"September 9th Memories of Shandong Brothers".
[Tang] Wang Wei
Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.
The remote knowledge brothers ascended to the heights, and there was one less person in the dogwood.
The meaning of this poem is: Today is the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, and the brothers in their hometown (now Yongji, Shanxi) have probably gone to climb high! I am the only one living alone in a foreign land, and I can't help but think of the scene when I was at home in the past when I climbed the mountain and planted dogwood, and today I am in a distant place for the holiday, and my family may find that I am missing alone when climbing and planting dogwood!
In this poem, dogwood is a Chung Yeung Festival custom in which dogwood (a deciduous tree with purple-red fruit and stems that can be used as medicine) is inserted on a hat or roof to pray for a safe year.
So what kind of plant is dogwood?
The dogwood here refers to a traditional Chinese medicine: dogwood, which is a cornus officinalis sieb et zucc.The dry and ripe pulp has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, astringent and astringent, which can not only benefit the kidney essence, but also help the kidney yang. It is used for dizziness, tinnitus, waist and knee pain, impotence and spermatozoa, enuresis and frequent urination, collapse and leakage, profuse sweating, internal heat and thirst.
【Precautions】Liver Yang is hyperactive, known as damp heat, and those with obvious heat signs should not be used. People with excessive stomach acid should not use it. Do not use in pregnant women.
The dogwood first blooms and then sprouts leaves, and the red fruits are abundant in autumn, and the crimson is dripping, and can be planted alone or in the garden and flower beds, and the landscape effect is very beautiful. Potted plants can be used for up to a month and are very popular in the flower market.
On November 9, 2023, dogwood was included in the list of "substances that are traditionally both food and Chinese medicinal materials".
The name dogwood first came from the "Shennong's Materia Medica". In folklore, there is a legend about the origin of the name of dogwood. Legend has it that during the Warring States Period, King Zhao had cervical spondylosis, and the neck pain was unbearable, and a royal physician surnamed Zhu used a kind of dried fruit decoction for Zhao Wangnei, which quickly relieved King Zhao's pain. Then King Zhao asked Zhu Yuyi what kind of panacea he had, and Dr. Zhu replied that it was a mountain nut, if you insist on taking it, it can not only cause cervical pain, but also calm the nerves and strengthen the brain, clear heat and brighten the eyes. King Zhao was overjoyed when he heard this, and he planted a lot of mountain trees. In order to commend the merits of the imperial physician, the mountain was renamed as the mountain vermilion, and later people wrote the dogwood of the mountain vermilion, and gradually handed it down.
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