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Yu Chengqing

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When it comes to Qixi Festival, the first thing that comes to mind is Qin Guan's song "Magpie Bridge Immortals Xian Yun Qiao Qiao Xian Yun".

Xian Yun coincidentally, the flying star spreads hatred, and the silver Han is far away and dark. As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, it wins but countless people.

Tenderness is like water, the good time is like a dream, take care of the magpie bridge to return. If the two love for a long time, but also in the day and night.

A sentence "the golden wind and jade dew meet, but the world is innumerable", so that countless people yearn for beautiful love.

In ancient times, Qixi Festival had many interesting anecdotes and customs related to plants.

The orchid of anecdotes

Orchid, one of the traditional Chinese flowers, and juxtaposed with "plum, bamboo, chrysanthemum", together known as the "four gentlemen". The orchid is flat with clear aroma, which has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, clearing heat and detoxification.

The ancients had an inexplicable preference for the noble nature of orchids, and many varieties of orchids bloomed in July, so the ancients also called Qixi Festival Orchid Night. On that day, the unmarried woman would make the orchid into a sachet, and the man who liked it would give it to him.

Second, the seed of anecdotes begging for children

It is the custom of Qixi Festival to plant beans and beg for children. "seeding" is actually soaking mung beans and wheat in a magnetic bowl, waiting for it to grow buds, and then tied into a bunch of red and blue silk rope, so it is also called "five pots" or "flowerpots", which means that you can have more children and more blessings.

Put mung beans, adzuki beans and wheat in a magnetic vessel, soak them in water, and then bundle them with red and blue ribbons until the buds grow a few inches.

In the first ten days of each year, mung beans or peas are soaked in water and changed with water once a day or two. When the buds grow to about five or six inches, they are placed in a small pot, which is called a "peanut pot", or "peanut".

That is, at the time of Qixi Festival, potted plants planted with mung beans or peas can be used for ornamental and cooking.

Third, anecdotes of impatiens dye nail

It is nothing new for women to dye their nails with impatiens in ancient times. it can be imagined that on summer nights, with stars in the sky, young girls sit idle in court, mash the red balsam petals in porcelain bowls, wrap them with wet cloth or grass leaves, and apply them on their nails, and soon they can be dyed bright red.

Dyeing his nails, Qin Rongguang, a native of the late Qing Dynasty, once said, "the melon and fruit court, Chen Qixi Festival, pierced his daughter's work under the moon." The sharp pity fiber fingers bend long nail, the juice dyes the impatiens scarlet blood red. "

The custom of Qixi Festival in southwest China is found in Sichuan Province, Guizhou and Guangdong. For example, the Chronicles of Yanting County in Mianyang, Sichuan Province once recorded: "July 7th is the Begging Festival." The child dyed her nails with impatiens. " .

Impatiens, a common ornamental flower in China, is very gratifying with large leaves and green flowers. Stems and seeds are used in medicine to dispel rheumatism, activate blood circulation and relieve pain.

The picking of cypress leaves by anecdotes

Cypress leaves are the leaves of Platycladus orientalis. Cypress leaves have many effects: stop bleeding and replenish qi, remove wind and dampness, and enhance people's ability to resist cold and heat. When Qixi Festival, women mostly picked cypress leaves and peach branches, which were used to fry soup and shampoo hair could be blackened and fixed. Because the summer weather is dry, the washing is easy to dry, so shampoo with it will be refreshing and lubricated, not dirt and greasy.

In ancient times, there is such a folk prescription for shampoo: one liter of raw cypress leaves, one jin of lard, and pills, the size of marbles, when washing hair, wrap a pill in cloth and put it in sugar water to wash your hair after the pill is opened. After a month, the hair will become black and moist.

Fifth, the rolling hibiscus of anecdotes

Hibiscus, also known as kapok. Its flowers, fruits and leaves have medicinal value, can stop bleeding, treat intestinal wind, cool wind and antipyretic.

On Qixi Festival's day, women in Dinghai, Kaihua, Huzhou and other places in Zhejiang crushed hibiscus leaves to filter out hibiscus leaf juice to wash their hair, because hibiscus had better cleaning ability and had a faint scent of flowers after washing.

Anecdote Shepherd Boys picking Flowers

The ancients believed that sweet-scented osmanthus is the best medicine, so the wine brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking a thousand years of life". For example, in the Han Dynasty, sweet-scented osmanthus wine was used by people to worship gods and ancestors.

In Yucheng County, Shandong Province, on July 7, the shepherd boy picks wild flowers and inserts them on ox horns, which is called "celebrating Niu's birthday". Zhili Yongping regarded this day as the cow's life day, hung it on the horns with sweet-scented osmanthus, and gave noodles to the shepherd boy. This is just to show sympathy for the cowherd.

Qixi Festival shows love plants

In the name of love-the vine of love

The vine of love, as well as wax spring flowers, heart to heart, and other aliases, is a chandelier plant of the family Asclepiadaceae.

The opposite heart-shaped leaf of the vine of love, often used as a symbol of love.

A string of love only gives you millions of hearts.

The leaf of a million hearts is also heart-shaped, and it is a long string of love. If you are clever and clever, you can also make its vines into a heart shape.

Million hearts, also known as ten thousand hearts, is also a plant of the family Asclepiaceae, named for its dense distribution of heart-shaped leaves on its vines.

The purse of love-- purse peony

Purse peony is named because of its drooping flowers, shaped like a purse, leaves shaped slightly like peony, and the florescence is the same as peony. It also has fish peony, bell grass and other aliases, the English common name Bleeding Heart (heart of dripping blood), is also very vivid.

Purse peony belongs to the genus Poppy, which is native to northern China, Japan and Siberia. Its flowers are exquisite and lovely, colorful and colorful, with white, pink, red and other kinds of leaves, and its rows of flowers hanging under the branches are not only like brightly colored pockets, but also like delicate little bells swaying in the wind.

About purse peony, there are many love stories about it. There is a folk saying that when a woman responds to a man's pursuit, she will give her a bunch of purse peonies.

Give you a fiery heart-flaming crane

Flaming crane, with its unique shape and elegant gorgeous red, is unforgettable.

The flaming crane's red and broad "petals" are not really petals, but just a variant leaf. In academia, it is called the "Buddha's bud".

Local Festival Japanese soil Flower-- report Spring

There is a saying in the poems of the Song Dynasty, "the tender yellow and the old green have been around for a long time."