Cicada flower

made me realize that it is the afternoon wind at the end of May that is coming this summer. That day, after lunch, we walked back from the nearby alley. The strong wind blew a small acacia tree violently in one direction. I was attracted by it. When I looked at it, I saw the pure blue sky behind the tree and the white clouds unique to summer. This is the moment when I know clearly that summer is coming. After that, the early summer also extended for a long time, and then came the height of summer. Boog, who often cries in the distance in the middle of May, doesn't know which day he stopped singing, and I don't know when the cicada began. When the song of cicadas becomes a sound that must be heard except the wind blowing through the windowsill every day, the height of summer is really on the march. In the preface to his Tale of insects in Tokyo, Quan Ma said: "I like the insects that appear in the streets or life scenes best." For example, in summer, on nothing special, there will always be male cicadas singing. Like this, the telephone pole and the cicada, the match between the two is very beautiful. " For an insect blind, the cicada is not "seeing" in my life scene, but the background of the sound that may appear when doing something. On the way to the bus stop in the morning, or climbing the stairs with vegetables in the evening, suddenly there was such a urn screaming in the dim light of the old building and outside the iron window. Or sit on the bed at the weekend when the hot wind blows, listening to the sparrow's chirp and the sound of someone knocking on the head in the distance, listening to it cry and rest again without warning. I could not accurately record the category of their sounds, but under a Chinese locust tree with dying flowers, a jujube tree covered with green dates, or a dark green willow, I felt that it belonged to the richness of midsummer and felt close. Cicadas seem to cry violently at dusk, which I noticed when I was at school a few years ago. On both sides of the road from the dormitory to the canteen, there are tall sycamore trees (sycamore). On our way to dinner, the sound of cicadas is as dense as rain, and this tiny life seems to know that another day is over, and I feel nostalgic. The blue color of the evening gradually increased, adding a factor of sadness to people's heart. because of this impression, I always unconsciously noticed the sound of cicadas later in the summer dusk and found that they might just be sensitive to light, because they would make such a sharp sound when the sun had just passed through the clouds and shone among the wet branches and leaves after the rainy season in the south, or when a cloud suddenly blocked the sun and clouded the sky on a sunny day. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I suddenly hear a few cicadas. Yan Yannian has a poem "Night cicadas when Summer is urgent". When I read it for the first time, I felt very fond of it, because I had personal experience and seemed to share a poet's secret. The song of the night cicada is more embarrassing than that of the dusk, but fortunately it is very short, and it is only frightening for a moment on a sweltering night.

Bath flowers

Bath flowers bloom in the sound of dusk. This is the common name for purple jasmine in my hometown, because it blossoms when people take a bath in summer. The bath flower has many other names, rouge flower (because of its rouge-like color), thunderflower (because the small round fruit is black and hard like a landmine), dinner flower, soup flower (because it blossoms in the evening), night fragrance flower (because it blossoms at night and has fragrance). Whenever I mention the name "bath flower", I am always a little embarrassed. It seems too casual and really not elegant, but I don't want to call it by any other name I know. The words "Bath Flower" contain my memories of childhood summer evenings: dragonflies that come and go freely at dusk, children bathe in a thick layer of soap, wash the water in the bathtub white, and after the water is poured out, there is still a circle of soap hanging on the wall of the bathtub. Set out a small table at home, or two large benches in front of the door, and bring dinner such as towel gourd and bottle gourd to it. Cool people's fans and whispers, all kinds of things. Bath flowers and henna are perhaps the first knowledge of flowers for most children born in the 1980s. I can't think of any other flowers that appear more often in my childhood than these two recommended flowers. For a long time in my childhood and youth, I felt that the purplish red of the bath flower was a very beautiful color. Coupled with the slender tube and the petals spread out like a skirt, it exuded a kind of girlish air that I admired very much at that time, which made people feel melancholy and happy in the evening of blooming. When I arrived in Beijing, I knew that it had other colors, yellow, pink and white, and it was easy to cross colors. Now living in this community, there is a clump of red bath flowers and a clump of yellow flowers planted together, near the other side of the safflower, the petals of the yellow flowers will be mixed with red silk. In the old hutong in Beijing, there is occasionally a clump of brick houses in the corner, mostly purple. I don't know which year the seeds brought by the wind or birds, or the seeds casually planted by the residents, because they are easy to grow, they are all very high, covering the blackened and peeling corners of the walls. there is strange desolation and beauty in the evening light.

hibiscus

hibiscus put away its flower bowl at this time, and when the flowers bloom all day, they always do so, like a tired girl, adroitly wrapping her skirt in one direction. By the next morning, it was neatly wrapped into a flower tube, which at first glance looked like a bud. It is a pleasure to see a tree hibiscus on a summer morning. There are a large number of flower bowls, with slightly raised lines and silk paper-textured petals, showing a delicate sense of moisturizing light in the soft light in the early morning, with a bright color in the center, pleasing to the eye. Tao Yuanming wrote about hibiscus, "picking honorable trees is rooted here." He shines in the morning and dies in the evening. "I like his description very much. Because I wanted to know the exact blooming time of one hibiscus, I observed the blooming and falling of two hibiscus in mid-July. A white hibiscus, a purple hibiscus, are single. I go to see them every morning and evening, and sometimes when I pass by at night, I also go to have a look. The hibiscus opens early in the morning on the first day and slowly collapses in the evening or later. At noon the next day, the white hibiscus fell in the summer wind, while the purple hibiscus did not fall until the third or fourth day. Before falling, a small flower tube of the harvest will slowly catch a kind of twilight blue and fall to the ground.Go on, it's still clear and good-looking.

Hibiscus (a small one will be harvested before falling)

when I was a child, the vegetable garden fence at home was a row of purple hibiscus. At that time, we called it "playing bowl flowers." adults said that they would break the rice bowl after eating in the evening. Therefore, playing bowl flowers is something I love. I have seen it bloom so many times, and I have dared to pinch it twice. When I eat in the evening, I am afraid to hold the bowl tightly with both hands for fear of not being careful. The taboo of playing bowls of flowers takes effect, so that adults know that I secretly pinch flowers in the day, knowingly commit crimes, and want to hit me. I never seemed to realize that it only bloomed for one day, probably because there was no shortage of pink and purple flowers on the hibiscus fence all summer.

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Petunia rotundifolia

besides hibiscus, petunia and crape myrtle are in full bloom at this time. There are many petunias growing everywhere on the streets of Beijing. on the green painted railings or on the dreary fences of the green spear holly, it is common for climbing petunias to open in the early morning. If you go to the suburbs in autumn, leading oxen along the road is especially common, and there are many blue ones. Red round leaf petunias are often seen in the city. Summer in Beijing is a difficult and rainy season of the year. Sometimes it rains at night. In the morning, on the dense and miscellaneous fence of roses and roses in the community, I suddenly see the blooming rose lead down. The flower tube under the thin and wrinkled flower plate, such as white jade, is particularly quiet and energetic against the cool and dark air. Sometimes on the window frames of the old district, one or two earthen pots can be seen on the window frames of other people, which can already climb the window frames full, and there can be half a day's flowers to watch on a sunny morning.

the split leaf petunia in the former company yard. The color of the camera is purple, but the morning glory is actually pure blue.

the place where I used to work was in a courtyard. When I entered through the side door in summer and autumn, I would pass by a small clump of blue morning glory. Flowers are smaller than ordinary petunias, and blue is especially chic, like the blue of old clothes that have been washed with a lot of water. I haven't seen the blue morning glory this year. I wanted to see it again last week, but when I got there, I found that there was no one left, only the evergreen shrubs made of fences, showing signs of fresh pruning. On the window next to this, the towel gourd planted by the security guard blossomed last year, and there is no loofah this year. It is a pity that there is only a concrete yard full of cars.

crape myrtle (Hongwei)

crape myrtle blossoms for a long time, blooming every year from the beginning of July to the end of July, no longer the original graceful, broken on the one hand, while bearing small green round fruit. There are both red and white flowers, and the color of Hongwei is more distinct than that of crape myrtle. When I see crape myrtle for the first time every year, I always think of the 90% discount in "Jade hairpin" when Chen Miaochang sings on the stage: "the idle court is full of crape myrtle flowers, people are at the end of the world, and illness is at the end of the world." In a simple sentence, it reveals the change of time sequence, which makes people feel in a trance. It is Yuhe's "non-stop", which makes crape myrtle very meticulous. The children went out to play, they had not been familiar with before, Xiao Dun had a kind of self-respect guard against the other two brothers and sisters, but the atmosphere suddenly softened in the face of the crape myrtle hanging from the height. The three looked at the flowers together, and then my sister came back with the pinched flowers, and as soon as she entered the room, she gave it to her mother, who was talking to her grandmother. When the grandmother got up and got up, she took away the flowers-- at night, when all the surging uneasiness and sadness, and the discontent and discord hidden in the dark place had quieted down, the little glass bottle of crape myrtle was placed on the dark table for a long time by the glimmer of light from the pane. The film is also full of summer atmosphere. The rice mixed with edamame beans made by my mother, the watermelons flowing thinly through tap water, the continuous sound of cicadas and the sunlight reflected on the treetops and bamboo groves on the way to sweep the grave are all very moving scenes. I often lament the Japanese's appreciation of nature and phenology in terms of food and clothing, such as fans painted with irises or Petunia in summer, all noticed on tiny objects. This summer I also saw a very loving scene, enough to offset this loss for the time being. One night, walking in the square, there was a family walking in front of her. The little girl tied her hair in two braids with colorful string and wore a blue morning glory dress on the white background on her father's shoulder. The sound of dancing and singing scattered in the square, and I walked after them, filled with joy.

crape myrtle

but my favorite this summer, like my secret garden, is a clump of flowers near where I used to live. I spent my first summer there two years ago. When it was getting dark, I was attracted by a bunch of faint white flowers in dark leaves. I looked across the roadside flower bed and was delighted to find that the edges of the light green petals were covered with thin silk edges, which was very novel and beautiful. I didn't know it at that time, but later I learned that it was Trichosanthes kirilowii, the "fruit of fruit" in Dongshan of the Book of songs, which is also given to Yu. The gentleman who served for three years imagined the desolate scene at home on his way home. I'm afraid the fruit of Trichosanthes kirilowii has climbed onto the eaves. This is a poem I like very much, and thousands of years later, the rough rattan leaves of Trichosanthes kirilowii still climb on the brick platform behind other people's houses, which makes me feel especially kind. In the evening of early July last year, I specially went to observe its flowering time. After five o'clock, the flower had not yet bloomed, only the pointed bud. At 06:50, the bud opened slowly, and one bloomed early and opened in a roll. The silk edge of the micro-coil was very playful, and by 07:40, the wire gradually straightened out, with a little teeth and claws.

Trichosanthes kirilowii (06:50)

Trichosanthes kirilowii (07:40)

Trichosanthes kirilowii flowers have a good aroma and are blooming during the night as a means to attract insects. After the flowers fade, they gradually produce fist-sized green fruits, round, childish and lovely, and turn bright red after the rattan leaves wither in winter. Liu Huajie said that after the fruit was ripe, because the flesh of the melon was rich in sugar and stuck together, the seeds sank at the bottom and the fruit had a low center of gravity, so it became a "tumbler" and could stand up quickly no matter how it was touched. But I have never tried, every year want to wait for it to pick a red queen to see, always forget that those fruits will gradually disappear, until the new rattan leaves come out again in the spring. I moved to another place last winter. A few days ago, I took a bus back to see the Trichosanthes kirilowii. On the way, I was very worried that it would look like a tuft in the company yard.The cow was cleared away like that, and it was safe to see a pile of dark leaves in the twilight. The flower beds next to Trichosanthes kirilowii are planted with hairpins, which are also flowers that bloom at night in summer, and there are many roadside flower beds in Beijing. The broad-ovate leaves are covered with deep curved parallel veins, which are very gratifying in spring. Summer pull out the flower stem, bear bulging as a small stick bud, open, such as a funnel-like tube, white fragrance. Sometimes it rained, and it was dark when I came back, the sound of cicadas went from hissing to stopping, the hairpin was open in the night, and the edges were covered with clear raindrops. The rainy season in Beijing this year is earlier than last year. It rained a lot in June. Rain Water is thinning in July. The leaves of Hosta are no longer as thick and green as in previous years, and the flowers bloom very little, which is also very pitiful.

Last year's Hosta. The leaves this year are all yellow and broken, and the flowers are not as good as last year.