In Southern Taiwan, Delonix Regina ,a glorious flowers tree, is in full blossom as burning in flame above fern-like green leaves 。In the meanwhile, the song of cicadas sings during the day .I ever rode a bicycle through the tunnel of flowers trees and watched the flowers flying in the sky and falling all the way on Zong-Shan road of Tainan for many years . It was a beautiful scenery of bright red and orange flowers appeared in Tainan's summer.
In early time, every June, when Delonix Regia's flowers started to come into bloom and the cicadas began to sing ,seemed to declare the graduating season coming and we felt sad for saying good-bye to the senior or to the junior on a graduation ceremony. For a long time after World War II , people were apart from relatives or friends feeling sorrowful to say good-bye.
Today, a graduation ceremony isn't an ending time, it's just a transfer from finishing a course to start another course. Every new stage will have a new field to explore. We are so happy to see the pretty flame trees cheerful in the summer sky.
壯麗輝煌的花樹
在南台灣，鳳凰木是一種開滿燦爛花朶的壯麗花樹，它盛放在羊齒狀綠葉上如燃燒的火焰，同此時蟬鳴整日有如放聲高歌。我曾騎腳踏車穿越花樹隧道，看著隨風飛舞的落花，一路踩著鋪滿繽紛的花毯前行，如此徜徉在台南中山路上多年。它鮮豔的紅色、橘色花朶呈現台南夏天的極致美麗。
在早期，每年六月，當鳳凰花開，蟬兒驪歌初動，彷彿宣告畢業季節來臨，我們感到悲傷，即將在畢業典禮向學長姐或學弟妹道別珍重再見。在第二次大戰後，有很長的一段時間，人們對離別親友說再見總是特別傷感。
今天，畢業典禮不是代表結束，它僅僅是轉折點，從完成一個學程然後再向另一個學程出發。每一個新階段都有新的領域去探索。現在我們是如此快樂的看待美麗如火焰的花樹,燦爛盛開鼓舞整個夏曰的天空。
