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In autumn, Polygonum hydropiper blooms in the fields, and the rice-like flowers are tightly held together in a string, which gives birth to infinite charm in the autumn wind.
I used to call it dog tail flower, and my mother called it wheat ear flower.
This kind of flower can be seen everywhere in my hometown, similar to weeds. There are no people, let alone flowers. And it always germinates in spring and blossoms and bears seeds in autumn. On the ridge, under the wall, it is everywhere as beautiful as pink, rose and hibiscus purple.
Knowing that it has an elegant name, I happened to see it on the internet, but I didn't expect it to be the darling of the poet.
"The autumn waves are red and the sunset shines on the green shore." This is Bai Juyi's Plain Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. "Several Polygonum hydropipers are drunk in the clear autumn" is the unrestrained Polygonum hydropiper in Lu You's works; "The swallow's head is red and the moon is red, and the mouth of Wuyi Lane is blue." This is the pink Polygonum hydropiper in Nalanxingde's Jiangnan Dream. According to my mother, Polygonum hydropiper can repel mosquitoes when dried. When I was a child, Polygonum hydropiper was a mosquito-killing grass that gave off a faint scent of vegetation at the bedside in summer.
"Zhong Fang will be exclusive and will not be mixed with peaches and plums." If the charm of roses, the romance of flowers on the other side, the quietness of lotus flowers, the elegance of orchids and the quietness of daffodils give people a visual feast, then the bundles of flag-shaped flowers blooming in the desolate weeds of Polygonum hydropiper give people a spiritual feast. Its pride, its desire, its tenacity and its forbearance show the brilliance of life.
Polygonum cuspidatum reminds me of many people around me, such as simple but strong villagers in my hometown.
There are not many extravagant hopes in their lives. Land is the watchful eye of their lives, and crops are the warmth of their lives. Children are the best medicine when there are pains in life; When children are tired of working in the city, they will feel wronged, move to the city, talk quietly, walk carefully, and take care of the rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea for their children, but often return to their homes without heating and air conditioning and live a life of small business. They are often written by poets in the name of their parents to praise them. But what about writing it in poetry? How about not writing all the poems? They never expected to be praised. They just need to live a trivial and happy life like flowers on the branches of Polygonum cuspidatum.
Many people are humble before Polygonum cuspidatum. They held the banner of desire in one hand and shouted with frustrated bills in the other. They think that after drinking tap water in the city for several years, their souls are much nobler than others. They are always eager to be taller than others and want to compete with the weather, so life is always very tired and helpless.
Without excessive desire, there will be no excessive loneliness; Without flashy pursuit, there is no anxious soul. When people also make Polygonum multiflorum flowers, grass and flowers, they bloom flatly; Like Polygonum hydropiper, she is neither charming nor demon, and has been living an ordinary and trivial life. In fact, life is like Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. The more you feel ordinary, the more practical and happy you are.
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I remember that time when I saw the art exhibition, my friend was present, and my friend's paintings were on display, so I looked at them seriously and couldn't appreciate them.
My friend pointed out his teacher's paintings to me, and I said, you are very much like his style. In fact, my friend's brushwork is fragmented, disorganized or disorganized at all.
I saw a meticulous autumn picture and said, this is good, I like this one. Because the ears of the above corn are golden yellow and the grains are incomplete, commonly known as blind corn, they are not fully photographed by enough pollen when pollinating. Very real, very delicate. There is also a cluster of Polygonum hydropiper in the corner of the painting. I said, what kind of flower is this? My friend said I don't know, but I can always see it in the countryside. To tell the truth, this friend doesn't study my prose. He doesn't understand that I like Polygonum cuspidatum very much. Compared with another friend, that person can recite my article.
Beautiful flowers, water country and autumn, trying to solve all kinds of worries ... friends who can recite articles think that my poems can be sung, but that's the case. I can sing my own poems, but I really don't know how to compose music. Ask an expert. They say it takes 500 yuan to write a song. I have calculated that it is not worth the money.
It is also said that Polygonum hydropiper, a plant, can grow to more than one meter high when it is young. Because their petioles are like buckets, our children often pull up seedlings to make buckets and put them in their mouths. Sometimes we have to make four or five.
At that time, I didn't know how to appreciate flowers, including wild flowers with classical charm. All I know is that I rub a lot of pink spikes to get black seeds, and then I raise my arm and throw them out. In the following year, it was designated as the lush Polygonum hydropiper.
However, I can't remember where I scattered the seeds of Polygonum cuspidatum, not because I forgot, but because I didn't know what I was doing.