What is the flower language of wintersweet? Latest symbolic meaning interpretation
Wintersweet is a traditional precious ornamental flower and tree native to our country, with a long history of cultivation and a rich wintersweet culture. Because wintersweet blooms in early winter and bears fruit as winter ends, accompanying the winter, it is also called winter plum. It blooms before spring, ahead of all other flowers. All along, plum blossoms have always been regarded as a symbol of strength and pride. What is the flower language of wintersweet? Let's take a look together below at the flower language of wintersweet!
The flower language of wintersweet
A compassionate heart with sorrow and melancholy, a noble soul, loyal, independent, resolute, faithful, strong, steadfast, loyal and faithful, pure and noble, lofty character and integrity, proud and overbearing, a clear and pure heart, noble spirit, independent and innovative.
Ancient poets often compared winter plum with snow, which shows that plum was already regarded by the ancients as fearing no cold. All along, plum blossoms have always been regarded as a symbol of strength and pride. The Tang dynasty poet Li Shangyin called wintersweet the cold plum, with the line "knowing to visit the cold plum, passing the wild pond". Wang Anshi's poem “Plum” is even more widely known.
The benefits of wintersweet
Wintersweet blooms in the cold months and early spring, with yellow flowers like wax and a delicate fragrance filling the air. It is an excellent ornamental plant for winter and a precious ornamental flower and tree unique to our country. In addition, wintersweet also has good dietary therapeutic effects. Generally, dried flower buds are used for food. The dried flower buds are round, rectangular or obovate, 1 to 1.5 cm long and about 0.4 to 0.8 cm wide, with the perianth folded together in a flower-bud shape, brownish yellow, the lower half wrapped by numerous membranous scales, the scales yellowish brown, slightly triangular, with fine hairs. Fragrant in odor, slightly sweet in taste, bitter afterward, with a slight greasy feeling.
Li Shizhen said in the “Compendium of Materia Medica”: “Wintersweet flowers are sweet in taste, slightly bitter; the flowers are picked and fried until cooked, soaked in water and washed clean, then seasoned with oil and salt and eaten”, which is not only a quite tasty food but can also “relieve heat and promote fluid production”. Its fruit was called native croton in ancient times, is toxic, can be used as a purgative, and must not be eaten by mistake.
According to modern pharmacological analysis, wintersweet flowers contain components such as borneol, eucalyptol and linalool. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that: wintersweet flowers are slightly sweet, pungent and cool in nature, and have the effects of relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production, stimulating the appetite and dispersing stagnation, detoxifying and promoting tissue regeneration, and relieving cough. They mainly treat ailments such as dizziness from summer heat, vomiting, polydipsia due to febrile disease, qi stagnation and stomach oppression, and cough. Among the people, wintersweet flowers are commonly decocted in water and given to infants to drink, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.