The meaning of plum blossoms
When the winter snow is flying, only the plum branches are alone in the cold. The fragrance crosses the long river of thousand-year culture and blooms unique brilliance in poetry, songs and people's lives. What cultural code does this plant stand proudly in the frost and snow carry? Let us interpret the philosophy of life of this oriental holy flower layer by layer from spiritual character to life aesthetics. Plum blossom's thousand-year spirit totem, frost and snow's life poetics, When the temperature drops to minus 15℃, plum trees still maintain a growth rate of 0.6-1.2 cm/day. This characteristic of adverse growth creates the reputation of being the first among the "Three Friends of Cold Years". Lin Bu, a native of the Song Dynasty, lived in seclusion in Gushan and did not enter the city for twenty years. He took Mei as his wife and crane as his son, which was precisely because of his independence. A concrete expression of literati spirit. Wang Mian's "Painting of Plum Blossom" is written in light ink with thin shadows and horizontal slopes. Zheng Banqiao's paintings of plum blossoms must be matched with thin stones. These artistic creations sublimate plum blossoms into the personality mirror image of intellectuals. According to statistics, there are 168 poems on plum blossoms in "Quan Tang Poetry". Lu You's swan song of "scattered into mud and crushed into dust, only the fragrance as always" still interprets the true meaning of integrity. Modern translation of plum blossom culture, a spiritual landmark in the urban space, Wuhan East Lake Plum Garden is planted with more than 20,000 plum trees of 340 varieties, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors every year. Modern landscape design is often arranged in a "Plum Blossom Array" layout, forming a visual focus through 5-7 plant planting, which not only inherits cultural memory but also creates ecological value. The fragrant code of emotion transmission In flower etiquette, three plum branches with pine needles symbolize "perseverance and evergreen", and five red plum blossoms symbolize "five blessings coming to the door." Gifts to entrepreneurs can be paired with bamboo branches, meaning "Double Clear Plum and Bamboo"; He Shoushi presents a bonsai with old piles, which is an auspicious sign of "ancient plum new branches." Mei Yun's practical wisdom in this life From the "Dark Fragrance Gallery" in Suzhou gardens to the award bouquet of the Beijing Winter Olympics, plum blossoms have always built a bridge between tradition and modernity. When we choose a tea vessel with a plum blossom pattern or insert wintersweet into the study room, we are actually continuing a cultural consciousness-turning perseverance into an aesthetic footnote in daily life.