The days of the ancients · Great Summer | Fireflies: air -shaped star meteorites, if the trees are born with flowers

The summer summer was near, Lin Zhong Jiu Xia moved.

Guilian opened the night, when the fireflies were empty.

， 苽 invites Confucian guests, 邀 长 苽 苽 苽.

On the rolling of the satellite, the history is waiting for the wind.

—— "Yong 24 Poetry · Da Summer June Middle"

The summer heat coincides with three volts, and Jiangnan is abnormal. Guatu is the order, and the puppets are Zhengsheng. At this moment, the heat of the ancients has become a common topic they face. In front of the window, the night is not a stubborn, and the grass of the forest, the fireflies fly, and the stars are a bit poetic to the secular fireworks.

Why did the ancients agree with the theory of "rotten grassy fireflies"

In the three summer, the grass is the fireflies.

Fireflies began to be active before and after heavy summer solar terms. In the understanding of the ancients, fireflies were centered. "Book of Rites · Monthly" contains: "The Moon of the Summer Summer is the Fireflies." ","

By the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen even explained more detailed explanations on the rotten fluid in "Compendium of Materia Medica". He believed that there were three types of fireflies, two of which were transformed by bamboo roots, one turned into bamboo roots, and there was another one. For water and fluorescence, live in the water.

Why can rot grass turn into a firefly? The scientist Zhu Xi has also thought about it. He gave an explanation: "The extreme of the brightness, so the faint category becomes the Ming category." The so -called thing must be reversed. firefly.

Not only can the rot can turn the fireflies, but the sperm and soul after death can turn the fireflies. However, these claims are far less vitality without rotten firing. Why is the ancients obsessed with the theory of rotten and firing? Today, people speculate that it is because of the environment of fireflies inhabiting, mainly based on humid and corrupt grass, and the ancients saw fireflies in and out of it, so they intuitively recognized the saying "rotten grassy fireflies".

In the Qing Dynasty, Cao Xueqin wrote "A Dream of Red Mansions" "Warm Xiangwu Ya Spring Lantern Riddle", and also made a mystery "Firefly" to guess the mystery. The book wrote:

After guessing for a long time, Baoqin laughed: "This meaning is deep. I wonder if it is the word" flower "of flowers and plants?" Li Yan laughed: "It's just yes." Laughing: "It's very wonderful, not a forage?" The crowd knew and said with a smile, "Okay!"

However, in ancient times, no one had doubted this view. Dai Yan, a writer of Yongjia (now Wenzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, said: Formula is in the grass, which is called "rotten grassy fireflies". But this volume is too small. Until modern times, with the introduction of science, Chinese talents gradually accepted grass and could not turn back.

"Graphics of the Book of Songs" (Japan · Xijing 徇)

How many lonely nights of fireflies have illuminated nights

Dark night light. From the moment the fireflies appeared, for hundreds of millions of years, it did not know how many people's lonely nights were illuminated. The openness is like Dongpo. On the night, there was also lamenting "dew -cold Wuye, lonely sleepless", and on that night, he also saw a pair of fireflies, "Yao Yao also begged for puppets, high houses flying together" Essence

In the worldly life that people worked hard day after day, one night in the bitter summer, a dazzling, rest, a weak golden light flashed, and people's eyes were about to accompany themselves to spend a whole long length with themselves. Xia's hair dancing with a light worm.

In the earliest poem "Poetry · Fengfeng · Dongshan" written by fireflies, people discovered the secular beauty it possessed.

A man who went out for three years, while returning to his hometown, thought about the context of the deserted home and his wife's lament:

Ivey is in the room, and is in the house.

Town Takuyan, Yiren.

Ivey is a kind of hilarious little worm; 蟏蛸 (xiāo shāo) is a spider.

In the room, like a wet bug climbing, beside the field, the little light of the fireflies flashed in the dark night.

Late Tang poet Zhou Yan wrote more detailed:

Shining and Juanjuan, the pond bamboo tree;

Flying on the fire, there was no smoke.

The rainy rain is not extinguished, and the light wind blows;

In the case of the old Zeng book, it was frequently suspended.

It grows in a humid and dark place such as the bamboo tree in the pond. The small wiper could not be extinguished, and the breeze was brighter as if it was burning. In the past, some people were poor, and they had collected them and placed them on the book case to illuminate reading.

In the last two sentences, the allusions of "Baoying Night Reading" are used. "Jinshu · Che Yan Biography" records: "He is diligent and tireless, learned more, and his family is not often oil.

Qing Mao's poetry products "Yaoyao Niao Xing"

"The rainy rain is not extinguished, the light wind blows to burn", and Li Bai wrote more magnificent to such a tiny light:

The rain was difficult to extinguish, and the wind was clearer.

If it is not from heaven, it will definitely be used as a moon edge.

Another late Tang poet Luo Yan also wrote fireflies:

Shuidian Qingfeng Yuhu opened, and the flying light came back by thousands of points;

There is no wind, no moon, long door, and the green moss is in front of the tadpoles.

When the breeze is beautiful, when there is no wind and no moon, the fireflies "flying a thousand points", running in front of the window, shining with moss, and a scene of illuminating the dark night.

Its beauty, the common people understand, the emperor also understands.

Liang Xiaogang in the Southern Dynasty wrote the fireflies very beautifully:

The autumn grass will be messed up, and the wind is light today.

The empty star meteorite, if the trees are flowing.

The screen is suspected of the fire, and the curtain is like night pearls.

Every time he picks up the light, this life is light.

When flying, it is as shiny as meteorite, and it looks like a flower on the tree. It looks like an immortal flame on the screen. It is a night pearl parked on the curtain. Is there a more exaggerated metaphor than this? Emperor Sui Yang once "sought fireflies, got countless, and went out of the mountains at night, and it was all over the rock valley." The mountains are all over the wild, and the fluorescent lights are blooming, such as tens of thousands of lights, in which it is in it, or overlooking from a high place, it is a kind of magnificent. Emperor Sui Yang, who was still the same, later built a "Found Founding Garden" in Yangzhou.

Over -effect, Guanfu Entertainment quickly became popular. The Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu's "Playing Fireflies" cloud: "The season becomes declining, and it looks near the new autumn. The Yueyue shadow converges, and the bamboo light recovers." Describes the situation of the people watching fireflies. In the Qing Dynasty, some people specially caught fireflies to sell them to make fireflies. Li Dou wrote in "Yangzhou Painting Record":

There are many fireflies in the northern suburbs, and the natives of the natives are lanterns. They are tied to the line to Nanjun in the line holes. Its formula, circle, hexagonal, octagonal and painting, and pagoda belong to the "fire fireflies".

Perhaps the fireflies are too beautiful. He wrote in the poem:

When Yuehei saw fishing lanterns, lonely light.

The micro -breeze clusters, scattered as a river star.

When he wrote this poem, Cha Shenxing was 38 years old. He returned to his father in Jiangnan, his father -in -law took a serious illness from Beijing for four months. A little lonely on the river, such as a fireflies in the dark night, after the wind passed, the lights were scattered as the stars of the river. Perhaps, such a tiny fireflies gave him a slightly comfortable and depressed journey with a little consolation.

"You are small, but you are not small"

Fireflies were born in the microbes (rotten grass), but they came with their own light, so in the past literati chanting, they had a different meaning. In the pen of the unsatisfactory person, it is the pearl dust, and in the hard -working person's pen, it is a symbol of self -reliance.

Yu Shinan, one of the four people in the early Tang Dynasty, wrote:

The flowing light is small, and the wings are weak.

Fearless of no one, secretly clearing alone.

Yu Shinan is a bachelor of Hongwen Museum. Although she is timid and weak, she has a strong temperament and bluntly. Although the fireflies are "small flowing", they are "dark alone". This is also Yu Shinan's expectation of himself.

The personality of fireflies has also been recognized by King Luo Bin. He wrote in "Firefly":

There is a way of a gentleman, not bullying in the dark room;

With no trace of people, Huai Mingyi should respond.

The poet of the Qing Dynasty Zhao Zhixin borrowed fireflies to encourage the fire, hoping to achieve something:

He Yu also worn the house, and the wind suddenly over the wall.

Although the grass is quality, it does not borrow the moon as light.

To understand the sense of beauty, please talk about the sac.

Jun saw the sky, why is it a big star.

Although the background was cold, he never borrowed the moon as light. But what is the difference between the fireflies falling in the empty space? What is the light from the light of the stars? Intersection The poet in Shandong, a 14 -year -old Xiucai, a seventeen -year -old, at the age of 18, a jinshi at the age of eighteen, and later served as Youchunfang Youzan and Hanlin Academy for review.

"Do not use the moon as light", this kind of autonomy independent in heaven and earth has given tiny fireflies a deterrent force. In popular novels, we often see such sentences: how can the light of fireflies compete with Hao Yue. But "I" is "I", why do you want to compete with others? Yuan Mei has poems. It makes moss flowers lose its independent personality. "Chunfeng Xianfa Garden Zhongmei, cherry apricot pear opened for the second time. In the deep village of Huyu Yuma Pod, Chunfeng also came for me." The elm pod, there is also a moment when it blooms, either to learn, either for whom, it is to bloom for themselves. The same is true for fireflies. On a sultry summer night, it exudes its own light, flying in the grass of the forest, bringing people a beautiful visual enjoyment; at the same time, it walks freely in the night and brings spiritual consolation and encouragement. As the Indian poet Tagore said, "You are small, but you are not small."

(Yangzi Evening News reporter Zang Lei)

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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