The pinyin version of Chuncao is as follows:
The spring grass is green and green for thousands of miles, chūn cǎo qīng qīng wàn lǐ yú, the setting sun in the border town sees Lijubiān chéng luò rì jiàn lí jū. Love knows that we have been separated for three years at sea. I don’t send a piece of paper in the clouds bù jì yún jiān yī zhǐ shū.
1. Appreciation of the story of spring grass
When spring comes, roadside grass grows everywhere in the world. Depending on the grass roots, spring grass grows continuously everywhere. But the lush spring grass always urges people to go home. The spring breeze blows the green grass and another year has passed! The poet takes advantage of the spring grass to become green again to express his strong longing for home after being away from home for a long time.
2. Plant introduction of spring grass
Spring grass is a kind of herbaceous plant, which belongs to angiosperms and is produced in the deep mountains and dense forests of northwest Yunnan. The mountains are high, snow-capped, and the weather doesn't stop there in the summer. Spring grass belongs to the Asteraceae family and grows in moist, cold and dark places. It is a pure wild herbaceous plant, natural grass buds, basically not artificially cultivated. Spring grass can be used instead of tea or together with rock sugar and tea. It has the health-care effects of nourishing yin and nourishing the kidneys, strengthening muscles and bones, and enhancing immunity.
The spring grass stems are creeping, the upper part is upright, and adventitious roots are born from the base nodes, 15-50 cm long, and the diameter of the base is about 2 mm. It is branched, has broad furrows, and is sparsely coarse or less hairy. The achenes of Caochun are obovate, about 4mm long, with many wart-like protrusions, and the top is slightly contracted. The achenes of ligular flower have 3 sides and the edges are thickened. There are no crown hairs, just fine-toothed crown hair rings. The flowering period is from March to September.
Spring grass leaves are sessile, oval, rectangular, with a narrow base, a short or blunt top, and an entire edge or 1-3 pairs of sparse coarse teeth. The top of the midrib is obvious or sometimes not obvious, the bottom is slightly convex, and there are 1-2 opposite side veins. Usually only one pair is obvious from bottom to top, and there is no network of veins. The spring grass has multi-tubular flowers, yellow flowers, the corolla is nearly bell-shaped, gradually expanding upwards, the eaves have 5 cracks, and the lobes are oval and blunt.