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1 The Lotus Flower
In Buddhism, it is considered to be the symbol of the Western Pure Land, the place where the soul is nurtured. The Buddha's body is often placed on the lotus flower, so the Buddha's seat is also called the lotus seat. Poets through the ages have praised the lotus flower out of the mud without staining, clear ripples and not demonic, in the outside straight, the lotus flower as a metaphor for the gentleman, to give the image of holiness. Lotus flower is also known as lotus. It is a stem of double flowers of the lotus, is the omen of longevity and the symbol of pure love. It is the only flower in the hundred flowers that can flower, fruit (lotus root) and seed (lotus seed) coexist. The lotus flower mainly symbolizes beauty, love, longevity and holiness.
2 Lotus, the Chinese June Flower God, facing the summer sun is showing her stunning color, "light qualifications light JuanJuan, dotted garden pool also poor": Humble Administrator's Garden "four walls of the lotus three willows", the art garden pool incense darkness, Jardine Garden is a green fragrance! Red dance, embracing lotus women three thousand, retreat Si Garden also have cold incense flying on the verse ...... sunny days, like the water on the green cover, cover but red makeup spit colorful lotus, after the rain to see the pool, jasper plate get crystal ...... ancient saying: "swim no beauty in the spring platform, flowers no more than the hibiscus". The flower is not in full bloom in the hibiscus", sincere not false also.
The lotus, also known as lotus flowers, lotus flowers, water, water hibiscus, lotus, etc., perennial aquatic plants. It is a perennial aquatic plant. The rootstock (lotus root) is fat and knobby, and is born horizontally in the mud under water. There are many varieties of flowers, red, white, green, purple and mixed colors, varieties of a stalk of two flowers of the lotus, a branch of four flowers of the four-faced lotus, and even a stem of ten flowers of the "ten-faced Goddess of Mercy", and flowers as small as jujubes of the bowl lotus, a variety of different styles.
Li Yu said the lotus has "three can" wonderful, one said that the eye: out of the water on the day, it will be dotted with green waves, stems and leaves on the day on the day, there are swaying, curling posture. Nymphaea blossomed, and was in full bloom. When the flowers are ready to be shed, a canopy is born under the tip of the lotus, and the fruit is born in the canopy, which is independent and stands alongside the emerald leaves. The second is that the nose: the fragrance of the lotus leaves, the lotus flowers of the different fragrance, to avoid the summer heat for the retreat, cool and cool by the birth. Third, delicious, lotus and lotus root, are listed on the dinner plate, mutual fen teeth and cheeks. Even if the frost in the defeat of the leaves, can also be picked and hidden, ready to wrap things for the rest of the year. Therefore, it is said that "there is no moment, uncomfortable ears and eyes of the view; there is no one thing a trace, not ready for home use" ("Idle Happenings").
Lotus, in Chinese culture, is also the three religions **** appreciation. The Lotus Flower Lotus" cloud: "peanuts in the most beautiful. All things first China and after the real, only this China and the real Qi Sheng, a hundred sections of the sparse, ten thousand exquisite, Pavilion things table, out of the mud without dyeing, flowers in the gentleman also." Become a representative of beauty, purity and chastity. Poetry Classic has "scorching lotus flowers", the beauty of its shape, Qu Yuan "system of lotus for clothing, set hibiscus as a garment", to take its clean.
Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the lotus flower has infiltrated the Buddhist meaning. Buddhism was created from the arid, hot India, the Indian green shade of blue water complex is inherent, naturally love the green leaves such as the disk of the lotus, according to legend, Brahminism is sitting on the Lotus Brahma was born. Buddhism caters to the public's love of the lotus, in order to promote Buddhism. Buddhism believes that the real world is a piece of dirt and sludge, and Buddhism is to make people uncontaminated, transcendental, to achieve a pure and unobstructed realm, so the use of mud and not stained the lotus as a metaphor.
According to legend, Mrs. Moyer sat on the lotus seat and gave birth to Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, and when Siddhartha Gautama was born, a thousand lotus leaves were born in the pool. Therefore, the lotus flower became the Buddha's bed, called the "lotus seat", the seat is called "lotus seat potential". According to the Sutra of the Ordination of Guanyin Bodhisattva, both Guanyin Bodhisattva and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva were also born from the lotus flower. China's Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Huiyuan created the White Lotus Society, after the Pure Land Sect is also called "Lotus Sect", the lotus has become a symbol of Buddhism.
There is a legend of the lotus flower in Buddhism, according to the "Buddha's original collection of scriptures? Tree under the birth of the product", Siddhartha Gautama in the Lumbini Garden "has been born, no one to support, that is, walking in all directions, the face of the seven steps, step by step to raise their feet, out of the big lotus flower". There is also the legend of the deer maiden step by step lotus. Miscellaneous Treasures Sutra? Lady Lotus Edge" records that, in the snowy mountain side of the immortal Brahmin Tibaiyan, "often urinate on the rock, there is a stream of spermatic flow fell down the rock dang. A female deer came and licked the place where he urinated, and he was pregnant." She gave birth to a daughter, who was so beautiful that she was called "Deer Maiden", and when she grew up, "she was able to walk, and when she stepped on the ground, lotus flowers came out". The Deer Maiden later became the consort of King Udyan, and gave birth to five hundred sons, all of whom became "Paijibuddhas". The lotus blossom is a symbol of the sacred path to purity and liberation. This should be the sacred meaning of the lotus pavement in the garden.
Lotus, in Taoism and become one of the Eight Immortals in the hands of the Hexian nun magic weapon. Zhu Da, also a monk and Taoist, chose to live in the environment is also "outside the bamboo thatched pavilion under the oak, half a pool of lotus leaves and half a pool of diamonds" ("Title Lotus").
China has loved the lotus since ancient times, as early as the Zhou Dynasty bronze and pottery, there are lotus decorative patterns, it is also a variety of architectural decoration, sculpture and living vessels on the most commonly used and most beautiful patterns and shapes.
Qing Zhang Chao said, "Lotus to Lianxi as a confidant" ("Dream Shadow"), referring to the "Lianxi self-title" of the Song Dynasty philosopher Zhou Dunyi, room Lushan Lotus Peak under the creek, wrote a blend of feelings and rationality, charm and charm of the "love of the Lotus". Zhou made a detailed and vivid depiction of the lotus flower, praising its fragrance, purity, pavilion, and neatness, as well as its elegance and elegance, and comparing it to human nature, which is good, pure, and untainted. The characteristics of the lotus flower and the gentleman's character are fused together, and in fact, the karma of Buddhism is also blended, which constitutes the mood of Suzhou garden attractions such as "Yuanxiang Hall" and "Lotus-root Fragrance Pavilion" in the Humble Administrator's Garden. Zhou Dunyi "Love Lotus" is like a song of immortal "Ode to the Lotus", "won the fame of ten thousand years".
Lotus elegant and clean, become a symbol of love. Ancient tradition of picking lotus flowers in the fall, the famous love poem of the Southern Dynasties "West Island Song", "lotus root" pun "even", "lotus" pun "pity", the sentiment is meaningful.
The poem "Xizhou Qu" is a long poem of love, with "lotus root" punning "even" and "lotus" punning "pity".
The delicious lotus has been mentioned, but the lotus into the food, Chinese literati also eat elegant. In the Three Kingdoms, there are people with lotus leaves made of wine cups, so that the "wine flavor mixed lotus gas". Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty used the morning dew on the lotus leaves to cook tea, called lotus dew tea. Suzhou Shen Fu's wife, in the summer months when the lotus first bloomed, the evening contains and the dawn release, she used a small gauze capsule pinch tea leaves a little, placed in the heart of the flower, tomorrow morning, take out, cooking day spring water soak, the aroma is particularly excellent. This is to drink the elegance, is "the world for the extraordinary" aesthetic. Shen Fu also interestingly describes the process of cultivating bowl of lotus: "the old lotus seed grinding thin both ends, into the eggshell so that the chicken wing, once the chick into take out, with a long time swallow's nest mud plus asparagus two-tenths of the ten, mashed and mixed well, planted in a small vessel, filling the river water, sunrise; flower hair as big as a wine glass, the leaf shrinks like a bowl, Pavilion lovely." (Six Records of a Floating Life) ("Six Records of a Floating Life") the depth of aesthetic philosophy and intellectual spiritual life in the spirit of the gas in this narrative naturally flow out.
The lotus flower "has the reality of the five grains, but not its name; both the strengths of a hundred flowers, and each to its shortcomings" (Li fishermen, "Idle Happenings"), do not do anything to publicize, is really respectable, lovely. Lunar June 24 is the birthday of the lotus, let us celebrate beautifully. (Cao Lindi)