Wei Zi: I am the owner of this palace.

It's good to be infatuated with weakness, but exposure to pressure and bullying is particularly oblique.

Who knows that flowers bloom for a hundred days and crape myrtle grows for half a year.

-Song Yang Wanli

Yang Wanli, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote two poems about Wei Zi's flowers. This is one of them, with a long title and a small preface: "There are two Wei Zihua plants in front of the suspected dew hall, which bloom in May and decline in September every year." It is because of this poem that Wei Zi got the nickname "Hundred Days Red". The flowering period can last from May 1 day of the lunar calendar to September, and from summer to autumn, lasting almost half a year. You can enjoy it slowly.

The inscription in this painting by Wu Wang, a painter in Qing Dynasty, is: Wei Zi monopolizes the autumn sound, not the bustling ear sound. Wei Zi's flowers, Yang Liuzhi and cicadas are singing. At this time, summer and autumn have arrived. In the afternoon or evening, the willow trees under the flowers can listen to the cicadas, which can be leisurely.

Itchy flower

There is a cloud in "Qunfangpu": "A sweet-scented osmanthus counts glumes, and a glume counts flowers. It is not enough to say that every time the breeze comes, the devil is shaking and the dancing swallows are amazing. It is completely shaken with claws, so it is named' tickling flower'. " Scratch the trunk a little with your hand, and the crape myrtle tree will "shake completely", and the flowers of a tree will vibrate happily and innocently. This always reminds me of a beautiful sentence that describes laughter: flowers are trembling.

crape myrtle

Lord of the middle palace

Astronomers in ancient China divided the star officials into three walls (yuán) and twenty-eight houses (xiu). These three walls are:

Purple forbidden zone

The highest palace wall

Paradise market fence

Ziweiyuan is the middle wall of three yuan, living in the center of the northern sky, so it is also called Zhonggong, or Ziweiyong, and has always been the residence of the Emperor of Heaven in China mythology.

Purple MSI, Polaris. The Big Dipper revolves around the four seasons of the North Star, so the ancients thought that Purple Star was the master of the stars. Therefore, Ziweixing is the emperor star among the five stars in the Arctic.

Because of the status of Ziweixing and Ziweiyuan, Luoyang Miyagi was named Wei Zicheng in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Forbidden City in Beijing in Ming and Qing Dynasties was named the Forbidden City, which is the residence of human rulers and corresponds to the location of the Emperor of Heaven.

In astrology, once the purple star moves, it is a sign of national mourning. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang said to Ma Su after watching the stars at night: The difference between Chinese and western stars is the loss of a big country. Cao Pi, who proclaimed himself emperor the next day, died.

Ziweilang and Ziwei Weng

It is precisely because of the status of Ziweixing that during the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongshu Province was changed to Ziweixing Province and Zhongshuling was changed to Ziweiling. After the establishment of "Wei Zi Province", Wei Zi flowers were transplanted to this province and stayed in the palace.

Bai Juyi used to be the secretary of the provincial school in Zhongshu, so he likes to call himself:

Purple osmanthus

Tang Bai Juyi

Your papers are quiet and the bells and drums are long.

Sitting alone in the dusk, who is the companion, Ziwei Hua versus Ziweilang.

At this time, Bai Juyi just recruited talents, entered the officialdom, was full of vigor and dedication. I worked in the palace until dusk, leaving me alone. I looked up and saw the crape myrtle outside the window. I felt it.

Purple osmanthus

Tang Bai Juyi

Although osmanthus purple and osmanthus purple have different names.

Exclusive wheat straw as a summer scene, not the color of spring wind.

Xunyang official residence has two towering trees and a large cluster of good monasteries.

What is Suzhou Resettlement Office? Huatang column in the middle of next month.

When writing this poem, Bai Juyi had been demoted to Jiangzhou, and Ziweilang at this time had also become Wei Ziweng. Also in the workplace "Xunyang Mansion", when I face the tall crape myrtle tree and recall the crape myrtle of Daxing Mountain Temple in Chang 'an, I will inevitably feel lost.

Lagerstroemia speciosa does not compete with other flowers in spring and chooses to be alone in summer. After the ups and downs of his official career, Bai Juyi is no longer the high-spirited Ziweilang, but still maintains a childlike innocence. "The depression of Jiujiang official. My blue sleeves are wet "may have passed, leaving a character of" not holding color in the spring breeze ".

Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, it rained in midsummer. Wei Zihua is in full bloom on the streets of Guangzhou, and Tuan Tuan Ziyun, who was stuck in the road by car, greeted her and sent her away. It looks particularly pleasing to the eye.

Yuyin Mountain Residence in Panyu coincides with Lagerstroemia Flower Exhibition and Lagerstroemia Bonsai Exhibition. The garden is full of pink and lavender flowers.

The flowering period is rare, so take to the streets to enjoy this colorful summer purple tree!

(Image from the Internet)