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        And to appreciate each osmanthus season of autumn. Greening is a traditional flower in China, its planting history can be traced back to the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, the seas, south of existing planting osmanthus recorded. In the long cultivated in the process of using, the color, fragrance, rhyme, with both the flower is endowed with rich emotion, and the myths and legends, poems, ci fu, festive customs spread so far, in the form of formed unique GuiWenHua. 
 
        Osmanthus is also called the clover, genus osmanthus family evergreen trees. In addition to perennial flowering seasons guangxi, more than in the August osmanthus flowering. Osmanthus cultivars had much to points of design and color, the color yellow is "given", the color white as "silver guangxi", "autumn" is the color red, have full-bodied fragrance. Osmanthus longevity, shaanxi hanzhong holy water temple has retained GuGui planted in han dynasty. The ancients thought means full of nobleness, auspicious meaning; Combined with the "guangxi" and "your" homophonic, osmanthus become more "noble", the symbol of "prosperity" enjoys a high status in Chinese traditional culture. 
 
        Osmanthus indissoluble bond with the moon. The ancients found that dim shadow of the moon (solid is low-lying plains, which is also called "maria"), shaped like a tree. "Huai south son" in the western han dynasty "months have osmanthus", but it will be months shadow said to be high, auspicious osmanthus, with its beautiful and embodies the auspicious wish. The legends handed down from generation to generation, osmanthus, like "chang e", "moon", became a holy month, people often use "guangxi month" "laurel" "the moon" "laurel spirit" to the moon. After the tang dynasty also appear the "wu gang felling laurel" story. The unitary Yang, miscellaneous him day Zhi, yue: "so different books, laurel five baizhang, under one man, often of rationalism, tree and with us. Man surnamed Wu Minggang, xihe, learn to have, fallen trees." Month means up to five hundred feet, make a mistake of wu gang was fined cut down a tree, osmanthus can cut and resurrection. The story circulates, osmanthus became the symbol of the moon. Compose the song dynasty "from guangxi", "not the human kind, the shift from months. Wide hue, blowing the hills." Legend tianzhu temple and lingyin temple in hangzhou osmanthus, bai juyi "yi jiangnan" yamadera months found the laurel blossoms filled the air. "such a sentence, is the portrayal of the vulgar. Now from Shanghai love Mid-Autumn festival to the park to admire the laurel, inserted with osmanthus in the home. Guilin osmanthus made sachets, commonly used or hanging at home, or with carry, or a gift to others. 
 
        Osmanthus have illnesses health effect. Said wen jie zi "yue" laurel is the father of the best medicine." Osmanthus taste xin wen, many of its efficacy in ancient materia medica. In the Ming dynasty "Ben hui said," call osmanthus can spread air conditioning, eliminating blood stasis; Compendium of materia medica records osmanthus can oneself ", and the smelly, phlegm, cure wind decayed tooth pain "; In the qing dynasty compendium of material medica said lu osmanthus "treatment of phlegm retention cough". In osmanthus blooming season, people often collect osmanthus air-dried dense storage backup in the bottle, can make tea, tea, wine, medicinal food. The sweet osmanthus wine's oldest. As early as the warring states period when qu yuan's "nine songs" has the assistance north xi action laurel oar ", "cassia oar" the sweet osmanthus wine, people use sweet osmanthus wine to worship the gods. Osmanthus wine into the altar, sealing for 3 years, then into the wine to taste. Su dongpo was a "ode to guangxi wine" praise its fragrance detachment, not human thing also. Osmanthus wine is appetizing, off-dry, flat liver blood stasis. The most common is the sweet osmanthus made of all kinds of food. Form osmanthus jujube on jujube with sweet osmanthus, have the curative effect of tonifying qi blood; Lotus root starch sugar, sweet osmanthus, can adjust blood cocktail, xiaoshi antidiarrheal. In addition osmanthus porridge, osmanthus cake, chestnuts, and sweet-scented osmanthus sweet-scented osmanthus yam are loved by people. Since the tang dynasty, osmanthus flowers fresh chestnut soup into traditional famous dishes of hangzhou. In addition, osmanthus can also be made from kaori osmanthus tea, "osmanthus tea, sweet one room", also has the effect of cold, can remove the stomach cold, analgesic effect, is the winter good drinks. Osmanthus flower also can be made into condiments. Wash the sweet osmanthus, it up to dry after boiling water is a bit hot, seal water in the bottle, salt, sugar stains osmanthus. In nanjing, jiangsu, fujian PuCheng area tend to be used for dessert or soup soup condiment, fragrant delicious, food has a great god cocktail effect. Osmanthus distillation for "osmanthus Lou", has a comfortable liver-qi, amuse oneself appetizing effect, can treat halitosis, dry throat.
 
 
 
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