Chapter 3 The second chapter is that the fragrance of plum blossoms lasts for twenty miles, from Qingyang Palace to Huanhuaxi.

In the morning, I saw that the opposite roof was wet and loose.After washing, I heard something in my heart: Hey!spring rain.Go to the window again and see the traces of last night's rain.The rain this night is really different from the feeling of watching the rain all winter. In those days when the temperature dropped sharply, the rain did not feel so warm.I don't know how the freezing rain of severe winter falls in other places, but in the Sichuan Basin, it always makes the sky dark and oppressive, until noon is like dusk, and then it slowly falls.In fact, landing is to find a clear starting point for a process.And winter rain often comes in the form of fog.In this way, a wet, heavy, bone-chilling chill is first brewed, and then it turns into rain, without wind or noise, just falling in all directions, and threatening all the green plants in the basin with a deeper and bone-chilling chill: trees, wheat, vegetables and everything Domestic and wild flowers and plants.Seeing the shivering faces of people on the street, and seeing the black umbrellas drifting past, my only wish is to go to a place with bright sky.But this kind of rain takes a long time every game.Moreover, in the most gloomy days, there will be several games in a period of more than a month.Every scene seems to be about to freeze into ice and turn into snow.At that time, I would think, let’s just have an overwhelming snow!It doesn't come again!Its purpose is to make all the rheumatic diseases attack, and bring out some more melancholic patients for this era.

In those days, the stubborn bougainvillea withered, the chrysanthemums withered, and the bauhinia trees in the yard of our community always bloomed late probably because of the unacclimatized water and soil, and the flowers that always bloomed and fell were directly frozen and withered on the branches. Everything shrinks from the freeze, even the concrete roof opposite.Winter rain always floats on the surface of objects, and cannot penetrate into those objects that are shrunk due to fear of freezing, so it has to float on the surface of objects and glow.Nagging in front of my eyes with that light: I'm going to be ice, I'm going to be ice.Just like this from December to January, I think the plants are also a little scared, because during this process, many flowers, plants and trees are indeed scattered. Later, the plants are also annoying, especially those that have lost all their leaves. , especially Mei and Haitang, anyway, everything that should be scattered is scattered, so I said very thinly, then you will become ice.That being said, winter and the freezing rain it brings are helpless.This sign has already appeared when the wintersweet flowers are in full bloom.When the wintersweet fragrance is diffused, the sunlight that leaks through the gaps in the clouds is more and more day by day.The flower buds of the two red plum trees in the atrium of the community are getting bigger every day.

At that time, I thought that the rain would also become soft. No, the rain came and went in a dreamless night.Only some wet marks remained on the opposite roof.That is the trace of rainwater soaking into the interior of the object, loosening and moistening everything.This is the trace of spring rain.Opening the long-locked windows, the air also has a fresh and warm smell. I picked Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" for dinner, and let the amplified voice of the band tell everything that spring is here! In the interval between writing novels, I read leisure books as an adjustment, and I saw the so-called "Twenty-Four Fanhua Letters" in ancient times.

The general idea is: from Xiaohan to Grain Rain, there are eight solar terms in total, one hundred and twenty days, every five days is a period, and there are twenty-four periods, and each period should be a flower letter.Twenty-four flower letters, since Xiaohan, there is a kind of flower bud that blooms every five days.For the first time, after the Grain Rain, it will be full of purples and reds, full of spring.Twenty-four flower letters start with plum blossoms, and neem blossoms are at the end.After the neem flowers bloom, the grand summer starting from the beginning of summer will come.

Today is the 26th of January. I checked the 24 solar terms. Not only the minor cold has passed, but also the severe cold (January 20) has passed for a week.Hongmei's flower letter came a bit late, so it is speculated that the plum at the top of the so-called twenty-four flower letters is like a wintersweet, not a red plum.This corresponds to the scene in Du's poem: "The plum blossoms are broken before, and the plum blossoms are many years later." The yard of the residential community is considered spacious and accommodates many plants.In the sparse area of ​​the atrium, there is a tree of crape myrtle and two trees of red plum.Ziwei belongs to midsummer, so naturally there is no movement at this time.And the buds of the two red plum trees swelled day by day on the thin and hard branches more than ten days ago, and slowly brewed into a faint red cloud that does not float away-it is invisible from a distance, but only one or two plum blossoms can be seen from a close look. Open tentatively, sparse and dry.However, after the warm rain last night, the plum blossoms should have bloomed.

When the sun dispelled the mist, when I went downstairs, I saw that the red cloud was getting thicker, and as I approached it step by step, the red color did not dissipate.So I know that the red plum blossoms of this tree are really blooming.this tree?Didn't you say there are two trees?Indeed, the beautiful tree bloomed enthusiastically.Another tree spent most of the morning in the shadow of Building No. 2 and a few tall camphor plants, and did not get the sun until noon. Still haven't pushed those buds open. In the sun, I held the camera and went around the tree in full bloom, and it was the same tree that stepped on the ladder in the study to reach the flowers on the branches.

When I went out again, I saw red plums blooming everywhere in the city and outside the city.Moreover, the flower buds of Magnolia and Begonia are very swollen. Naturally, I have to read some ancient poems about plum blossoms. I like these plum blossom poems, and sometimes I don't like them very much.The reason is also simple.Chinese poetry expresses aspirations, expresses emotions, and describes them.Write this, but say that.I write about flowers, but I don't really care about what the flowers look like, I just use flowers as an introduction.Looking at these poems today with the mood of observing the beauty of plants, I found that this is a problem.Let's just talk about the poems about plum blossoms, which seem to be about plum blossoms, but in fact they are not plum blossoms.

Free from the slightest intrusion of dust, the bamboo fence hut is content with itself. It is only because of a misunderstanding of Lin Hejing that the poet has been talking about it to this day. There is a famous line in an ancient poem, "In the deep snow in Qiancun, a branch bloomed last night." Beauty is beautiful, but people can't tell whether it is wintersweet or plum.Because both plums will bloom in the snow. Of course, they will also open in snowless seasons, in cities without snow, such as cities like Chengdu. I have settled in this city for more than ten years, no matter whether people pay attention to it or not, the plum trees bloom every year.But the snow never falls well, so that people can enjoy the dazzling red stars on the snow-covered branches.Now when I write these words, the idea is quite simple, that is, I don’t care about metaphors or symbols, and I don’t use the language of scenery as love language, just to see the natural presentation of plum blossoms.Just like the author Thoreau's observation and record of wild fruits: "The raspberry will be ripe on June 25th, and it can be picked until August, but the best day for the fruit is around July 15th... Take a walk Walking to a raspberry forest and seeing the reddish raspberries on the tree, I can't help being pleasantly surprised, but then I also sigh that this year is almost over." Some cultural critics pointed out that chanting flowers without seeing flowers , this is due to an "intransitive" attitude in Chinese literature and even Chinese culture.Therefore, Chinese people can make plum blossom paintings and write plum blossom poems without observing plum blossoms.Because it is a freehand painting of feelings, not the object of plum blossoms.Searching in memory, searching on the Internet, taking out old books and flipping through them, I really didn't see the "transitive" plum blossom poem.I also remembered that Chengdu was once one of the birthplaces of feminine and affectionate words. Many small orders circulated in "Hua Jian Ji" were produced in this city, and plum blossoms have also existed in the local area since ancient times. I took this book to read and read it ten times. A few pages, more than 20 poems, but I didn't smell the fragrance of plum blossoms. If I recited flowers, they were also begonias and apricot blossoms.If you think about it, you will understand that in Chinese poetry, flowers appear as cultural symbols, and images are first given meaning and then image.Therefore, it is difficult for plum blossoms to appear in these long and short sentences that are sentimental, soft and even obscene.

Still going back to the tougher Tang and Song Dynasties, Lu You's "Ode to Plum Blossoms" aroused my interest: When I walked west of Jincheng, I was as drunk as mud for plum blossoms. For twenty miles, the fragrance continues, from Qingyang Palace to Huanhuaxi. Although it did not describe the plum blossoms, it did describe the geography of plum blossoms in Chengdu in the Song Dynasty. "Jincheng West", "Qingyang Palace to Huanhuaxi".Du Fu also planted peaches and wrote poems in this area.It was the place where foreign celebrities who came to Chengdu during the Tang and Song Dynasties wrote good poems according to the geography of Chengdu.I also want to pick a sunny afternoon with a little wind in the past few days, park the car somewhere on the Wanli Bridge where Du Shi entered, and walk westward along the Zhuojin River that year.These places were all the villages outside the city back then, so the plum blossoms could bloom "incessantly fragrant for twenty miles". Today, the banks are full of buildings. The embankment is paved, the road is planted with grass and trees, and the scenery is quite impressive.There is the Cultural Park where Qingyang Palace is located; there is Huanhuaxi Park, and Du Fu Thatched Cottage in the garden; there is Baihuatan Park.Therefore, on both sides of the river, there must be plum blossoms and stars falling between them.I still remember driving along Binjiang Road one day, and vaguely saw trees and white flowers on the bank.It happened that the sun came out after the thick fog cleared in the afternoon, so I went along the river to look for the branch of white plum.Along the way, I passed many red plums and crabapples blooming impatiently. I walked six or seven miles. When the sun sank behind those tall trees, I found the plum blossoms.It looks white from a distance, but it is the color of a tree up close.So, I took a few pictures of pink plums in the dim light of the day.The plum blossoms of this tree have been in full bloom and are about to wither. The anthers on the stigmas of the stamens have almost fallen off (have they all been given to the pistil in the center of the petals? Or have they been blown away by the wind to somewhere?) The remaining anthers are also gone. They all went from bright yellow to dark brown.

This is the last day of January, at dusk on Sunday, the meeting with this pink plum plant, whether it is this season or this day, I am a little late. I would like to add that, like wintersweet, plum has been cultivated extensively, and there are already many varieties that are difficult to identify one by one.The branch shape, the color of the flower, the single or double petals of the flower, and the complexity of the double petals are all identifying characteristics. In plant taxonomy, plum and wintersweet are very different.Wintersweet is very lonely, and a species forms its own family, called Wintersweet.Mei, however, comes from a big and lively family—Rosaceae, and many beautiful flowering woody plants, such as peaches and cherry trees, are all relatives of the same family.Botany also says that plum blossoms have five petals, which should be the morphological characteristics of the original wild species. Nowadays, those blooming beside the roads in the gardens in the city are all horticultural species, with single petals and double petals.Double petals are the varieties induced by artificial cultivation.In which direction?Of course, it is in the direction of making the flowers prosperous and lively, so the plum blossoms with double petals are more complicated and overlapping.

As far as I am concerned, I still like those single petals that are closer to the wild state. 2010, 2, 3