The Chinese names of the grass and trees are surprisingly beautiful. A number, a unit, a noun, combined together to evoke a starry world: a string of red, two plane trees, three years of tung,

The Chinese names of the grass and trees are surprisingly beautiful.

A number, a unit, a noun, combined together to evoke a starry world: a string of red, two plane trees, three years of tung, four flowers, five needle pines, June snow, seven incense, star anise, bougainvillea, ten great merits.

Not enough? There are also: Hundred Days Red, Thousand Golden Vines, Evergreen.

The first people to think of names for plants always associate animals with them:

Lantana, sage, goosefoot, loquat, golden retriever, leopard camphor, fish scale pine, nepenthes, cockscomb flower, phoenix wood, phalaenopsis orchid, eagle does not flutter, monkey rejoices.

Not enough? There are also: five-clawed golden dragons, golden bulls into the ground, centipedes on the ground, sheep do not eat grass.

On a lazy afternoon when the sea breeze is blowing, take out a list of "plants recorded on or next to the artificial slope", the names of wild grasses and weeds, and stir it casually, and you will get the "flower words" like flowing water:

White-flowered ground gall grass, oriental sylvestris parasitism, thorn tree, water solanum, seven sister fruit;

Dense-haired small hairy fern, small leaf red leaf vine, mountain orange, gang pine, idiot.

Or, have you read such seven "Tang poems"? Peach, green lotus, mountain peony, wheat winter, blood tree, fine leaf fig; wild lacquer, moon orange, flying grass; yellow monolith, seaweed, ghost lantern.

——Excerpt from Long Yingtai's "Du Fu"

After reading the above text, I realized that the writer must also be a botanist, a naturalist. In the words of Mr. Lu Xun's "Hometown", "I never knew that there are so many new things in the world." I'm so lonely! Search for pictures is also long knowledge, not to mention, the above picture is proof!