I said the lotus pod is not a fruit but a flower, right?

Not long ago, I wrote to you about the fireworks of the lotus (review | the lotus is not as immortal as you think, she is delicious! ), many medicine fans say that their love for lotus is even deeper.

How is it enough for the lotus to write once? last time I said flowers, this time I want to talk about the fruit-lotus pod.

In the eyes of April, Lianpeng is as magical as cotton. Originally, they are simple cash crops, I do not know one day people pass by the flower shop, found it, hey, this product can also arrange flowers? Not bad. I didn't hesitate to buy a few.

It is guaranteed in April that after reading this article, Nimeng will love the lotus pod very much.

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Wang Yuliang

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Lotus canopy flower arrangement

In the Jiangnan water village in August and September, mobile stalls put away the Magnolia Gardenia and began to sell lotus pods. A touch of green lotus fragrance is the most heat-clearing and fire-relieving "elixir" under the scorching sun in the south.

When you talk about lotus pods, you will think of lotus seeds that can be eaten. The children were the first diners of lotus pods. "they most liked the death of children and peeled off lotus pods in Xitou." the lotus seeds were still young, so they peeled them off and ate them.

Do you think you will write about eating lotus pods again in April? No, I'm not foodie. There's really nothing to say about the way Lianpeng is eaten.

My favorite is to eat tender lotus seeds raw.

The lotus canopy picked in the morning sucked the dew all night.

The sweetest.

Or peel it, peel it, cook it.

Boil soup and porridge, and Gollum is over.

Simple, simple, there is no fancy way to eat, the taste is also bitter back to sweet, like its appearance, a green head on a stem, no decoration. No matter how you look at it, beauty will not be used to describe it.

But when someone put the lotus canopy in a bottle and put a delicate bone, the guy's temperament suddenly changed. at this time, beauty can no longer be used to describe it.

Perhaps the lotus pod is the receptacle where the pistil of the lotus is buried, and the love of the lotus is also transferred to the lotus canopy. In our country, the lotus pod, like the lotus flower, has the meaning of holiness and serenity.

The lotus petals of the Buddha statue are all around the lotus pod. The lotus is elegant and beautiful, and the lotus is thick, heavy and simple, which coincides with the beauty of the combination of elegance and solemnity in Buddhism.

Flower arrangement with lotus pod is not a flash of inspiration for a florist. In the early six dynasties, lotus pod became an online celebrity flower material in summer and autumn. The literati's desk likes to insert one or two lotus pods to show their interest.

A maid in the frescoes of Princess Changle's Tomb in the Tang Dynasty

The vase in hand is filled with red lotus buds and lotus pods.

The dress of the palace maid also matches the flowers.

In the Qing Dynasty, when Fu Heng was about three or four years old

Missionary Lang Shining painted a picture of "JuRui".

Lotus, lotus leaf and lotus canopy are placed in a bottle.

The height is scattered, the line is free and elegant, full of charm.

Lotus pod is also a very important flower material in Japanese flower path, which is deeply influenced by Chinese traditional culture. In the Book of four Seasons Flowers, Toshiro Kawase said: "when I was young, I thought that lotus shouldered the important task of taking people to heaven."

The long, straight stem of a lotus.

And the principle of "standing Flowers" in the Huadao School "Chi Fang"

Coincidentally, in the works of Chi Fang

We often see lotus pods.

White lotus, curly lotus leaves

The independent lotus pod

It forms a quiet little scene.

On the other hand, Lianpeng, which is divorced from the deep imprint of traditional culture, is much freer in the use of western flower arrangement, showing no longer the beauty of nobility and stillness.

The head of the lotus pod is round and heavy.

Can act as a clump of flowers in a bouquet.

Together with lotus and hydrangea, it matches very well.

At the same time, it has beautiful stems.

Curved or upright lines

It can make the work more hierarchical and free.

Lotus canopy in the collocation of flower arrangement

There are no big taboos.

The most common is the white-green bouquet.

With large leaves or linear flowers.

Match with pink-purple system

Unexpectedly think that the round lotus pod is kind of cute.

What's going on?

A bouquet in yellow

A lotus canopy with a heavy feeling

It creates a sense of autumn harvest.

On the table, their bodies are crooked and twisted

The lotus pod is not only elegant and noble, but also has the meaning of many children, it is also often used in the wedding hand bouquet. It's just that the bouquet with lotus pod may hurt when it is hit by luck.

White and green hydrangeas, roses, lotus pods

Add some simple foliage

A bunch of natural style hand-held flowers will become.

In the handheld flowers of the waterfall

A thick lotus pod is needed to hold the main bouquet.

The drooping part is set off with more elegance.

A pile of green leaves and lotus canopies

A bunch of forest-like hands.

Compared with the fresh lotus canopy, the dry lotus, which seems to be quiet and full of Zen, is more outstanding in the hand holding flowers.

Match with red and orange

Lianpeng has no sense of harmony in it.

On the contrary, it makes the gorgeous colors a little more elegant.

In the light-colored bouquet

Bitter lotus makes the work a bit wild.

The hand bouquet with the imperial flower as the visual focus

The lotus canopy is surrounded by a fuller foil.

With pink and white colors and daisies

Unexpectedly, lotus pod can also become a little fresh.

Away from the withered lotus in the specific scene of holding flowers in hand, there is a kind of beauty of Zen, which is cold, introverted and free.

When the green lotus grows in the water, most people don't think it's beautiful, but as soon as the autumn wind is over, the lotus is scattered into mud, the lotus is roasted copper by the autumn tiger, and the upright stem is bent with heavy fruit.

No matter how ruthless people walk by, they can't help but marvel at the beauty of its depression. I want to put a few withered lotus on my desk and look at its glory, brilliance and solitude.

With flowers and dead leaves

It is an independent and lonely Lord in the flowers.

The huge lotus canopy is hidden in the broken yellow flowers.

There is a handful of little flowers picked up in the autumn fields.

Pick up a few fallen leaves and insert a withered lotus

The loneliness of autumn is coming.

With pine cones and dried flowers

You can make a wreath full of wild country wind.

The withered lotus in the floral headdress of the fashion world

It shows another kind of aloof beauty.

I am anxious to insert withered lotus, but now I can't buy it, so I might as well buy a fresh lotus to dry. The method of air drying is simple:

1. Choose the flawless long-handle lotus canopy, hang it upside down and put it in the shade tuyere to dry.

two。 Dry environment is easy to air-dry, about 10 days. Do not get wet in the process of air drying.

3. The air-dried lotus canopy will naturally form a copper-like color.

Whether they are fresh lotus pods or withered lotus flowers, they are always the same before they are cut and arranged, either looking up at the scorching sun or bending over the pond water. It raised its head proudly and gave birth to a simple son on the other. What seems to be a contradiction is exactly where it is beautiful.

Enjoying the lotus canopy, the scorching sun and the pure lotus, or the remaining lotus listening to the rain, freshness and elegance coexist with elegance, brilliance and depression coexist, which is its most beautiful place, and it is also the philosophy that Lianpeng tells us.

It is not long to enjoy the lotus pod in a year.

Buy some lotus canopies and put them at home.

It's like bringing back a lotus root pond in the south of the Yangtze River.

So, in April, Lianpeng is also a kind of "flower".

Will you take it or not?

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