The flower in the nest Xu - Ou Mei on the mountain

With Yuhua and Fang Bide, from the source of Chinese poetry, "The Book of Songs" and "Li Sao", it has become more and more abundant with the continuous development of Chinese civilization. Plum blossom is a typical representative of it. After the songs of the literati of the past dynasties, plum blossom has exceeded the concept of the plant itself and has become a symbol of a beautiful spirit. In Lushan, Wuzhou, Anhui Province, there is a plum blossom, which was planted by Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is one of the four great Chinese birthday stars. The world also calls it "Ou Mei", and the poets of the past are also rich.

Among the many songs and inscriptions of Ou Mei's works, in the nine years of Qing Shunzhi (1652), the admiral of Jiangnan Xuezheng Li Yuyang inscribed on the wall of Ou Meitai, the "flower in the nest Xu" four characters, the most image, later Yangzhou eight strange One of them, Li Fangzhen, also left the story of "holding the pen and worshiping the plum" before the inscription on this stage. Nest Xu, refers to the nest father and Xu Yu, the ancient hermit. According to the Western Jin Dynasty imperial concubine "Gao Shi Chuan", Emperor Sui had to give way to the world, Xu believes that this is dirty ears, fled to the banks of the Lishui River to wash the ears; then the nesting father happens to prepare for the cattle to drink water, he I heard that after this incident, the cattle were brought upstream, and I didn’t want to wash the ear to contaminate the cattle. Later, the ancients referred to the ancient hermit and the sage of the ancient hermit, such as the nest, to refer to the noble sentiments of high morality and seclusion, so there is the word of the spirit of the nest. Li Yuyang inscribed "Flower Nest Nest", is to praise Ou Mei's spirit of nest Xu, and compare Ou Mei as a hermit sage in flowers.

Ou Mei on the Lushan Mountain, why is the hermit sage in the flower?

First of all, this is consistent with the characteristics of plum itself. This Ou Mei on the Lushan Mountain has a unique flowering period and does not compete with the group. Lu You sings plum blossoms in "Bu operator, 咏梅", "I don't want to struggle for spring, I am a group of fragrant scorpions. Zero is turned into mud and dust, only incense is like that." Plum blossoms are not in dispute with the hermits, but also in ancient times. A manifestation of a noble spirit. Therefore, Li Yuyang is like a plum, and Xu is very image.

?Secondly, more importantly, this plum blossom was planted by Ouyang Xiu, so Li Yuyang is a literary person who sings the character of Ouyang Xiu, like the nest father, Xu Yu and plum. In Chinese culture, borrowing scenery and expressing people is a literary tradition. As a governor Jiangnan Xuezheng, Li Yuyang has presided over the hospital test, patrolling the place, and inspecting the duties of the teacher and the good and the inferior. The inscription was created in the nine years of Qing Shunzhi, and it was the time when Manchu had just entered the Central Plains. Although Manchu is a foreign minority, if you do not actively adapt to China's national conditions, and actively integrate into Chinese culture, it will affect the basis of its rule. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty set up an adjunct for political affairs, and each province arranged one, and the imperial ministers visited the localities. Li Yuyang inspected the place of Zhangzhou and left the "Flower Nest Nest" inscription under the Ou Mei of Lushan. It was full of the profound meaning of carrying forward the noble culture of China as a literati.

With the economic, social and cultural development in the early Qing Dynasty, Cangzhou gradually recovered from the demise of the war in the late Ming Dynasty, and Ou Mei gradually began to be praised by the literati doctor who paid tribute to the remains of Ouyang Xiu. Among them, in the Qing Dynasty, Wenhao Wang Shizhen "Have a good look at this time, cold incense with bitterness" ("Three Rains drunk Weng Ting"), Zhang Pengyi "Eternal Ouyang Handzawa in the North Branch as if the old cold material" ("咏欧梅")), Zhang Yuduan's "pen flower competition, sprinkling spit, Lingrui also rely on algae sentence." ("咏古梅二首") and so on for the more prominent good poetry. These poems or 咏欧梅's character is high and clean, proud and righteous, or Song Ou Mei's extraordinary and refined, subtle and gentle, not only further enriched and expanded the image and connotation of Chinese plum blossoms, but also conveyed the noble character of Ouyang Xiu. Respectfulness.

Time flies, it has been more than 900 years since Ouyang Xiu planted this plum. Nowadays, "Flowers in the Nest" - Ou Mei on the Lushan Mountain, Laogan Litchi, Tree Shadows, and Flowers are still waiting for the next literati to make a poem for his poems. A beautiful article by Fang Bide.