The Temple of Heaven is about ten miles long, between Zhengyangmen and Yongdingmen. It was built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1420). There is such a motherwort in the Temple of Heaven. Before the Republic of China, several pharmacies in the Temple of Heaven sold "Mu Yi Ointment". After the Republic of China, they moved out of the Temple of Heaven.
Temple of Heaven, a group of ancient buildings, is world-famous. Hall of Prayer for the New Year, Imperial Dome, Dome and Echo Wall are all familiar names, and many commodities are branded with pictures of Hall of Prayer for the New Year. There is no mention of the architecture of the Temple of Heaven here, but there is a peculiar grass in the Temple of Heaven: tender buds can be eaten as vegetables, called "Gracilaria lemaneiformis"; When you grow up and mature, you can use stems and leaves to boil medicine, which is a good medicine for treating gynecological diseases, called "motherwort", and the medicine boiled out is called "Mu Yi ointment"; Seeds are also gynecological drugs, called "Jianweizi". Why are there so many motherwort in the Temple of Heaven? There is such a story in folklore.
The storyteller said: Before there was no Temple of Heaven in the early years, before the city was enclosed, it was also a large piece of yellow land, where many farmers lived. They are also plowing and digging for food. There lived a Zhuang family named Zhang. The old man has been dead for more than two years, leaving only an old woman. The old woman has no son, only a daughter of 16 years old. The mother and daughter live a miserable life of lack of people and money. Because the old lady misses her husband and is worried that no one will farm for them. The days are getting longer and longer, and she is sick, and her illness is getting worse every day. The old lady is anxious, and Miss Zhang is even more anxious. Many doctors were invited and many medicines were taken, all of which had no effect. Just when the crops were harvested in autumn, Miss Zhang made up her mind to go to Beishan to find a panacea. When she was a child, her parents told her stories that there were many elixirs in the old ravine of Beishan. As long as she is not afraid of climbing mountains, if she finds this elixir, she can cure any serious disease. Miss Zhang has long kept it in mind. At this time, she wanted to go to Beishan to find medicine, so she told her mother, who was not at ease and said, "How can a little girl walk so far?" Teacher Zhang said, "Don't worry, Mom, I will be careful along the way." She entrusted her aunt next door to take care of her mother. With dry food, she went out to Beishan to find a panacea.
When she left home, Miss Zhang was very worried: Where is Beishan? She thought: Beishan must be in the north. Go north! I walked all day and saw the mountains. After three days' walk, I haven't reached Beishan yet. However, the mountain that Miss Zhang saw is getting closer and closer. On this day, I came to a mountain pass. Miss Zhang is thinking: Are you going to enter this mountain pass? Just look at the old man with white beard who came down from the mountain pass. When the old man saw Miss Zhang, he said happily, "Girl, what are you doing in the deep mountain valley?" Miss Zhang told the story of how her mother got sick and went to Beishan to find a panacea. Then she asked the old man with white beard, "Grandpa, is there a panacea in this room?" "Yes, yes." "Grandpa, how can I get up the mountain?" The old man with white beard smiled and pointed back at the mountain. He said, "Little girl, you can go up the mountain from here, turn left at Qidaowan, turn right at Badaowan, eat pine nuts when you are hungry, drink clear water when you are thirsty, and see the world. The panacea is just around the corner." When Miss Zhang listened to the old man talking like a song, she knew in her heart that she just didn't know what "seeing the world" meant. Just about to ask the old man, the old man with white beard has left the mountain pass and gone far. Teacher Zhang, go up the hill. She really turned seven turns to the left and eight turns to the right. When she is hungry, she will pick up some big pine nuts on the ground to eat. When she is thirsty, she will lie down beside the mountain spring and drink some water. When she is tired, she will sleep in the mountains. When she wakes up, she will still go up the mountain. I've been gone for days and I don't remember. On this day, Miss Zhang walked to the top of the mountain. There is a small pool on the top of the mountain. The water in the pool is very clear, and the white clouds in the sky shine into the pool. Miss Zhang froze here when she heard the girl's voice behind her. When Miss Zhang turned around, she saw two little girls coming towards her. One is wearing a snow-white dress, and the other is wearing a light yellow dress embroidered with Bai Meihua, which is very beautiful. Looking closer, the girl in white smiled and said, "Sister, what's the matter?" ? Don't you know our' Earth to Heaven'? "Miss Zhang was very happy to hear that" the earth has gone to heaven "and said," Do sisters have a panacea? Help my mother! The girl in flowered clothes said, "Sister, needless to say, Grandpa White Beard told us everything. I have a bag of panacea here. I will cook it for my aunt at home. " Say, pass me a small pocket. The girl in white said, "There are seeds of elixir in this pocket. When my aunt is well, my sister will scatter these seeds on the edge of the ground and let them grow by themselves. People who are sick like aunt will not be afraid. The girl in flowered clothes said, "Sister, come home quickly, we won't send her away." . Sister Bai's words, sister should remember! "Miss Zhang gratefully thanked the two sisters and turned and walked down the hill. Not far away, Miss Zhang is really reluctant to part with these two kind sisters. She wants to see them again. When she looked back, where could there be a girl in white flowers? I saw a white parrot and a sika deer flying west and running.
Strange to say, when Miss Zhang came, she walked for seven days and eight nights. When she came back, she got home soon. Miss Zhang came home and cooked the elixir for her mother. A few days later, her mother recovered, and Miss Zhang and her neighbors were in high spirits. Miss Zhang scattered the elixir seeds in her pocket all over the edge of the land. In spring, dark green buds appear, in summer, they grow into elixir, and in autumn, elixir bears seeds again, more and more year by year. When the women were ill, they took the elixir of life according to Miss Zhang's instructions and cured the disease. What is the name of the elixir of life? Everyone said, "Good Miss Zhang worked hard to find a panacea for her mother and cured her illness. Let's call it motherwort. " The name "motherwort" has been handed down.
Later, I don't know how many years passed, and Beijing had an "emperor"; I don't know which "emperor" it went to, but this "emperor" was going to pray for "God" to bless him and built a temple of heaven on this land with motherwort. The Temple of Heaven has been built, and there is still a lush motherwort growing in the open space of the Temple of Heaven. The emperor's old son was angry and said, "I don't have so many weeds in this temple of heaven. I want to pull them all up!" " At this time, a minister, whose mother had eaten motherwort and his wife was eating motherwort, said to the emperor's old son, "Your Majesty, this is not a weed. It's called asparagus. Isn't the emperor a dragon? " If all of them are pulled out, the emperor will not grow a beard. "The emperor's old son was afraid of not growing a beard, so he left motherwort in the Temple of Heaven. From then on, the bud of Leonurus japonicus was called Gracilaria lemaneiformis.