It's another red May, and today is Mother's Day.
Mother's Day was originally an imported product, originated in Philadelphia, USA, by a girl named Anna. Why love to send carnations? It was Anna's mother's love of carnations during her lifetime, as a memorial. As the influence expanded, people associated carnations with Mother's Day. In fact, in daily life, you can choose your mother's favorite flowers to express gratitude.
Although China is a country that pays attention to the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, it does not have a festival exclusive to mothers, which is more or less lacking. When the feeling rooted in the heart of Chinese is ignited by a specific day, it quickly becomes a kind of admiration, and this admiration has surpassed the West and contains more Chinese elements, Chinese feelings.
City dwellers often give carnations, lilies and some gifts on Mother's Day. In fact, in China, the traditional mother flower is daylilies, also known as forget-me-notch grass.
In ancient times, "Xuan" referred to the mother, the mother was called "Xuan Family", the birthday wish for the mother was called "Xuan Shou", the mother's birthday was called "Xuan Ri", and the mother's apartment was called "Xuan Hall" and "North Hall". Therefore, many poems write that the north church is mostly juxtaposed with daylilies.
The image of daylilies always connects the distant imagination of time and space, the longing of family members, and the sustenance of forgetfulness, which is a very unique cultural image. Choosing daylilies to send to the mother, so that the mother can forget her sorrows and live happily, is the only wish of the children.
Why did the ancients think daylilies could relieve worries? Daylilies in Chinese medicine have the effect of reducing swelling, removing dampness and heat, and making people light and pleasant. However, in terms of dosage and scale, only Chinese medicine with excellent medical skills has a better grasp. For example, eating the golden needle in daylilies is a good ingredient, and it is easy to get food poisoning if not handled properly. Speaking of golden needle cauliflower, it is also called yellow cauliflower, and when the flowers bloom, it has gold and yellow, which is more beautiful than white lilies.
Daylilies forget the saying, in ancient times when men were inferior to women, I don't know when the legend of women wearing daylilies flowers, easy to add to the import, giving birth to boys, and having less troubles. For this reason, daylilies are associated with motherhood. People began to plant daylilies in their gardens, both to express their love for their mothers, to beautify the environment, and to use them for medicinal emergencies.
"Daylilies give birth to the stairs, and the wanderers travel the world. Kindness leaned on the door and looked out, and there were no daylilies in sight. This is the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao's "Youzi Xing". It means that daylilies are born in front of my mother's hall, but I am going to travel far to the end of the world, and my mother leans against the door, looking at the back of the long journey, looking at the road, which is the figure expecting her children to come home. That is really who said the lingering of the daylily heart, the daylily blossoms, the beauty and fragrance that make people forget, but it is the lingering thoughts of the mother, in her eyes, there are no brilliant flowers, only endless concerns...
In fact, there is no medicine that can cure the mother's worries. Can forget-you-go-weeds forget worries? Only the mother knows in her heart.
It's Mother's Day again, every year on Mother's Day, when I see carnations and lilies, I think of daylilies, which is the flower of the Chinese mother, may daylilies be evergreen and daylilies always bloom.