Early in the morning, I came across an old man selling flowers on his way home from Cuihu Lake, looking down and stringing some small white flowers. This scene in this small white flowers bloom season also every year.
I stopped and squatted down, a refreshing fragrance came to my nose. Flowers are really an indispensable species on earth, beautiful and fragrant and self-scented. If you talk about beauty, the first thing that comes to my mind is the many kinds of flowers in different shapes and sizes.
I chose a bunch of them, but I didn't have to pick one, they all looked the same. If I had to choose, I would have picked which one to take home.
Asked the price, only three dollars, very cheap. I didn't ask the price before I chose the flower, the reason I didn't ask is that I thought it shouldn't be too expensive, five or ten dollars, and I didn't need to bargain.
But after asking the price, I realized that I didn't have any money with me, and I was worried, and the old man said, "You can pay by WeChat." So, she put the strings of hanging flowers gently peeled, a WeChat payment sign was revealed. What a convenient age, even an old man selling flowers on the roadside is equipped with this kind of magic weapon.
I asked the old man, "What kind of flower is this?" while I was scanning the code to pay. I am ashamed to say, even the most common flowers can not understand its name, and loss of their own university also studied a course "botany", even without this course, this should be considered a common sense of life, right. The old man told me it was "jasmine". I just suddenly realized, could it be that before going to Cuihu Lake to enjoy the lotus, full of mind is that noble lotus? I forgot the most common and everywhere with us "jasmine". The family drink is not jasmine tea? The famous song at the beginning is not "good a jasmine flower"?
After paying, I picked up the string of flowers in my hand and scrutinized it, I think this time I must remember it. I asked the old man again: "Gardenia seems to grow this way?" The old man while continuing to string flowers and give me the difference between gardenia and jasmine: "gardenia buds more pointed, jasmine buds more round; gardenia flower fragrance is more rich, jasmine flower fragrance light; gardenia flower period is short, jasmine flower period is long." After listening, I was very surprised, an old woman selling flowers actually put the difference between the flowers said, and I read the book but confused, visible life experience is how valuable.
I listened, got up to say thank you, the beautiful string of jasmine in the hand, continue to go home. The fragrance of jasmine all the way to the accompaniment, let me feel happy.
Back home, I looked in the mirror, the flower made of necklace hanging around the neck, and I wore a skirt is very with, or rather, this small flower necklace let my skirt more show flow.
After enough beauty, I carefully took it down and hung it on the cupboard in the front door, and inhaled its fragrance y for a few moments, before sitting down at the desk, holding a book, ready to read.
After sitting for a while, I realized that I didn't want to read the book at all, and all I could think about was the lovely appearance of these little flowers. So I got up and went to read for a while longer, then made a special cup of jasmine tea. I brought the tea into my study and looked at the cup of flower tea in awe. I saw the jasmine slowly opened in the boiling water, just now also grouped together in the body, gradually in the steaming hot water colorful unfolding out, jasmine once again by the power of hot water to regain the beauty of its bloom, and some slowly sank to the bottom of the cup, like a white goose dancing gracefully in the water.
At this moment, I think of jasmine in ancient poetry. The jasmine flower is clean and elegant, the fragrance of the flower is clear and far away, since the ancient times there are many poems that depict and praise the jasmine flower.
Jasmine blossoms, is so extraordinary. The Song Dynasty poet Jiang Kui's "Jasmine" poem is written: "Although there is no colorful state of shock, fortunately, there is a clear fragrance of the pressure of the nine autumns. It should be the fairy e banquet return, drunkenly fall off the jade scratch head." The poet vividly portrayed the scene when the jasmine flowers bloom, although there is no gaudy gesture to attract attention, but there is a refreshing fragrance of the flowers is intoxicated, all sideways glance and moved. Let a person almost suspect that the jasmine in the branches of the flower is not a flower, but the heavenly palace of the fairy because of drunkenness and accidentally lost the hairpin fell to earth.
Another example is the Qing Dynasty painter-poet Wang Shilu's "Jasmine", "Ice and snow for the appearance of jade as a tire, tenderness, together with Zao window Kuma, the fragrance from the dream back to the time of sleep, flowers to the beauty of the head to open." Depicted is the jasmine flowers into the lives of ordinary people. Jasmine blossoms, such as ice like snow, woke up after the dream began to feel a distinctive fragrance, the original is from the jasmine flowers inserted diagonally in the bun of the beauty of the hair.
Too much, the beauty of jasmine is not only a few poems can praise the end of it? But from these ancient poems we will not only feel the beauty of jasmine and chic, but also be able to appreciate the poets through the ages love of life, love of nature's beautiful feelings.
I came back from the poem, tasted a sip of jasmine tea has been fragrant, the tea is only in the mouth, I think of the famous song "Jasmine". Jasmine" is China's famous folk song, originated in Nanjing Liuhe folk singing for a hundred years, "flower tune", by the military composer He imitation from the compilation of the compilation of folk songs from the Liuhe organized by the completion of the 1957 adaptation of the song, the words of the song has been in the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, the handover of power, the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games and other major venues performed. In China and the international has a very high visibility, widely celebrated, is one of the representative elements of Chinese culture, because of its special status and representation, known as "China's second national anthem".
Thinking about all this, and then thinking about this morning when I first encountered it was "although I have long heard of your name, but meet do not know it." It's a shame.
From this, I really thank the old man who sells flowers. She in this jasmine blooming season, those I have long admired the small flowers one by one from the flower tree picked down, with a needle and thread into a string of beautiful garlands like pearl necklaces, put me home on the side of the road to sell. It is only today that I have a close contact with these beautiful flowers, only let me firmly remember their names and looks, and this morning it brought me so many memories of the soul of "jasmine" to explore. Thanks to these fragrant jasmine flowers, I was not acquainted with the old flower seller, but today because of this small jasmine flowers have such a meeting and conversation in this life. In this way, the old man selling flowers is simply an unknown "flower soul spreader".
And think about this morning I appreciated the lotus in Cuihu Lake. Lotus is undoubtedly noble, "out of the mud without dyeing", but because it grows in the mud, I never had the opportunity to walk into a good gaze at the beauty of it, not to mention like jasmine to hold it in the palm of the hand hanging on the neck. So, compared to those colorful and dazzling flowers, I prefer this light and friendly little jasmine. You see, it is so quietly open, with the world, never rendered itself, but there are always people who love it. Life is not so? We were born with a difference, the situation is high and low, but the key is how they look at it, is a flower to bloom, regardless of its noble and humble, and encountered a beautiful people and things, we must be the first time to cherish to take, leaving a beautiful fragrance and beautiful memories.
After drinking tea, the doorbell rang, the son came back from class. Once home, the little guy was attracted by the fragrance of the flowers "Mom, so beautiful and fragrant flowers ah, what is its name?"
"Jasmine!"
"So fragrant, so beautiful!" My son pouted and sniffed again.
Looking at my son's intoxicated look, I remembered the Taiwanese writer Lin Ching-hsuen wrote in his essay "Wild Ginger Flowers", "When we walk casually, we come across a flower seller, maybe spend a little money to buy a handful of flowers, sometimes to keep for their own enjoyment, sometimes to give to a friend, no matter how to deal with it, it will always be worthwhile to pay for the price of flowers, right?
Yes, a small bunch of jasmine, fragrant me all morning, the fragrance intoxicated our family, super value super value!
Jasmine children, next year when the flowers bloom, and about to come to my home as a guest!
Jasmine, when it blooms next year, come visit me again!