In August (lunar calendar), sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, and sweet-scented osmanthus can not be separated from August, which has become a symbol of August.
"The laurel tree falls in the moon, and the sky is fragrant outside the clouds." In fairy tales, there are osmanthus trees in the moon palace, and osmanthus is associated with the moon. "Ask (Wu) what just happened, and WU GANG holds out osmanthus wine." Osmanthus fragrans is the best wine in the Moon Palace.
There are many osmanthus trees planted in the yard. Every season, the yard is full of sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Osmanthus fragrans on these trees have different colors, some are deep and some are shallow, so there are Jingui, Yin Gui and Dangui.
There is a folk saying that "Cycas often blossom and osmanthus bears strange fruits". The ancients thought that Cycas bloomed strangely and rarely, but it was easier to bear seeds than osmanthus fragrans. It can be seen that osmanthus is even rarer than seeds. If the sweet-scented osmanthus at home bears sweet-scented osmanthus seeds (homophonic with "your son"), it is simply wonderful.
Expensive "expensive". Our ancestors (first) paid great attention to the symbolic meaning of language. Osmanthus fragrans is particularly fragrant and has many functions, so the ancients especially preferred osmanthus trees. Only osmanthus trees are placed in the Moon Palace, they will never be cut down, and Fu Gui will never leave.
I can't tell all kinds of osmanthus flowers apart. From the color point of view, the first photo should be Jingui, the top picture is Yin Gui, and the bottom picture is Dangui. Ancient Dan means red. The osmanthus in the picture below is the darkest and tends to be red.
August is a harvest season, a yellow world, and the mature color is yellow, so it is called golden autumn.
Look at a poem by Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty;
Two autumn poems, the first part
Since ancient times, I feel sad and lonely every autumn. I think autumn is more than spring.
There is no one in the clear sky in Wan Li, and a crane, Ling Yunfei, has aroused my meditation on the blue sky.
There are too many legends about the Moon Palace, so I won't talk about it.
We often wish our children success in exams. We will use an idiom "the moon wins the laurel", which means to take an exam in high school. It seems that Osmanthus fragrans is a well-deserved scholar in the flower world. In ancient China, when you won the championship and passed the exam, you won the laurel. The ancient imperial examination was in autumn, which coincided with the flowering of osmanthus, which was a metaphor for the number one scholar in high school.
The laurel in the moon, also known as the laurel in the middle of the month (the moon is the Guanghan Palace, that is, the Moon Palace), comes from a passage in the biography of Shen Xi in the Book of Jin: Emperor Wu sent it to the Eastern Tang Dynasty and asked, "What is your self?" He said to me: "I am the best in the world, a branch of Guilin, Pian Yu in Kunshan." It means I'm good. I am the best branch of osmanthus forest and the best piece of jade in Kunshan.
Later, it was called the Imperial Examination and "Winning the laurels". In ancient China, the provincial examinations in the Imperial Examination were generally held in autumn, which was called "Autumn Wei". Choosing this season is another exquisite season, and the ancients still paid great attention to practicality. Because the examination time is the open season of osmanthus fragrans, being the first place is also called "laurel".
Enjoy osmanthus in Mid-Autumn Festival. "Don't fan out the painting to cover up Chunshan. Reunion is like a bright moon, and osmanthus will bloom in it. " Gui Yue Xiang Lian