The latest flower words and legends of Hemerocallis

Hemerocallis, also known as day lily, day lily, deer onion, Sichuan grass flower, netherworld grass, etc., is a perennial perennial root herb of lily family Hemerocallis, native to China, but not much has been improved for a long time. Now it has become an important ornamental and cut flower after improvement. It is also the most diverse class of lily family flowers. Let's take a look at the flower language and legend of Hemerocallis!

Flower language of daylily

Hemerocallis flower language is hidden love, forget worry, cure worry. Hemerocallis is the mother flower of China, representing love you forever, mother! Great mother, loving mother. Hemerocallis is also called netherworld, which means "forget all unpleasant things". In ancient China, whenever a wanderer traveled far away, he would plant daylily in the North Hall to pin his mother's thoughts on his children and let her forget her worries about her son.

Another name for Hemerocallis

Hemerocallis has many aliases, such as day lily, day lily, netherworld grass, suitable male grass, cure sorrow, deer arrow, brain flower, tranquilizing vegetable, green onion flower, etc. In English, Hemerocallis is called tiger lily, when eaten, it is often called day lily, day lily, etc. It is cultivated in all parts of China. Qu County of Sichuan Province is called "the hometown of Chinese day lily," Shaodong County and Qidong County are named "the origin of day lily," while the day lily produced in Qingyang County of Gansu Province is of excellent quality and exported overseas.

The Legend of Hemerocallis

According to legend, Chen Sheng, who lived in Daze Township before the uprising, was very poor. Because there was no rice in his family, he had to go out to beg for food. In addition, due to lack of nutrition, he suffered from systemic edema and painful pain.

One day, Chen Sheng begged for food to a family surnamed Huang mother and daughter home, Huang mother-in-law is a soft-hearted, she saw Chen Sheng's poor appearance, let him into the house, steamed three bowls of daylily flowers for him to eat. For Chen Sheng at that time, the daylily flower that could solve hunger and cold was as sweet and delicious as the delicacies of mountains and seas. He swallowed like a wolf and tiger, and soon three bowls of daylily flowers went into his stomach. A few days later, the swelling subsided. Chen Sheng thanked Huang and her daughter very much and said that he would repay them in the future.

After Daze Township uprising, Chen Sheng king, he did not forget the Huang family mother and daughter, in order to thank the Huang family mother and daughter kindness, they invited them into the palace. Every day, wine and banquets were held, and countless delicacies and delicacies could not arouse Chen Sheng's appetite. Suddenly, Chen Sheng remembered the delicacy of daylily flowers in those years, so he asked Grandma Huang to steam another bowl for him to eat.

Grandma Huang picked some daylily flowers and steamed them herself for Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng picked up his rice bowl and tasted only one mouthful. It was difficult to swallow. He said,"What's going on? The taste is not as good as it was then. This is too strange." Huang mother-in-law said,"actually nothing can be strange, this is really hungry when daylily fragrance, eat used to wine and meat daylily bitter ah!" Chen Sheng was so embarrassed that he knelt down and bowed to the ground. The old woman said,"No, no, no."

From then on, Chen Sheng left Huang's mother and daughter in the palace, specially planted daylily, and often ate it. At the same time, he also gave Hemerocallis another two names, one called "Worry Grass" and one called "Day Lily". Because Huang mother-in-law's daughter is named Lily, and the shape of Hemerocallis leaves is like a needle, so people call it "Lily". As soon as the news spread, people used daylily roots to treat edema, which was later discovered by doctors and became a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine after repeated application.