The implication of traditional Chinese plant painting is that flowers and trees are also sentimental.

If in the artificial nature museum of gardens, stone symbolizes death and water symbolizes vanity, then the juxtaposed plants symbolize ubiquitous life.

People exist in the overlapping symphony of life and death, and ruthless vegetation is also endowed with thousands of desires or understanding of life.

Our ancestors did not roughly classify plants as "lower creatures", but regarded them as a station of reincarnation. Branches, leaves or stamens, like the waist, hair or face, are the containers of the spirit of all things, the appearance of a dream bubble. The vegetation between heaven and earth is even more intelligent and affectionate than people in the secular world.

The first section of Queshe loose wood

"the craftsmen and stones are all together. As for Quyuan, see the oak society tree." It is a wood of no talent. " -"the World of Zhuangzi"

In Quyuan of the State of Qi, the craftsman found an oak tree regarded by the locals as a social tree. The oak community tree was surrounded by a hundred circumference, and the top of the tree was high above the top of the mountain, but he was dismissive of the huge tree that was enough to build more than a dozen ships. Because in the view of the craftsman's stone, this is a useless wood, its wood shipbuilding will sink, its utensils will be easily destroyed, the door will flow fat but not seams, and the beams and pillars must be eaten by moths.

In the Qing Dynasty, Lang Shining's Songxian Yingzhi Picture, 242.3 × 157.1cm, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

As a useless "loose wood" to craftsmen, oak trees can flourish until now.

In fact, Zhuangzi developed Laozi's useless way with the image of oak society tree. Laozi once said, "A man's life is weak, and his death is strong." The life of all things is soft and crisp, and its death is haggard. Therefore, the strong is the dead, and the weak is the living. If you are strong, you will not be defeated, but if you are strong, you will break. Therefore, the strong is lower than the weak, and the weak is higher. "

A man's muscles and bones are soft when he is alive, but become stiff after death. All plants grow soft and brittle, while death becomes dry and hard. So strong things belong to the category of death, weak things belong to the category of vitality. Therefore, being brave in a war cannot be won, just as trees will be cut down when they flourish. Those who are strong are at a disadvantage; those who are weak are at the top.)

Yuan Dynasty, Wuzhen "Shuangsong map axis", silk ink, 111.4 × 180cm, now hidden in the Palace Museum in Taipei

Tao is natural, and Laozhuang's vanity of "the use of the useless" infiltrates into the bone marrow of ancient literati.

The fame of loyalty and righteousness is the bright pursuit of the whole world, but the shadow of the scattered trees of the oak society is also like a shadow.

The second secret song of mountain ghosts

"pick three shows in the mountains, Shi Lei Lei Xi GE Man Meng." -Nine songs of Chu ci

The ancient word "Chu" means the country in the trees of Maoze, and the songs of Chu is the song of twinkling among dark plants.

Ming Dynasty, Lu Ji "Peony Golden Rooster", silk color, 184.3 × 100cm, now hidden on gallery, China

In the romantic belief, the primitive plant worship has a strong witchcraft color. The vigorous vitality of plants in Nine songs symbolizes its exuberant vitality. They are the medium of mutual delight, or like glue and lacquer itself. Many recorded plants do have the effect of stimulating lust and improving fertility, which is closely related to survival and reproduction.

"Ganoderma lucidum is picked in the mountains, and the stones are tangled with vines."

In the Qing Dynasty, the anonymous "the Picture of the Twelve Beauties of Yongzheng", with the color of the silk, is now hidden in the Imperial Palace in Beijing.

The plants in the hands of Yuanshan ghosts are not only a mysterious agent of youth, but also a sacred fountain of joy. Plants are the spokesmen or incarnations of the gods.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Ma Lin's "Yu Beauty Picture", the color of the silk book.

After the songs of Chu, qu Yuan listed dozens of plants in Lisao. He dressed in flowers and plants and wiped his tears with all kinds of orchid vanilla flowers when he missed crying. Qu Yuan's image in Lisao began to gradually integrate with plants, and the gap between human beings and plants was filled by qu Yuan's strong passion, love, desire and desire. He seems to have become the Narcissus in Greek mythology, showing self-pity and turning into immortal grass in the water singing the secret songs of mountain ghosts with deep feelings.

The third paragraph of the wonderful method Lianhua

"Yubao Lianhua makes endless hundreds of trillions of tricks and joys." The Lotus Sutra of the wonderful method

In times of war or peace and prosperity, misfortune is like an iceberg under the sea, and sentient beings need comfort. Buddhism was widely popular in China at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it was not until the Northern Wei Dynasty that it was designated as a state religion.

Five dynasties, Gu Deqian's "Waterfowl Picture of Lianchi", silk color, 150.6 × 91cm, now hidden in the National Museum in Tokyo, Japan

In the Mahayana classic Lotus Sutra, the lotus is the plant incarnation of the two methods: on the first level, the lotus is introverted; on the second level, the lotus is pure and clean; on the third level, the lotus flowers, leaves and fruits grow together and are regarded as transcending time and space.

In modern times, Gao's picture axis of silk lotus frogs in Penglai, 78 × 37cm, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

One of the eight auspicious signs of Sakyamuni's birth is the sudden appearance of a white lotus as big as a wheel in the pool. In the western paradise described in the Amitabha Sutra, there are also "seven treasures in the land of bliss, eight merit and water."... The description of the lotus flower in the pond is as big as a wheel, so the Buddhist kingdom is also known as "Lotus Kingdom". The lotus flower takes root in the mud, just as people live and die in the sea of bitterness; they grow gradually from the mud until they come out of the water, just as Buddhists are freed from troubles until the pure earth is cool.

In the Song Dynasty, Wu Bing's "hibiscus out of the water", the color of the silk book, 23.8 × 25.1cm, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

In the 28th Pu Yin Bodhisattva's advice in the Lotus Sutra, the Pu Yin Bodhisattva and the innumerable Bodhisattvas went from the east to listen to the Dharma, and the kingdoms shook all the way, and the lotus flowers fell from heaven. The flower blossoms to see the surname of the Buddha, and the lotus promises that the thoroughly enlightened person with complete merit and virtue will reach the pure land of bliss through its body, but in the earthly world, he can only take the lotus as a boat and the sea of suffering.

During the Muromachi era in Japan, Toshino Masaishi "Zhou Mao Shu Ailian Tu" is a light-colored paper ink painting. 84.5 × 33.0cm is now hidden in the Kyushu National Museum in Japan.

"Life is like an illusion, and you should return to nothingness in the end." Perhaps rooted in the swamp of life, the nothingness lotus blossoms out of the mud.

The fourth paragraph is Caozhou flower demon.

"if you are single-minded, ghosts and spirits can communicate, and those who are biased cannot be said to be ruthless." -"Strange Tales of Liaozhai"

The study Yan thought that any creature could be transformed into a human form to disperse loneliness, and plants were no exception.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Congxun's "Spring full Picture of Peony", 26 × 26cm in silk, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Luoyang people often love peonies. After seeing a beautiful woman in Caozhou Garden, they fell in love with each other and eloped back to Luoyang. Chang Dayong, who married a good wife GE towel, still couldn't help feeling curious and skeptical about his wife's true identity and secretly went back to Caozhou to investigate, only to find that his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cao, was a gorgeous peony. After returning to Luoyang, the tempting words often used infuriated GE Zi. The angry wife threw the child into the courtyard and fell to the ground, and he and his sister disappeared without a trace.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the picture axis of embroidered peony pheasant, 108 × 64cm is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Pu Songlin said through the mouth of Yi Shi: "since you are single-minded in love and can communicate with ghosts and spirits, then flowers are not merciless things!" Didn't Bai Juyi say:'if you are unmarried and lonely in spring, you will be your wife when the flowers bloom'? As long as they are considerate, they are a good couple, so why investigate the root causes? "

During the reign of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, Heidi bronze painting enamel peony flower cigarette bottle, high 4.7cm, Beijing Poly

Plant fantasy girls, body and spirit are beyond the flow of women of the same generation, they become human forms, but in the lonely years, they want to have a taste of love. Such erotic fantasies have been hidden under the four Books and five Classics to soothe the hearts of many literati.

The hero does not ask the provenance, as long as the beauty is gentle and lingering like a flower, why investigate where she comes from?

The fifth paragraph of crimson pearl blood and tears

"I will also be a man in the afterlife, but give him back all the tears of my life." -A Dream of Red Mansions

In A Dream of Red Mansions, the metaphorical system is intricate, and there are always some clues in this world that implicitly point to a deeper fate.

In the Qing Dynasty, Fei Danxu's "Daiyu burial Flowers", paper color, 20.3 × 27.7cm, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing

The Daguan Garden has luxuriant plants in four seasons, and each beauty has its own corresponding plants. Hibiscus, Xiaoxiang bamboo and lotus have all been used to describe Lin Daiyu, but when it comes to provenance, Lin Daiyu's predecessor is the only plant from heaven.

For the first time in the book, he explained the injustice of the previous life: "only because there is a crimson pearl grass on the bank of the Ling River in the West and by the stone bank of Sansheng."... Take off the grass tire wood, can transform into a human form, unexpectedly repair into a female body. " In order to repay the grace of Shenying waiter, Crimson pearl fairy grass also followed him in the next life, intending to repay the tears of his life to him.

In the Song Dynasty, the anonymous "Furong" is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Taipei.

Crimson pearl grass is commonly known as "Lady of Red Mushroom". It was born in the wild grass on the barren slope of Northeast China. Its life period is short, and it comes to an abrupt end by frost when it is the reddest in late autumn.

Crimson beads, red beads, metaphorical blood and tears.

If we say that the flower demon in Liaozhai's fantasies represents the ancient literati's physical imagination of women, Lin Daiyu represents the supreme spiritual pursuit. She comes from vanity and will eventually return to vanity. "every heart is blazing" is only men, love is also destined to be a pursuit of blood and tears.

Man is not a plant, how can he be ruthless?