Jay Chou, you told me, what kind of flower is Chang Yu's need?

Yesterday, the MV of Jay Chou's new song "The Great Works" was officially released. In the MV, Zhou Dong traveled through time and space like Dr. Who, met famous masters such as Dali, Changyu, Monet, Xu Zhimo, etc. Two flowers. Hmm ... the flowers of these two shots are really interesting, it is worth saying.

What kind of flowers do Chang Yu want?

The first thing to go out is "Chang Yu's flowers". What flowers are on the lonely branches?

Lyrics: Lonely branches can grow Changyu's flowers ｜ "The Great Works" MV screenshot

In Chang Yu's original work, it is difficult for us to find a kind of potted plant in the MV. The closest should be this "fruit tree in the pot".

Chang Yu's "Fruit Tree in the Pot", the English name is FRUITING and Flowering Potted Plant, is now in the Taiwan History Museum, China

There are flowers and fruits in the potted plants in the painting, and the flowers that Zhou Dong displayed to Chang Yu in the MV is lily -from the perspective of the flower shape, most of them are more like Oriental Lily.

The so -called Oriental Lily is not a species, but a product in modern gardening lily. The various lilies we see in the flower shop are no longer the original species, but the hybrids obtained by domestication after many years of domestication. Among these hybrids, several common products include: Asian lily, Oriental lily, musk lily, and speaker lily; different products can also be hybridized, named after the first letters, such as LO, LA, and so on.

Musk Lily is also very common ｜ Katrina Wiese / Wikimedia Commons

There are two special places that appear in the MV.

The first is those pale red lilies. Their color and drooping posture are similar to the variety of medicine lilies. Medicine lily is one of the important hybrids of Oriental Lily. Their flowers often have dense red dots. The Japanese call it deer lily, which means that it looks like a spots on the sika deer. There are many varieties of medicine lilies. The background color of the flowers is white and red, and the red and red and semi -red are also there are pure white and spots.

Medicine lily's flowers have dense red dots on the tablet | kusabanaph.web.fc2.com

The second thing is worthy of the conspicuous purple and blue lilies in the middle of the bonsai. The gardening lilies we usually see, except for white, are mostly yellow, orange, red, pink and other colors, and there are no types of purple and blue. In fact, lily also has the potential to open blue and purple flowers.

Blue Lily Life almost can't see ｜ "The Great Works" MV screenshot

The color of lily flowers comes from two types of substances -carotene and anthocyanin. Among them, the red, orange and the red tone of the orange tone are derived from carotene -like, and the dark red with pink and purple tones comes from anthocyanins.

Anthocyanins are a large type of substance that contains many types. It is combined with sugars in plant cells to generate colorful anthocyanins (colorfulinin). Some people have tested some pink and dark lily varieties, and found that the anthocyanins contained in their flowers are mainly chrysanthemums. Its colorfulins formed are usually purple in a neutral environment. When the pH decreases by about 3 It becomes red, and when it is raised to about 11, it will become blue. In other words, lilies have the basic substances of blooming blue flowers and purple flowers, but because the conditions of the pH of the liquid foam are not satisfied, blue and purple cannot be displayed.

Like this color, it comes from anthocyanide ｜ Rhododendrites / Wikimedia Commosn

The pH of the liquid foam involves many physiological processes, and the whole body is led by the whole body. Even if it can be changed, it is basically impossible to make big changes. However, the types of anthocyanins can be quickly changed through genetic engineering means. Many blooming plants, colorful anthocyanins are flying swallows, and they can show blue without the need for high environment pH. Lily lacks the gene of synthetic flying swallow grass, so it is not enough to transfer it to related genes.

In fact, someone has done this. The Institute of Agricultural Comprehensive in Niigata Prefecture, Japan has cooperated with Sanheli Company (yes, that is, the Sanchali of Beer and Oolong Tea). Ten years ago, it claimed to cultivate a blue lily flower that could synthesize Feiyan grass. However, the lilies they got at the time were still purple. Ten years have passed, and we have not seen the blue lily.

The color of Lily itself is already very rich. If anyone tells you, TA has the same blue lily flower in Zhou Dong. According to the current situation, it is likely that it is just dyed

How can I have no iris?

Now that when it comes to lily, the MV is in Paris again, and naturally the most representative coat-de-lis "Fleur-de-lis" in France will naturally think of France.

On the emblem of Paris, the yellow "fork" is the rabble of the iris, and the emoji of "iris" also grows like this ⚜️ | Wikimedia Commons

"LIS" means lily flower, so someone translates it into a lily pattern; in fact, otherwise, this heraldic painting is iris flower, which is the French national flowers. Iris Pallida. In the MV of Zhou Dong, some shots seem to have the decoration of iris, but I don't see it clearly. I hope that any of the fiery -eyed friends can confirm it. Xianggen Iris ｜ David Stang / Zipcodezoo.com

The aroma of fragrant iris lies not in the flowers, but exists in the root stems. Fresh root stems have no taste. After several years of dry storage, Iris will be slowly formed, which is also the main aromatic substance of fragrant iris. When people extract spices, they will grind the dry iris root stems, and then distillate the essential oil with mild aroma from the powder. As for how Xianggen Iris first became a symbol of France, the statement was different. In short, in the last few hundred years, Iris Retic Malmon has been one of the most characteristic symbols in France.

Like lily, Iris plants now also have many gardening varieties, and Xianggen Iris is one of the relatives. The English name of Iris is derived from Greek, which means rainbow, and many gardener products are indeed as colorful as rainbow. There is a French area in Switzerland. There is a CheiTeau de Vulliers. I have made hundreds of iris together. I have a poor level of taking pictures.

Hundreds of iris varieties ｜ Desert Holy Pig

The color in the same flower is also rich ｜ Desert Hao Pig

See Lotus for Monet

Okay, it's far away, come back and talk about MV. When Zhou Dong met Monet, he changed a lotus flower from the mural.

Lyrics: Light wakes up asleep flowers and leaves ｜ "The Great Works" MV

This flower itself is made by CG. There are some unrealities and no harm. No need to talk about it. What is the most interesting place in this plot is what Zhou Dong is showing Monet?

In the later years, Monet drew a group of famous Impressionist works "Water Lily". The flowers painted were the water lilies in the garden pond in Monet.

Monet drew about 250 "Water Lily"

Strictly speaking, these are the gardening varieties of water lilies. In the genuine water lilies, the Chinese name of a plant is NymPhaea Tetragona, which is sometimes easy to confuse.

There are two types of common species of water lilies. One is cold -resistant water lilies. The leaves and flowers float on the water. The flowers are generally open during the day, closed at night, and the color lacks blue -purple. It can be seen from the painting that Monet's water lilies seem to be basically cold -resistant and sleeping lilies.

Cold Water Lily variety ｜ Desert Holy Pig

The other type is a tropical water lilies. Its leaves float water. The flowers usually stand out of the water. There are people open during the day and open at night. They have blue -purple flowers -the so -called "blue lotus" refers to it.

Tropical Water Lill variet

The murals showed to Monet to Monet, in reality, Hôtel D'évreux, which is located in Paris, is the style of gongbi and bird style of the Song Dynasty in my country. The content of the painting is not water lilies, but Nelumbo Nucifra, that is, lotus.

Mv scene ｜ poteletchabot.com

In the old classification system, Lian is considered a member of the Lili Department. Now, according to molecular evidence, we can already determine that although the appearance of lotus and water lilies has similar appearances, the classification status is actually far from, so the lotus is classified as the Lotus family. Essence There is only one genus in the Lotus family, namely the genus, and there are only two species in the genus Lotus, namely the Lotus and the American Nelumbo Lutea. The former is native to East Asia and the latter is native to North America.

Lotus may be the most familiar plant Chinese ｜ Peripitus / Wikimedia Commons

American Yellow Lotus ｜ Altairisfar / Wikimedia Commons

So at this perspective, this plot in the MV is that the contemporary musician Zhou Dong shows the lotus flower of modern French painter Monet, who is famous for his sleeping lilies. If such cultural exchanges really happen, what kind of work will be born? Perhaps, as the song name is said, it will be the greatest work.

If Monet saw the lotus, it may also be a future art | "The Great Works" MV screenshot

Author: Desert Hao Pig

Edit: Mai Mai

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