"For the love of the river head red indigo flowers, autumn to make a unique grass worm home." The incense-seeking pink butterfly should follow the dream, and the honey wasp should not take advantage of it. Liu Ji of the Ming Dynasty expressed his love for the red indigo in the poem "Inscribed Ink Lotus Flower Grass Worm". Red indigo, also known as dog tail flower or saffron flower. The people in our village call it the Lotus Flower.
Tateshina is an annual herb of the genus Tateshina in the family Tateshina, mostly growing in wetlands along ditches or on roadsides along villages. Its stems are thin and erect, and the leaves are mostly ovate and lanceolate. The base of the leaf is round or nearly heart-shaped, and the veins and petioles are densely covered with villi. The flowers are spike-shaped and pink in color. In the messy grass, the pink indigo flower spikes are very conspicuous. After many wildflowers wither, it has become the exclusive worship of bees and butterflies. However, sometimes ladybugs also secretly fly on the flower spikes and share a piece of the pie.
The indigo flower is also a flower with a story. There is a very interesting folk story, there is an Iron County Guard transferred to his county, and when he left, friends who had worked together came to see him off. Among them, the civilian officials felt that their literary talents were outstanding, and they wanted to embarrass the military attaché who went with them, so they proposed improvised poems to express their intention of farewell. The civil servants, you have never been the same, and they have all recited their own poems. It's the military attaché's turn. A military attaché first began to chant, "You also write poems to send old iron, and I also write poems to send old iron." "When the civil servants listened, they couldn't hold back their happiness, what kind of poetry is this?" Just as he wanted to laugh, the military attaché continued to chant, "The red flowers in jiangnan and the north of the river are all blood in the eyes of people." When the civil servants heard this, they were amazed, and they were all called masterpieces.
The indigo flowers in the story are interesting, and the indigo flowers in life are also very interesting. When I was young, there was a big blister on the west side of our village. The water was not very deep, just submerging the children's chests, about a meter or so. The shallow water area next to the bubble is covered with indigo flowers, and when the flowers bloom, they are full of pink. Children often go to the water to play, and the girls like to spend their best. They like to hide in the flowers, you pluck the water, I push the waves. The white and tender skin and the pink flower spikes reflect each other, forming a beautiful picture. The mischievous boy stabbed a fierce son, and as soon as he emerged from the girl's pile, he was caught randomly, frightening another fierce man into the water. The girls slapped the surface of the water, and laughter echoed over the bubbles.
Enough frolicking in the water, the girls got dressed and went home, while the boys went into the crop fields bare-butts, found a clearing and squatted, and the water on them dried in a moment. Sometimes there are mosquitoes or blind flies (cattle flies) falling on the body to bite people, the boys will fold the indigo flowers from the water, a bouquet of indigo flowers, it is equivalent to a fly throwing, as long as the mosquito falls on the body, immediately throw away the mosquito. For a long time the mosquitoes did not come back. Adults say that indigo flowers are Chinese herbal medicines that can prevent mosquito bites. After drying his body, he put on his shirt and pants and went elsewhere to play naughty.
"For the love of the river head red indigo flowers, autumn to make a unique grass worm home." I love red flowers all the time.