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Flowers rise earlier than bees

Flowers rise earlier than bees

By jay bobPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Kawabata Yasunari's "Flowers Never Sleep" said: At 4 o'clock in the morning, I suddenly woke up and found that the crabapple flowers in the alcove were blooming, and I didn't fall asleep like him. The relationship between people and objects is thus an extension of emotion. The stunning beauty in an instant awakened his admiration and concern for natural beauty.

It is impossible for a sleeping person to hear the sound of flowers blooming; similarly, it is even less likely for a bee that falls asleep in the night wind to smell the fragrance of flowers. One can only catch the secrets of all things that are thrown by nature only if one keeps awake.

Many people think that flowers bloom during the day. In fact, it is not the case, the more at night, the more passion the flowers bloom. Like many writers, I like to watch the inspiration come alone at night. The matter of inspiration is similar to the sequential opening of flowers. The more insomniacs, the easier it is to be attracted by the intoxicating fragrance of flowers, and to expand the wings of thought wider than the horizon.

I often think about things that ordinary people are not interested in, such as flowers and bees, whether to sleep or not, or who will sleep first? Of course, it is impossible to find the answer from "Book of Songs", "Chu Ci" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is the category of nature and biology. Even if I admit that I had a psychic antennae growing on my head before the spring of 23 years old, it is still difficult to connect the antennae to all the lifelines of creatures.

Every time I wake up and see the Clivia swaying in front of the window, but not the bee, I have the answer in my heart.

Every flower wakes up earlier than the bee. It can be said that the flower has not slept, but the bee has already fallen asleep. Even in the afternoon, outside the window, the white and yellow peppercorns are blooming all over the sky, and the bees parked in the stamens are already drunk and dizzy. The bees remained calm, like most silent people who don't like flowers, and simply don't want to look directly at the clothes of flowers.

This is just the scene before Ye Weiyang.

At night, bees are completely different. Like humans, bees go to bed on time, but they do not have the depth of sleep of humans. Bees live in groups, like a mountain rapid response force, with a strong organizational concept and conscious discipline. The bees choose to sleep at night when there is no risk. When something bad happens, they will take turns to sleep in shifts. But when sleeping, they flap their wings in unison to regulate temperature. If it is June, the bees will leave the flowers to patrol around, and even stop outside the hive to sleep. They are simply the best elves in the world for regulating a comfortable life.

Uncle Ke, who lives by the Huanhua River, once sent me a photo of him, which is a crabapple branch in full bloom, with a fat bee sleeping in the stamen of the crabapple. Regarding this picture of Begonia, I have nothing more to say, so I sent it directly to Moments, and the antenna remote sensing suddenly sent a sentence——

Every flower wakes up earlier than the bee.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this remark came out, the likes quickly exploded. This has to make me sigh, the ultimate of language is loneliness after all. But once a lonely person finds resonance, it is like a flower cannot stop the blooming of day and night, and a bee is just a bystander who discovers beauty.

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