March 17 Cumquat
Flower Language: Great luck.
"The Zen guest has no breath in autumn and wants to get drunk with red sleeves." Frost branches shake off golden bullets, and Xu sends a cage to the future. "Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian", "Ouyang sent kumquats from Daoxu to poetry to supervise him".
Kumquat, also known as kumquat, is a common potted plant in Guangzhou's Spring Flower Market on the eve of the Spring Festival, and every household will put a pot of kumquat in the New Year, which is not only pleasing to the eye, adding to the New Year atmosphere, but also has an auspicious meaning. Kumquat means auspicious and auspicious, because there is an auspicious word in the name. At the same time, the fruit of the kumquat is golden and round, dense and fruitful, which means family reunion, and also means to recruit wealth and treasure.
In the Song Dynasty Chen Di's "Ciyun Su Shou Kumquat", there is: "The young woman is dyed golden and light, and Feng Yi cuts out the mussel fetus circle." "It describes the golden color and rounded shape of the kumquat. In the Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's "Uncle Deyuan Sits on the Eight Songs of the Fu Cuisine Core and Its Four Honey Kumquats": "The chivalrous puppets leave golden marbles, and the queen bee makes chrysanthemums." And in the Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's "Ouyang from Dao Xu to Send Kumquat to Poetry": "Frost branches shake off the golden bullet, Xu sends a cage to the future." "They all figuratively compare the kumquat fruit to a golden marble, a golden bullet.
In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that kumquats are also called golden oranges, Lu oranges, summer oranges, mountain oranges, and guest oranges. "This orange is green and green when it is born, and when it is yellow, it is like gold, so it has the name of kumquat and lu orange." Lou, black also. Or Yunlu, the name of the wine vessel, and the reason for its shape... This orange summer and winter are successive, so the clouds are ripe in summer, and Pei Yuan's "Guangzhou Record" is called summer orange. Give the guest orange, its fragrance is like orange, can be supplied to the guest also. "Because its fruit is green when it is immature and golden when it is ripe, it is called kumquat, lu tangerine. Because its fruits are successively summer and winter, it is called summer ripening and summer orange. Because the aroma is like orange, it can be provided for guests to enjoy, so it is also called orange for guests.
There are also "kumquats, born in Wuyue, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Sichuan and Guangjian." ...... Its trees are orange-like and not very tall. In May, the white flowers are fruity, the autumn and winter are yellow, the large ones are inches in diameter, the small ones are like fingers, the shape is long and the skin is strong, the texture is fine, the raw is dark green, and the ripe is yellow like gold. Its taste is sour and sweet, and the aroma is lovely, and it is good for sugar and honey frying. "Speaking of kumquats, born in the south between Wuyue, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Sichuan and Guangzhou, the tree is like an orange tree, not very tall. May blossom white flowers fruit, autumn and winter yellow ripe, large diameter of about an inch, small as the size of a finger, long shape and strong skin, delicate and crystalline texture, raw dark green, cooked golden yellow, taste sour with sweet, aromatic and lovely, made of sugar, made of preserves, are delicious.
Brief introduction
Kumquat, scientific name: Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle, genus Kumquat in the family Rubiaceae, evergreen shrub. The tree is up to 3 m tall and has thick leaves, ovate lanceolate or oblong-oval. Single flowers or 2-3 flowers grow in clusters. The fruit is oval or ovate, orange-yellow to orange-red, and the peel is sweet. The seeds are ovate. The flowering period is from March to May, and the fruit period is from October to December.
It is planted in various parts of southern China, and more are planted in Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Edible value
In addition to being eaten fresh, kumquat fruits can also be brewed into tea. It can also be processed into sugar kumquat cake, licorice kumquat cake, jam, orange peel wine, kumquat juice and so on. The peel can also be extracted from aromatic oils.
nutritive value
Kumquat fruit is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin P, kumquat and other ingredients. It can prevent pigmentation, improve skin radiance and elasticity, and delay aging. It can strengthen the elasticity of microvascular vessels, and has a certain effect on maintaining cardiovascular function and preventing diseases such as arteriosclerosis and hypertension. Kumquat compote can appetize, kumquat juice can quench thirst and treat cough.
Medicinal value
Kumquat taste sour, sweet, warm, non-toxic. Efficacy of qi, anti-depression, phlegm, cough, thirst, stomach, digestion, decanting, odor. Indications for the treatment of qi, fast diaphragm, chest tightness and depression, do not think about eating, hurt food full. It can enhance the body's ability to resist colds, can prevent and treat colds, and reduce blood lipids. Suitable for acute and chronic tracheitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, hypertension, orthoposclerosis. 80% of the vitamin C of kumquats is stored in the peel, and the peel is sweeter than the flesh, which is effective in the maintenance of the liver, eyes and immune system.
Poetry
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Ouyang sent knuckles from Daoxu to shi douzhi
Huang Tingjian (Song Dynasty)
Zen guests have no breath in autumn and want to get drunk with red sleeves.
Frost branches shake off golden bullets, and Xu sends a cage to the future.
The second rhyme Su shou kumquat
Chen Di (Song Dynasty)
The lone root was transplanted from Akiyama, and the long-term cultivation of the submerged private thorn Shi Tian.
The young woman dyed light gold, and Feng Yi cut out the mussel fetus circle.
Shame Fei Ganji once passed on the same biography, shame and Yang Luyi side by side.
In fact, there are chapters and chapters passed on to the music house, and the good name has since entered the new compilation.
kumquat
Kong Wuzhong (Song Dynasty)
The summer shore is thousands of dwarfs green, and the autumn garden is yellow.
Mingjing can be dazzling, and consummation must be frosted.
Ruilu is full of condensed skin, and ganquan wo lungs are cool.
Mei Cang did not understand things, the golden bowl recommended betel nut.
Uncle Deyuan sat on the eight songs of the fu cuisine core and the four honey kumquats
Yang Wanli [Song Dynasty]
Wind meal dew drink orange island immortals, chest is clear in the moon circle. The chivalrous puppet left a golden marble, and the queen bee made a chrysanthemum.
Image from the web.
References: Baidu Encyclopedia, Ancient Poetry Network and Online Materials.