The author's comments on Hundred Flowers Collection

I like flowers. Over the past 20 years, I have accumulated a lot of information about flowers, collected a lot of poems about flowers and photographed thousands of flowers. The flowers are beautiful, and so are the poems. I collected 65,438+000 species from the flower sea, selected 65,438+000 poems about them, and added 65,438+000 anecdotes and cultivation knowledge about these flowers to make this collection of flowers.

After writing, a friend suggested that a celebrity should write a preface, and I shook my head; A friend asked a famous artist to write the title, but I declined with a smile. I think of a sentence by Xie, one of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou in Qing Dynasty, in the article "Sixteen Letters": "Banqiao's poems do not seek narrative. It is shameful to ask for the honor of princes; If you ask for Jianghu celebrities, you will be laughed at and embarrassed. If you are poisoned by them, there is nothing you can do. It is better not to talk about it. " Come to think of it, it makes sense. Photos, taken by myself; Poetry, chosen by myself; The article, written by myself, why must I "borrow the light"? So there is no "preface" and "postscript". I wrote the title of the book myself. Although it was written by many famous writers, I feel very comfortable.

I loved painting and calligraphy since I was a child, but Nai's family was poor and could not go to school. After graduating from junior high school, I set foot on the society, and I was lucky enough to be engaged in photography, with the guidance of teachers and the help of friends. Occasionally, works have been published at home and abroad and won prizes. However, the compilation of Baihua Collection is really overreaching. The writing of the article, in particular, took me three years of hard work. 100 photo production, from film selection to enlargement to selection, took me more than half a year and experienced a hot summer. Nevertheless, I know that there are still various shortcomings in this book, and I sincerely hope to get criticism and correction from friends and readers.

When writing part of the main body of this book, I referred to the books on flower knowledge and poetry published in China in recent years, such as Flower Mirror, Guang Fang Qun Pu, Compendium of Materia Medica and Fang Qun Bei Zu, as well as periodicals and newspapers. I would like to explain and thank the relevant authors here. This book is deeply loved by Xu Wei and Song Yiying, and also by Mr. Zhan Yayuan. He also took time to write poems for some flowers in the book. At the same time, I got warm help from all my friends. I would like to express my sincere thanks here.

(Jiang Yan,199265438+February 20th in Huaibei)