认识格桑花已有半个世纪了,不知“尊姓大名”也有半个世纪了。记得上小学时,天天要翻越一座小山坡。每到秋天,在南坡下一户人家围墙外总可以看到一片花枝细长、顶端开着白粉紫色、形如蝴蝶的小花。每经过那里,我们常去偷掐几支带回家,插入瓶中。至于叫什么花,从来不问。后来,常在公路旁、荒凉的篱笆墙边、偏僻的火车小站上见到这不知名的花。直到近几年在北京奥体公园见到此花被成片栽种,方知它叫格桑花,但仍是知其然不知其所以然。 Knowing Gesang Hua for half a century, I do not know “Forgive name ” also has half a century. I remember in primary school, every day to climb a hillside. Every fall, in the southern slope of a family outside the walls can always see a slender, white purple at the top open, shaped like a butterfly flowers. Every passing there, we often go steal pinch a few back home, into the bottle. As for what kind of flowers, never ask. Later, often in the highway, the edge of the deserted fence, remote train station to see this unknown flower. Until in recent years in Beijing Olympic Sports Park to see the perianth into pieces, we know it called Gesang Hua, but still know it, of course I do not know why.