Ancient poems of summer lotus flowers

The ancient poems about summer lotus include "Qujiang Love in Early Autumn" and "Two Poems on the Yangtze River, Part One".

1. Summer heat

Summer is the fourteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and autumn is the second. Dou Zhiwu (Southwest); The solar meridian reaches150; August 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer has arrived, which is the "last summer" in the "three summers" of hot and hot weather, which means that the hot and difficult weather is coming to an end.

After the summer heat, the direct point of the sun continued to move southward, the solar radiation weakened, the subtropical high retreated southward, and the summer heat gradually disappeared. Thunderstorm activity is not as active as summer, and the general trend of rainstorm in all parts of the country is weakened. There are many folk activities in summer, such as eating ducks, setting off river lanterns, opening fishing festivals, decocting medicinal tea and offering sacrifices to the land.

2. Lotus

Lotus belongs to the family Nelumbo, which is the general name of two varieties "Lotus" and "Huang Lian" in the genus Nelumbo and many cultivated varieties. It is a perennial aquatic herb flower. Underground stems are long and thick, with long nodes and round leaves.

Flowering from June to September, it is solitary at the top of the pedicel. There are many petals embedded in the receptacle hole, which are red, pink, white and purple, or have colored lines and edges. Nuts are oval and seeds are oval.

There are many kinds of lotus flowers, which are divided into ornamental and edible categories. China is native to tropical and temperate Asia and was planted as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Lotus is precious all over the body, lotus root and lotus seed are edible, and the germ of lotus seed, rhizome, lotus node, lotus leaf, flower and seed can be used as medicine. Its character of emerging from the mud without staining has always been praised by the world.

The next day, the lotus leaf is infinitely blue, and the lotus flower is different in red, which is a true portrayal of the beauty of the lotus flower. The noble character of lotus flower "straight through, not crawling, not stained with mud, clear but not demon" has always been one of the themes of poets' singing and painting.

Nuts are oval or ovoid, long 1.8-2.5 cm, and the fruits are leathery and hard, and dark brown when ripe; The seed (lotus seed) is ovoid or ovoid, with a length of 1.2- 1.7 cm and a red or white seed coat. The flowering period is from June to September, and it opens and closes every morning. Fruit-bearing period: August -65438+ 10.