江南三月，杨柳青青。几阵暖风吹过，早樱已经开得满坑满谷。花树下士女如织，高华迭出，一时间怒花金粉，香氛如潮。正可谓“花气袭人知昼暖”。
《红楼梦》第二十三回里有一段，贾政问袭人的名字由来。
贾政问道：“袭人是何人？”王夫人道：“是个丫头。”贾政道：“丫头不管叫个什么罢了，是谁这样刁钻，起这样的名字？”王夫人见贾政不自在了，便替宝玉掩饰道：“是老太太起的。”贾政道：“老太太如何知道这话，一定是宝玉。”宝玉见瞒不过，只得起身回道：“因素日读诗，曾记古人有一句诗云：‘花气袭人知昼暖’。因这个丫头姓花，便随口起了这个名字。”王夫人忙又道：“宝玉，你回去改了罢。老爷也不用为这小事动气。”贾政道：“究竟也无碍，又何用改。只是可见宝玉不务正，专在这些浓词艳赋上作工夫。”说毕,断喝一声:"作业的畜生,还不出去!"
贾政和宝玉父子之间，一如传统中国绝大多数家庭，把认可赞许往往隐藏在板起面孔的批评后面。政老爷明明觉得“袭人”这名字起得有新意不落俗套，偏偏要说“刁钻”。听宝玉说了出处，心下应该是有几分高兴，但到嘴边，表扬就变成了“无碍，又何用改”，再加上一句批评“不务正”，最后还要断喝一声“作业的畜生”。
宝玉倒也不慌张，只是答应了，慢慢的退出去， 顺便还向金钏儿笑着伸伸舌头。这番作态，远不是平日里见了父亲如“避猫鼠”一般，想必也是听懂了父亲话外的许可。
王夫人不懂得父子间这些矜持，只知道替宝玉掩饰，哪里知道他二人这一番对话后面，有不可言传的默契和窃喜。两个吟风弄月诗人骚客对上了暗号，智力上的优越感遇上了共鸣。古人用典，今人传梗，莫过如此。
不过这父子之间，毕竟合拍的时候少。宝玉关于女孩子，说过“无价之宝珠”和“鱼眼睛”的惊人之论。不食人间烟火，是少年的清高狂放。可是经纶世事，维系一大家子的衣食住行，光靠钻研浓词艳赋自然不行。《红楼梦》到头来，只能是悲剧。
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”王尔德这段妙语，正好为《红楼梦》注脚。
“花气袭人知昼暖”这句，是经曹公雪芹改过的，和陆游的原句略有出入。
放翁原诗《村居书喜》
红桥梅市晓山横，白塔樊江春水生
花气袭人知骤暖，鹊声穿树喜新晴
坊场酒贱贫犹醉，原野泥深老亦耕
最喜先期官赋足，经年无吏叩柴荆
这首诗写得不好，冬烘气十足。“骤暖”隐隐约约还有些一惊一乍的局促，“最喜先期官赋足”云云，更是一派小富即安自鸣得意的味道。改成“昼暖”，慵懒意境顿时全出，春光融融暖日生烟，才是贵公子态度。
与之相似，“留得残荷听雨声”，“留”和“残”两个字鲜明对比，改过之后也比“留得枯荷听雨声”更胜一筹。
难怪林妹妹有底气看不上放翁和义山的诗。
桐桐小朋友最近写了一段文字。
“The greatest enemy of ants are other ants, just as the greatest enemy of men are other men.” - Auguste Forel
......Just as my gargantuan foot was about to land on the pest, the ant scuttled out from underneath. As I took the time to reposition my anvil of a foot, I fell into another dimension with the ant. To this day, when it was waving its antennae around, I am wholly convinced that the ant put some hand, or should I say, antennae-wavey magic on me.
It could have been telepathy from the ant. Or, I was just hallucinating. I thought, “What if the ant was the giant one? What if I was the puny one? What if I was going to be stepped on?” The string of questions peppered me continuously as I struggled to find answers for any of them. I was confused and in the process of leaving me thinking, the ant barely escaped. After that crazy experience, I sat on the porch, licking at my long melted ice pop with a dazed expression on my face until my neighbor noticed me and shook me out of the trance......
小朋友的作文，一向英文写得多些，程度略也好些。最近老师教用语典，于是添上了自己搜罗来的警句格言。虽然不经，但倒也有趣。
或许我该给他讲讲，虾形蟹行的文字之外，还有庄生蝴蝶，望帝杜鹃？
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R-dR46OELqR5i-e9em9dag
