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Solar terms and vernal equinox in A Dream of Red Mansions

The formula of Lengxiang Pill is delicious.

You should remember the formula of "Lengxiang Pill", which is quite interesting and somewhat metaphorical. "Bai Mudan blooms in spring, white lotus blooms in summer, Bai Furong blooms in autumn and Bai Mei blooms in winter. In the vernal equinox of the following year, four stamens were dried and ground together with the medicinal powder. Twelve dollars for the rain on this day, twelve dollars for the dew of the Millennium, twelve dollars for the first frost and twelve dollars for the light snow. Uniformly mixing the four kinds of water, mixing the medicines, adding 12 yuan honey and 12 yuan sugar, making longan-sized pills, putting them in an old magnetic altar and burying them under flower roots. If you are sick, take out a pill. Decoct with Cortex Phellodendri 12 and send it down. " Baochai is the peony, Daiyu is the lotus, Yu Xiangyun is the hibiscus and Yu Miaoyu is the plum blossom.

Hibiscus can be divided into hibiscus mutabilis and hibiscus aquatica.

Hibiscus mutabilis blooms in autumn, and Hibiscus aquatica is also a lotus, but it blooms in summer and midsummer.