Humanistic Plants: The Creative Work Of Emotional Knowledge

Cao Hui / Wen

A good book, a lot of entrance, rare is, have material. The book "human plants -- the origin, domestication and worship of 16 kinds of plants" fully bears the word "humanity" and "vegetation".

Its language is not profound at all, but the content has texture and reading point. Although the incision of 16 kinds of plants is small, the selected species of plants play an important role in human development. "The domestication of plants directly promotes the development of human body and intelligence, and civilization comes into being.". Its significance lies in revealing the "continuous supply of food and clothing" provided by plants for human beings. In this process, plants have played multiple roles, such as promoting population growth, causing wars due to being scrambled, directly or indirectly promoting the development of Global trade, and some human feelings, which can be said to be of great merit. This is the significance of the book.

Most of these books are either obscure or boring because of their specialty. The good thing about this book is that they can promote their professional knowledge through literary embellishment. The two authors, Su Shengwen and Zhao Shuang, are historians and literati. They have excellent professional knowledge and excellent writing skills. What they bring to the readers is the most impressive plant historical ecology A feast of species.

There is a saying in the book of songs, Daya: continuous and steady, the birth of the people In fact, there are traces of time, and the interaction between plants and human beings has always been ongoing. These stories, with endless aftertaste, are slowly unfolding with the book "human vegetation". Man and nature coexist harmoniously, and everything in the world is related. Intersection is the process of mutual understanding and mutual penetration. Plants and people, is in you come and I go to the game, completed synchronous good road. In addition to the above-mentioned recording instinct and conciseness in the process of plant evolution, the good works of "human plants" are the humanistic meanings that are worth exploring and given to plants by human beings. The book is concise in structure, concentrated in content, scientific writing, and symbiosis of literature and history. It skillfully removes the dullness of plant science, and makes the plants without emotion and thought vivid in an instant. It is a new attempt. Whether the object is the voice of the heart, or the heart is the form of service, it is full of a poetic beauty. The use of poetry and historical allusions about 16 kinds of plants in the book can be described as handy and can be seen everywhere. The beautiful wine of "luminous cup of grape wine", the worldly sophistication of "throwing peaches and returning Li", the domineering spirit of reading and leading thousands of ghosts, the legend of the big peach tree in dushuo mountain, the grand occasion of "always replacing new peaches with old ones", the sentiment of "peach blossoms in the door of last year and today" and the reputation of "houhuangjiashu, julaifu" The whole plant history is a well deserved history of "nourishing human life, shaping human civilization, changing the human world, and feeling the great power of silent plants with heart".

I have to mention LAN. Although this is a small Chinese plant proposition, it is a feeling that Chinese people can't get around. The book not only quotes the poems of Yilan, but also combs Lan's history and humanity. Confucius and Qu Yuan regarded orchid as a symbol of ideal personality, while Zheng suonan, a painter who was a adherent of the Southern Song Dynasty, has also become a classic in history And at the same time, this book is very civilian, not deep and grounded. Another example is apple, which is called "Nai" in ancient times, and Cao Zhi's helplessness to accept "Dongnai" passively with literary color. It gives us a glimpse of the sad bridge of Cao Da's talented man's life, as well as the frustration and twists and turns that he can't get out of it. There are also roses related to love, war and culture, which are like a poison, tempting people's hearts, just like the rose madman queen Josephine "Chinese pigeon tree" Davidia involucrata, also known as "living plant fossil" In 1900, Wilson's surprise when he came to China to find rare plants contrasted with the destruction of plants by Chinese people at that time. Backward differences lead to gaps, which is worth pondering.

The human plants are close to each other, and the common grass and flowers are also approachable. Interestingly, the 16 kinds of plants appearing on the stage do not include peony, the king of flowers, durian, the king of trees, etc. the reason why the 16 characters of herbaceous world in the book finally stand on the stage of history and are paid attention to by human beings is entirely because they are strong and vigorous in the process of historical development. Therefore, it can lead people to re understand and believe in the fairness and cruelty of the survival of the fittest in nature, and make people strive to become a link in the biological chain that will not be eliminated. 　　

As a result, the development of plant civilization and human intelligence was directly promoted. At the same time, because plants can connect people with people, regions and regions, we can learn about the global journey of a potato through the development history of plants, see how the golden apple from ancient Greek mythology fell into the real plate, and through the rose Bible, we can understand those classical roses that have disappeared, and explore the primitive worship of gourd among different nationalities There are more than 100 color pictures in the book, which not only reproduce the original style and features of plants, but also a large number of humanistic and artistic materials related to plants, which become wonderful scripts for the origin, domestication, dissemination and even influence of human culture and history. In this way, from ancient times to today, from material to spirit, from appearance to connotation, plants and human beings have completed a process of constantly running in and upgrading each other across time and space. This is the special purpose of the world to people and plants, a test and an expression of love.