The westerly wind on both sides of the strait blows the flowers, and the light red wisps of millet are dipped in clear sand.
Autumn huaiqing autumn river evening, self-flower branches guest chakra.
--Li Sunchen, "The Flower"
When I was a child, I often encountered this plant in the forest, on the ground and on the banks of small rivers and ditches, red stems and green leaves. The size and shape of the leaves resemble eyes, and the black spots in the middle of the leaves resemble eyeballs, especially spiritual. Pinch a leaf and put it in your mouth, sour.
Polygonum
I didn't know that this plant was the most beautiful flower in poetry. I don't know if he has many other aliases: nicknames kitten's eye, wild buckwheat, wild buckwheat, wild buckwheat grass, head-shaped indigo, buckwheat grass, water buckwheat, horse indigo grass, valley indigo, wild buckwheat and so on. I think of all these names, the kitten's eye, which I find the most impressive, is the main sign that I can recognize at a glance from the multitude of plants — although some of the "eyes" are different in brightness.
"Cat's eye" is mainly grown on the leaves, the leaves are single-leaf alternate; the lower leaves have stalks, the upper leaves are nearly sessile, holding the stem; the leaves are ovate or triangular ovate, 3 to 5 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, the apex is tapering, the base is truncated or rounded, the full rim, along the petiole under the extension of the wing or earlobe, the lower dense golden glandular spots; the leaf sheath barrel, membranous, light brown, the apex is flattened, and the base is sparsely hairy.
The red leaf stem in the impression is also one of the important characteristics of distinguishing the tateshina. Of course, the color of the leaf stalk (stem) of some indigo is not different, depending on the type of indigo. Because there are many kinds of indigo, there are differences such as large indigo, red indigo, and water indigo.
There is a beautiful legend about "Tateshina": an official surnamed Tie was going to work in a distant place, and when he left, there was only one military attaché among his friends who came to send him. Everyone wanted to be embarrassed for this military attaché, so they proposed that no one would improve a poem for each of them and give it to this friend. Finally it was the military attaché's turn, and everyone was waiting for him to be ugly. Only to hear the military attaché speak: "You also write poems to send old iron, and I also write poems to send old iron." "These two verses were so vulgar that the literati were secretly proud and were thinking about how to laugh at him, but the last two verses of the military attaché shocked them." Jiangnan Jiangbei Tateshina flowers are all blood in people's eyes. Although this poem is simple, the mood in it is very much in line with the mood of farewell.
A story of beauty lies in simplicity and sincerity. Having read the "蓼" in the Book of Verses, "蓼者莨" is this plant, "蓼" is a polysyllabic word, pronounced 蓼 (liǎo) and 蓼 (lu). There will be poems about the description of Tateshina, and everyone is familiar with it and can popularize it.
Observation date: August 23, 2021
Observation location: Escort Mountain Park grass, waterside
Observer: Zhou Guangling, Zoucheng Kaishan Primary School
Text resource reference: "all kinds" "Baidu"
Photo: Zhou Guangling