Spring: The Horseapple Flower Never Breaks Its Promise
In 2020, the spring season lacked the accompanying crowds of flower admirers. Although unable to fully enjoy the spring scenery in person, the city's flowers continued to bloom, using their beauty to declare to the world that spring had arrived!
'No need to look at spring wind in mansions,.' It is said that the color of spring is the color of a hundred flowers. Whites like snow, pinks like clouds, yellows like satin, reds like fire… The whole nature is like a colorful garden. In this breathtaking array of flowers, one is always drawn to the flamboyant blooming of the Horseapple Flower on the Yi mountains,
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The Horseapple Flower has a strong life force, whether it's growing in the dense forests or on the steep cliffs and rocks, it can bloom in clusters, like fiery balls burning brighter and brighter. Old Horseapple Flowers may appear aged, but every spring, they still burst with new life and bloom in abundance,
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Currently, the depths of the Dashitou and Longdu villages in the Stone Screen Post Ridge of the Yi tribe are filled with Horseapple Flowers awakened by the spring wind. Along the mountain road, as you climb, the endless Horseapple Flowers keep appearing before our eyes. Its red, like blood and fire, dyes and burns the sky, so beautiful that it's breathtaking. Its flowers are large and numerous, freely adorned on the branches, not shy or timid, not petty and selfish,
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The Horseapple Flower is the Yi people's natural totem. Legend has it that in the Yi mountains, there was once a tyrannical chieftain. He seized female slaves and forced them to be concubines. In the village, there was a brave and beautiful girl named Mi'erlu. The chieftain wanted to seize her as a concubine. One day, Mi'erlu wore a Horseapple Flower soaked in poisonous juice and was forcibly brought to the chieftain's house. Mi'erlu secretly brewed the Horseapple Flower in wine. The chieftain wanted Mi'erlu to drink it to poison him, and together they died. Mi'erlu died with the chieftain. Mi'erlu turned into a Horseapple Flower, blooming in the Yi people's mountains and valleys, blooming in their hearts. Nowadays, Yi women still embroider Horseapple Flower motifs on their headdresses, long clothes, and sleeves, turning it into a silent epic worn on their bodies, and a symbol of Yi people's pursuit of a better life and prayers for peace and happiness,
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What people love about the Horseapple Flower is not only because of its beautiful appearance, but also because of its display of the Yi people's ethnic characteristics, a collective force. Horseapple Flowers often consist of ten or more small Horseapple Flowers. Perhaps one small flower cannot overshadow the others, but hundreds of flowers together form a breathtaking sight. It's like seeing the life of each flower, each leaf, brimming with vitality and vigor, like the various ethnic groups living in the Yi mountains, one village next to one village, one household next to one household, unity, harmony, and happiness,
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Spring, the Horseapple Flower never fails to keep its promise, and neither do our Yi women year after year. Listen, the familiar Flower Waist Tune gradually becomes clearer, beautiful Flower Waist girls appear in elegant attire, singing and playing the four-stringed lute under the Horseapple Flower trees, singing and dancing with joyful abandon, fully embracing the beauty, like a bonfire, igniting people's anticipation for the year,
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When the wind suddenly blew on the summit, it blew the clouds away, shaking the Horseapple Flower trees and leaves, almost blowing them down, shaking the mountains. However, no matter what, the Horseapple Flowers in the mountains bloomed freely, blooming so beautifully that it was breathtaking, so beautiful that it was fearless,
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In 2020, spring arrived, people came, Horseapple Flowers didn't run away with the wind, after they withered, they fell to the ground, becoming the best nourishment, nourishing the soil and returning to their hometown, waiting for the next year to be even more magnificent and colorful,
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