Summer lotus and the lotus of the ancients

There are many ancient people in Eli, and there are many poets for Lianfu, but the gentleman culture of the lotus "out of the mud without dyeing, the clear and clear but not the demon" is qualitative. Essence

This "Love Lotus" is not long, but it almost includes many scholars since the Tang Dynasty.

▲ The "Jinling Family Landscape Flower Books-Xie Ye Loin Page" Beijing Palace Museum Collection

First of all, it is the "purity" of the Buddhist house from the Southern Dynasty to the Tang Yilian.

At this time, the "no mud lotus" was gradually formed in the Zen style to represent the cultural resonance of "not dyed" in the heart, such as Li Xin's "never with water, cleaning the cause"; , Lotus does not have the water in the autumn ponds "; Bai Juyi's" like white lotus, no water in the water "means to be separated from the pure heart from the lotus from the water, which is used to metaphorize" the heart is not disturbed by foreign objects. "

Relative to this is the heart of "the true nature of Li Qunyu, the real nature of Li Qunyu, the green lotus", the "Most Madman swim in Chu Guo, the lotus is only in the mud, and the lotus flowers are only in the mud. "Sheng", essentially, is also a distribution of another angle of "pure heart".

The above "not water" and "true nature" are the former theoretical accumulation of "the sludge instead of staining the mud without dyeing, the clearing of the linger without the demon" of Zhou Dunyi's "Love Lotus".

▲ Ming Wenjia's "Lotus Coupling Pure Map" Taipei Palace Museum Collection

The most prominent lotus culture in the Song Dynasty was the "gentleman lotus", and it was the ideal personality of the gentleman to use the lotus.

And Zhou Dunyi is the fixed person of Lian's "gentleman nature". The so -called "Zhongtong is straight, not vines and no branches", which is the embodiment of the Confucian ideas of "Zhongzheng Renyi". The integration of the heart and gentleman virtue -is the embodiment of Buddhism that gradually approach Confucianism, and the two. "Yuzhi chrysanthemum, the hidden people of flowers; peony, rich and rich people; lotus, gentleman of the flower also. 噫! Chrysanthemum love, Tao Hou rarely smells. Who is the person who is the same? Love, should be crowded! "

In the second half of "Love Lotus", each flower has theorem: chrysanthemum is a hidden person, peony is the rich, and the lotus is a gentleman -at this time, the lotus officially establishes a close connection with the ideal personality of the Confucian gentleman.

▲ Southern Song Dynasty "Lotus Map" Shanghai Museum Collection

As a kind of thing, the lotus has received widespread attention from the literati class in the Tang Dynasty, such as the essential white lotus in the garden of literati.

For example, the volume of "The Gengwen" of "The Great Tangwen" contains the "Cottage": "It is also ... Huanchi Tongshan Bamboo Wildness, the white lotus and white fish in the pond." "The beauty of its water, the heavy Lotus of Bai Pingzhou, the white lotus of Furong Lake.", Can be used as a general case.

By the Song Dynasty, as the "gentleman" of the lotus became more and more clear, the appearance characteristics of the lotus were also applied to the commonly used utensils of life. The performance method is not restricted: engraving, printing; outer wall decoration, heart decoration; lotus petal elements, panoramic depictions ... can be described as exquisite charm and rich meaning.

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Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln green glaze lotus leaf small bowl

Song Yaozhou kiln green glaze engraved flower water wave lotus pattern tank

Song Bai Glazed Flower Wandering Branch Lotus Pats

Song Yaozhou kiln green glaze printing lotus pattern washing

Song Ding kiln white glaze inside and outside the inside and outside of the pyramid, the lotus lotus pattern, fold the waist

Among them, Longquan kiln makes one more lotus petal pattern, which looks very elegant and cute. From the edge of the bowl to the edge of the foot on the outer wall, a circle of lotus pattern is scratched vertically.

▲ Song Longquan kiln green glaze engraved Hualien pattern bowl Beijing Palace Museum Tibetan

Song Longquan kiln green glaze convex carved lotus petal pattern bowl Beijing Palace Museum Tibetan

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