Vote for me with a papaya, and repay it with Qiongju
"Poetry Sutra, Wei Feng, Papaya":
"Throw me a papaya, and repay it with Qiongju; Bandits also, always think good too!
Vote for me with a wooden peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao; Bandits also, always think good too!
Vote for me with Wood Lee, and repay it with Qiong Jiu; Bandits also, always think good too! ”
The "papaya", "peach" and "wood plum" recited repeatedly in the poem all belong to the begonia plants.
In ancient times, it was often used as a gift to relatives and friends.
"Throw me a papaya, and repay it with Qiongju; Bandits also, always think good too! ”
- You give me the papaya, and I give qiongju in return. Not just to thank you, but also to cherish the affection forever!
It turns out that the begonia flower was initially valued not for its ornamentality, but for the edible value of the begonia flower. Perhaps it is precisely because of its edible value that it has been selected as a gift of high grade or high-end atmosphere.
The papaya in the poem "Cast Me with Papaya" actually corresponds to what melon and flower today?
Bells and bells, the papaya is today's wrinkled papaya.
Wrinkled papaya, a deciduous shrub of the genus Papaya in the family Rosaceae. Aliases iron-footed pear, sticker-stemmed papaya, sticky-stemmed begonia, hawthorn, papaya.
The flowers are opened first, clustered, and the peduncle is short and thick.
The fruit is spherical or ovoid in shape and has an aromatic taste.
The flowering period is from March to May, and the fruit period is from September to October.
It is distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yun, Guangdong and other places.
It turned out that I had always known only one, not the other.
Sticking begonias is a crumpled papaya.
It's just that the name is different: when it is flowering, it is called begonia, and the fruit is called wrinkled papaya.
In fact, in fact, sticking stemmed begonia = wrinkled papaya.
But I prefer to call it Sticker Begonia, because when I knew it, it only knew it was called Sticker Begonia.
Sticking stemmed begonias should have flourished during the Tang Dynasty. Before there was the "Begonia Spring Sleep" allusion to make it famous, and then there was the "Hundred Flowers Spectrum" that praised it as "the immortal in the flowers".
Future generations also praised it as "the honor of a hundred flowers" and "the noble concubine of flowers".
Therefore, the begonia has always been regarded as a symbol of a beautiful spring, a beautiful beauty and all things auspicious.
When I was a child, in the flower garden on campus, the small square that I often go to now, the cluster of blooming, bright and simple sticky begonias in the spring, turned out to be the papaya Buddha-figure of the famous "Cast Me with Papaya" in the "Book of Poetry".
Sorry for the disrespect!
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