Paeonia lactiflora Pall., alias Paeonia lactiflora Pall., is a perennial herb of the genus Paeonia in the family Paeonia. The root is born from under the root neck, fleshy, stout, spindle-shaped or long columnar, 0.6 to 3.5 cm thick. Peony petals are inverted ovate, the flower disc is shallow cup-shaped, the flowering period is from May to June, the flowers generally grow at the top of the stem or near the apical leaf axils, the original flowers are white, and there are 5 to 13 petals. Horticultural varieties are rich in color, including white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black and complex color, with a flower diameter of 10 to 30 cm and hundreds of petals. The fruit is spindle-shaped and the seeds are round, oblong or pointed.
According to legend, peony and peony medicine are not mortal flower species, it is a plague in the human world in a certain year, and the jade girl or flower god stole the queen mother's elixir to save the world and sprinkled it on the human world. As a result, some became woody peonies, others became herbal peonies, and the peony still carries the word "medicine". Peony, peony flower and leaf rhizome can indeed be used in medicine, peony danpi is the most famous, white peony is the best product to nourish yin and blood.
There are similar legends in the ancient West, saying that the ancient Greek famous physician Asclepie had a clever student Peon Blue out of the blue, and even healed the wounds of the god Ofes. In jealousy, Asclepie killed Little Brother Pebble. Fortunately, the Pluto King took care of his kindness and turned Pei Xiaodi into a flower that can cure diseases, that is, peony. Westerners have also always believed that peony has some kind of magic, wherever peony grows, demons will disappear without a trace, and even fight against the most poisonous flower, mandala.
Peony flowers are beautiful, naturally beautiful, graceful and luxurious, with the beauty of color, fragrance and rhyme, which can be compared with the peony of the national color Tianxiang, known as: peony is king, peony is the phase. From ancient times to the present, peony medicine has been loved and favored by people. If you want to say why, it must have a lot to do with the flower language of peony and its symbolic meaning. Let's take a look at it with Maple Leaf Flower Language!
Peony medicine, also known as the grass, the flower in the prime minister, the boneless flower and so on. Peony flowers are large and colorful, with rich varieties, including white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black and complex colors, and are the flowers of Yangzhou City. The ancients commented on flowers: peony first, peony second, said peony for the flower king, peony for the flower phase. The ancients described beauty as "standing like a peony, sitting like a peony", which shows that peony flowers have a very important position in people's hearts since ancient times. Because it blooms late, it is also called "temple spring".
Peony is the earliest flower cultivated in China, ranked first in herbs, known as "flower fairy" and "flower phase", and is listed as one of the "six famous flowers", also known as "Mayflower God", in foreign countries, peony is also favored, has the reputation of "queen of flowers". Peony has been the flower of love in China since ancient times, and is now also known as the representative flower of the Tanabata Festival.
Peony is hardy, prefers fertilizer and is afraid of flooding, prefers moist soil, but is also drought tolerant. Potted peony leaves are easily scorched under the hot summer sun, and attention should be paid to shading. Peony is a fleshy root with a long root system, so it should be planted in a fertile, loose, well-drained sandy loam soil.
Although the peony flowers are large and colorful, feminine and colorful, they are not suitable for placing at home. There is a superstitious saying here, the legend that peony will suck yin, afraid that the Yang house can not hold back will not go well, the old man generally says that only in the temple to raise peony, but in fact it does not matter, the family that grows peony medicine may not be unlucky, and the family that does not plant it may not be smooth. Peony can not only be planted at home, but also has large colors and good ornamentality, so it is very suitable for cultivation of special gardens, cut flowers, and flowers for flower beds.
The flower language of peony medicine is beautiful and moving, clinging to it, inseparable, and sincere and unchanging. In ancient times, men and women interacted with each other, giving each other peony medicine to express the covenant of knots or the feeling of farewell, so it was also called "will leave the grass". Now, peony has become the representative flower of the Qixi Festival and the flower of Love in China.
Peony medicine represents a beautiful and moving, reluctant and loving love, usually suitable for giving it to lovers, lovers, people in crush, representing love at first sight for him (her), implying the meaning of the covenant of knots and farewells, peony also represents sincerity and invariance, giving to friends can increase the friendship between the two.
Peony contains shyness, symbolizes thoughts, and is a symbol of wealth and beauty. The ancients also described beauty as "standing like a peony, sitting like a peony".
Peony medicine has a very long history in China, their symbol means friendship and love, so it is very suitable for sending a friend and lover. Peony is the representative flower of Tanabata in China, so it is very suitable for giving peony flowers to one's favorite at the time of Tanabata.
Chinese love flower peony is not only beautiful, but also can cure diseases, it reflects the Chinese nation like jade like peony character and character, industrious, pragmatic, light as peony, soft as jade. Pink peony is like the rainbow in the sky, but also like the shy girl in love, romantic, subtle peony reflects the face of spring. The customs of the Shangwei Festival and the love song of "giving it a spoon of medicine" have been followed from the chanting of the poetry to the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties. From ancient times to the present, peony medicine has always been the melody of love and the romantic mountain song.
Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, there are many poems about peony, the following recommended to everyone a few!
"Zhenyuan Fourteen Years Drought Even See Quan Men Move Peony Flower" Tang Dynasty Lü Wen
The green ridges of the green plains are gradually turning into dust, and the wells are opening every day. In April, with flowers and peony medicine, I don't know who the worried country is.
"Peony Medicine Before the Stage of the Drama" Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan
Fan Hui and Shi Xie, Yan Hua Hua Zi Chen. Red drunken dew, leaving the rest of the spring. Lonely appreciation of the day, the wind shakes frequently. The night window is fragrant, and the secluded knows the blind date. May you give a gift to Qin Huan, a long southern countryman.
"After April 5th, the three flowers of the peony medicine waiter bloom drunk Lü Chengsan Peony Medicine Garden Center" by Song Dynasty Chen
In the middle of the peony garden, there is a flower name waiter. Bushes of delicate green feathers, flowers of pale red makeup. Fengge is like a dream, and the chicken crown class is on its own. How to pay a drunk, the wind has a spring light.
"After April 5th, the three flowers of the garden are drunk and drunk, Andyo, And the flowers are drunk", by Song Chao Chen
The flowers are exhausted, and spring and summer are combined. In an instant, when a thousand days, the wind can be several. Incense bushes fan pink butterflies, curved vine walk green snakes. Fire is urgent to be rewarded, but people are not evil.
"White Peony Medicine" Qing Dynasty Selch
Qiong curtain into the night roll Qiong hook, Xie Nu Huaixiang leaning on the jade building. The wind is warm and the moon is bright and delicate, and the dream is faintly in Yangzhou.
"Peony Four Songs , Flowers Cannot Be Known" Song Dynasty Shao Yong
Flowers cannot be said to be known, and there is no doubt that the present king is drinking lazily. But I know that the liquor stays in the good guests, and waits for Qiongdan to cover the jade Yi.
"Ciyun ElevenThis Uncle Peony Medicine Five Absolutes, White White Zhu Zhu Sweeping the Ground" Song Dynasty Du Fan
Bai Bai Zhu swept the ground, and the remaining red peony took Chun Yan. Lou Ting laughed to herself into a lonely word, and leaned on Fang Cong's back to sleep.
"Peony Ten Clusters Nearly a Thousand Rui Guests Drink and Scatter Overnight and Empty" Yuan Dynasty Fang Hui
Although the breeze resembles Yangzhou, the cocoon chestnut has been residing. Hands on the ground to wear the end of the powder, to seize the helpless heads of the people. I don't know what it really means to be a joke, and it is not allowed to stay a little less. Yujue Caiyun knows the past and can be sad because of special things.
"Xi Xuan Appreciation Peony Medicine , Dai Luo High Scroll Screen Curtain " Song Dynasty Luo Yuanzhi
Deloitte's high scrolls across the screen, and it was a sight that made people want to fly. If the wind can explain, who will open his mouth to say Yang Concubine.
"Cabinet Appreciation of Peony Medicine , Part III" Ming Dynasty Li Dongyang
Xiao Wen said that the bottom of the flowers was returned, and the branches of the thousand leaves were not thin. Try your best to paint Danqing empty algae, and see the red and purple ManFenfei. Cut the clouds straight up to the Yao Pond, and the sun must be surrounded by a golden barrier. Willing to divide this kind to the human world, Mo Jiaochun is only in Tongfeng.
"Ciyun ElevenThis Uncle Peony Medicine Five Absolute Hands Holding Spring Flowers Have Spring" Song Dynasty Du Fan
The hand-held spring flowers have been springed, and the brocade has become new to the eyes. With the sunset of the column without □, I feel that the junshi believes in God.
"Peony Medicine Yin" Song Chao Jin Peng said
Painting Yu Yu on the sharecropping red, Na Yuan flipped the steps to put Yan Nong. Laughing at the master has nothing to do, he carries wine every year to toast the East Wind.
"Four Songs of Peony Medicine, Hanlu Xianzi Near Yutang", Song Dynasty, Shao Yong
Han Lu Xian Zi near the Jade Hall, turning over the beauty of drunken red makeup. It is inevitable that the flowers must be danced, and in the end Changli is Chu crazy.
"Fu Peony Medicine" Song Dynasty Yu Li
One after another, they are dressed up in the world, and they are eager to charm Shaoguang. It is the twilight of the third spring, and it can teach a country crazy. Enchanting and deceitful, magnificent and flower king. Unexpectedly, the east wind was evil, and the drifting zero was too busy.
"The Second Yun ElevenThirty Uncle Peony Medicine Five Absolute Cold and Summer Returns to the New Day" Song Dynasty Du Fan
The cold and summer return to the new day, and a few branches are left for more than a few springs. Jun can play a good sentence, and a piece of clear placket can also be human.
"Peony Medicine" Tang Dynasty Han Yu
The vast and crazy incense has never been seen in the past, and the red light is shining green. Jue Lai was terrified of love, and was in the first few weights of the Immortal Palace.
"Ye Shilang Sends Red Peony Medicine" Song Dynasty Zhao Shixiu
The carved fence greets the summer and is not intended to be assigned to the wild Hakka. Self-washed copper bottles are inserted on the side, temporarily making the books luxurious. The old tour still recalls the dream of Yangzhou, and it is difficult for Li Shu to praise Xie Shuo. Should be flowered with less flavor, the noon window relative to a cup of tea.
"Cabinet Appreciation peony medicine two songs · one" Ming Dynasty Wang Jun
The medicine was facing the forbidden city, and the edict was specially repaired in the early spring. Then feel the light grow at the bottom of the leaves, and add color to the branches. Xian Zi did not live up to the cup reward, and the scenery also had to be searched. Spend a few people drunk today, and the day obliquely wants to go even later.
"Jinling Miscellaneous Two Hundred Songs , Four Peony Herbs Between Green Onions" Song Dynasty Su Yan
Four peony herbs between the green onions, may spring breeze has an end. Lu Lane depression business less, partition wall who letter inside the official home.
"Peony Medicine" Song Dynasty Zhang Wei
The day of youth love is delayed, and it is when Qunfang sweeps away. Thick dew and affectionate melting sleeping face, windy weakness sleepy muscles. The bitterness will pull the Rui Qi phase, if it is not self-sustaining to the Lantern. It should be like the night fire of the Xijiang River, and the Xishi is drunk in the Guanwa Palace.
"Su Shilang Ziwei Ting each gave a thing to get peony medicine" Tang Dynasty Zhang Jiuling
Immortal forbidden raw red medicine, Wei Fang is not self-sustaining. Fortunately, when it was clear and sunny. The name sees Tong Junzhen, and smells Zheng Guoshi. If the lone root is available, it is not directly Aihuazi.
"Peony Flower Two Songs : Peony Flowers from Ancient Times" Song Dynasty Zhang Wei
Since ancient times, peony flowers, flowers and purple leaves turned over crows. Shi Chengju said to the East Wind, not wanting others to set an equal difference.
"Ciyun ElevenThirty Uncle Peony Medicine Five Absolute Hearts Destroy the World-Weary Noise" Song Dynasty Du Fan
The heart is devastated and world-weary, and the eyes can ask Yan Yan again. The spring color of the old garden is still the same, and the flowers on this day are not the same.
"Yong Peony Medicine, Second, Ren Yan Hua Like a Saddle Color", Song Dynasty, Liu Caishao
The flowers are like saddles, and the tender purple furry is strange. Not like a saddle, Linqi wanted to ask why he left.
"Peony Medicine" Song Dynasty Zheng Yunlin
I have known Haruharu for many years, and this year Chun Hu will not be in the garden. There is no peony medicine before the first term, so as not to teach the bees and butterflies to fight each other.
"Sense peony medicine flower, send zheng yi shangren" Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi
Today's red peony medicine before the steps, a few flowers want to be old and a few flowers are new. When opening, I don't understand the hue, and I know it like a phantom body when I am behind. The empty door went to several places, trying to ask the people about the residual flowers.
"On Thirty Poems : Sentient Peony Medicine Contains Spring Tears" Yuan Dynasty Yuan Hao asked
Sentient peony contains spring tears, weak rose lying on the evening branch. Pull out the stone sentence of the retreating mountain, and know that the canal is a girl's poem.
"Peony Poetry , Dongjun Intentionally Occupying Residual Spring " Song Dynasty • Wang Yu Wei
Dongjun is intent on occupying the remnants of spring, and there is a reason for the late opening. He once left a story with Ye Yuan, and came to Huaihai to accompany the lyricists. Thousands of flowers burn red every day, and the wind sends fragrance to the neighbors. I love the branches to get golden wisps, and I am relatively palm silky at different times.
"Bai Xiang Poems , Its Thirty-Five Peony Medicine " Yuan Dynasty Guo Jujing
Red lights shimmer in the spring light, and green leaves are clustered near the gallery. Qingzhu Xianlang is an inscription, and Han Mo is still fragrant.
"After April 5th, the three flowers of the peony medicine waiter are in full bloom, and the peony medicine will bloom again" by Song Dynasty Chen
The peony will be opened again, and it will rain at night. Densely paved with grass lining, qiaoqiao peony planting. The province pondered, Yangzhou had looked. Fang Fei is as promised, and the pitch is also leisurely.