In early summer April, talk about the dog's tail grass, what is its ancient name?
The weather is getting hotter, it's cool in the morning and evening, and there are often dog's tail grass on the side of the road when walking. In fact, the dog tail grass in early summer is extremely light and cute, and the light green fluffy and fresh stalks poke out of the head, which is really like the tail of a cute pet, which makes people can't help but stroke it, feel the fluffy spike, and touch the fluffy feeling of the palm. The most beautiful thing is the beauty of this grass under the dew of the slanting sun, which makes people relax. Dog tail grass is a childhood toy, collect a handful of dog tail grass, raise it in your hand, or insert it on your little friend's head, full of wild fun. This grass is extremely widespread and highly fecund, so it is often despised in the wild and is usually regarded as a weed.
So I don't think the name is ancient, but sometimes, when I see the lightness and beauty of this grass, I always wonder if there is another name. Is it true that people have despised and ignored them since ancient times?
In fact, the dog's tail grass really has a story and a good name.
Its ancient name was "Xiu" or "莠".
China is the country with the longest history of millet and millet cultivation. Archaeological findings show that in the Neolithic Age, millet and millet were the main foods. Then millet and millet are yellow millet, the difference is that the glutinous one is called millet, and millet is millet. So how did this millet come about?
It is a primitive society, where people collect and observe the growth and fruits of wild plants, and select and breed from wild grasses.
Then this wild grass is the dog's tail grass.
Dog's tail grass actually blooms and bears seeds, but the seeds are small. But in ancient times, people could only rely on nature to obtain these seeds of dog tails, and then collected and then planted from generation to generation to form full-grained crops that were more suitable for humans. And this crop is also because of the cultivation of people, and different from the wild dog's tail grass, the crop is stronger, the grain is fuller, and it has become an important food crop in the Neolithic period of primitive society. It is easy to distinguish the difference between dog's tail grass and millet grass, and wild dog's tail is often mixed between these people's work, affecting the growth quality and harvest yield of millet, so dog's tail grass has become a weed and needs to be removed at any time when people need to manage the farmland.
However, in times of famine and famine, when there is no food, people will still use wild dog's tail grass as famine food. After all, it is better to have food than not to eat, although the taste and quantity cannot be equated with millet.
So why is it called "Xiu" or "Woe"?
Xiu, originally referred to the flowering and standing ears of grass-roots crops, artificial crops such as millet, flowering scion means good yield and grain. However, the wild dog's tail grass has huge fluffy ears in the wild, but it often has a low fruiting rate, giving people the illusion that it only grows ears and does not bear fruit.
Therefore, the serious agricultural grass crops are called seedlings and seedlings, and the dog's tail grass is called "Xiu" or "Grass".
But I like the word "莠", with the fresh ambition of green onions. Compared with the "millet", which has become an important crop, it is indeed delicate.
"April is beautiful, May is singing.
August is its peak, October is falling. "The Book of Poetry "July"
This is the Book of Poetry of the Zhou Dynasty.
Speaking of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, it is the beginning of summer, and in the vast countryside, grass grows vigorously.
So is the show here that the wheat has just bloomed in the field, or is the dog's tail grass growing vigorously?
This poem shows that the harvest season is in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and this is the time when the rice is ripe for harvest.
The flowering and heading of rice is around June of the lunar calendar, not in early summer.
Then the show here is obviously not rice, nor wheat, nor millet.
The show here is the dog's tail grass that grows in the fields in early summer, and its vigorous growth and fecundity often encroach on farmland.
April is the season for the infinite growth of dogtail grass, and the fields are covered with these wild wild grasses, so hurry down to the fields to remove the grass.
But I like this show, this dog's tail grass, the way it is luxuriant. It grows on the edge of the field, in the barren meadows, and it is good.
Because the summer color is green, one-tenth of it, in the green onion of the boundless swaying dog's tail grass.
"There is no field, and Wei Wei is arrogant.
There are no people who are far away, and they are worried.
No field is a field, and there is no field.
There are no thoughts, and they are tired.
Graceful and delicate, the total horn is shy.
I didn't see it much, and I was suddenly embarrassed. "Spring and Autumn · The Book of Poetry "Fields"
Putian is a field of agricultural cultivation. It takes manpower to plow and harvest.
The aristocrats of the Zhou Dynasty owned vast farmland, and of course peasants and slaves cultivated it.
But apparently in late spring and early summer, when the most need for cultivation is needed, the fields are barren and no one comes to plant them, and the fields are overgrown with "grass", that is, dog's tail grass, which grows so luxuriantly that it overshadows the original crops.
The reason for this is because the people who were supposed to work in the fields went to fight in distant places. There is no one in the field to cultivate.
The sad and anxious hostess became extremely sad and sad.
In the fields, no one grows food, only dog tail grass, which grows wildly.
My loved one, I remember that we used to be together when we were children, but now, you have grown up and been conscripted to a distant land.
I can only face the wilderness, and I have no end of worry.
Thinking of the wild growth, like an endless dog's tail grass, drowns out the vision and mood.
Dog's tail grass has always existed as a pest grass in farmland in ancient agriculture. But it's also relative.
Because when famine comes, the seeds of dog's tail grass can replace meals. Boil water with the leaves, rhizomes of the dog's tail grass, which can clear the fire and brighten the eyes.
At least in the Ming Dynasty, the folk used the name dog tail grass. Not only Li Shizhen knows, but Xu Guangqi also knows.
This cheesy and cute name has been around for at least 500 years.
Cute dog tail grass.
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