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 on a piece of wood. Plum is apricot, so apricot is a certain kind, which calligraphers misinterpret as' fragrant wood'. After the plum bushes, the sound is also harmonious. It's the same saying: Mei, the media is 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-masturbating with illusory hope
"Looking at plum to quench thirst" is an idiom that we are all familiar with, and it comes from an allusion. Shi Shuo Xin Yu said: "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 has a sweet and sour taste, which can quench his thirst. When soldiers smell it, they can get the source with their mouths full of water. "
Sun Liang is observant.
Legend has it that Sun showed off the West Garden and wanted to eat plums, so he sent his men Huang Men to Tibet to get honey-stained plums. I found rat droppings in honey. Is it Huangmen or Tibetan history? Xiaguan suggested that both 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 said with a smile, "It must be the Yellow Gate." It turned out that Huangmen had 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. "Painting Plum Spectrum" said: "The abbot of Huaguang Taoist planted several plums, and every time he opened one, he had to get out of bed and chant all day long, without knowing what it meant. Even when I stayed up late on a moonlit night, I saw the thin shadow between the windows, which was sad and lovely, so I adjusted its shape with a pen and looked at it in the morning, which made me think about it under the moon. " Some people say that Mo Mei made this decision.
Filial piety feels flowers.
According to legend, in ancient times there was a 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, and everyone thought it was filial piety. Some people call this plum "Xiao Mei". Guanghan lived to the age of 108 and died beautiful. (Excerpted from "Ancient and Modern Book Integration, Vegetation Code")
Mei Liang Hu sheng Hua
There is a cloud in Local Records: "Meiliang Lake is in Fujiao Shandong. When Wu entered Meiliang, the ship sank and lost its beam. Every spring, flowers are born on the water. "
Du Fu planted plums.
"Yan 'an County Records" records: "Zhangzhou Meilingke is located in the south of Zhangzhou, and it is said that the plum blossom tree was planted by Du Fu. "
Plum blossom name
According to legend, Song Jing, the sage of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, failed in the exam twice as a teenager and was once depressed. One day, I saw a corner of the wall in Gumei. I let go in the cold, inspired me to work hard and finally became famous all over the world.
Comment on Shi Mei
In Zhu Po's Poems, it is said: "Lin Hejing wrote plum blossom poems,' The shadows are shallow and the moonlight is fragrant'", which 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 after another, it is suspected that trees are hung on the moon, and they are lonely and confused." When this statement came out, the poem of harmony was dark. Later, Zhang Yunqian's poem "When the tripod is adjusted at the end of the year, there is no fragrance on earth" and Ceng Gong's poem "When the tripod is adjusted, the fragrance will be known when the moon is bright" appeared. Although these two sentences are not as beautiful as Dongpo, they can make people feel interesting.
Sublime or seclusion
Lin Bu, a hermit in the 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 kept cranes for entertainment by planting plum blossoms all day long. He is called "Mei Wife Crane". In his poem "Yongmei", people praised "the thin shadow is horizontal and oblique, the water is shallow, and the fragrance wafts at dusk", which is a swan song throughout the ages.
Xue Mei asserted that.
Who wins and who loses in Mei Xue? Lu Meipo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, made a fair judgment. He said, "Xue Mei won't surrender for the sake of spring. Poets have to pay to review chapters. The snow in Mei Xu Xun is three points white, but the snow has lost a plum. " He added: "Without snow, there is plum, and there is no spirit. Snow without poetry. Moonlight poetry is snowy all day long, and it is very beautiful 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 you die, you 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 here "can't get the bones for public welfare, but they are buried in clothes." (Excerpted from Outside Pavilion Edition)
Zheng Banqiao painted Cold Plums.
Xinghua, a rich man, has heard about Banqiao for a long time and asked Banqiao to paint for him many times, but Banqiao never agreed. Finally, Banqiao reluctantly agreed under the persuasion of a 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 man asked Banqiao to draw peony, because peony symbolizes wealth. When the bridge was finished, the rich man shouted, "Good!" Because of extreme fear, he accidentally dropped the ink on the drawing paper. When the rich man saw this, he was about to beat and scold to the extreme. Banqiao said, "That's just right." So with a stroke of a pen, a cold plum jumped onto the paper and wrote a poem: "Draw peony and plum blossoms, rich and poor." The peonies are rich, and I commend Han Mei for setting an example. "
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 old and decadent, 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 of "only plum blossom is a bosom friend" to express his noble feelings.
Meichi Wu Changshuo
Wu Changshuo, a master of modern epigraphy and 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, Plum Blossoms remember me, and I remember Plum Blossoms. Whenever you buy snow, you will lean over for a drink. " 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.
Touching bamboo with plum head
The bonsai of "Three Friends at the Age of Cold" is a fine work of art, and there is an anecdote about it: During the Anti-Japanese War, Jiang Hanting, a famous Wuxi painter, opened a "Daguan Art Garden" in Shanghai, which was specially used by fellow artists to show their skills and exchange painting methods on the spot, and a gardening department was attached to sell some artistic bonsai. Once, a vendor came to the door to make a bonsai for the New Year. The painters saw that he was arrogant. In order to teach him a lesson, they specially made a plum tree into a semi-cliff shape, and the drooping branches touched the short bamboo leaves below. At first glance, it is 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 those greedy 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.