#Dabie Mountain# #Orchid Flower# #Folklore#
In the depths of Dabie Mountain, there is a magical plant - orchid grass, also known as orchid flower. Every year around the Qingming Festival, it is when the orchid grass blooms and spoos, when there is an orchid flower, you will smell a lover's heart fragrance within a radius of 30 meters, the fragrance is sweet and rich, but not pungent, smell pleasant, so it is called "the fragrance of the king", also known as the spirit of Dabie Mountain. When I was a child, my favorite thing to do was to go up the mountain to find orchid grass as soon as school was over, and the secret to finding orchid grass was to just carry your nose, and if you smell its fragrance, there would be flowers within a radius of tens of meters. It is precisely because of the fragrant and charming aroma of orchid grass, in some trading platforms even the better quality of orchid flowers fried to hundreds of thousands of yuan a plant, and it is precisely because of this, in recent years, orchids and plants in the forests of Dabie Mountain have been poached and poached by a large number of foreign tourists, and some local villagers transplant wild orchid grass on the mountain to their own family yards for viewing, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of wild orchids and plants. Now orchid grass has been listed as a national second-class protected plant.
There is also a poignant and moving story about orchid grass. According to legend, a long, long time ago, there were a pair of brothers who lost their parents from childhood and depended on each other, and when they grew up, the eldest brother married a lazy and vicious woman, and the younger brother married a gentle and virtuous hardworking woman. The brothers lived separately after marriage, and when they separated, the sister-in-law encouraged the eldest brother to seize the few family property, and also drove the younger brother and sister-in-law out of the house. The younger brother and sister-in-law had no choice but to build a grass hut at the foot of the mountain and lived a poor life. Fortunately, the younger brother and sister-in-law are hardworking and honest people, the husband and wife are very loving, the younger brother does odd jobs for the rich families in the village with his spirit of daring to endure hardships, and the younger sister-in-law raises silkworms and weaves cloth at home.
On the other hand, my brother's family is lazy and afraid of hardship, sitting and eating every day, especially my sister-in-law, seeing my brother's life getting better and better, and I am jealous in my heart. Often taking advantage of his brother's outing to work, he ran to his brother's house to punch and kick his sister-in-law, who was worried about the discord between the two brothers and kept her grievances in her heart. Seeing this, the sister-in-law became more and more arrogant and domineering, and unscrupulously poisoned her sister-in-law. The sister-in-law couldn't stand it anymore and told her husband what happened to her. The younger brother saw that his wife was beaten for no reason at home, so he ran to his brother's house to make a big fuss, and the brother knew that he was at a loss, scolded his sister-in-law, and also started to make a big deal. After crying, making trouble and hanging herself, she remembered all her resentment on her sister-in-law, and he felt that it was because of her sister-in-law's complaint that her eldest brother beat herself. On this day, the sister-in-law took advantage of her brother's absence at home, sneaked into her brother's house, took advantage of her sister-in-law's defenselessness, beat her, in order to prevent her sister-in-law from suing, she picked up the needle used by her sister-in-law to sew clothes, and pierced her sister-in-law's tongue and mouth one by one, and her sister-in-law was full of blood and was so painful that she couldn't speak. The sister-in-law ignored her sister-in-law's wail, and the sandbag-sized fist smashed on her sister-in-law's body, and soon her sister-in-law stopped breathing.
When the younger brother returned home and saw his wife die tragically, the grief-stricken brother knew that his sister-in-law had done it, and angrily reported to the officials, and the government arrested her and sentenced her to death. After the younger brother buried his sister-in-law, his heart was full of grief, full of longing and guilt for his wife, and he came to the grave every day to visit his wife. On this day, my brother suddenly found that an orchid grass grew from his wife's grave, and the blooming orchid grass spit out the stamen, and the bright red dots on the stamen were like the needle eyes on the tongue that were pricked by the needle before death. Since then, every year on the Qingming Festival, an orchid plant with a bright red tongue will bloom at the grave of my sister-in-law.
