Appreciation of the Full Text of Qin Mu's Flower City

Brief introduction of the author

Qin Mu (19 19 ~ 1992) was born in Hongkong, and his ancestral home was Chenghai, Guangdong. Uncle Lin, also known as Lin Peiguang, Lin Juefu and Lin, is a famous writer and essayist in China. When I was three years old, I moved to Singapore with my parents and returned to China at the end of 1932. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director of Guangzhou Editorial Department of Zhonghua Book Company, the vice chairman of Guangdong Branch of Chinese Writers Association, the deputy editor-in-chief of Yangcheng Evening News, and the director of China Literature Department of Jinan University. Literary activities involve many fields, including prose, novels, poetry, children's literature and literary theory. He is especially famous for his prose, such as the famous prose Land, Manna and Bee Sting, and the anthology Long River Waves.

The annual Guangzhou Lunar New Year Fair has always been very popular. In recent years, people often come from thousands of miles from the north to see the grand occasion of the flower market in South China. I often meet many international friends, and I am also intoxicated by the festive atmosphere in the East, and buy flowers with my domestic friends. In previous years, the flower market was grand enough, and this year, a new flower sea has emerged. Because the output of flowers and trees has increased after the rural people's commune, this year's Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival after the urban people's commune. Last year, thousands of housewives and residents in Guangzhou joined the production and other labor forces. In addition, this year, the party and * * * further arranged the holiday life of the masses. The supply of flowers and trees is unprecedented, and the number of people buying flowers is unprecedented. In addition to the original new year market, a new flower market has been opened. If you add up the lengths of several flower markets, I'm afraid "Shili Flower Street" will live up to its reputation. Before the flower market started, I stood on the bank of the Pearl River, overlooking the mighty Pearl River, which is the hub of 36 inland waterways in the province. However, among all kinds of boats and turbines, there are also wooden boats filled with flowers and potted plants, which come from Shunde, Gaoyao, Qingyuan, Sihui and other counties and carry the breath of early spring in the south and the hearts of farmers. "What beautiful flowers!" "There are many varieties of flowers this year!" People on the river bank can't help admiring. There is a cultural park in Guangzhou. This year, the park also arranged a large-scale "Spring Festival". Gardeners use bright potted flowers to pile up the big flowery characters of "beautiful mountains and rivers". In addition to all kinds of colorful famous flowers and fruits, there is also a big peach tree with burning flowers and a crown diameter of one meter. All this shows that the flower market in Guangzhou this year is unusual.

People often have this experience: when they encounter a lively and unfamiliar scene, their hearts are like a goose feather, itchy and numb, and they always want to describe everything they see and feel. I often have such an impulse to the New Year Flower Market in Guangzhou. Although I have described them in the past, this year, wandering in this particularly huge sea of flowers, I have this desire again.

The customs of the Lunar New Year are formed by our nation in thousands of years of history. We now have some new year's customs, which can be traced back to historical sites one or two thousand years ago. All this is closely related to many historical stories, folklore, the unique skills of skilled craftsmen and the aesthetic concepts of the masses. In China's New Year, some people will go for an outing, some will go boating, and some will go to a meeting ... This is the same as the Lantern Festival and the Water-splashing Festival abroad, each with its own life significance and poetry. During the Chinese New Year, there are always all kinds of tricks around us: putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, playing with lions, playing with dragon lanterns, running roller boats and setting off fireworks ... Everyone wears clean clothes and looks brand-new. Men cut their hair, women cut their pigtails and older girls put on flower ornaments. The northern proverb "honeydew melon sacrifices to the stove, girls need flowers during the Chinese New Year, young men want guns, and old men want new felt hats" describes this atmosphere to some extent. This is just for fun, just for fun? Can't we appreciate the long history of our national culture and people's warm yearning for a better future for thousands of years from this grand holiday mood? In the bitter days of the old society, not all natural working people could celebrate the New Year happily, but poor farmers should try to buy a New Year picture and put it on their doors. Young girls always tie a velvet flower in their braids and stick a red paper-cut by Zhang greatly on the window lattice, which is more enough to imagine people's strong yearning for a happy life no matter how hard it is. In the new era, the Chinese New Year custom, which deeply reflects the brand of the old society, has been abolished. Gambling, drinking, throwing burning firecrackers at dragon lantern dancers, strange taboos have disappeared. The Fengyang people who played monkeys, the Shimen people who ran around the rivers and lakes and tied paper flowers, the beggars who shook holly branches with copper coins, and the beggars who claimed to be the alms of Mount Emei in Wutai were all gone. And some beautiful customs have been carried forward, and some ancient customs have been given new content. Now we also set off firecrackers, but who would have thought that this has anything to do with superstitions such as "exorcism"! Now we also post Spring Festival couplets, but who would have thought that "time flies and spring blossoms;" The people have the party's strength soaring into the sky ","prancing across the knife and concentrating on driving the poor and helping the white; " Spring Festival couplets such as "flying flowers and green leaves, 600 million hand-embroidered mountains and rivers" can be compared with the ancient use of peach wood symbols to ward off evil spirits! Ancient festivals glow with youthful brilliance in the new era.

This is why we love those old and fresh festivals. The days of "the wind is white and the forest is black, and the fog fills the sky" have passed. The more beautiful the flowers on the earth are, how can people not love this beautiful southern flower market and enjoy the warmth of life from this grand flower market?

And people in the south are really good at arranging. They chose this program as the * * * program in Chinese New Year life. The sun is very hot. In Hainan Island, the hottest island in the south, there are some fruit trees like jackfruit, and their roots can also stick out from the ground to bear fruit. Some trees are sawn down to make stumps, but when they are inserted into the ground, they can sprout. In such a zone, as the poem of Chinese rose said: "It doesn't matter if flowers bloom and fall, and spring goes and spring comes." As early as a month before the Spring Festival, you can already see strings of bright flowers hanging on trees everywhere in the suburbs. In the flower market of the Lunar New Year, it is more artificial through the efforts of flower farmers and gardeners. All kinds of flowers appeared at four o'clock, except lotus and pomegranate in summer. Peony, bells, daffodils, dahlias, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, camellias, orchids ... flowers in spring, summer, autumn and winter are crowded together!

The largest flower market in Guangzhou this year is located on Taiping Road, which is the famous "Thirteen Lines" in history. The flower shed is a bit like a circus viewing shed, connected by layers. Flags of various communes, gardens and botanical gardens are flying there, and flower sellers are bidding loudly with a smile. The lights are gone, and it's a splendid sight. I roughly calculated the types of flowers, and this year it has been around 100. Looking at the sea of flowers and studying the treasures in plants with fragrant and trembling leaves and petals, you can't help but admire that people have chosen and arranged such a scene as * * * to welcome spring. What a coincidence! Qian Qian's 10,000 smiling flowers seem to be smiling, whispering in a crisp voice: "Spring is coming! Spring is coming! " People who buy flowers put flower trees on their heads and potted flowers on their shoulders, and the flow of people seems to have become a strange flow of flowers again. Southerners appreciate these messengers of spring very much. Everyone appreciates not only flowers, but also green leaves and fresh fruits. Potted fruits such as kumquat, Four Seasons Orange and Qing Ji Fruit like stars are more popular. But in this special city where the Spring Festival broke up at dawn, it seems that everything is related to flowers. The goldfish in the fish stall reminds people of the flowers in the water; Shells and corals on seafood stalls remind people of flowers in the sea; As for porcelains such as sapphire, scarlet, azure and famille rose, as well as ancient calligraphy and painting on antique bookshelves, it reminds people of another kind of flower that never fades, which was created by the ancients skillfully.

Hanging Bell, Peach Blossom, Peony and Narcissus are particularly attractive flowers in Guangzhou Flower Market. Especially this unique clock in the south, I think we should pay special attention to it. This is a perennial shrub, which blooms first and then leaves. When the bud is not open, it is wrapped in a thick scaly shell. When it blooms, the pink Jason Chung-shaped flower hangs from the scaly bracts. Usually a bud has seven or eight flowers, and some have as many as ten. According to the distinguished guests from North Korea, this kind of flower is also considered as a treasure in North Korea. Peony is known as the king of flowers, but most of the peony in the flower market in South China are bare and can't see the leaves, which is really "no room for drunken makeup". Only this wall clock shows extraordinary vitality. Inserting it in a vase can not only bloom but also send leaves. These Jason Chung-shaped flowers, swaying in the wind in clusters, make people seem to hear the bell of Rinrin's spring return.

The lingering flower market evokes people's deep feelings about national life. We are in perfect harmony with all these old and young things. Just like Beijingers visiting Changdian, Shanghainese visiting Chenghuang Temple and Suzhou visiting Xuanmiao Temple, they get a particularly cordial feeling. Looking at the splendid flowers and enjoying the colorful flowers, it is really wonderful to think that Guangzhou has suddenly become a "flower city" in one day, and almost all the people in the city come out to enjoy the flowers at night.

In the long history of the old society, only a few people could buy flowers. Now it is common for a textile worker to carry a pot of peach blossoms home from the flower market, and a steel worker to buy a pot of kumquat on his head. Listening to the flower sellers and flower buyers asking each other about the news of spring, people deeply realized that the joy of hundreds of millions of people is the real joy on earth.

In this flower market, it also reminds people of the great power of human beings to transform nature. Peony was originally a barren hill and small tree in Taihang Mountain, and narcissus was originally a wild plant in the swamp area of southeast China. After thousands of generations of processing and cultivation, they have become "national beauty and fragrance" and "Ling Boxian"! In the wild, chrysanthemums can only produce small flowers like copper coins, and cockscomb flowers are more like green grass, but after careful cultivation and artificial selection by flower farmers, they become so rich and gorgeous. "Daily work can be replaced, and artificial days are not as good as it is." Isn't this the truth of life?

In this flower market, you can't help but think of the great achievements of working people everywhere in creating historical civilization. There are daffodils in Fujian, peonies in Shandong, famous flowers and herbs all over the country, dahlias in India, scarlet roses in France, smiles in Malaysia, and many cactus plants in the Sahara desert. Streams in all directions have merged into rivers, and the creation of working people in various countries has merged into brilliant civilization. Isn't this fully felt in this bustling city?

You can't help but marvel at the aesthetic vision of the masses here. People love a single daffodil more than two daffodils, and a double peach blossom is better than a single peach blossom. Why? Because daffodils are more elegant and double hearts are more gorgeous. People like this harmonious beauty! A pot of flowers and a pot of fruit can generally be pointed out by the masses. In this evaluation, we can also realize a lot of aesthetic truth!

In short, wandering in this sea of flowers often makes you think and feel the fresh meaning of many ordinary truths. In the past eleven years, I have developed a hobby, and I have to go to the flower market to squeeze every year, which is one of the reasons.

We praise the heroic struggle and efforts, and the happy life gained from them. So, when I came back from the flower market, I was a little drunk, so I wrote these words so that people far away could share our joy.

196 1 February, Guangzhou