The Flower words and legends of Yu Mei

Yu Mei, also known as Lichuhua and Sai Peony, is an annual herb of the poppy family, with rich flowers, white, purple, red and so on. The flowers are colorful and gorgeous. In ancient times, they were praised by most scholars and poets. They are often the images in their poems, which contain a certain symbolic meaning. Let's take a look at the flowers and legends of Yu Mei.

The floral words of the beauty of Yu

The beauty of Yu symbolizes the parting and sad songs of life and death. Yu Mei's flowers are colorful and rich, and the thin petals are as thin as Aya, smooth and clean as silk, and the light Corolla is like red clouds and patches of colored silk, although there is no wind, it seems to shake itself, and when the wind moves, it is even more fluttering and beautiful. The red Yu beauty symbolizes great luxury and enchanting, the white Yu beauty symbolizes comfort, arrogance and holiness, and the purple Yu beauty symbolizes comfort, rest and forgetfulness.

The flowering period of Yu Mei

From March to August. Yumei is propagated by sowing, which is usually cultivated for 2 years, and can be sown in spring and autumn. generally, spring sowing is from March to April, florescence is from June to July, autumn sowing is from September to November, and florescence is from May to June of the following year. Flowers solitary on top of stems and branches, covered with yellowish spreading setae, buds oblong-Obovate, anthers oblong, ovary Obovate, flowers white, purple, red and so on.

The legend of the beauty of Yu

Legend has it that at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chu and Han competed with each other, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was defeated and was besieged by the Han army. Knowing that it was difficult to break through the tight encirclement, Xiang Yu drank at night with his favorite concubine Yu Ji. Suddenly heard Chu song everywhere, can not help but impassioned sad song "pull up the mountain gas all over the world, bad times do not pass away." Whether my steed will fight, oh! I do not care? What are you going to do? " Yu Ji also felt that the tide was over, singing and dancing with tears in his eyes, saying, "the Han soldiers have been slightly moved, the songs of Chu in all directions, the king is out of spirit, how can the concubine live!" After singing, he drew his sword from the waist of the feather and turned it across the neck. Immediately, the blood flowed like a note, and the incense sold to Jade Jade.

Later, a recommendation grew on Yu Ji's tomb, shaped like a cockscomb, with opposite leaves, long stems and soft leaves, windless and automatic, dancing like a beauty, charming and lovely. According to folklore, this is the sincerity of Yu Ji, so this kind of grass is called "Yu Beauty Grass" and its flower is called "Yu Beauty". The bright red on the flowers of Yu beauty is said to be dyed by the blood spattered by Yu Ji. It seems that Yu Ji is still there after her death, and she becomes Yu Mei Cao, blooming every year during the period of late spring and early summer. Even if she turns into grass-tyre wood, she is still persistent, still faithful and waiting for the overlord. Still keep smiling and dressing lightly for the overlord all the year round as before.