Haitang bloom woke up.

I woke up at four o'clock in the morning and found Begonia still awake.

-Kawabata Yasunari's Flowers Not Sleeping

Begonia is a unique plant in China, which is known as "the national beauty and fragrance". Begonia flowers are natural and unrestrained, and bloom is like brocade. Since ancient times, it has been called "the fairy in the flower".

So when is the right time to see Haitang? The flowering period of Begonia is basically from April to May, which is the solar term in Qingming and Grain Rain. It is rainy and rainy, so there are many poems describing begonia in the rain in ancient times.

Haitang blushed without hesitation and drizzled independently.

-Chen "Joan Hinton"

It should be the place where the chemical industry wins, and Haitang wants to look at the rain and sigh.

Cao Xun's "Looking at Begonia in Light Rain"

The ancients often enjoyed begonia in the rain, so begonia became a way for the ancients to see things, think about people and place their feelings. In addition, in ancient times, the flowering period of begonia was very short, so the ancients especially cherished it, even at night.

Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata said, "I woke up at four o'clock in the morning and found Begonia still awake."

Su Shi said: "I am afraid that flowers will fall asleep at night, so I light high candles and wear red makeup." I was afraid that the begonia would bloom alone in the middle of the night and fall asleep because no one appreciated it, so I lit a candle to illuminate the begonia for appreciation.

"You know what? Do you know that?/You know what? It should be green, fat and thin. " When Yi An fell asleep, he was still thinking about Haitang.

As for begonia flowers, it is said that Du Fu, the poet saint, never wrote any poems about begonia flowers in his life. Why? It turned out that Du Fu's mother's maiden name was Haitang, and he did it to avoid taboo. Li Yu wrote in "With the Send" that "this flower is no better than other flowers, which is a problem that Dong Jun intends to cultivate it. I don't blame Shaoling for not giving a sentence. He is sentimental and biased towards Du.

There is also a begonia flower outside the window of Baoyu in the Red Chamber. After the Grand View Garden was completed, Jia Zheng took Baoyu and his party around. When I came to a place (Yuan), I saw that "on the other side is a Xifu begonia, like an umbrella, with silk hanging down and full of cinnabar."

In the seventeenth chapter of the book, I mentioned the scenery of Hongyi Garden and Haitang: after entering the door, several stones in the yard were planted with plantain and Xifu Haitang at the same time.

There is a line behind Baoyu's poem, "Green wax is still rolling in spring, and red makeup stays up all night", which is about Xifu Haitang.

Begonia flower is also called "sleeping beauty" because of Yang Guifei, so the ancients love to use "sleeping begonia" and "sleeping begonia" to describe begonia or a delicate and beautiful woman. In the sixty-second chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, Xiangyun lies drunk among the peony bushes, which is the picture of Haitang sleeping in spring. Next time, Xiangyun drew a "Haitang sign", which read "Spring dreams are heavy" and the poem said "I am afraid of falling asleep at night". Daiyu immediately laughed and changed "late at night" to "stone cool", indicating that the author refers to Xiangyun as Haitang.

From spring to bloom, the trees are full of begonia, which enriches the time and embellishes the fleeting time. "Stealing pears is three points white, and borrowing plum blossoms is a soul." There is wine and poetry, so let's watch Haitang together!