; When those red berries come in spring, they will bloom in your southern branches. Take them home for me as a symbol of our love. Acacia, a five-character quatrain written by Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, makes red beans the most famous acacia beans by expressing emotions. So, throughout the ages, I don't-I don't know how many people send red beans and acacia. When relatives and friends are not at home, they always bring a acacia bean to their relatives to express their thoughts. Lovers also give acacia beans to each other as tokens of love.
Red bean, plant name, also known as acacia. Contains: acacia, a kind of red bean. ; Yu Biyun said that Red Bean is a lovesick child. I hope you can put it away after separation to increase their feelings. Yu's poems also show his hospitality with the same heart. ; Guo Moruo once studied Wang Wei's masterpiece Red Bean. As a result, he found a plant called sea red beans in Dinghushan. Its fruit ripens in autumn, and its seeds naturally jump out of the shell and are scarlet, just like a beating heart. Southerners are used to calling acacia, acacia and sea red beans red beans.
Pure acacia beans only grow in a few areas such as Yunnan and Hainan in China. Because red beans grow on high cliffs and absorb the aura of heaven and earth, nature endows them with special qualities: hard as diamonds, bright as blood, like a beating heart, red and shiny, not decaying, crystal clear and never fading. Its shape and texture are heart-shaped. Its particle shape is particularly large, with a diameter of about 8-9mm. In other areas south of the Yangtze River, red beans are not only smaller, but also have Darkmouth. This kind of Darkmouth acacia bean is commonly known as lover's tears.
So why did the ancients call red beans acacia beans?
According to legend, in ancient times, a man went to war. His wife leans against a big tree in the high mountain and prays day and night, often bursting into tears because she misses her lover in the frontier. Tears dried up and bright red blood dripped out. Blood drops turn into red beans and fall to the ground to take root and sprout. Day after day, in the spring, they went to Qiu Lai. The buds grew into big trees and were full of red beans, which people called acacia beans.
Another way of saying it, a long time ago, there was a beautiful girl whose partner ran away to find the source of happiness. She cries on the distant hillside every day. Tears spilled on the branches, and then a heart-shaped red bean grew. People call this kind of red bean acacia.
There is also a saying that it is the incarnation of Han Ping, the wife of Song Kangwang in the Warring States Period, and He Shi, the wife of Song Kangwang. According to "Materia Medica Volume" in the 11th year of Gansu, Mrs. Han Ping, the wife of Song Kangwang, was extremely beautiful and was put into prison by Kang Wang. Suicide, why the head is too dead, and the suicide note is willing to be buried with the bones. The king was very angry, so he listened and asked the villagers to bury it. These two graves are opposite. Before long, there were big catalpa trees at both ends of the two graves. Their curvatures are the same, with roots below and branches above. There are mandarin ducks, a male and a female, who often cross their necks in the tree and moan. When people mourn, they call themselves acacia.
Acacia, as a lover of red beans, has triggered countless lingering love stories throughout the ages. But little known is that a red bean leads to an academic monograph.
Chen Yinque, the late master of history, taught at National Southwest Associated University during the Anti-Japanese War. One day, he read the newspaper and learned that there were rejected books, so he drove away and saw that all the books sold were inferior, and none of them were acceptable. I felt sorry for my host's hospitality, so I asked him if he had anything to sell besides books. The host hesitated for a long time and replied, I used to live in money. I found a red bean tree in an old garden in Changshu Baimao Port, and I want to give it to you as a gift. The teacher was very happy and bought it and hid it in the book basket for twenty years. 1964, teacher Chen wrote "search", public relations.
In the folk, locust bean, like jade, is a spiritual and auspicious god. When men and women are engaged, send a string of acacia beans they promised, and you will get a smooth love; When getting married, the bride will wear a bracelet or necklace made of bright red locust beans on her wrist or neck to symbolize the eternal heart of both men and women; After marriage, six acacia beans are placed under the pillow of the husband and wife, which can ensure that the husband and wife are United and happy for a hundred years.
At present, ornaments made of acacia and red beans are popular in southern China, and fashionable women are proud to wear exquisite red bean ornaments. Both male and female lovers will choose acacia and red bean ornaments for each other to express their love.