Bamboo as a neighbor
If bamboo can speak, will it sound as good as a flute; if bamboo can walk, will it become a brother who is inseparable from you.
Mr. Su Dongpo said: "I would rather eat meat, not live without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar." People thin, is in line with modern health trends, can be away from heart disease, hypertension and other modern invisible killers, not a bad thing. Bamboo is not necessarily elegant, elegant but also rely on their own cultivation and virtue, but even vulgar people if every day to a few green bamboo, listen to the bamboo language wind, even if it can not become a gentleman, but also unconsciously amend their own words and deeds. Of course, if you just take the bamboo as elegant decorations, that's another story, even if there is a little elegant feeling, that is also bamboo, and people have nothing to do.
With bamboo as a neighbor, bamboo does not have to be more, three or two plants also line, seven or eight very good, eleven or two excellent, and then more words, people will inevitably appear greedy, and greedy people are not worthy of becoming neighbors with bamboo. With bamboo as a neighbor, in order to communicate with bamboo at any time and place, you can sing for it, it will dance for you with the wind, you can give it a portrait, it will shelter you from the wind and rain, even in the snowy winter, still give you a rare green. You can stretch out your palm to rub the bamboo's green pole, it will snuggle close to your face, so that you feel the coolness of the hot summer. As long as the bamboo to say your heart, it will be with you in mind, by then, your heart will become as transparent as bamboo, and then there is no miscellaneous.
Bamboo shoots taste beautiful, and bamboo as a neighbor of the people are not willing to dig the taste of a feast. People eat grains, bamboo food breeze, in order to complement each other, in order to become a confidant. Bamboo shoots grow fast, survival ability is very strong, these can give people incentives, so that you grow in adversity, so that you in the low when the rise, so that you in the smooth wind and water when you can be more spirited. Bamboo at night, the head of a round of bright moon, moonlight slow as running water, quiet in the middle of the philosophers like thinking, so that life is full of wisdom; bamboo in the daytime, standing upright, windy, not to mention how many short grass and rattan charm, even the beautiful birds also flew into the bamboo forest, giving you nature's most joyful music dance.
The use of bamboo is very wide, and bamboo as a neighbor are happy. Bamboo can be transformed into a musical instrument, or flute or xiao; bamboo can be tied into a raft, carrying you thousands of miles away. If you are a reader, bamboo leaves can sway the wind for you to read, bamboo branches can be your pen, bamboo roots to become your pen barrel, bamboo's charming style, you can become a model at any time, anywhere, to become your song of endless dear friends. If you are a farmer, then the bamboo branches and leaves can be tied into a broom, cleaning dust, sweeping away dirt, so that your life is clean as new. Bamboo gabions can also weave baskets and baskets, becoming an indispensable assistant in your life. If you are a fisherman, then your boat Penny, the body of the fish basket, the hand of the bamboo handle of the fishing fork, are inseparable from these green bamboo, without their dedication and sacrifice.
With bamboo as a neighbor, obsessed with you can turn yourself into a bamboo plant; with bamboo as a neighbor, you can also take them as a group of the most pro people. I believe that as long as you say hello to the bamboo every day, your home will become a most moving ink Chinese painting.
With the lotus as a neighbor
Lotus for the fairy, can do with the fairy neighbors after all a few, must have fairy fate. If you have a lotus pond in front of your house, you can enjoy the fragrance of lotus all day long, which is really a happy thing on earth.
People who love the lotus abound, most of them are secular people. Some people love the color of the lotus, or white or light pink, are beautiful color, if the heart is not greedy is rare. Some people like the shape of the lotus, curling, soft and optimistic, the lotus is not in full bloom and reserved, the lotus bloom as a good person to open the lips, the lotus in full bloom, auspicious light appeared at first sight, heaven and earth permeated by the gas. Some people like the flavor of the lotus, the light fragrance of the flowers is more charming, the fragrance of the flowers with the wind, floating through the courtyard, through the room, making you do not know whether you are in fairyland or the mortal world. Some people like the temperament of the lotus, not demonic, not enchanting, not scratching their heads, not looking forward and backward, not looking around, not in the shape of joy and anger. Some people like the bones of the lotus, out of the mud, in fact, the world of people, who are not under the feet of a piece of sludge, the heart of a clean and clear and a few people. Instead, farmers love lotus most convincing, no matter how, spring hard work in exchange for autumn and winter harvest, dug out a section of white lotus root most people excited.
With the lotus as the neighbor of the people will often go to the lotus pond to walk, and the lotus say sweet words, don't worry about the lotus do not understand, those words also said to themselves, but also said to the world to listen to. Whether in the city or the countryside, there is water where there should be lotus, there should be a few obsessed people. Don't think of letting the lotus walk on the shore, don't think of being able to carry the hand of a beautiful person, sometimes a hint of evil thoughts, sometimes a sigh, are counted as a surprise to a beautiful person. Lotus flowers born in the water to be a beautiful lotus, if it is folded on the shore, it is nothing, at most a few petals of flowers, people lament the impermanence of life. With the lotus as a neighbor should learn to stand like a lotus, there is a breeze blowing over, the heart will also be flooded with ripples, there will be circles of ripples, so the thoughts may coincide with the lotus, but also not in vain, the people and the lotus know each other.
With the lotus as a neighbor to leave the lotus pond, the heart must be full of attachments. In the city hibernation, in the workplace to fight, trekking in the journey, in the officialdom, these unavoidable human society is extremely far from the life of the lotus, but in the heart of the tired, as long as you think of the scorching sun or rainstorms under the lotus, it will be able to let the heart breathe a sigh of relief, it will be able to let the people hold the wall slowly stand, it will be able to let the heart of the dead people to live a second time. Lotus will not choose neighbors to grow, but people choose to live better next to the lotus. People and the lotus fate can not be said, people may be in the eyes of the lotus is a living person, is a friend can be made; lotus eyes of the people may also be blooming flowers, just some of the good action, more heart eyes, not the real lotus as quiet and calm and simple simple. People may be in order to please the lotus and fawning smile, the lotus will not be in order to please the people and crazy open, this is the difference between the people and the lotus, the two comparisons, the high and low judgment. People are divided into Zhang San Li Si Wang Wu Zhao six, but the lotus has no name, no Zhu Jia's lotus Liu Jia's lotus points. Lotus may just be an ink painting, is the summer dipped in thunderstorms on the painting, hanging in the love of lotus people in front of the back of the house.
With the lotus as a neighbor is to let the lotus more human flavor, do not be a single high and proud; with the lotus as a neighbor is to let people have more clean air, clean up the dust and dirt in the heart. With the lotus as a neighbor is not only human, there are small fish and shrimp in the pond, as well as the boundless moonlight at night, these in the eyes of the lotus, are all the same.
With the chrysanthemums as neighbors
Chrysanthemum varieties, colorful, often see people dazzled. Late fall chrysanthemum expression as if angry, chrysanthemum why will be angry, I do not know, probably blame the weather is getting cold, open day is not much. But the anger of the chrysanthemum, how to see, are not like a child's mood, not in the small sex, but some worry about the meaning of the country and the people. With the chrysanthemum as a neighbor, and a flower will be angry neighbors, really want to clean up their mood, or recluse into the temperamental circle, want to come out too difficult.
Look at the angry chrysanthemum, will think of Zhong Kui, ink painting, did not hang on the wall to ward off evil spirits, but instead laid flat in the flower garden, which has to kill how many evil spirits ah. Each leaf petal of chrysanthemums is like a sword, and some of them have a hook, which makes people feel scared. Chrysanthemums do not fight each other violently, the same kind of reasoning they still understand, even if the petals and petals to open to together, entangled with each other, will not hurt each other, which is often more than often brave and ruthless animals to be much stronger. Once thought, if the chrysanthemum will also walk, will also walk home, can also walk the jianghu, I do not know is the chivalry of the heroes, or provocation of the scoundrels, as a bit of martial arts flowers, swords do not leave the hand, probably will never be willing to mediocrity and anonymity. With such flowers as neighbors, is a blessing, not afraid of the grub harassment, not afraid of the bandits provocation, perhaps you also inadvertently also become a martial arts master, think about it all feel excited.
Neighbors are to be visited often, and it is better to be near neighbors than distant relatives. In the morning to see the chrysanthemum, the mood will be very calm, just as encountered neighbors to say hello, that's all, and then each live their own lives. Chrysanthemum may not care what you ate in the morning, where you are going today, it does not like to pry into other people's privacy. Being a neighbor is slightly less interesting in terms of caring about each other, but in this way, it's never annoying. Chrysanthemums are gentlemanly despite their somewhat rude looks, and many people don't know what a gentlemanly look like, so they might want to check out chrysanthemums. The chrysanthemum is the silent flower, its angry expression contains no chatter, and it treats its neighbors and family with nothing more than a reminder in its eyes. Chrysanthemum's eyes burning with light, will not winks and smiles of flowers can buckle people's hearts, can only rely on the temperament, rely on the inner emanation of the shocking power of the heart.
Go to see the chrysanthemum at noon, you can talk to it, but not a question and answer kind of, how the chrysanthemum to answer your questions, depending on the wonderful degree of your question. If it's some boring topic, the chrysanthemum must be too lazy to answer. It's an uninteresting chat where you have to keep searching for topics and many times there is no response. But this is Chrysanthemum's character, and when there is a rare warm sunshine in the middle of the day, Chrysanthemum lets her guard down and reveals a hint of her ordinary expression. In the late autumn afternoon, which is best suited for enjoying life, the chrysanthemum seems to recognize you as its neighbor, and although it doesn't return a smile, there's no saber-rattling tension either. Probably the sun warms the chrysanthemum's heart, so that it has some human feelings, such a scenario will not last long, because the north wind roars in the distance, the frost in the sky has been assembled, tomorrow may be a hard battle, is the sky and the ground, is the flower and the weather, who wins and who loses is hard to predict.
There are also people who go to see the chrysanthemums in the evening, wanting to explore the dream of the chrysanthemums. This is a dangerous thing, into the dream of chrysanthemums, no chrysanthemums of the mind and momentum, it is easy to hurt. People are fragile, easily sentimental, sometimes a person can't think straight and can still shed tears, fortunately, chrysanthemums will not laugh at you. Chrysanthemum to the evening, look more serious, more unsmiling, it does not know the coming long night, what kind of things will happen, they say that there will be sin in the darkness, chrysanthemum naturally raise the level of vigilance. But you don't have to worry, because you are its neighbor.
Plum as a neighbor
Each plum blossom looks like an ancient painting, the brushwork is simple, the brush force is strong, it does not matter who painted this picture, it is important to be in the snowy season can bloom, so that people in the cold heart of a ray of hope, the cruel winter is no longer so desperate. With the plum as a neighbor, that is, with the hope to be neighbors, not only become a fragrance in the elegant appreciation of the painting, but also a person with a bright future.
With the plum as a neighbor, it is best to read some books when the plum blossoms are in full bloom, so that the fragrance of the book and the fragrance of the plum mixed, this wonderful taste, is not the usual feeling. Of course, the book may also have plum, about the plum flower poetry is too much, from ancient times to the present day countless, if you want to add another one, the plum flower will not object, the beautiful thing who is afraid of more? People with a discerning eye, but also the plum can be read into the book, a little plum shadow, it is a vivid text, written with elegant feelings, said the unyielding will. People with wisdom, always feel that plum is a revelation, there is a secret about winter, there is a mystery about life, there is a twist of fate and control, although the plum has no words, a thousand words have been in the plum blossoms. With the plum as a neighbor, often feel that they are also a plum, body in the season gradually old, but deep down there is not to lose the will to fight. So, in the winter ice and snow bloom smile, each petal smile in the spring breeze swept through the figure.
With plum as a neighbor, not all are elegant, there are also vulgar. We do not know the world, is more elegant people, or more vulgar people, but I know, the vulgar is also an important part of the world indispensable. Vulgarians live in the bottom, they are hard, tough, hardworking, cowardly, weak, but they also like the cold winter plum fragrance, also have the right to be neighbors with the plum. In a sense, each of us is vulgar, vulgar in the effort to live, to live to fight, perhaps our goal is to become elegant, but became more and more vulgar, vulgar so lovely. Plum blossom both in the palace compound, for the dignitaries and blooming, but also in the people's homes and small yards, for the people and blossom. Perhaps in the eyes of the plum blossom, there is no difference between the masses, are a group of people who need the fragrance of flowers to live.
Late at night, sip two mouthfuls of fragrant tea, write a few lonely words, when the tiredness came, when the cold also came, but the heart is still struggling, still do not want to sleep. So, then smelled the approaching plum fragrance, the flavor, not into the nose, but will be tightly wrapped, seemingly without but also warm and incomparable. Tiredness and coldness are driven away, a restless heart to the near plum, so, can hear the words of the plum. In fact, still a little uncertain, as if in the recitation of an ancient poem, familiar emotions unfamiliar words and phrases, could it be that Mei had been a lonely scholar; and as if singing, gently humming, melodious, delicate emotions, as if it can bring the human soul to heaven; and it seems to be alone in the lament, the tone of the grudges, such as in the blame, blame the wind blame the snow or blame the sleepless late at night, I heard this thought of this can not help but sweating.
With plum as a neighbor, often do some unexpected dreams. In the dream, I carry the hand of the plum flower, walking in the streets and alleys, traveling in the south and north of the world, playing with friends, and relatives to enjoy the gathering. No one to me and the plum hold surprised idea, no one to me and the plum cast a different look, the world tolerant to my surprise, could it be, in the plum fragrance into the dream, can really be a dream come true.
Xie Ruping
Member of Jiangsu Writers Association. His novels, essays, poems and reviews have been published in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, American Overseas Chinese Newspaper, Selected Novels, The Reader and other newspapers and magazines at home and abroad.