Four elegance in flowers

A new recipe for raising calamus:

If you plant near the water, the stone will be healthy.

Dry leaves and roots are wet, like warmth and fear of cold.

The breeze keeps away from the rain, and the less is more prosperous.

Like yin and fear the sun, moisturize dew and avoid frost.

The stone is too thin and the kind of mud is quite strong.

Thin application of thick irrigation, diligence to remove yellow.

Green as emerald, fragrant and visceral.

Ye Yi Qingqi, not suitable for makeup.

With stone to clear supply, the ancient basin is hidden.

Simple and elegant and natural, the most suitable for the study.

Calamus is a small grass on the stone by the stream. Thousands of years ago, it entered the literati study, known as "four elegance in flowers". It was spoiled by writers and calligraphers, leaving many Tang poetry, Song ci, ink calligraphy and painting. It is a pity that Chinese calamus culture "dating", so that this grass carelessly endure for thousands of years, there are few descriptions of calamus varieties, many varieties have been lost.

The ancients believed that every morning, scrubbing your eyes with dew condensed from cypress leaves or calamus leaves at night can keep your eyes healthy and brighten your eyesight, such as Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, that is, "Cypress leaves and calamus are exposed." However, night dew on cypress trees is not so easy to collect. In contrast, calamus can be planted in small pots and maintained in the study. Therefore, the artificial maintenance of night dew on calamus as the "eye protector" after getting up in the morning has formed a trend among scholar-officials.

Acorus calamus became the elegant device in the study, which began in the Song Dynasty. The calamus used in pot culture is also known as "calamus on the stone" and "Acorus calamus". It is born on the stone in the water and does not need soil when cultivated. This clean state is not only elegant, but also especially suitable for indoor display, especially for study full of scrolls, studios and elegant utensils. Put a few stones in the basin, fill it with water, sprinkle some cold rice soup on the stone, throw some calamus seeds, and then put the pot in a wet place, and the stone will produce fine leaves-Acorus calamus is easy to cultivate, which is also an important reason why it occupies the first place in indoor potted plants.

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