Grass bead beads on the side of the road in the countryside

Grass Bead Beads on the Rural Roadside

Grass Bead Beads, a kind of fruit that can be worn on strings, have you ever played with it? In rural areas, grass bead beads are a favorite natural jewelry for girls. Plant leaves like corn leaves, but smaller than it, leaf veins draw flower spikes, to the fall when the knot string of beads, from green to yellow, and then from yellow to greenish purple, gradually become gray-brown or teal, beads in a string hanging on the tree.

Grass beads is the local common name, its scientific name is Coix lacryma, Gramineae, is an annual or perennial stout herbaceous plants. Born in the house, wilderness, riverside, streams or shady valleys, more distribution in the southern region of China. Job's tears can not only be used for decorative purposes, after shelling, the inside of the coix seed has medicinal value and food value, it is we usually eat Job's tears / Job's tears.

Coixi matures in September-October, about the same season as rice. It can be harvested when you see the stems and leaves withered and the beads are brown. The shell of the brown beads is very hard and needs to be peeled with the help of a machine. Obtained Job's tears can then be cooked and eaten, you can cook porridge, steamed rice, soup, has the function of invigorating the spleen and diuresis.

The use of Job's tears is still relatively wide, in the countryside there are edible and decorative role, to the city has ornamental value. Surplus independent, swaying in the wind, grass beads beads in a variety of colors, the point is that you can create an idyllic scene. Because in the city can be in a specific environment for landscaping, a single bush planted alone, multiple clumps of clumps of planting effects have their own style.

When I was a child there were not many toys, play games and strings these are made by themselves. Grass beads can be said to be one of the great joys of childhood, picking the beads with a needle and thread, can be turned into bracelets, necklaces and curtains. Grass beads beads shell smooth, shiny, different colors of beads to wear up or very nice.