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In March in the south of the Yangtze River, in the garden of Zhou's family at the head of the Wang Changhe River in the ancient city of Suzhou, the towering ancient trees, blooming flowers, thousands of bonsai, and mottled rockery ponds are all touching. In the private room, I listened to Zhou Quan, the daughter of Zhou Shoujuan, tell the story of the Zhou family with Mr. Chai Niandong, the grandson of the historian Chai Degeng. At the time of parting, Mr. Zhou Quan also gave red beans from the century-old red bean tree in the hospital.
Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), formerly known as Guoxian, pen name Shoujuan, alias the owner of the Violet Room, was born in Wuxian County, Jiangsu, and is a famous modern and contemporary writer. In his early years, he joined the Southern Society and was one of the early members of the Southern Society. He used to be the editor of Shanghai Zhonghua Book Company, and later edited the publications such as "Declaration and Free Talk", "Saturday" and "Good Friends". His life and literary creations are fruitful, and now they have been included in the "Zhou Shoujuan Anthology" edited by Fan Boqun.
Zhou Shoujuan is particularly fond of flowers and plants, and opened a "Flower Collection", plum blossoms, violets, spring greetings, camellias, apricot blossoms, begonias, peonies, lotus, etc., almost twenty-four flower letters, all appeared in Zhou's pen. And these flowers and plants, under the careful care of Zhou Shoujuan, are full of vitality in the purple orchid small building, occupying the scenery of the four seasons. He once said: "I love beauty in my life, so I also love flowers and plants, and take flowers and plants as my friends" "I am a flower fan, for thousands of purples and thousands of reds, almost everything I love, and especially love, spring is violet, summer is lotus, autumn is chrysanthemum, winter is plum." Talking about the story of Zhou Shoujuan and flowers and plants, no amount of pen and ink can be told, and it is even more difficult to finish. Here we will only talk about Zhou's favorite four-season flowers, and summarize the rest.
Zhou Shoujuan "bowed his head to violet all his life", and people in Kyushu knew about it. "A love story about flowers" is more of a projection of itself. Violet is not just a bouquet of flowers, but also the English name of Zhou Yinping, a woman that Zhou has admired since her youth. In his later years, Zhou Shoujuan said frankly in a letter to his daughter: "Ying'er, you always know that I had a heart-wrenching love history in my early years, and in the next 20 years, I don't know how much ink I spent opposing feudal families and ** marriage. In my lyrical works, there is always a line of violet, and between the lines, there is often a hidden shadow of a person. And the location of the Zhou family's garden is also because of the clumps of violets - "The most pleasing thing is that under an old wax plum tree, there are clumps of violets, as if the old owner knew that I liked this flower in my life, and arranged it in advance." I did not hesitate to buy this garden with the money I had earned for many years of hard work, that is, because I was attracted by these violets."
Teacher Zhou Quan specially took us to see the violets in the garden. In the spring breeze, the violets are still blooming warmly. Of course, violet is the embodiment of Zhou Shoujuan's lifelong love, and in the eyes of his children, he is not the incarnation of Zhou Shoujuan himself. More than 50 years after her father's death, the well-tended violets in the garden undoubtedly convey the daughter's deep nostalgia for her father.
Speaking of lotus, Zhou Shoujuan in addition to loving its green cover red clothes, fine dust, there is also a big cause, in his words: "Just because the surname is Zhou, and the name of the hall passed down from generation to generation happens to be the word 'love lotus', so the flower of this gentleman should be attached to it, and it is called 'my family flower'." "Because of this, in the pond of Zhoujia Garden, every summer, dozens of pure white and light red lotus flowers will bloom, and the fragrance is far away and clear. Suzhou customs, often on the 24th day of June in the lunar calendar, men, women and children, lively and lively gather in the lotus swing not far from the gate of the ancient city, for the lotus longevity, it is a different scenery in this water town in the south of the Yangtze River. As a native of Suzhou, Zhou Shoujuan has participated in many such gatherings. In the heart of Zhou Shoujuan, who is adept at literature, "Although the birthday of the lotus flower is nonsense, it is still much more elegant than the birthday of any fairy;."As a descendant of Mr. Zhou Lianxi, the author of "Ai Lian Said", I am not against this birthday."
In 1963, when the prime minister visited Zhoujia Garden, Zhou Shoujuan excitedly pointed to the plaque of "Ailiantang" in the middle hall and asked with a smile: "The name of the hall on the Prime Minister's Palace, but is it also Ailiantang?"All of this shows Zhou Shoujuan's deep love for the "flower of my family" - lotus.
In autumn, chrysanthemums are everywhere. In the old society, Zhou Shoujuan, who "hid in a small building to become unified", had no choice but to learn from Tao Yuanming. And Mr. Wuliu loved chrysanthemums the most in his life, and so did Zhou, borrowing chrysanthemums as a metaphor. In the porcelain pot or purple sand pot, move the cultivated chrysanthemums, and then match them with stalagmites, etc., to form a "Ammonite Map", the chrysanthemum is proud of the frost, and the stone is not transferred. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the advent of the new society, China's various undertakings have flourished and are full of vitality. Zhou himself also left his apartment and joined the society. The lion forest, Shanghai People's Park and other lively chrysanthemum exhibitions all made him linger and admire again and again. Zhou also served as a consultant for the Suzhou Municipal Garden Management Office, and once campaigned for the restoration of famous places such as Xiangxuehai.
In the cold winter wax moon, a hundred flowers are killed, only a few branches in the corner of the wall, and the dark fragrance attacks people. Zhou Shoujuan, who grew up in the ancient cultural city, has the elegance of a traditional literati and is keen to search for calligraphy and painting. In his rich collection of paintings and calligraphy, the most important section is the plum blossom theme of paintings and calligraphy, with as many as 15 pieces, accounting for one-third of his existing old collection. Among them, the earliest is Chen Jiru's plum stone narcissus picture scroll and ink plum album in the Ming Dynasty. These ancient picture scrolls, hanging in the room in the past, together with the potted plum with the branches of the dragon, witnessed the liveliness and prosperity of the Zhou family garden.
Zhou Shoujuan is not only keen to collect various plum blossom-themed calligraphy and painting scrolls, but also personally painted plum blossom scrolls. The Wujiang Museum happens to have a handscroll of his plum blossoms (see "Wu Zhen Extract"), under the open sky, stretching a few plum blossoms, the red plum branches are like cangs, the flowers are flourishing, half-open or fully open, and the whole picture scroll is bright. The green plum blossoms lightly, and the color is elegant, which contrasts with the red plum. In the blank space of the two plum trees, there is a poem inscribed by Zhou himself: "Rustic Xie Xuanqi, proudly looking down on the cliff." The ice and snow shine in the sky, and I am worried about the siren. Skinny cuckoo plays ink. "This five unique poems are a collection of Du poems. It is not uncommon to collect Du poems in the poetry collections of the ancients, and the most famous one is Wen Tianxiang's 200 Du poems in Dadu Prison. The poems with the inscription of the painting, in the poems of Lao Du, come at hand, and are natural, which shows that this troubled new literary writer is familiar with Du's poems, and it can also be seen that his old learning skills are profound. And in the garden of the Zhou family, there are plum houses, plum hills, planted with more than 20 plum trees and dozens of pots of plum piles, every time to enjoy the plum season, attract friends to send poems frequently, ask for plum blossom news.
There are many places to enjoy plum blossoms in the ancient city, Deng Wei, Tiger Hill, etc., are all places to enjoy plum blossoms, all of which have left the scars of Zhou Shoujuan everywhere. One year, Zhou's friends traveled to the sea of fragrant snow, in order to see the shadow of a red plum, accidentally fell and slipped a fall, and the humorous old writer smiled: "In the past, Mi Dian worshiped the stone because of his love for the stone, and I love the plum this week, of course I want to worship the plum today." "Whoever hears it, all of them are happy.
It's another year of waxing, and the prosperity is smooth. The early plum blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River, the green calyx and red makeup, the dark fragrance and sparse shadows, why not take advantage of the bright moon in the sky or the peaks and snow, and visit the plum blossoms
Author: Kong Lingtong, lecturer at Teachers College, Changshu Institute of Technology).