Folk stories about chrysanthemums

As early as more than 2,000 years ago, Ying Shao of the Han Dynasty said in his book "Customs and Meanings" that there was a village called Gangu in Lixian County, Nanyang, Henan Province. The water in the valley is sweet, and there are many big chrysanthemums on the mountain. A mountain spring flows through the chrysanthemums on the mountain, and the petals are scattered in the water, making the water exude the fragrance of chrysanthemums. More than 30 families in the village drink this mountain spring water. Most people live to be around 130 years old, and the lowest is 70 or 80 years old. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, drinking chrysanthemum wine in the palace on the Double Ninth Festival is said to make people live longer.

Story 2

There are many descriptions of chrysanthemums as immortals in China's concentration. According to records, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hengjing people in Runan followed the Taoist priest Fei Xuedao. Fei said to him, "On September 9th, there was a great disaster in Runan. Let your family climb the mountain and drink chrysanthemum wine, which can eliminate disasters. " After listening to Hengjing's words, the whole family went hiking. When I came back, all the chickens and dogs died suddenly. Since then, drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival has become a traditional custom for people to avoid disasters. : During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's son Wei Wendi Cao Pi wrote a letter about chrysanthemums to his good friend Zhong You. The letter said, send someone to send him a bunch of chrysanthemums, because in the autumn when hundreds of trees are dying, only chrysanthemums are gorgeous and lush, which shows that there is a certain atmosphere of heaven and earth, which is a good thing for people to prolong life, so send someone to study the reasons for longevity. Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor in Jin Dynasty, also agreed that people eat chrysanthemums. And said: real chrysanthemum is sweet, fake chrysanthemum is bitter. The poet Tao Yuanming often mentioned taking chrysanthemum in his poems, saying that "wine can cure all diseases and chrysanthemum can cure aging". People love chrysanthemums not only for viewing, but also for realizing their medicinal and edible values.

Story 3

There is another interesting legend about Japanese chrysanthemums. In ancient times, a big ship set out from China, carrying 12 noble virgins, and sailed overseas in search of the elixir of life. In exchange, they took the most valuable thing-Jin Juhua. Later, the ship was caught in a storm and washed to an uninhabited desert island, where it was forced to live and breed and planted Jin Juhua. After that, people there called themselves "Japanese Empire". The pattern on the Japanese flag that was mistaken for the sun is actually the A Jin Giant. The symbol of the Japanese emperor is also 16 chrysanthemum petals.