How much do you know about the flowers and plants of the Dragon Boat Festival?
There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". "Ai" is also known as mugwort and mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air.
Chinese medicine uses wormwood as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness. Processing Artemisia argyi leaves into "moxa wool" is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment.
Wormwood represents a hundred blessings, and inserting it at the door represents a hundred blessings, which can make the owner healthy.
It is said that fumigation with dried wormwood soaked in water can disinfect and relieve itching, and lying-in women often bathe or fumigate with wormwood water.
2. Acorus calamus
Acorus calamus, also known as leek, is a perennial aquatic herb, and it is also a spiritual herb that can prevent diseases and drive away evil spirits in China traditional culture. Its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing, inducing resuscitation, strengthening bones, dispersing stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing. The whole plant is poisonous, and the rhizome is poisonous. When taken orally in large doses, it will produce strong hallucinations.
During the Dragon Boat Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, people hang calamus and mugwort leaves on doors and windows and drink calamus wine to ward off evil spirits and prevent epidemic. On summer and autumn nights, the custom of burning calamus and mugwort leaves to repel mosquitoes and insects has been maintained to this day.
The flag leaf of Acorus calamus is green, dignified and beautiful, and it is a good indoor potted ornamental product.
The bonsai made of calamus is both poetic and pollution-resistant.
The ancients often put a pot of calamus under the oil lamp when reading at night. The reason is that Acorus calamus has the function of adsorbing dust in the air and can avoid the pain of smoking eyes.
3. Piran
Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients used bluegrass soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon". But the orchids in this paper are not orchids, but flying grasses or compositae herbs, which have fragrance and can be cooked and bathed.
In Guangdong, we use bitter herbs or flowers, such as wormwood, cattail, impatiens and magnolia. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, cattail and peach leaves are used for bathing. Regardless of men, women and children, the whole family washes. This custom still exists today. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and ward off evil spirits.
Perrin is also known as chicken bone fragrance and water fragrance. Li Sao "is both a pity for Yu and a petition for it." Hui, the name of vanilla, is also known as "Perrin". Born in roadside bushes or streams. Wild or cultivated.
Like warm and humid climate, cold-resistant, afraid of drought and waterlogging. When the temperature is lower than 19℃, it grows slowly, but it grows rapidly in high temperature and high humidity season. The requirements for soil are not strict, and it is appropriate to cultivate in loose and fertile sandy loam with good drainage.
4. Dragon Boat Flower
When Sailong won the gold medal, a "dragon boat flower" with a "flower shape" slightly like a red hydrangea was also in full bloom. Dragon Boat Flower, also known as Ying Dan, Xian Dan Hua and Bai Sui Lan, belongs to Rubiaceae and Dragon Boat Flower. It is an important potted woody flower with beautiful plant shape, dense flowering period and rich colors. People used to call it hydrangea. Dragon Boat Flower has a long flowering period, and it can bloom from March to 65438+February every year. Dragon boat flowers can be propagated by sowing, layering and cutting (preferably in June-July), but cutting is generally used.
Dragon boat flower language: scrambling.
5, fighting grass
Fighting grass, also called fighting grass, is a popular game in China, belonging to the Dragon Boat Festival. After harvest, competitions are often held to report the names of flowers and grasses to each other in a confrontational way. Most of them win, both interesting in plant knowledge and literary knowledge; Children hook, pinch and pull each other with petioles. If you break it, you lose, and then change a leaf to fight.
Bai Juyi's poem "Watching Children's Play" says: "Making dust or mowing grass is fun all day long."
With the development of modern civilization and the improvement of people's quality, especially in cities, it is everyone's responsibility to care for flowers and plants. It is obviously uncivilized to pick flowers and weed in the park, and you will be condemned, fined and even investigated for legal responsibility.