Description of lotus flowers in summer solar terms
Summer is deep, and most of the paths I often walk are buried by grass, so I can't tell the path when I come. "Only shallow grass can have no horseshoe" means grass in spring and grass in summer, which will go crazy if you don't pay attention. Everything is rich in summer, with vegetation, sunshine and rain.
In the morning, before the sun rose, I went to the garden, when the weather was still cool. The garden is quiet, and the lotus in the water is just in full bloom, red and white. Compared with lotus, it seems that the pool of clear water and lotus leaves in the field are cooler. The lotus leaf is also dotted with a few drops of cool morning dew. When the wind blows, the green lotus is swaying, dew drops fall into the pool one after another, and the ball goes like jade. Lotus leaves flutter in the wind, just like a fluttering dress. Qu Yuan's Lisao has the saying that "making lotus flowers as clothes and picking hibiscus flowers as clothes", and A Dream of Red Mansions describes the police fairy "wearing clothes and listening to the ring clanging".
Any form of lotus leaf can be put into poetry and painting, from the initial lotus to the infinite lotus leaf, from the lush green to the deep blue water today, reflecting the depth of summer and the change of time.
The cattail bushes near the water are deep, and the breeze blows, which has a unique fragrance of cattail. At this time, a fat cattail stick, cylindrical and brown, covered with fluff, smells delicious. Typha branches sway in the water, just like candles lit in the water, with wick-shaped thin stems at the top. Take one back and put it in a purple glazed jun porcelain bottle, which is more distinctive than other flowers. In the past, people often used cattail sticks as pillows, and cattail velvet was soft in texture, which had the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and calming the nerves. My father said that when I was a child, his pillow core was made of cattail sticks, and it smelled good when I slept every day, which made me yearn for it.
Now I can occasionally hear a few sparse cicadas singing when I walk on the road, which is very loose and not melodious enough. It is not easy to hear cicadas in cities now, not because it is not hot enough, but because it is hardened cement roads or healthy trails, which is not conducive to the survival of cicada larvae, so there are fewer natural cicadas. It's hard to hear cicadas in the daytime, and it's even harder to appreciate the coolness and poetry of cicadas in the breeze at midnight. Now I want to hear cicadas singing in Shan Ye. One year, I ate in a tea garden. Outside the Woods, cicadas are singing together, sometimes melodious and sometimes loud, like a concerto. I have never heard such a loud cicada singing with the dazzling luster of the sun. The air in the mountains is fresh, the vegetation is rich, the cicada is rich, and the sound is particularly crisp. I listened to cicadas in the shade for a long time that day.
In the evening, the sun went down, and the wooden bench on the roadside was still a little warm after a day's sun exposure. Entering the summer, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. I really entered the dog days and lost my appetite. Every night, my mother cooks a big pot of mung bean soup. My mother is very experienced in making mung bean soup. First, she cooks for 20 minutes on medium fire until the mung beans bloom, and then turns off the fire and stews for 20 minutes. The mung bean soup cooked in this way is blossoming, soft and rotten, and tastes like sand. The boiled mung bean soup is not green, but amber crimson. Add sugar to taste appetizing and relieve summer heat. After cooling, you can also put the mung bean paste in the refrigerator to cool it. It's so hot that you will sweat a lot. After eating a bowl of cool and refreshing green bean paste, the summer heat is also reduced by half. (Yu Linglong)