The ancients paid attention to flowers, and the situation came first.

On February 4th, people will celebrate the 20 18 beginning of spring solar term. After that, I returned to the earth in spring and gradually became suitable for hiking. At this time, there was also a tradition of enjoying flowers in ancient China. The ancients always paid attention to appreciating flowers, and had requirements for color and fragrance, and their attitude towards flowers was no exception. Let the national culture introduce it to you.

The ancients not only evaluated the color and fragrance of flowers, but also looked at the charm of flowers. In the view of Song Nian, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, it was called "putting flowers first".

The posture of flowers, like colors, can be "eye-catching", so the ancients attached great importance to posture modeling when appreciating flowers and trees. Beautiful flowers can make up for the regret of late blooming. Chen Daofu's poem Begonia in the Ming Dynasty said: "The green leaves are full of flowers, the wind is blowing, and the school is drooping. The foundation of the wall opened countless times yesterday. Who says Qiu Lai is not so charming? "

There are horizontal, oblique, curved, straight, vertical and hanging patterns, each with its own characteristics, just like the posture of a young woman: the horizontal posture is quiet, the oblique posture is bold, the bending posture is graceful, the straight posture is solemn, the vertical posture is gentle and graceful, and the hanging posture is elegant. Flowers bloom in season, that is, as Xu Xuan, a scholar of the Five Dynasties, said in Ten Willow Branches, "Liu Jing has beautiful flowers in the New Year", but Xu Xuan himself "prefers weeping willows and sweeping branches".

The crooked posture of flowers seems to be more appreciated by the ancients, and the most typical posture is plum. Lin Bu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty who calls himself "the wife crane of plum blossom", has a unique observation on the color, fragrance and posture of plum blossom. He said in the poem "Xiaomei in the Mountain Garden": "The thin shadow is shallow, and the fragrance floats at dusk." The shadows are oblique and the clouds are fragrant. I am really drunk in this situation.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people like plum blossoms with oblique posture, which was once almost morbid. According to Gong Zizhen's "The Record of the Sick Plum Restaurant" in Qing Dynasty, the view of appreciating plums in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was: "Plum is beautiful with music and straight with no posture; Take beauty as beauty, and the law has no scenery; Sparse is beautiful and secret is stateless. " To this end, the gardener should "be righteous and promote his side; Delete its secret and kill its young branches; Hoe it straight and suppress its anger. " Gong Zizhen thinks this is a "sick plum", but it reveals the ancient people's attention to flower posture.