Seven poems on pomegranate flowers, the flower of the Dragon Boat Festival: Look at the pomegranate flowers, and the pomegranate flowers are red today

The pomegranate flower was called the seasonal flower of the Dragon Boat Festival after the Song Dynasty in China. Why?

Pomegranate is native to the Balkans to Iran and adjacent areas. The "Natural History" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty records that "Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty was sent to the Western Regions and brought back pomegranate seeds from Tulin'an Stone Kingdom, so he named Anshiliu." However, the rulers of Iran and the Balkans changed frequently, so there is no scientific research on Anshi Kingdom now, but as long as you go there In places like Iran, when you see pomegranates growing densely in arid mountain forests, you will agree that this is the hometown of pomegranates.

The Chinese have their own way of using plants.

First, when pomegranates were introduced to China, the fruits were cultivated and pomegranate wine was brewed. At least the nobles no longer relied on imported pomegranate wine.

Second, the use of herbal medicine unique to China. The peel and roots of pomegranate can be used as medicine.

Third, pomegranate peel can be made into yellow dye, which is used to weave and dye silk.

By the Northern and Southern Dynasties, pomegranates had become popular in the Jiangnan area. Pomegranate wine was not necessarily brewed with pomegranate seeds. In late spring and early summer, pomegranate pedicles and buds were used to brew wine. It was very useful in preventing and treating intestinal diarrhea and dysentery that was prevalent during this period. Good Yang Sheng effect.

In the Tang Dynasty, pomegranates were planted on a wider scale. The royal gardens near Chang'an were planted with patches of pomegranates. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty and his concubines would go out in the summer to see their bright pomegranate flowers. The royal family produced durian flower wine, which was the best summer royal wine given by the emperor to his ministers.

So in early summer, April and May, there is a custom of drinking pomegranate flower wine and calamus wine.

But the pomegranate flower and the Dragon Boat Festival were closely integrated in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, agriculture and garden planting were vigorously promoted, reaching unprecedented prosperity. Pomegranate trees and pomegranate flowers appeared everywhere and became a common summer landscape. Taking the royal family as an example, pomegranates are often planted in the palace. They are evergreen all year round, the flowers bloom brightly, and many children are a blessing. Whether it is the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is the time when pomegranate flowers are in full bloom. Pomegranate is taller than ordinary herbaceous flowers, has natural green shade, and has three-dimensional magnificence and beauty.

Pomegranate’s drought resistance, health, longevity, bright color, shade, and many seeds are all in line with the traditional Chinese concept of survival and continuation.

"The Forbidden Garden is glorious in years, and everything looks gorgeous during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The sky wind bears peach fruits, and the fire virtue blooms with pomegranate flowers." Hu Su, Northern Song Dynasty, "Lady's Dragon Boat Festival Post" 》

The Dragon Boat Festival is a major festival in the middle of the year. It has profound meaning. It is the evolution of the Summer Solstice Festival. For the royal family, such a festival has more spiritual significance. We know that the Summer Solstice is the peak of the sun. Astronomical festivals, the Dragon Boat Festival is an astrological festival with flying dragons in the sky, these are closely related to imperial power. Since the Zhou Dynasty with written records, in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the celestial phenomena are dominated by the god of fire Zhurong, and the king must wear red clothes. All red colors represent sunshine. So the royal family likes pomegranate flowers very much, because it blooms in May, during the Dragon Boat Festival and in the hot summer.

Pomegranates are planted in every royal courtyard. They bloom vigorously at this time, symbolizing the prosperity of the royal family and the endless heirs.

Just like the Spring Festival, during the Dragon Boat Festival, the royal family would also write posts with black characters on red paper and paste them at the entrance of the courtyard. This kind of post was the predecessor of the later Spring Festival couplets. In fact, the pious pen and ink of high-ranking officials and bachelors replaced the Taoist peach charms. There is also a folk custom of writing Dragon Boat Festival posts. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people write blessings and post them on the door.

So this is the reason why in the history of poetry, a large number of royal post poems appeared during the Dragon Boat Festival. Yan Shu, Su Shi and others have all written about it.

These poems have the same characteristic, that is, almost every poem has pomegranate flowers.

On the one hand, pomegranate flowers bloomed in accordance with the season during the Dragon Boat Festival in the Song Dynasty.

On the other hand, it is because the pomegranate flower itself is bright and beautiful, which just takes care of the sun and the god of fire.

This Dragon Boat Festival post poem well explains the relationship between the Dragon Boat Festival and pomegranate flowers.

In the palace, it is another splendid and bright period of the year. The Dragon Boat Festival has a special beauty of things.

What is this Wuhua? First, the naturally beautiful south wind ripens the peaches; second, in the sunny month of May, the most brilliant pomegranate flowers bloom.

Fire virtue is the kindness of the sun. And often among the five elements, the virtue of fire represents the emperor's career and the destiny of the country.

This is why people in the Song Dynasty particularly liked pomegranate flowers, which were very popular.

So there is a saying that durian flowers bloom during the Dragon Boat Festival. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, durian flowers bloom.

The judgment of Yuanchun in Dream of Red Mansions is "The pomegranate blossoms illuminate the palace." In fact, there is another speculation, that is, is the Dragon Boat Festival an important node for Yuanchun, the Jia family and the court? Of course everyone needs to think about it.

"The drunken hat is in front of the wind, looking under the pomegranate candle.

Who is Yanyan good for, it is not a harm to be happy in exile.

The homeland should be thousands of miles away, return to Tu Dreaming of a hundred dishes.

It is a heavy afternoon in the Ming Dynasty. If you work hard, you are willing to have a meal. "Ci Yun, Zhou Zizhi, "Seeing pomegranates under the lamp of Uncle Zhao Jie, will it be a heavy afternoon tomorrow?"

Pomegranate flowers were a common garden flower and home flower in the Song Dynasty, representing the health and prosperity of the home, and also became the memory of home for many wanderers. For example, Su Shi often recalled the pomegranate flowers in the countryside of his hometown in Sichuan throughout his life, expressing the sadness of a wanderer's homesickness. Su Shi's official career was ups and downs. After the age of 30, he never returned to his hometown and later died in Changzhou.

Zhou Zizhi was not in her hometown around the Dragon Boat Festival this year. She was at a friend’s house in a foreign country. There happened to be a pot of pomegranates growing in the friend’s house, which was blooming. In the evening, under the candlelight, the pomegranate flowers were particularly beautiful, which aroused him endlessly. The thought of home.

The red pomegranate flowers under the candles under the lamp are so beautiful and beautiful, and they smile so gorgeously that even I, a homeless person, am happy to see them.

My hometown is thousands of miles away. In my dream, there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and the roads are winding.

But seeing this pomegranate is so bright, I think I still have to cheer up. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. I want to eat well and live a healthy life until I go back to my hometown to see the pomegranate flowers.

The bright and fiery red color of pomegranate can boost people's visual and psychological effects in summer. In the tired and hot summer, seeing pomegranate flowers will arouse people's enthusiasm. It grows like a summer flower. In China, this summer flower is the pomegranate flower.

"What's the point of two or two warblers? Look for the green and shaded places.

The weather is moist and your clothes are moist, but when you get sick, you feel the slight heat.

No rain. No more rain. Rain.

Tomorrow will be the Dragon Boat Festival. "Ru Meng Ling" by Fan Chengda of the Southern Song Dynasty

This little poem is very cute. In the green courtyard, two orioles were singing. This cry is so gentle and graceful, like a question and an answer, which puts the sick person in a good mood.

So she raised her head to look, her eyes searching among the green branches for a long time.

This is the humid season of the summer rainy season. The humidity will rain and the air will be depressing.

For the middle- and upper-class women of the Song Dynasty who lived in the courtyard all year round, they were confined to the boudoir courtyard and had few happy things throughout the year. However, during major festivals, they could wear New clothes, going out with family and friends, this short break is a rare pleasure in the year. They can go out and find some reasons to go where they want to go and meet the people they want to see.

This shows the importance of festivals to women in the boudoir.

But now she is worried. With this kind of weather, there is no guarantee that it will rain heavily tomorrow.

She prayed, don’t rain tomorrow, don’t rain, tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, I have to wear a pomegranate skirt, see the pomegranate flowers, and meet the person I want to see.

It can be seen that she is lovesick in her heart.

In the Song Dynasty, many women met men outside the family through family gatherings and outings. The Dragon Boat Festival was also the best time for them to choose a spouse and fall in love. If a heavy rain ruins travel and gatherings, then what’s the point of this Dragon Boat Festival?

The durian flower Dragon Boat Festival here not only takes care of the solar terms, but also takes care of the mood of young women. Could it be that she is a lonely and old pomegranate, blooming and dying in the courtyard with her youthful grievances? The Dragon Boat Festival gave her not many exits, but she was so worried about the rain.

" Hemerocallis and pomegranate flowers make the hall cool and cool in the daytime.

Musk group and wild millet help spread the calamus.

The military talisman, life

Let’s gather together and celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

For women, the Dragon Boat Festival is a mid-year carnival for men.

The ground is full of daylilies, and the pomegranate flowers are red. The bright courtyard room is filled with green shade during the day, and the wind cools down the heat.

Sweet glutinous rice balls, green and delicious rice dumplings, and calamus wine to quench thirst and heat.

With sachets and talismans hanging on their bodies and colorful silk threads on their arms, everyone gathered together to wish each other good health.

The beautiful and grand banquet, with singing and dancing to add to the fun, makes it a wonderful Dragon Boat Festival every year.

I used to read comic strips and found that most of the men in the Song Dynasty had big bellies and their belts were below the belly, while the women had willow waists, small shoulders, and an invincible appearance. Later I gradually understood this reason. Whether it was the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty, the economy was prosperous and prosperous. It was a world-class power at that time. Except that it was really weak militarily, it was really prosperous and prosperous in other aspects.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty valued literature over military affairs and enjoyed peace. Look at this man, he has a graceful breath and is intoxicated in his own little peace. He has glutinous rice balls, rice dumplings and fine wine. This is a high-starch and high-sugar diet. During the day, the singing and dancing carnival will last until night. It is impossible to be so comfortable and intoxicated without getting fat.

As for women, they don’t even have the right to go out or work. They are raised and worried about gains and losses. How can they not lose weight?

This is also the reason why I refuse to go to the Song Dynasty no matter how I travel. In fact, those beautiful scenery have nothing to do with me. Even when my husband returns, he still wants to watch singing and dancing and eat banquets. This Dragon Boat Festival is really It's not fair to women.

"The pomegranate flowers are moistened by the plum rain, and the hairpins and crows curling around the temples are everywhere.

Drunkly listening to the far-away song in the painting studio, the green hairpins are covered with moxa branches." Late Southern Song Dynasty·? Wang Fan's "Chongwu?"

However, as this is a major festival, women also have a special joy, which is to dress themselves up as much as possible.

The Dragon Boat Festival is different from other festivals, with special wear and decoration.

For example, clothes, those are the most beautiful and light summer clothes, lotus root silk shirts, gauze clothes, which show your figure and are refreshing.

For example, the decoration of the Dragon Boat Festival is five-color ribbons, as well as moxa charms, sachets, and hanging banners of various colors. You can wear bright pomegranate flowers and small mugworts in this season on your head, and on your body. After bathing, fragrant powder, orchid.

The color contrast is strong and vivid, which is a pleasant scenery for you, and also makes the Dragon Boat Festival special and gorgeous.

So during the Dragon Boat Festival written by Wang Bo, pomegranate flowers bloomed everywhere in the drizzle. Where there were women, their heads were full of colorful hairpins swaying, and another kind of flowers were clustered in clusters.

Listening to music on a high building, the singing woman casually distributed mugwort branches to the guests. It was lively and cheerful, and the men's hairpins were also covered with mugwort.

This Ai is also love. Who is he missing? Who is the pomegranate girl in his heart?

Men have red roses and white roses in their hearts. The beautiful shadow floating in the distance of the fragrance of wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival is his deep love at this time.

The woman’s Dragon Boat Festival must have been dressed up in a particularly stunning and fresh way.

"A long strand of hair is wrapped around the arm, and the door is made of five-color silk.

The pomegranate flowers look at the knots, and the leaves are on the branches." Southern Song Dynasty·Xu Jizhi's "Shengshouhe Dragon Boat Festival Post" "

The Dragon Boat Festival poems written about the palace are different after all. The first one is a Dragon Boat Festival post from the Northern Song Dynasty, saying that durian flowers correspond to the royal fire virtue.

This song reminds me of the line in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". The most important task of a concubine is to procreate heirs for the royal family.

Pomegranate and pomegranate flowers have such a strong meaning of fertility.

Because one pomegranate fruit has hundreds of seeds.

The palace is full of concubines and concubines’ courtyards, and pomegranate flowers are planted everywhere.

Then everyone wears a thread of longevity on their arms to wish themselves and the emperor longevity, and there are five-colored threads hanging from each palace gate to pray for health. Pomegranate flowers bloom everywhere during the Dragon Boat Festival, and those flowers bloom and fall, growing into small pomegranate fruits. This is a blessing for the concubines.

But when these are constantly emphasized, I also see the sadness that those beautiful women are eventually objectified.

And when the concubines who were not favored looked at the pomegranate flowers all over the courtyard, they probably saw loneliness.

Once upon a time, it was lonely, golden embers dark, no news, pomegranate red.

When constantly emphasizing a moral, it is also cruel. How many women would go crazy?

"I have traveled far to hate Hunan, but the customs of Chu are the same in a foreign country.

It is said that there are hanging sacrifices, but no heroes have been seen.

The bamboo leaves are green and the pomegranate flowers are green. The sun is red.

I don’t have to stop for a long time, how can I end up in poverty? "Yuan Yi's "One of the Three Chongwu Guests"

I like it. There is truth in the plainness of this poem. Yuan Yi was a Jinshi in the Southern Song Dynasty, but when he was still young in the Yuan Dynasty, he was asked to become an official, but he flatly refused. Life has been rough since then, but I have no regrets. Because he practices his spiritual ideals and is patriotic in his own way.

I used to be too far from the Xiangjiang River to worship Qu Yuan in person, but while wandering, I saw the same customs of the Dragon Boat Festival as those of Chu State. People also worshiped Qu Yuan at the waterside. When the country was in decline, many iron-clad heroes emerged.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I saw bamboo leaves facing people, evergreen all year round, and I saw pomegranate flowers that were particularly bright in front of me.

I don’t need to lament my wandering journey, because I am walking on a road with infinite hope. That road is to carry out patriotism to the end like Qu Yuan. This road will not have an end, and it will never end. There is never an end, because the nation exists and moves forward.

This is a patriot’s sober and clear positioning in history and reality.

His heart is as bright as a pomegranate flower, paying tribute to Qu Yuan and the Song Dynasty.

This is the most beautiful meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival pomegranate flower. The heart is as red as a pomegranate rising to the sun. This day is Chinese civilization, Chinese country, and Chinese history.

The Pomegranate Dragon Boat Festival is not just a pomegranate flower that blooms on the Dragon Boat Festival. The fiery red color is the upward vitality and vitality in people's hearts, and it should be the patriotism.

Chuyi Shengxue interprets the love and beauty in poetry for you. .