells the origin of the word" Mei "from the aspects of Mei shape, Mei sound and Mei history, which has certain persuasiveness.

Quench thirst by thinking of plum-comfort yourself with illusory hope

"Looking at plum to quench thirst" is an idiom that we are all familiar with. It comes from an allusion. "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" contains: "Wissing lost his way and all the armies were thirsty, so he said:" There is a great Meilin in front of him, and Rao Zi is sweet and sour to quench his thirst. " When soldiers smell it, their mouths are full of water, so they can reach the previous source. "

Sun Liang is observant.

Legend has it that Sun showed off the West Garden and wanted to eat plums, so he sent his men Huangmen to central Tibet to get plums dyed with honey. I found rat droppings in honey. Is it Huangmen or Tibetan history? Xiaguan suggested that both of them should be punished. Sun Liang said: "This is easy to know." He ordered his men to break the rat excrement and found it dry. Sun Liang laughed and said, "It must be the Yellow Gate." It turns out that Huangmen asked Tibetan history for honey before, but Tibetan history didn't give it, so he took revenge.

Hua guang ye yue Hua mei

In the Song Dynasty, there appeared a painter who painted plums-Zhong Ren. Ren Zhong is a monk of Huaguang Temple in Hengzhou. He used to be the owner of the temple, and people called him Huaguang. "Plum Painting" says: "The abbot of Huaguang planted several plums, and every time he opened one, he had to get out of bed and recite it all day, without knowing what it meant." Even when I stay up late on a moonlit night, I see a thin shadow between the windows, which is sad and lovely, so I use a pen to regulate its shape. I watch it in the morning, which makes me think about it under the moon. "Some people say that Mo Mei is out of this.

Xiaogan blossoms.

According to legend, in ancient times there was Long Guanghan who was very filial to his mother. On June 1 day, her mother's birthday, she suddenly saw a plum blossom outside the north window. Everyone thought it was filial piety. Some people call this plum "Xiao Mei". Guanghan lived to the age of 108 and died very beautiful. (Excerpted from "Ancient and Modern Book Integration, Vegetation Compilation")

Mei Liang Hu sheng Hua

There is a cloud in "Local Records": "Meiliang Lake is in the suburb of Shandong. When Wu entered Meiliang, the ship sank and lost its beam. Flowers are born on the water every spring. "

Du Fu planted plums.

Yan 'an Annals contains: "Zhangzhou Meilingke is located in the south of Zhangzhou City, and it is said that Du Fu planted plum blossoms." "

Plum blossom name

According to legend, Song Jing, a wise minister in the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty, fell out of the list twice in his teens and was once depressed. One day, I saw a corner of the wall in Gumei. I let it go in the cold, which inspired me to work hard and eventually became famous in the world.

Comment on Shi Mei

In Zhu Po's Poems, it is said: "Lin Hejing's plum blossom poem" The shadow is shallow, and the faint fragrance floats in the dusk of the moon "has been famous all over the world for more than 200 years. Su Dongpo wrote plum blossom poems in Huizhou in his later years. "One by one, I suspect hanging trees on the moon. I feel lonely and confused." When this remark came out, the poem of peace was dark. Later, Zhang Yunqian's poem "When the tripod is adjusted at the end of the year, there is no fragrance in the world" and Ceng Gong's poem "When the tripod is adjusted, the fragrance only knows the moon and the moon". Although these two sentences are not as beautiful as Dongpo, they can make people feel interesting.

Sublime or seclusion

Lin Bu, a hermit in Song Dynasty, was more obsessed with plum blossoms than Lu You. He was indifferent to this all his life and lived in an isolated mountain in Hangzhou. For 20 years, he has been out of touch with the city, never married, and entertained himself by planting plum blossoms and raising cranes all day. He is called "Mei's wife and crane". In Yongmei's poems, people praised "the shadows are thin and oblique, the water is shallow, and the fragrance floats in the dusk", which is a swan song throughout the ages.

Xue Mei argued.

Who wins and who loses in Mei Xue? Lu Meipo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, made a fair judgment. He said: "Xue Mei will not surrender for the sake of spring, and poets have to pay to comment on this chapter. The snow in Mei Xu Xun is three points white, but the snow has lost a plum. " He added: "There are plums without snow, and there is no spirit. Snow without poetry. Moonlight poetry is full of snow all day long, and it is very plum in spring. "

Easy burial Meihualing

When Shi Kefa, a national hero in the late Ming Dynasty, fought against the Qing army in Yangzhou, his last words were "When he died, he should be buried in Meihualing", and he regarded Meihua as a sacred symbol. Meihualing is an earthen mountain outside Chuguangmen in Yangzhou, where there are many plum trees. After the war, his descendants "can't get the bones to seek public welfare, but they are buried in clothes" here. (Excerpted from Outside Pavilion Edition)

Zheng Banqiao painted cold plums.

A rich man in Xinghua has heard a lot about Zheng Banqiao and asked Zheng Banqiao to paint for him many times, but Zheng Banqiao never agreed. Finally, Zheng Banqiao reluctantly agreed under the persuasion of his friend. But he didn't accept painting money, but asked the rich man to reduce the farmers' mu tax, otherwise he wouldn't paint. The rich man had to reluctantly agree. When painting, the rich asked Zheng Banqiao to paint peonies, because peonies symbolize wealth. When the bridge was finished, the rich man shouted, "Good!" He was so scared that he accidentally dropped the ink on the drawing paper. When the rich man saw this scene, he was about to beat and scold to the extreme, but Zheng Banqiao said, "Just right." So with a stroke of a pen, a cold plum jumped onto the paper and wrote a poem: "Draw peony plum, rich and poor." People are rich in peony, and I praise Han Mei for taking the lead. "

Only plum blossoms are bosom friends.

Mr. Lu Xun once brilliantly used plum blossom as a metaphor: "China is really like a plum tree. Seeing that it is aging and rotting, it suddenly gives birth to one or two new buds, and then returns to the scene of flowers and lush green leaves. " He had a stone seal stamped with "only plum blossom is a bosom friend" to express his noble feelings.

Meichi Wu Changshuo

Wu Changshuo, a master of modern stone calligraphy, is infatuated with Mei, which is widely spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. He once wrote an inscribed poem: "In less than ten years, Meihua remembers me, and I remember Meihua. Whenever you buy snow, you will lean forward to get a cup. " In the spring of the year before his death, at the age of 84, he took his son and his protege to the mountains to enjoy plum blossoms. After his death, his relatives followed Mr. Wu's wishes and built a mausoleum for him on Chaoshan Mountain.

Bambusa meitou

The bonsai of "Three Friends at the Age of Cold" is a fine work of art. There is an anecdote: During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Jiang Hanting, a famous Wuxi painter, founded a "Daguan Art Garden" in Shanghai, which was specially designed for fellow painters to learn skills and exchange painting methods on the spot, and a gardening department was attached to sell art bonsai once, and a businessman came to make New Year bonsai. The painters saw that he was arrogant. In order to teach him a lesson, they deliberately made a plum tree into the shape of a half cliff, and the drooping branches touched the short bamboo leaves below. At first glance, it's quite poetic. The man pretended to be elegant, shook his head to appreciate, hugged and left. At this time, the painters smiled. It turns out that "touching bamboo with plum" in bonsai is a metaphor for his "touching feet with mildew", which is the most taboo sentence of ordinary people on the beach in the old society during the Spring Festival. Although this is a joke, it is also a wonderful use of art.