Please provide some allusions and legends of "four famous flowers in China": "orchid, lotus, chrysanthemum and plum"

Zheng De visited the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, looking for folk beauties and various treasures along the way. Wherever he goes, people complain and hate it. At that time, rare orchids were produced on Lanyin Mountain on both sides of Lanxi. Zheng De came to Lanxi, hoping to select some rare plants and bring them back to the palace. The news that Emperor Zheng De wanted to choose orchids in Lanyin Mountain was known by the owner of Lanyin Temple. He is in a hurry. Why? Just because there is a rare Meilan on Lanyin Mountain. Flowers, such as wintersweet, smell fragrant. This plant, Mei Lan, was probably chosen by the emperor. Sure enough, the old monk who presided over Lanyin Temple quickly came up with a good idea. He dug Mei Lan out of the soil, transplanted it into a small incense burner, tied it with a long rope, and then carried it to a deep ancient well on the mountain. He grabbed the rope and slowly lowered the small incense burner to the bottom of the well. Just after the host monk hid Meilan, Emperor Zheng De entered the mountain gate surrounded by a group of courtiers. After resting in Lanyin Temple, Emperor Zheng De ordered all courtiers to go up the mountain to pick orchids. But there are many orchids on the mountain, and the fragrance is fragrant, which makes the courtiers who choose flowers in a hurry, and no one can tell which one is good and which one is not. They had to choose a few plants according to their own eyes, so that they could go back to Lanyin Temple to make friends with the emperor. Emperor Zheng De saw all kinds of orchids selected by his courtiers one by one, but they didn't like them very much. At this moment, suddenly there was a strong fragrance floating into Lanyin Temple from the mountain. Emperor Zheng De took a deep breath of this fragrance with his nose crooked, and immediately let all courtiers follow the fragrance and quickly find the orchid. So the courtiers left Lanyin Temple again and hurried to chase incense and find flowers. So, where did this strange flower smell come from? It turns out that Meilan, hidden at the bottom of the well, exudes extraordinary fragrance, overflows the wellhead and floats in all directions. The courtiers followed this strange fragrance and sniffed one by one, like cats looking for a smell, and went to the ancient well together. A courtier looked into the well and saw a rope sticking out of it, so he pulled it up awkwardly. There was a "crash" in the well, and then a small incense burner tied to the end of the rope was pulled out of the wellhead. There is no mud in it, and the smell seems to come from a small incense burner. So they took a small censer and went back to Lanyin Temple together and told the emperor everything. The emperor picked up the small censer, turned it over, covered it, studied it carefully, and found nothing unusual. He thought for a moment, then summoned the old monk and asked about the details of this small incense burner. The master had a brainwave and replied, "It will make people's eyes bright to drink the spring water from the well with this small incense burner." Zheng De believed it, and immediately ordered the minister to go to that well and get a drink of water. He drank it himself first, and then let the chamberlain take turns drinking it. Because the spring water is particularly cold, it really makes people feel bright at first. After drinking the spring, everyone cheered. However, Emperor Zheng De was shocked that the ancient well on Lanyin Mountain could spew out extraordinary fragrance, so he took it from Four Treasures of the Study, a servant in his life, and prepared to inscribe the words "There is a strange fragrance in the depths of Lanyin Mountain". Who knows that when he wrote down the words "deep in the orchid", he suddenly felt dizzy and had a stomachache. What do you mean? It turns out that I just drank well water, and cold and heat collided, and I caught a cold. All courtiers also bent down and complained. Zheng De was very unhappy when he saw this scene. In a rage, I shook the brush in my hand, only wrote half a sentence and stopped writing, so I paid at random. Therefore, the cliff of Lanyin Mountain is engraved with: "Imperial decree, deep in Lanyin, May 16th, 14th year of Zheng De". This inscription still exists today. Zheng De was very disappointed and left with his courtiers. Here, the host of Lanyin Temple smiled and read "Amitabha". He was glad that the precious Mei Lan was not found by the emperor. So he called all the monks in Lanyin Temple to discuss the salvage of Meilan. However, it backfired. They didn't know that it took them days and nights to exhaust all fishing methods, but the precious Mei Lan was gone.

The Records of Lanxi County revised in the 13th year of Guangxu recorded: "Lanyin Mountain is full of orchids. Today, I can't see Whelan in Lanyin Mountain, but when I climb in spring, there is often a smell that makes people feel different. " This probably refers to the lost "Mei Lan".

Lotus allusions

According to legend, Lotus is the incarnation of the beautiful maid Yuji around the Queen Mother. At first, Yusuke was envious when he saw couples, men plowing and women weaving. So, she moved her heart and, accompanied by the daughter of the river god, sneaked out of the Heavenly Palace and came to Xizi Lake in Hangzhou. The beauty of the West Lake made Yuji wander back and forth, fascinated by the lake, and reluctant to part until dawn. When the Queen Mother knew about it, she drove Yuji and the Lotus Throne into the lake and told her to "break into the mud and never go south again".

Since then, a beautiful maid has been lost in the Heavenly Palace, and a beautiful flower has been added to the world.

There is also a wonderful story of "Mrs. Lotus" in Buddhist scriptures. A deer gave birth to a beautiful woman, and the fairy raised her. Wherever she goes, the lotus will grow. This is the origin of the word "step by step lotus", which is now used to describe the glory of experience.

There is also a wonderful story of "Mrs. Lotus" in Buddhist scriptures. A deer gave birth to a beautiful woman, and the fairy raised her. Wherever she goes, the lotus will grow. This is the origin of the word "step by step lotus", which is now used to describe the glory of experience.

The allusion of chrysanthemum

Although chrysanthemum can't be compared with peony or orchid, as the flower of Ao Shuang, it has always been favored by literati. Some people praise its strong character, while others appreciate its lofty temperament.

Qu Yuan's Lisao: "Drinking Mulan Dew in the morning and eating Qiuju in the evening are not beautiful." The poet symbolizes his noble character by drinking dew and eating flowers.

Tang Yuanzhen's Chrysanthemum: "Autumn bushes are like Taoist priests, and the more they surround, the more inclined they are. It's not that chrysanthemums are preferred in flowers, but that this flower is even more flowerless. " Expressed the poet's pursuit of firmness and noble character.

Other poems, such as "I'd rather hold incense in the branches and die than blow it in the flowers" (Cold Chrysanthemum by Zheng Songxiaosi), "Dew in the Lonely East, Sand shines before the gold" (Two Chrysanthemums after Chongyang by Song Fan Chengda), all use chrysanthemums to express the poet's spiritual quality, and the chrysanthemums here undoubtedly become a portrayal of the poet's personality.

Folk story: Chrysanthemum Fairy

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A long time ago, there lived a farmer named A Niu near the Grand Canal. A Niu's family is very poor. He lost his father at the age of seven and lived on his mother's textiles. A Niu's mother lost her husband when she was very young, and her life was very difficult. She often cries and her eyes are broken.

A Niu is 13 years old. He said to his mother, "mom, your eyes are not good." Don't spin and weave day and night in the future. I have grown up, I can support you! " So I went to Zhang's rich man's house to do small long-term work, and both mother and son came through thick and thin. Two years later, my mother's eye disease became more and more serious and she soon became blind. A Niu thought that my mother's eyes were blind to me, and she should be cured anyway. While working for the rich man, he grows vegetables in the dark early in the morning and sells vegetables for some money to buy medicine for his mother. I don't know how much medicine I took, but my mother's eye disease is still not getting better.

One night, A Niu had a dream that a beautiful girl came to help him grow vegetables and told him, "There is a smallpox swing dozens of miles west along the canal. There is a white chrysanthemum in the swing, which can cure eye diseases. This kind of flower won't bloom until the Double Ninth Festival in September. When the time comes, you can give this flower to your mother, which will definitely cure her eye disease. " On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, A Niu took dry food to smallpox to find Chrysanthemum morifolium. It turns out that this is a wild field full of weeds, called wild field. He searched there for a long time, but only Huang Juhua couldn't find the white chrysanthemum. He found a white wild chrysanthemum beside a small mound in the grass, which kept swinging on the grass until the afternoon. This kind of white chrysanthemum is very special, with nine branches in one stem. There is only one bloom, and the other eight are in bud. A Niu dug up this white chrysanthemum with roots and soil and planted it next to his house. After his watering and care, eight flowers soon opened, fragrant and beautiful. So he picks a chrysanthemum and gives it to his mother every day. After eating the seventh chrysanthemum, A Niu's mother's eyes began to see again.

The news that white chrysanthemum can cure eye diseases spread quickly, and villagers came to watch this unusual wild chrysanthemum one after another. The news also reached the wealthy Zhang Man. Rich Zhang Man called A Niu and ordered him to transplant chrysanthemums into the Zhangjia Garden at once. A Niu certainly won't. Rich Zhang Man sent several people to A Niu's house to rob the white chrysanthemums. Because of the competition between the two sides, the chrysanthemum was broken, and they just left. A Niu was very sad when he saw that the white chrysanthemum that cured his mother's eye disease was robbed. He sat beside the broken white chrysanthemum and cried till dark, and refused to leave until late at night. After midnight, his hazy tears suddenly lit up, and the beautiful girl he dreamed of last time suddenly came to his side. The girl advised him, "A Niu, your filial piety has been rewarded. Don't be sad, go back to sleep! " A Niu said, "This chrysanthemum saved my family. How can I live if it is dead? " The girl said, "Although the stem of this chrysanthemum is broken, the root is still there. She's not dead. All you have to do is dig out the roots and transplant them to other places, and the white chrysanthemums will grow. " A Niu asked, "Girl, who are you? Please tell me, I am so grateful to you. " The girl said, "I am the chrysanthemum fairy in the sky, and I am here to help you." I don't need to repay you. As long as you follow a "Chrysanthemum Ballad", white chrysanthemums will surely grow alive. " Then Juxian read: "Three points and four heads, watering in May, throwing materials in June, covering the head in July and August, and rolling hydrangeas in September." It disappeared after reading it.

A Niu went back to the house to read Ju Xian's "Chrysanthemum Ballad" carefully, and finally realized its meaning: planting chrysanthemums requires transplanting in March, pinching flowers in April, watering more in May, fertilizing frequently in June, protecting roots in July and August, and hydrangea-shaped chrysanthemums can only bloom in September. A Niu did it according to the instructions of Chrysanthemum Fairy. Later, many branches grew on the old roots of chrysanthemum. He cut off these branches to make cuttings, and then cultivated them according to the saying of "planting chrysanthemums" On the ninth double ninth festival in September of the following year, white chrysanthemums were in full bloom and the fragrance was overflowing. Later, A Niu taught the poor in the village the skills of planting chrysanthemums, and more and more people planted white chrysanthemums in this area. Because A Niu discovered this white chrysanthemum on the ninth day of September, people later called it Chrysanthemum Festival, and formed the custom of enjoying chrysanthemum, eating chrysanthemum tea and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

Plum blossom allusions

Plum blossom makeup: Record: "My daughter, Princess Shouyang, lies under the eaves of a temple every day. Plum blossoms fall on her forehead, and she can't take them off. No plum blossom makeup works. " It can be said that the plum blossom pattern is the beginning of beauty, and Princess Shouyang is the flower god in charge of plum blossoms.

Three Lane of Plum Blossom: According to the Biography of the Book of Jin (5 1) and New Stories of the World (23), Wang Huizhi, the son of Wang Xizhi, was called to Jiankang (now Nanjing), the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his ship docked at Qingxi Wharf. Huan Yi happened to be on the shore. Wang Huizhi said, "Wenjun Mountain plays the flute. Try to play it for me. " Huan Yi is a high-ranking official at this time, but he has heard the name of Wang Huizhi for a long time, so he got off the bus and got on the boat, playing the tune of "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" on his flute, which was superb. This song, also known as Introduction of Plum Blossom and Introduction of Jade Princess, praises people with noble moral integrity through the white, fragrant and cold-resistant characteristics of plum blossom. "Agriculture, countryside and farmers" means that the theme of music is repeated three times in different paragraphs. It is precisely because of the unexpected meeting of two celebrities in Nanjing that the masterpiece "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" was born. According to legend, "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" is the most popular flute on the Song Boat in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The sound of the flute came from the paddle lamp of Qinhuai River, which was a beautiful scenery at that time, so the landscapes such as "stopping to listen to the flute" and "inviting the flute to go for an outing" were born.

Childhood friends: The Long March by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, described a woman who longed for her husband. At the beginning of the poem, she recalled their intimate play together when they were young: "You, my love, rode a bamboo horse, trotted around in circles and threw your childhood. At that time, we lived near Changgan Lane, and we were both young and happy." This long main road is near Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

Stories and legends

According to legend, when Cho Se Ung visited Luo Fu in Sui Dynasty, he dreamed of drinking at night with a plain-looking woman. The woman is fragrant, and there is a young man in green, singing and dancing. At dawn, Cho Se Ung woke up and found himself sleeping under a big plum tree, and the kingfisher was singing. The girl in the dream is a plum tree and the boy in green is a kingfisher. At this time, the moon has set and the stars in the sky are crooked. Cho Se Ung was lonely and melancholy, and was later used as an allusion to plum blossoms.

Mei Pu said that there is a kind of plum in Shaoxing and Xing Wu, which is called Taimei: "The moss must hang down between branches, or several inches long, and the wind can play the moss."

According to the legend of Wulin, there are two kinds of moss: one is very thick and has many flowers; A kind of moss is like a filament, more than a foot long.

The ancients loved plum blossoms and praised them. Feelings and flower souls have condensed many beautiful and moving allusions, which have been passed down through the ages.

Song Wudi's daughter, Princess Shouyang, was bathed in bright sunshine and lay under the painted eaves of Zhang Han Hall. Blowing, the plum blossoms fell on her forehead, mixed with powder and black flowers, and brushed away. When the queen saw it, she loved it very much and told her daughter to simply leave the plum blossom on her forehead. From then on, women began to make up, and there was a kind of "plum blossom makeup" that everyone loved on their foreheads.

There is a beautiful woman named Jiang Caiping in Putian, Fujian. In the early years of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, he was elected to serve Xuanzong in the harem, which was very popular. She especially likes plum blossoms, which are planted around her residence. Xuanzong simply gave her a surname and a nickname. Later, when Yang Guifei entered the service, Mei Fei fell out of favor and was forced to move to Shangyang Palace, where he wrote a sad sentence: "The letter from Mei Luo is that the whole of Nagato is missing." .

In the early years of Sui Dynasty, there was a gifted scholar named Cho Se Ung who lived in seclusion in Luofu Mountain, Guangdong Province, because he hated the dark world. One night, the gifted scholar strolled to the Song Lin Hotel for a drink and saw a beautiful woman in light makeup and plain clothes smiling. During the conversation, I only felt fragrant. So I took the wine and drank it, and that person was drunk. I woke up knowing that I was sleeping under a big plum tree. Birds with green feathers chirped in the tree and looked at themselves. The starry night disappointed the gifted scholar's thoughts. He only felt that the plum blossom full of affection was as beautiful as that beautiful woman.