Homologous
□ Qibai
Jinling Evening News, July 12, 2024
June and July is the season of lotus appreciation when the lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red.
It has become a habit for me to go to enjoy lotus photography every summer, and I have photographed lotus flowers in Beihai, Taoran Pavilion, Longtan Lake, Daguan Garden and other places in Beijing for a few years, and I want to go to the Summer Palace or the Old Summer Palace to photograph lotus flowers this year.
The daughter persuaded that these two places were far away from home, and it took nearly two hours by bus to change trains. Besides, now that the summer vacation is now, tourists and local students in Beijing are crowded every year, so it is better to choose a quiet park to enjoy the flowers. Actually, she didn't know what I thought, as far as the lotus is concerned, no matter which park is filmed, there is not much difference, the difference is the background, such as the White Pagoda in Beihai, the Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace, and the lakeside pavilion in Taoran Pavilion......
However, my daughter's words made sense, and I naturally had to adopt them, so I still went to the Grand View Garden, which is an artificial antique garden built with the novel "Dream of Red Mansions" as the blueprint. I took a few close-ups of the panorama and close-up with the pavilions in the background.
In the blink of an eye, it was noon, the scorching sun was in the sky, and it was not suitable to shoot again, so I sat in the shade of the waterside pavilion and took a nap, looking at the scenery in front of me, and on a whim, I made up a seven-character poem "Summer Lotus Tour":
Enjoy the green lotus pond every summer, and shake the leaves and branches in the breeze under the sun. Looking for beautiful scenery in the Grand View Garden, the Red Mansion Lake is full of beautiful poems. Tingting fairy Lingbo danced, and the long hair of Liu Jun hung down. Tourists from the north and south are all interested, and the country of Furong enjoys the delicate posture.
Photo by Xiao Boqin
I sat on the wooden fence of the waterside pavilion, admiring the delicate lotus flowers all over the lake, and let the breeze blow in my face with a little heat, but my mind traveled through the time tunnel-
My old house is located in Nanjing Xinjiekou business district in the Huaqiao Road, No. 39 is a three-entry compound, my father and brothers are influenced by my grandfather, all love flowers and plants, in addition to cultivating spring orchid and autumn chrysanthemum with flower pots, planting two wax plum trees next to the ancient well in front of the west wing of the first courtyard, plum blossoms bloom every winter, the fragrance is full of small courtyard, and the east wing is placed in front of a lotus vat, the tank is planted with pink lotus, the summer bloom is very gorgeous, but also fragrant.
Our small family moved to the eastern suburbs of Zijin Huafu, where we live on the first floor of a small courtyard, my lover also raised a lotus in front of the window with a groove stone, because the groove stone is shallow, less soil and water, so the lotus grows slender and weak, but finally still blooms a pink bud, I call it a small jasper, appreciate the beauty of everyone's beauty and have to be the lotus in the lake.
Over the years, I have been to Mochou Lake, Crescent Lake, Egret Island, Longtan Water to shoot lotuses, and I have also gone to Xuanwu Lake, Sun Palace, and Lovers' Garden with my photographers many times to shoot lotuses, and the most popular one was in 2017, when I organized more than 70 old colleagues from the gypsum mine to go to Xinghua 10,000 acres of lotus ponds to enjoy lotus and shoot lotuses, and several photographers from the photography group in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing were also invited.
Every time I come back from shooting, I am busy making an electronic photo album, and I still have a number of works in the United States.
From appreciating lotus, loving lotus to taking lotus every year, along the way, all of them have been influenced by their families since they were children, grew up to be infiltrated by traditional culture, and were influenced by their friends when they were old.
From ancient times to emperors and generals, down to literati and scholars, all enjoy the green lotus pond in summer, or boating on the lake, or near the pond by the column, drinking and appreciating lotus, chanting poems and words, splashing ink calligraphy and painting, only sighing that there was no camera at that time, and it can only be recorded in poetry.
The ancients loved lotus because it was pure and elegant, and it was not stained by mud. The white lotus is as clean as jade, the red lotus is brave and loyal, the pink lotus is delicate as the sun, and the yellow lotus is proud. The lotus flowers are gorgeous but not demonic, slim and jade stand in the lake breeze; The lotus leaves roll in the wind, and the figure sways. Under the fish playing lotus, the birds dancing and the flowers, this scene is indescribably beautiful.
Zhou Dunyi, a native of the Song Dynasty, wrote the article "Ai Lian Said", which had a great influence on me, but he only talked about the elegant character of the lotus, and did not mention the other resolute and resolute character of the lotus in the extreme environment, knowing that in the extinction era of the dinosaurs, it could survive and reproduce for hundreds of millions of years. I use the product of lotus to encourage myself and self-discipline, which is the reason for loving lotus.
Qi Bai (Xiao Boqin), male, born in 1953, is from Nanjing. From 1970 to 1983, he studied philosophy and Chinese language and literature at Nanjing University and Nanjing Normal University. He has been engaged in propaganda and education for a long time, and has served as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper and the principal of a school.