The story and legend of the fairy crane grass

Artemisia angustifolia is a perennial herb of the rose family, which is often born by streams, roadsides, grasslands, thickets, forest margins and sparse forests. it is a traditional medicine for hemostasis, while the Yellow Crane Tower is a famous scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River at home and abroad. the two seem to have nothing to do with each other, but a story tells us a close relationship between them. let's take a look at the legend of the fairy crane grass.

Once upon a time, there was a small continent in the Yangtze River called Parrot Chau. not far from the continent, there was a building in which there lived a white-haired old man. The old man knows how to do medicine. He practices medicine on a voluntary basis and practices on the one hand. He is deeply respected by the four townships. One day in late autumn, a yellow crane flew from somewhere, fell in front of the building, and issued a mournful cry. When all the villagers gathered around and saw that Huang he was full of blood, they talked one after another. It was said that Huang he wanted to fly back to his hometown and lost his way, so he fell down. It is said that Huang he was injured and fell here on purpose, praying for someone to save him and so on.

The old man heard the sound coming out of the building, looked at the bleeding yellow crane, and then went into the mountain forest behind the building. after a while, he gathered a handful of weeds with feathery leaves and full white flowers, sprinkled them on the wound of the yellow crane, and soon stopped the bleeding. After that, the old man carefully fed the yellow crane, and the yellow crane soon recovered.

Some time later, one morning, after bidding farewell to all the villagers, the old man flew to the sky by crane. The villagers guessed that the old man had become an immortal, and the yellow crane was sent by the fairy world to meet the old man, but they did not know where the old man had found it. Later, the villagers called the building where the old man lived "the Yellow Crane Tower" and the weeds in which the old man healed the yellow crane as "fairy crane grass".

Many years later, a poet named Cui Hao visited the Yellow Crane Tower in the Tang Dynasty. when he heard this legend, he became very popular, leaving behind the ancient poem the Yellow Crane Tower: "the legendary fairy flew away by the Yellow Crane, leaving only the empty Yellow Crane Tower. Once gone, the yellow crane will ne'er on earth alight; Only white clouds still float in vain from year to year. By sunlit river trees can be count'd one by one; On Parrot Islet sweet green grass grows fast and thick. I don't know where my hometown is at dusk. In the face of misty waves and misty rivers, it is worrying. " Later, the great poet Li Bai also came to the Yellow Crane Tower and became rich in poetry, but after reading Cui Hao's poems, he did not dare to write more. Of course, these are all later words.