What color is the most beautiful for apricot blossoms?
For netizens to elaborate on the most beautiful color of apricot blossoms and the small experience of green plant maintenance for the most common flowers in spring, the specific details are as follows:
In ancient poems, apricot blossoms are the flowers of high banks and lucky flowers.
This year, the spring is warm, and the peach, plum, apricot, cherry blossoms are all blooming at the same time. On the way to appreciate the cherry blossoms and peach blossoms, I suddenly saw a tall tree with white flowers like cherry blossoms, but taller and with a substantial texture, which could be pear blossoms, but pear blossoms are snow white and have small green leaves in between.
This tree of flowers is tall, elegant, and its color has a special jade-like luster. While discussing what kind of flowers they are, the middle-aged owner next to us told us with a smile that they are apricot blossoms. How can this be, aren't apricot blossoms red?
“Should pity the footprint on the green moss, gently knock on the thatched door but it does not open,”
“The spring colors of the garden cannot be confined, a branch of red apricot blossoms comes over the wall.” From "The Unworthwhile Garden Tour" byYe Shaocheng of the Song Dynasty.
In our impression, apricot blossoms should be red, like peach blossoms, like pomegranate flowers, brilliant and full of charm. Otherwise, why do so many people love to use this line of poetry and pair it with an innocent expression? But in reality, this is truly a secular misinterpretation of poetry.
Let's return to the true nature of apricot blossoms.
Apricot blossoms are not deep red or bright red, on the contrary, they bloom close to white, a kind of pink and ivory white.
But why do people always say red apricot blossoms?
First, when the flowers bud, the buds, due to the wrapping of the sepals, are a deep red.
Second, when the flowers just bloom, the petals are a light pink or light Rouge, looking semi-transparent and very delicate.
Third, when the flowers are fully blooming, the petals will turn from pink to a more transparent ivory white, but it is precisely this transparency that the flower heart and sepals often have small Rouge dots among them. The effect from a distance is that the entire flower cloud's color presents a light pink. Actually, many cherry blossoms also have such colors.
Fourth, the petals of apricot blossoms are thicker than those of cherry blossoms, evenly opening five petals, round and smooth, presenting a more delicate and lustrous flower light, like the complexion of a young girl in the East, with pink in the ivory white.
This is the true color of apricot blossoms, white with a hint of red, elegant and lustrous.
Returning to Ye Shaocheng's poem itself, he visited a friend after a light rain in the spring. At this time, the earth is rich and lush, and the green moss can leave footprints, with a deep spring all around. But when he came to his friend's courtyard, he found the courtyard closed and silent. He originally wanted to enjoy the springtime with his friend, to roam the mountains and drink to their hearts' content, but unexpectedly, his friend was not there, and he still had the mood.
He then discovered a tall apricot tree in bloom, and the branches were even extending over the wall. The beautiful apricot blossoms, white with a hint of red, were showing the abundance of flowers in the courtyard.
Apricot blossoms are not famous for their bright red color, they are not as red as peach blossoms or as colorful as peonies, they are famous for their unrestrained, youthful and upward spirit. Here, using "red apricot" is a praise for the vibrant spirit of the blossoms, and also an expression of his own unvented emotions.
Why not say "a branch of red peach or plum blossoms coming over the wall"? Besides the poet personally seeing the vibrant beauty of the apricot blossoms, the tree itself has the characteristic of being tall.
Apricot trees are taller than many other flowering trees and are tall乔木, reaching up to 12 meters, and the trees are long-lived, with branches high and spreading. Therefore, among peach, plum, and cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms are clearly like models, with their flower crowns and blooms often above other flowering trees.
This is also why apricot blossoms often become landmarks.
For example, Du Mu has the line "I ask where is the tavern, the shepherd boy points to the apricot village." Turning around, the tallest apricot tree is the location of the village.
So even if other trees are also blooming, the poet will definitely see the apricot blossoms first.
This poem is fresh and bright, using apricot blossoms as a symbol to write about the rich colors of spring and the vibrant flowers, spring scenes always bring unexpected joy and delight. This poem is popular because of the meaning of apricot blossoms, which are flowers of high status and lucky flowers.
In the Tang Dynasty, every spring, after the imperial examination, new graduates would be invited to a feast in the apricot garden by the Qujiang River in Chang'an. Apricot blossoms symbolize luck, high status, and smooth success, and scholars are happy to be able to enter the apricot garden in life.
"Heavenly green peaches are planted with dew, and red apricot blossoms lean against the clouds." By Gao Chan (Tang) after failing the exam and ascending to the Prime Minister
This is the sigh of Gao Chan, who had no chance to enter the apricot spring feast after failing the exam. The successful candidates are closer to the emperor, like the green peaches in heaven and the high apricot blossoms in the clouds, receiving the most sun and east wind, so their colors are also particularly brilliant. But I am just a lotus floating on the autumn river, so far from the sun, with such a fate, and I have nothing to complain about.
Apricot blossoms have the meaning of luck, high status, and facing the sun.
In the Dream of the Red Chamber, this line "red apricot by the sun" is used to imply that Tai Chun's fate is higher than her current status, because of her lucky marriage to become a princess, and the same lucky girl is娇杏, who married Jia Yucun and finally became a noble lady.
So "a branch of red apricot blossoms coming over the wall," at least in the eyes of scholars, is the spring exam success, for ordinary people, seeing the lucky flowers in spring, how can it not be a new starting point for the year?
But this poem was eventually played out by secular society.
Since when, the energetic apricot blossoms in the garden have become restless beauties, using their youthful beauty to test taboos, and secular society has used them for many satires. Because this line has become a colloquialism, those who have not seen apricot blossoms also label them as a delicate or even seductive red flower.
Only when you see apricot blossoms in person will you feel that kind of tall and elegant, but clear beauty, that is a youth endlessly stretching towards the sky.
Or perhaps Ye Shaocheng was sighing about why his friend did not stay in his comfortable home during such a wonderful season, whether he had the ambition of apricot blossoms or was forced to leave for a living?
This poem reminds me of Li Shangyin's poem.
"Qingqing does not cherish the spring of the small window, to be a tall catalpa horse."
But it is unknown whether Ye Shaocheng also had such sighs.
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