What kind of grass does the "Pillow of Grass" pillow?

"Pillow grass" is Japan's Heian period, about the early years of China's Northern Song Dynasty, the courtesan Qing Shao Nayan's masterpiece, and "The Tale of Genji", although I have long heard of the book's great name, I have read a number of chapters, but I have always been unable to interest in buying a copy of to read. The word "Kusako" refers to "pamphlet", the meaning of the book on the pillow, similar to the Chinese scholar "right away, on the pillow, on the toilet" to read books, Li Yi'an." Li Yi'an's "Pillow Poetry and Books on the Pillow in a Good Place" can show the pleasure of reading books on the pillow. But I have to say, see the title of the book, I thought it was to take the grass as a pillow, because the mood is very relaxed and leisurely look, and more importantly, I used as a child with a pillow, filled with grass, but also take it for granted.

My hometown custom, used to use a soft pillow, which is not cotton, not now on the market buckwheat, cassia, etc., but the oil sweet leaf. Oil sweet leaves grow like mimosa leaves, leathery, picked and dried into a cloth bag, a pillow is also done. Ancient people with jade pillow, porcelain pillow, wooden pillow, said it is a high pillow, but in my opinion are not blessed to enjoy, are not as comfortable as this rustling mandarin leaf pillow, ergonomic, and a kind of countryside peculiar rustic flavor. Picking oil citrus leaves, but also my countryside mothers generation of farmers often do, there are always door to door in the countryside to buy oil citrus leaf vendors, village women go to the mountains in twos and threes to pick, put into the sack, dark back to peddle, you can change money. As for the oil citrus tree, I have not seen, I guess hidden in the shrubs and thorns, a neighboring aunt, hand was bitten by a poisonous snake, it is said to be the picking of oil citrus leaves when it happens, picking so difficult, so the price is not low, and sometimes holidays and even some of the senior schoolchildren carry a bag on the mountain.

What is more famous than yukan leaves is yukan seeds, also known as Yuganzi, because it is the holy fruit of Buddhism, the fruit of Ummoro. In addition to the holy fruit of Buddhism, besides Bodhi fruit, there is another fruit that often appears in the scriptures for metaphorical use, which is the Umra. For example, in the Vimalaya Sutra, it is said, "I see the three thousand great dry worlds of Shakyamuni Buddha's land as if I were observing the fruit of the amphora in the palm of my hand," and then, in the Dafang et al. Rādhārā?ī Sutra, the amphora fruit is used as a metaphor: "Good man, such as the fruit of the amphora, which is indestructible inside, planted on the ground, it becomes the king of the great trees. " What does this fruit look like? Like the size of a plum, round, greenish-yellow, six-pronged, with its acacia-like leaves, a fairy fruit look, which feels like a holy fruit is exactly undoubtedly. As for the flavor, I do not know, Li Shizhen said it tastes like olives, can be preserved or salt storage, but the olives are not very tasty.

But this fruit from India, but a bit of identity is not clear, because all generations of monks talk about the Umra fruit, a little bit with the Yuganzi not quite the same. In the "Vimalakirti sutra - Buddha country products" Hatamarash translation notes, said: "the fruit of the Umra tree, like a peach but not a peach." And according to the Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty, Volume 4, "The fruit of the Umbra tree and the fruit of the Umbra tree, although they share the same name, are of two kinds: the small one is green and ripe and yellow; and the large one is always green." Xuan Ying's "All Sutra Yinyi" Volume VIII says: "Um Luo fruit or Um Bra fruit, fruit name, flowers and fruit is very little, its fruit is shaped like a pear." Hatamarash is an Indian, his own family's native products should not be mistaken, this seems to be a peach not peach body shape, I am afraid it will not be Yu Ganzi. Xuan Ying said "fruit shape like a pear", the size is not Yu Ganzi comparable. Therefore, some people believe that this Buddhist classics in the Umra fruit, not Yu Ganzi, but the mango. Because the mango and the three monks of the statement match perfectly, whether it is the size, or "more flowers, fewer children", or Xuanzang said the size of the species (some mangoes are green skin, inside is ripe) can correspond to. Not surprisingly, India's abundance of mango, pulp, most likely to become a popular food for the Buddha, Eugenics bitter and astringent can not be fruitful, for fear of not good out of hand. It is also estimated that the Sanskrit pronunciation is similar to the translation of the Zhang Guan Li Dai, let Yu Ganzi took advantage of. However, some people are not happy, mango so common how can be the holy fruit it. In fact, the most ordinary things, the most likely to become sacred things, such as the funeral of my hometown of the rice, solemn, but the rice is extremely ordinary.

There is also a Buddhist story to tell.

In his later years, King Ashoka was very sick and knew that he would not live long, so he wanted to give alms to chickens and other animals. But powerful ministers advised Ashoka not to do that. Once, Ashoka was eating Umoro fruit, eat half of it, will be held in the hand to play with when the fruit in the hand long sigh, to the ministers asked: "Now, alimony support continent is the master of who?"

The ministers replied, "Only the great king."

The king said, "No. I am not the master now, but only half of this fruit is at my disposal now. The riches of this world are more unreliable than the lamps before the wind, and the king, whose earth is the highest in the world, and whose name is the highest in the world, has no real power on his deathbed, and is under the control of powerful ministers. The world no longer belongs to me, and I now possess but half of this fruit."

So Ashoka ordered his ministers to send half of the fruit of the Umra fruit to the monks at the Chitomer's Puja as a final offering. After the monks accepted Ashoka's offering and buried the kernels in the earth, they built the Zaigongpo.

Ashoka is seriously ill most likely to eat is estimated to be still mango, and left half not eaten sent to the chicken head Mo monks offerings, but also mango. Eugenics, it's just too shabby.

Today by the "pillow grass son" thought of Buddhism's holy fruit, this wild horse ran far enough, but I write articles are always away from the entitled target, we will also be a little bit.