About the Dragon Boat Festival flowers and plants, you know which ones

The folk proverb says: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". "Ai", also known as the family Ai, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. The peculiar aroma it produces can drive away mosquitoes and flies, insects and ants, and purify the air.

In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important medicinal material for moxibustion.

Mugwort represents inviting a hundred blessings, inserted in the doorway represents inviting a hundred blessings, which can make the owner healthy.

It is claimed that withered mugwort soaked in water and fumigated can disinfect and relieve itching, and women in labor often use mugwort water for bathing or fumigation.

2, calamus

Calamus, also known as Yao leek, is a perennial aquatic herb, but also in traditional Chinese culture can be prevented to drive away the evil spirits of the spiritual grass. Its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which are the drugs that refresh the mind, strengthen the bones and eliminate stagnation, kill insects and sterilize the body. The whole plant is poisonous, and the rhizome is more toxic. It produces strong hallucinations when taken orally in large quantities.

Jiangnan people every Dragon Boat Festival, hanging calamus, mugwort leaves in the doors and windows, drink calamus wine, in order to get rid of the evil spirits; summer and autumn night, burning calamus, mugwort leaves, mosquitoes, insects and other customs to maintain today.

Calamus sword leaves full of green, dignified and beautiful, is a good indoor ornamental potted plants.

The bonsai made of calamus is both poetic and anti-pollution.

The ancients read at night, often placed under the oil lamp, a pot of calamus, the reason is that calamus has adsorption of dust in the air function, can be free of lamp smoke smoky eye pain.

3, Peilan

Duanwu worth of midsummer, is the season of skin diseases, the ancients to orchid soup bath stain for the custom. In the Han Dynasty, the "Dai Dai Li" cloud: "the afternoon to orchid soup bath". But the text of the orchid is not orchids, but the chrysanthemum family of orchids or herbs, fragrant, can be decocted to bathe.

In Guangdong, the bitter herbs of wheat or Ai, Pu, Fenxian, Magnolia and other flowers and herbs; in Hunan, Guangxi and other places, the cypress leaves, Dafeng root, Ai, Pu, peach leaves and other boiled into a medicinal water bath. Regardless of men and women, young and old, the whole family washed, this custom still exists today, is said to cure skin diseases, go to the evil spirit.

Peilan is also known as chicken bone incense, water incense.

Peilan is also known as chicken bone incense, water incense.

"Li Sao", "both for the rest of the cymbidium indemnity, but also for the Rang Ru Shi." Cymbidium, the name of the herb, also known as "lavender", commonly known as "Peilan". Born in roadside thickets or streams. Wild or cultivated.

Prefer warm and humid climate, cold, afraid of drought, afraid of flooding. Temperature below 19 ℃ slow growth, high temperature and high humidity season is rapid growth. The soil requirements are not strict, to loose fertile, well-drained sandy loam cultivation is appropriate.

4, dragon boat flower

Sports dragon to win gold season, a "flower shape" slightly similar to the red hydrangea "dragon boat flower" also bloomed. Longboat flower, also known as Yingdan, Xiantan flower, Baizhihong, for the Rubiaceae, Longboat flower plants. It is a beautiful plant, with dense blooming and rich flower colors, and is an important potted woody flower, which is customarily called water hydrangea. Longboat flower flowering period is long, every year from March to December can bloom. Longboat flower propagation with sowing, pressing, cuttings (in June to July is good) can be, but generally more cuttings.

Longboat flower flower language: the first to compete.

5, fighting grass

Doing grass, also known as the fight of a hundred grasses, is a popular game in Chinese folklore, belonging to the Dragon Boat Festival folklore. After the harvest, often held competitions, in the form of a pair of mutual flower names, grass names, more than one for the win, both plant knowledge, literary knowledge of the fun; children are hooked to the petiole, pinch the phase drag, broken for the loss, and then change a leaf to fight.

Bai Juyi's poem "Watching Children's Play" reads, "Getting the dust or fighting the grass, and enjoying playing all day long."

With the development of modern civilization, the quality of people to improve, especially in the city, "caring for flowers and plants, everyone has the responsibility", picking flowers and pulling grass in the park used to "fight grass", is obviously an uncivilized phenomenon, and to be condemned, fined, and even pursued! Legal responsibility.