See also spring light to neem flowers, seven ancient poems, talk about neem flowers in the flower trade winds
In the late spring and early summer, a tree neem blossoms, neem branches and leaves are particularly cute, the branches are like palms open, and neem flowers are also lovely, a bush, a cluster of flowers on the tip of the palm, in autumn and winter, the leaves fall out, a bunch of yellow neem fruit hanging in the treetops, like wind chimes, especially a kind of elegant beauty. The neem flowers outside the window in the rain have a clear rhyme, like a girl in a green dress and purple clothes, a kind of rural beauty, better than red and pink delicate. I used to mistake it for cloves, but lilacs are more colorful than neem flowers, and neem flowers are better than a kind of clear.
In Song Ming, the twenty-four flower trade winds will be neem flowers as the last period of late spring valley rain flower letters, because the neem tree blossoms, in the late spring and early summer, the ancient poem says, open to the flowers, the actual real statement, is to bloom to the neem spring, because even if there are flowers, such as pomegranate lotus, it has really entered the summer, born like a summer flower.
The use of neem trees can be as far back as ancient times.
"Mountains and Seas Through the Zhongshan Classic" "The mountain of Li'er, on which there are many olives, many fir trees, is a wood, square stem and member leaves, yellow and hairy, in fact, like a whip, serve not to forget." "Although I don't know the name of The Middle Way, it was always the central area of the ancient Shenzhou, and the olive trees on the mountain, the maple trees, and the fruits of the fruit, just like the neem trees. Then it can be proved that neem trees have been known in ancient times and used.
"The mountains have ferns, and the mountains have ferns.
Gentlemen compose songs, and Wei mourns with high sorrow. "Verses in April"
The weather in April of the Poetry Period and now is similar, with herbs such as fern flourishing in the mountains, and low-lying willows and neem trees everywhere. Neem, or neem tree, grows in low-lying areas along the water's edge of the plains, with flexible branches like palms.
The "Pipe" of the Spring and Autumn Period records that the trees planted in the north were "elm, peach, willow, and neem", which could survive in relatively poor soil. There are two important reasons for using the land to grow this barren tree species, one is to obtain fruit, and the other is to obtain wood. Neem trees have both. Although the neem tree is not tall, it can also be about ten meters tall, and it is the material for medium halls and buildings, and its leaves and fruits, detoxifying and detoxifying, can kill parasites in the body. It's just that these fruits look cute and are really bitter, so neem trees are nicknamed neem.
After Qu Yuan's death, people commemorated him, made bamboo tube rice thrown into the river, legend has it that one year in the Eastern Han Dynasty, someone dreamed of Qu Yuan, he said that those things, are very good, but they were eaten by the dragons in the water, if you do it again, you will use neem leaves to seal the mouth, so that the dragons are jealous. Later, the neem leaves were changed to rice dumpling leaves.
So why was there such a legend at that time? In fact, it is still in the fire and detoxification function of neem leaves, which is a minority for Qu Yuan, and the number of people who need to eat themselves is huge, to prevent cooked food from rotting and deteriorating, and only then use neem leaves.
Because in the Han Dynasty, neem neem was widely used in medicine. The cultivation of neem trees was also expanded.
"The bird comes when it flies high.
It should be ruled by virtue and hope.
Pecking neem solid drink Hua pool. "Eastern Han Dynasty · Cui Xiao's Seven Words and Poems
The neem tree is beautiful in shape, purple flowers and green leaves, stretching like a bird.
I saw the flowering neem tree, like the purple phoenix bluebird, which at this time was considered to be a symbol of the blue bird, and it had not yet flowered.
I thought, why didn't the ancients give such a beautiful neem tree to the myth?
The result is a sharp mind that runs through the ages. I really feel the same way I do.
The Eastern Han Dynasty's Cui Hua describes the beauty of the neem tree, which is where the birds can perch, and the birds stay on the top, eat the neem, and drink the water of the fairy pond. This is nothing more than a beautiful imagination brought by neem trees. Because from a distance it really looks like a beautiful big bird resting on its head, purple crown, green feathers, extremely elegant.
But all those who enter the Classic of Mountains and Seas are called sacred trees by posterity. Neem trees are no exception, in the Han Dynasty, which advocated Taoism and the art of immortality.
"The summer wind is warm and warm, and the trees are overcast.
The new shoots are long and short, and the early cherry red is light and dark.
Neem flowers are heavy on the clouds, and the durian is invading the scenery.
Hua Shi is good to each other, and Yun Yun is calm. "Zhongtang · Yuan Shu "Table Xia Ten Songs Part 1"
In the Tang Dynasty, neem flowers were listed as flowers of early summer. The beginning of the actual lunar month of April is often still in the rainy season of the late spring valley.
Yuan Shu's table summer, in fact, is the first summer, the first day of April, the intersection of late spring and early summer.
The summer wind is so warm and the trees have a thick shade of greenery.
New shoots have emerged, purple shoots are long and short ginseng ponds, and early ripening cherries are deep and light red.
At this time, neem flowers bloomed like purple clouds in the treetops, and pomegranate flowers also bloomed.
At this time neem trees and pomegranates have flowers, cherry fruits, such beautiful flowers and fruits in early summer, who said, summer is coming, spring is over, the flowers are gone, sad?
This is the prototype of neem as a late spring flower trade wind. In late spring, like purple fairy clouds, flower clouds last until summer.
"The warblers in the courtyard are singing and resting, and the butterflies on the wall are dancing lonely."
Heavenly incense kaoru feather bao, palace purple halo tassel.
Confused and confused, drawing in a direction.
Only spring farewell, stay with boshan furnace. Don · Wen Tingjun "Neem Flower"
It is the neem tree that has purple flowers, and neem is mostly used in medicine, so it must be one of the Taoist herbs. Neem trees are planted in Taoist temples or royal gardens, and in early summer, the flowers and leaves stretch out and the shade is pleasant.
Wen Tingjun apparently saw neem blossoming in buildings similar to palaces and temples.
Because summer was coming in the yard, the yellow oriole birds were not so active and stopped singing. A butterfly flew around at the head of the wall.
The feathery leaves of the neem tree stretched out, and the flowers bloomed like court purple, very elegant and lovely.
The shade of the neem locked the windows, and the faint aroma of neem and neem flowers drifted into the room, naturally staining the fairy figures hanging on the walls.
In this late spring, the purple of the neem flowers, like the purple smoke in the incense burner, bids farewell to spring at the sacrifice.
The combination of purple and green, the deep flowers and trees in the Zen room, elegant and tranquil, no matter where the place is, the tranquility brought by neem trees and neem flowers is really fairy sadness.
In the Song Dynasty, a new round of Taiping paid more attention to the improvement of the people's lives, so the Song Dynasty officials vigorously advocated the planting of trees, fruit trees and flowers, and maximized the use of land and natural resources, so neem trees are also everywhere.
Neem trees have a strong shading effect, a short time to grow, and the vastness of planting has brought the appreciation of flowers, and the saying about flower trade winds has become popular.
"When the fishing boat returns, the leaves rain, and the neem wind is at the sound of the car."
The Yangtze River used to pass through the tourist land, and now it is in a dream. Northern Song Dynasty · Su Shi wrote this poem in "Servant Chinese New Year's Eve Nine, spending the night on the Runzhou Road. Another twenty years, in Huizhou, posthumously recorded to pay, two (he set mutual poetry) the second
The 39-year-old Su Shi went to Hangzhou to take up a post, on runzhou road, in late spring.
Seeing here, Jiangnan in late spring and early summer, boatmen fishing in the river, at dusk, returning from the rain, the calamus by the river is luxuriant. Passing through the villages in Jiangnan, neem trees bloom everywhere, the warm breeze is light, and the sound of women's weaving work in the village can be heard.
Neem flower wind has become a late spring flower trade wind in the era of Su Shi, so Su Shi lightly wrote about it, a scene of rich and prosperous rural areas in Jiangnan.
Twenty years later, when Su Shi was in Huizhou, he also saw the ease of people's labor here, recalled the first time he saw the grand beauty of the neem trees in Jiangnan, and added two sentences to the poem, indicating that he could not forget.
Although neem flowers do not have the soft aroma of other herbs, the clear and strong fragrance is a beautiful taste of the sense of smell in late spring in Jiangnan. So twenty years later, Su Shi still remembers the beauty of the peaceful homeland in the fragrance of neem flowers when he first arrived in Jiangnan.
For Su Shi, why didn't he want to live a peaceful and idyllic life?
The aroma of neem flowers, in the Song Dynasty, was already a kind of pastoral taste.
"The rain has passed through the creek head bird seal sand, and the creek mountain is deep in the wild man's house.
In front of the door, the peach and plum are all flown, and the spring light is seen to the neem flowers. "Song · Zhan Yu "Sending Hu Zhixi"
At the end of the rainy season in the valley in late spring and March, neem blossoms bloom.
Valley rains tend to span March and April, and neem blossoms are the last visible flourishes of spring. It is the last spring light. Of course, it is this monthly calendar and the time zone of flower arrangement of the festival and flowers, and neem flowers are often used as both spring flowers and summer flowers.
But people who cherish spring light will naturally see it as a spring flower. So lush and fragrant, it makes people feel that spring is still there with the opening of neem flowers.
At the edge of a stream after a rain, birds walk on the beach, and in the mountains, there are mountain homes with cooking smoke.
Everywhere is full of green trees, peach and plum flowers, when you lament the spring flowers withering, the neem branches of the branches of the brilliant purple, remind you, there are flowers in the spring, cherish the last spring light.
The neem flowers of the home tree, refreshing, fragrant, let the dull mood soar.
"The reed buds are exhausted and the willows are yellow, and the water fills the field without planting seedlings.
The guest did not know that the spring was late, and he looked up and was surprised to see the fragrance of neem flowers. Southern Song Dynasty · Li Ciyuan's "Qianxi Shop"
It is the neem tree that is resistant to water and drought, easy to survive, and became a common home tree species after the Song Dynasty, and there are many neem trees in villages, homes, and fields. People get used to it, but think it's very common.
For example, this guest is a guest living in the countryside of Jiangnan, but like others, he also goes to the fields to earn a living and do farm work.
Take advantage of the spring rain to dig bamboo shoots and reed buds, irrigate the paddy fields, tidy up the land, and prepare to plant rice seedlings at any time.
Suddenly, after resting from work, I smelled the neem flowers in the most moving courtyard of this season.
For ordinary farmers, they are illiterate and know very little about the meaning of the festival represented by neem blossoms.
But this cultured and discouraged guest suddenly woke up to the fact that this is the spring is about to pass, the time is hurrying, although his guest days will also make his hometown hometown, but is it really like this in his heart?
In the rush of years, fate brought him an endless sense of drift and passing. His determination to work is a realistic need, but as a guest in other places, he cannot help but lament the ruthlessness of time and miss his hometown that cannot be returned.
Neem became a homeland tree species after the Song Dynasty, and there are more poems about neem flower trade winds.
Neem blossoms represent spring to summer, if you rejoice, it is a purple cloud that leads you to the future, if you are sad, it is the last spring blossom. In the delicate and spicy neem fragrance, and the fairy-like neem purple, what kind of mood do you feel?
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you.