Flowers, Trees and Historical Stories-Hemerocallis

Hemerocallis is a perennial herb of Hemerocallis in Liliaceae. Alias Lily, Girl Without Worry, Suitable for Men, Cure Worry and Deer Arrow.

In recent years, there are more and more exchanges between China and the West, and there are more and more interactions between folk customs and festivals. The second Sunday in May, which is this Sunday, is Mother's Day in the West. This week, I will talk about plants that represent maternal love.

Hemerocallis is a native plant in China. Hemerocallis is associated with its mother in The Book of Songs. It was first written in the Book of Songs Feng Wei Bo Zhong: "You can't get grass in the Xuan, but it's the back of the tree." Later, Zhu wrote in his comments on The Book of Songs, National Style and Biography of Poetry: "The worry of forgetting grass; Back, north hall. "

Later, Zhu Gongqian, a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty, annotated Zhu's Biography of Poetry, adhering to the principle of "if the annotation is sparse, it is called' sparse meaning'" and named it "The Book of Songs is sparse meaning". Among them, the relationship between HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS and Beitang, where the mother lives, is clarified, and it is written that "Beitang is dark and can be planted with mystery". Since then, the word Xuantang has officially become the reference of literati to their mothers.

When it comes to the origin of day lilies and their mothers, we have to talk about Meng Jiao, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty.

There are more than 500 poems handed down from Meng Jiao's life, of which two are undoubtedly Ode to a Wanderer and After Graduation from University. In just 28 words, "after graduating from college" provides two idioms, namely, spring breeze and tourism.

After graduation

The previous filth was not enough to brag, but now there is no end to debauchery.

In the spring breeze, this proud horse runs at the speed of two beats. I visited all the sights of Chang 'an gracefully in one day.

Some people think that Meng Jiao intends to be an official, but he is unlucky. But looking at Meng Jiao's life, I think he is as famous as his name, and he has no intention of official career. His greatest pleasure is to travel around, inspire and study poetry. At his mother's repeated request, he had no choice but to take part in scientific research, but he tried again and again. He was only admitted to the provincial examination at the age of 41, and was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 46.

Meng Jiao thought he could comfort his mother after winning the Jinshi, so he left Chang 'an and traveled around. Helpless, since ancient times, Meng Mu has attached great importance to children's education ... Meng Jiao has not been idle for several years. At the age of 50, he was assigned to be an official in front of his mother's orders. Finally, at the age of 52, he was officially awarded an official position and served as a county captain near Liyang, Jiangsu. Before leaving, my friend Han Yu wrote "Preface to Send Meng Dongye" to bid farewell, and wrote: "The battle of Dongye is also in Jiangnan, and some people will not let it go." It means that being a county commandant is against Meng Jiao's wishes, so he can't perform the duties of a county commandant.

Sure enough, Meng Jiao, who goes out as an official, has no interest in government affairs at all, and only likes to travel around. Not far from Liyang, there is a place called Tou Jin Se, and there is Old Ping Ling City. The forest is thin and foggy, and there is water under it. Meng Jiao often goes swimming, sits by the water, and wanders around writing poems, resulting in the neglect of government affairs. So the county magistrate reported to the superior, asked someone to be a county captain for him, and asked him to give half of his salary to that person, so Meng Jiao was extremely poor.

Three years later, Meng Jiao resigned from Liyang County and was transferred to Luoyang, Henan Province. The economic situation has finally improved slightly. However, after losing his father in childhood, he experienced the pain of losing his son from a white-haired man to a black-haired man. He lost his last son in a happy year and his mother died of old age. After worrying about my mother, my wife and I suddenly fell ill on our way out and died in another country.

In fact, Meng Jiao was born in Tianbao for ten years, which was the key node of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. Meng Jiao's whole adolescence was accompanied by the turmoil and uneasiness of An Shi Rebellion. When he was young, he witnessed the change of the buffer region and had a deep understanding of the suffering of war. In the middle-aged and old age, he tried and tried, and when he was poor, he lost his children and mother. If experiencing the vagaries of the world is a physical pain, then a person who cares about mountains and rivers must be constantly urged to take the exam and become an official, and Meng Jiao must be mentally tortured. Therefore, his poems are particularly simple, dignified and affectionate.

Meng Jiao, who loves to travel around, wrote for the first time in the poem "Wandering" that "day lilies are born in halls, and wanderers travel all over the world. Kindly leaning against the hall door, you can't see the day lilies. " It expresses that the mother is not in the mood to appreciate the day lily in front of the door because she misses her son who is traveling abroad. Since then, there have been more and more metonymies between HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS and its mother in China literature.

Having said that, you may think that day lilies are full of literary flavor. In fact, if you say another name, you may be approachable at once. That is "day lily" or "day lily".

As the saying goes, the day lily is cold, which means that the dried day lily needs to be soaked in water before it can taste delicious while it is hot, but when it is cold, it will feel a peculiar smell. Whether the explanation of this proverb is reliable or not, the use of day lily as food and medicine is indeed ancient. It is said that Chen Shengzai, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, was poor because of malnutrition and edema, and he only recovered after eating three bowls of steamed day lilies.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica also certifies the efficacy of day lily: "It is sweet and cool in nature, non-toxic, beneficial to the chest and diaphragm, calming the five internal organs, and curing red and astringent urine by cooking." There is also the sentence "Deer eat nine kinds of detoxification herbs, and day lily is one of them". Dr. Sun Yat-sen even cooked it with fungus, bean sprouts and tofu into "Siwu soup" for dietotherapy and health preservation.

However, not all HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS flowers are edible. Hemerocallis Hemerocallis Hemerocallis refers to bright yellow Hemerocallis, while other ornamental orange and orange Hemerocallis contain a lot of colchicine, which can't be eaten even if they are scalded with hot water. If you eat it carelessly, it will stimulate the stomach and respiratory system, as well as dry mouth, diarrhea, dizziness and other symptoms.

Even the day lily, because it contains a small amount of colchicine before dehydration, is slightly toxic and not suitable for eating. Therefore, everyone should remember that you shouldn't pick wild flowers in the wild.

Reference:

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