Today, the osmanthus flowers in the community, on both sides of the road and in the park, whether it is golden gui, silver gui or dan gui, are finally hanging on the branches.
As early as before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the osmanthus flowers were brewing to bloom, but the temperature in Shencheng had been high, so hot that the osmanthus flowers had been tightly wrapped around the buds and embedded in the branches.
On the day of September 15th, I once saw the branches of an osmanthus tree, there were sporadic osmanthus blossoms, I also took a photo and posted it in the circle of friends, but in the following month, I never saw the osmanthus blossom again, it was just wrapped in the buds.
Osmanthus is one of the top ten traditional Chinese flowers, generally blooming around the National Day Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a symbol of "golden wind sending cool, ten miles of fragrant", auspicious and satisfactory.
Osmanthus flower language: Chinese means that osmanthus is "noble", "beautiful", "auspicious", "friendly", "loyal" and "unyielding", "fairy friend", "cyclamen"; Yu Guizhi is "outstanding figure" and "career"; European and American Guizhi is "glorious" and "honorable"
Osmanthus has many nicknames:
Because the leaves are like Gui, they are called "Gui"; the texture is like a rhinoceros, also known as the wood rhinoceros; its elegance and purity, the fragrance is overflowing, and it is called "Xianyou"; the osmanthus is also called "Immortal Tree" and "Flower In the Moon". Osmanthus flowers usually grow on the rock ridge, also known as "rock gui"; osmanthus flowers bloom when the fragrance is far away, its aroma has the characteristics of both thick and strong, clear can be swept away, thick can be far, so there is a "nine-mile incense" reputation; yellow flowers are as fine as millet, so there is a name of "golden millet"; osmanthus flowers are "cyclamen"; flowers bloom in autumn, the old god of autumn is the lord of the West, so it is also called "Western incense" or "autumn incense"; the osmanthus tree is a symbol of sublimeness, chastity, honor, friendship and auspiciousness, and the people who have attained the goal of flying yellow are called "folding laurels"
Osmanthus is a small evergreen tree of the rhinoceros family, due to the relatively high temperature in the south, suitable for the outdoor growth of osmanthus flowers, so it is mostly used for garden park greening, old dry branches, many branches; and in the north due to the cold weather in winter, it is generally a potted plant, and moved indoors in winter, if you want the osmanthus tree to grow tall, you also need to graft it to the oil root (fringe tree).
There are many varieties of osmanthus flowers, and there are four common cultivations: golden laurel (golden yellow flowers), silver laurel (yellow and white flowers), dangui (orange red) and four seasons laurel (milky white flowers).
History of Osmanthus Flower:
The history of cultivating osmanthus trees in China has been more than 2,500 years, and the "Shan Hai Jing and Nanshan Jing" of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period says that "the mountains and seas of the swagger are multi-gui", and the "Shan Hai Jing and Xi Shan Jing" says "Gao Tu No Shan Duo Gui".
Qu Yuan said in the "Nine Songs" that "aid the Beidou Xi drink the gui pulp, and the Xin Yi che knots the gui flag".
"Lü's Spring and Autumn" has "the beauty of things, the glory of swagger", admiring the beauty of osmanthus flowers.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty Yuan Kang and other compilations of the Book of Yue Extinction, Ji Ni replied to the words of the Yue King: "Gui Shi Sheng Gui, Tong Shi Sheng Tong".
The Jin Dynasty Ji Han "Southern Grass and Trees" records: "Gui out of Hepu, born at the top of the mountain, evergreen in winter and summer, its class is its own forest, there are no miscellaneous trees between them." ”
Many literati in the Tang Dynasty liked to plant osmanthus flowers, and chanted osmanthus flowers, which became the norm. After the Tang and Song dynasties, osmanthus flowers began to be widely used for cultivation and ornamentation in gardens.
Song Zhiqing said in the poem "Lingyin Temple" that "the moon of the guizi falls, and the heavenly incense floats outside the clouds", and refers to the osmanthus flower as "tianxiang".
Li Bai said in the poem "Yong Gui" that "AnZhi Nanshan Gui, green leaves weeping fang roots." Qing Yin can also be trusted, why not plant the King's Garden."
It can be seen that since ancient times, Gui has been loved by people.
And the best way to write osmanthus should also count the Northern Song Dynasty talented woman Li Qingzhao's "Partridge Heaven • Osmanthus Flower":
The dull and light yellow body is soft, and the love is far away and only fragrant.
Why light turquoise and deep red, it is the first class among flowers.
Mei Ding is jealous, Ju should be ashamed, and the painting is opened in the crown mid-autumn.
Rioters can think ruthlessly, what is not seen in the past.
If you have carefully observed, touched and smelled the newly bloomed osmanthus flowers, you know how appropriate Li Qingzhao's description of the osmanthus flowers in the first two sentences of "dim and light yellow body is soft, and the love is far away and only fragrant".
The first blooming osmanthus flowers, the color is light and elegant, not gorgeous, soft and soft to the touch, soft and soft, do not have to deliberately smell, the fragrance of the osmanthus flowers has long been poured into your nostrils, light and elegant fragrance, how to smell is not enough, really want to stand under the osmanthus tree, basking in the autumn sun, bathing in the breeze, smelling the osmanthus flowers...
The favorite is the second sentence "Why light turquoise and deep red, it is the first class in the flowers", the osmanthus does not need to compete with other flowers for color, and its unique fragrance has long been classified as the first-class flower.
Osmanthus is not only light and delicate, it has many medicinal properties:
Osmanthus effect: light yellowish white, aromatic, extract aromatic oil, make osmanthus extract, can be used for food, cosmetics, can make cakes, candy, and can be brewed. Osmanthus is spicy and can be used in medicine. Use flowers, fruits and roots into the medicine. Autumn flowers, spring fruit, roots in all seasons, sun-dried. Flower: Spicy, warm. Fruit: Spicy, sweet, warm. Root: sweet, slightly astringent, flat. Indications for function: flower: disperse cold and break knots, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. For toothache, coughing up sputum, abdominal pain at the end of the period. Fruit: warm stomach, flat liver, cold dissipation. For cold stomach pain. Root: Dispel rheumatism, disperse cold. It is used for rheumatic muscle pain, low back pain, kidney deficiency toothache.
The effect of osmanthus wine: The ancients believed that gui was the length of a hundred medicines, so the wine brewed with osmanthus flowers can achieve the effect of "drinking shou chitose". For example, in the Han Dynasty, osmanthus wine is a good product that people use to worship the gods and ancestors, after the sacrifice is completed, the younger generations pay homage to the elders with osmanthus wine, and after the elders drink it, it symbolizes that it will prolong life. The wine is sweet and mellow, and has the effect of appetizing and awakening, strengthening the spleen and replenishing weakness. Osmanthus wine is especially suitable for women to drink and is praised as "women's happiness wine". There is a theoretical practice of chemotherapy in the medicine of the motherland, and osmanthus wine is a typical example.
Osmanthus tea effect: osmanthus tea can nourish the face and beauty, soothe the throat, improve phlegm, cough symptoms, cure duodenal ulcer, urticaria, stomach cold stomach pain, bad breath, visual confusion.
The fragrance of golden laurel is overflowing, and it is in the autumn wind. Do not compete with a hundred flowers for color, light and elegant branches and leaves are poetic. Who doesn't love osmanthus flowers?
Attached is a photograph of osmanthus flowers taken by a mobile phone in the park: