Chapter 12 yarrow and more
Wildflowers abound across Europe in September.In the twilight, some girls always bent over on the way home to pick a few small white flowers from yarrow, and quietly took them back and hid them under their pillows.There is a folk song in England that says:
Goodbye, pretty yarrow,
Say goodbye to you three times;
I hope before dawn tomorrow,
Will meet my lover.
Yarrow is also known as sawgrass and scorpion grass; Asteraceae.Perennial erect plants. "Ci Hai" also said that it has "alternate leaves, long linear lanceolate, fence-like pinnacles, and sharp sawtooth on the edge of the lobes. Most of the flower heads are densely packed on the branches to form compound corymbs, and white flowers bloom between summer and autumn. Northern my country It is widely distributed in Siberia and the Soviet Union. It is propagated by split roots or seeds. The whole plant is used for medicinal purposes. It is used by folks to treat rheumatic pain and externally used to treat poisonous snake bites. The stems and leaves contain aromatic oil and can be used as raw materials for flavoring. It is cultivated in the garden for ornamental use. "Yarrow also refers to the yarrow stem used by the ancients for divination, so it has become a synonym for divination.There are also hairpins made of yarrow in China. Volume 9 of "Han Shi Wai Zhuan" said: "Confucius traveled to the wilderness of Shaoyuan, and a woman cried in the middle of the lake. The sound was very sad. Confucius asked his disciples to ask why. Why did the lady cry? The woman said: "Xiang Zhemo My yarrow hairpin dies, and I mourn because of it. The disciple said: "When the yarrow hairpin is cut off and the yarrow hairpin dies, what is there to be sad about?"
"Non-casualty hairpins are not forgotten." Yarrow has such a romantic folk background in Western Europe; yarrow hairpins also have such affectionate meanings in China, which is fascinating.The wish hidden under the pillow is a state; the hairpin that binds the hair is already a bit fragrant; the grief brought by the "dead hairpin" is even more lingering.The most wonderful thing is; the thirty-eighth volume of the Ministry of Ware said that "waving the crotch", "undershirt", "turban", and "futou" can be used to cook medicine and cure diseases, there is a "comb fence" that is more interesting: "choke For the disease of blockage, you can use "a widow's wooden comb to burn ashes, fry the key soup and adjust it for two qian"; "Men"; "Women whose breast milk is not good enough" should "take the milk-relieving medicine orally. Externally use a wooden comb to comb the breast, and return it more than a hundred times a week, and it will pass"!When it comes to the "Puxi", it is said that both the mat and the recommendation are for people to lie on, and it is better to be popular; the recommendation that the widow has slept on can "cure children's cholera, take twenty-seven stalks and boil the eyes."The widow's wooden comb and the widow's sleeping place are very special here. The doctors are benevolent and benevolent, and they really have such a romantic charm; compared with the yarrow flower hidden under the pillow, it is indeed much more violent. !
The wonderful ideas are endless, both in ancient and modern China, China and foreign countries.In 1743, the British literati John Campbell wrote Hermippus Revive, talking about the art of immortality.It is said in the book: If a girl exhales, if there is a fragrance of flowers, if you inhale this fragrance more, you will live forever and rejuvenate!Of course there is no medical basis for this statement, but if there is evidence for everything, life will become more boring and dull.The ancients said that a drop of essence is equal to ten drops of blood, which frightened everyone. I didn't expect Balzac to have fallacies. He said: one night's love made him lose a good novel; the quality of his works depends on his body. There is more or less semen stored in it; once, he had nocturnal emission every night, and as a result, he couldn't produce a masterpiece for several days; once his body was dry, so was his pen!
Texts involving emotions and desires are more beautiful.Back then, two elderly virgins complimented Dr. Johansen on how good his dictionary was, saying that they didn't even include half a word of swear words.Dr. Johnson opened his eyes wide and said to them, "What? My dear lady, it turns out that you spent all your time looking through the entire dictionary to find those words!"
Not to mention dirty words and dirty words must be learned, tender words such as picking yarrow flowers and hiding them under the pillow are also very beneficial.It is hard to say when it takes to learn a language to fully master it.However, when it comes to understanding obscene books written in this kind of language, and it will immediately trigger a physiological response, it is probably not bad.If you read without thinking about what is wrong, you should have touched the edge of Chinese culture.The evil fate started from here; it is very difficult to predict what state it will develop in the future, but I hope it can be like "comb the breast with a wooden comb, more than a hundred times on Thursday, and it will pass"!
"Instant communication" is the most important thing.Not one by one.