Rhododendron, also known as mountain heel, mountain pomegranate, yingshan red, periwinkle, spring flower, is a deciduous shrub of the rhododendron family, deciduous shrub. There are about 900 species of rhododendrons worldwide. China is the country with the largest distribution of rhododendrons, about 530 species, rhododendrons have a wide variety of flowers, gorgeous flowers, beautiful flowers and leaves, ground planting, potted planting, is one of the top ten traditional flowers in China.
Rhododendrons are very beautiful, with deep red, light red, rose, purple, white and other colors. When the mountains bloom in spring, the mountains are bright and bright, like colorful xia around the forest, and are known as "flowers in the West". The colorful red of the mountains evokes people's warm and beautiful feelings for life, and it also symbolizes the prosperity of the country and the happy life of the people. This is the true meaning of our people's love for cuckoos.
According to legend, the ancient Kingdom of Shu was a peaceful and prosperous country. The land is fertile, the products are abundant, the people are well fed, carefree, and live happily. The carefree and prosperous life makes people slowly become lazy. They went all day and night, drunk and dreaming, gambling and gambling, indulging in pleasure, and even forgetting the time of sowing.
At that time, the emperor of the Shu kingdom was named Du Yu. He was a very responsible and diligent king who loved his people. Seeing that people were happy and forgetful, he was anxious. In order not to miss the time of farming, every spring sowing season, he would run around, urging people to quickly sow seeds and grasp the spring light. Year after year, people developed the habit of waiting for him to urge them to start sowing, as long as Du Yu did not come, they would not sow seeds.
Years of running and working hard caused Du Yu to accumulate fatigue and illness, and finally bid farewell to his people. But he still has an unforgettable memory for the people. His soul turned into a small bird, and every spring, he flew around and made a cry: cuckoo, cuckoo, to urge people to sow seeds quickly. Day after day, year after year, blood came out of his mouth, and bright red blood droplets spilled all over the mountains and turned into beautiful flowers.
People were touched and began to learn from their good monarch Du Yu, becoming diligent and responsible. They called the little bird the cuckoo, and the blood-soaked flower the azalea.
Rhododendron is slightly bitter, flat and fragrant, has a certain medicinal value in medicine, to rheumatism, menstruation and blood, calm and dry, folk often use this flower and pig's trotters with the pot, can cure female vaginal discharge. Long-term drinking has the effect of whitening and freckle removal. Rhododendron leaves can clear heat, detoxify, stop bleeding, and the root can activate blood and relieve pain.
The flowers of Yingshan Red are sour and non-toxic, and can be eaten raw; the flowers of the great white rhododendron and the rhododendron with thick handle are still beautiful vegetables of the people of central Yunnan; the branches, leaves and flowers of the sheep are soaked and made, which can be used as insecticidal pesticides; Xing'an rhododendrons, etc., can be pharmaceutical. Some kinds of bark and leaves are rich in dipping, which can be extracted from quercetin; the wood and root pockets of rhododendrons are delicate and tough, and can be used to make bowls, chopsticks, pots, bowls, pipes, roots and other daily workers and crafts.