Related terms in the dictionary
1. Red bean: the general term for the seeds of plants such as red bean tree, sea bean and acacia.
2. Red bean tree: Leguminosae. Trees. Flowering in spring, butterfly-shaped corolla, white or reddish, panicle. The pods are woody and rectangular, and the seeds are bright red. Produced in Central China and East China, for viewing; Wood is hard, red and beautiful, and it is an excellent material for carving and joinery.
3. Red bean: also known as "acacia tree", "acacia tree" and "peacock bean". Leguminosae deciduous trees. The seeds are convex and bright red. Produced in Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia [1], Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka; Also found in China, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and the eastern Himalayas. The wood is hard, the heartwood texture is slightly coarse, and it is waterproof and moisture-proof. It is an excellent material for shipbuilding, and can also be used as building, furniture, gunstocks and other materials. Seeds are used as decorations.
3. Acacia: also known as "red bean". Leguminosae woody vines. The branches are thin and weak. Flowers in spring and summer, butterfly-shaped corolla, often with red or purple, racemes. The pod is rectangular. The seeds are wide and oval, with vermilion at the upper end and black at the lower end, which can be used as trinkets. Distributed in tropical Asia; Also produced in southern China. For viewing. Seeds are poisonous and used as vomiting and pesticides. Leaves can diuretic and treat tracheitis; Clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome, and making herbal tea ingredients.
4. Acacia: wood name. (1) some red seed trees. Such as "red bean tree, sea bean" and so on. ② Selected Works of Zuo Si's Five Degrees of Fu: "The willow tree is the tree of acacia." Liu Kui's Note: "Acacia is a big tree. Strong material, oblique (evil) word can be used as a tool. In fact, it is like coral, which has remained unchanged for years and has existed in Dongye. " (3) According to ancient legend, during the Warring States Period, the wife of Han Ping, the counselor of King Kang of Song Dynasty, was He Shimei, who was robbed by Kang Wang. Han Ping committed suicide. He also died in Taiwan Province, and the suicide note said he was willing to be buried together. Kang Wang was angry and asked the villagers to bury them separately and face each other. Between the past and the present, a big catalpa tree was born at the end of the two graves. On the tenth day, it was folded, with staggered roots and branches. There were male and female mandarin ducks living on the tree, and they didn't go in the morning and evening, and their necks mourned. Song people mourn it because they call its wood acacia. See Gambao's Search for the Gods, Volume XI.
Introduction to the efficacy of red beans:
Red bean (a common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan)
The source is the seed of Leguminosae red bean tree.
Plant morphology Red bean tree, also known as: Red bean tree in western Hubei and Red bean tree in Jiangyin.
Trees, 9 ~15m high.
The bark is gray and smooth.
Strange pinnate compound leaves, alternate; Length12 ~ 20 cm; 5 ~ 7 leaflets, nearly leathery, oblong or ovoid, 5 ~ 12 cm long and 2.5 ~ 5 cm wide, tapering at the top, wedge-shaped or obtuse at the base, hairless, gray at the bottom, and entire at the edge.
Panicle terminal or axillary; Flowers are white or reddish, with almost no fragrance; Calyx bell-shaped, densely yellow-brown pubescent, lobes short, several round; Corolla butterfly with clawed petals; Stamens 10, separated; The ovary is superior, hairless, with 5 ~ 6 ovules, 1 style, purple, and the stigma is curved and oblique.
The pod is woody, flat, round or oval, 4 ~ 6.5 cm long and 2.5 ~ 4 cm wide, and the top is beak-shaped.
1 ~ 2 seeds, bright red, bright, nearly round, long 1.3 ~ 2 cm, and the hilum is about 9 mm long.
The flowering period is from April to May.
The fruiting period is 10 month.
Born in rivers or forests.
Distributed in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Hubei, Guangxi and Sichuan.
Collect the seeds collected in late autumn and early winter for later use.
Many plants in this genus contain alkaloids, such as N- methyl genistein, N- methyl tetrahydrogenistein, ormosine and lutein.
Nature and taste "Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Sichuan": flat in nature, bitter in taste and slightly toxic.
Function Indications-Effect of Red Bean 《 Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Sichuan 》: Regulating qi and dredging channels.
Treat hernia, abdominal pain, blood stasis amenorrhea.
Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 3 ~ 5 yuan.
Red beans, cool and sweet, contain protein, fat, sugar, vitamin B, potassium, iron and phosphorus. Red beans can promote the activation and diuresis of heart blood vessels; People who are afraid of cold, have low blood pressure and are prone to fatigue often eat red beans to improve these discomforts. In addition, red beans also have the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness and benefiting qi, and are very good medicinal health food. Red beans are good friends of women's health, and rich iron can make people look rosy. Eating more red beans also has the functions of enriching blood, promoting blood circulation, strengthening physical strength and enhancing resistance. Breastfeeding women eat more red beans, which can promote milk secretion.
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Related poets
Wang Wei (70 1~76 1) was a native of Taiyuan. Representative of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are few talents, and the famous "Shandong Brothers' Mountain Vacation Thoughts" was an improvisation when he was seventeen. He can draw and write, he is proficient in music, and calligraphy is also known to everyone.
Wang Wei wrote a lot of well-known poems in his life, especially pastoral poems.
Wang Wei's "acacia" about red beans is well known: "When those red berries come in spring, they rush on your southern branches and take them home for my sake as a symbol of our love".
Red bean literature records
1. After the husband and wife died, Han Ping wrote catalpa, nicknamed Acacia. (Biography of Three Kingdoms Cao Wei Pi Lie).
2. During the Warring States Period, Song Guohan died because of the couple's double suicide. "Between the past and the present, there was a big catalpa tree at the end of the second tomb. On the tenth day, he was beaming, bent over, revealed his roots, and made mistakes. There are Yuanyang, a male and a female, who live in trees forever, staying in the morning and evening, with a whining neck and a moving voice. Song people mourn it, so they call it "acacia". The name of acacia came from this. (Jin Gan Bao's "Seeking God")
3. During the Warring States Period, Wei suffered from the difficulties of Qin. Some people followed the levy, but they did not return to Qin. His wife thought about it and died. When buried, there were trees on the mound, and the branches and leaves were inclined to her husband's place, so it was called acacia wood. (Fang Xu Yi Lu)
4. Nanliu tree is acacia tree. (Jin Zuo Taichong's "Wu Du Fu")
Acacia, a big tree, is strong in material principle, evil and literary, and can also be used as a tool. In fact, it is as red as coral and will not change over the years. Dongye has. (Dong Liuhan Xi)
6. Acacia is round and red. So there is an old saying: once upon a time, someone ran aground on the edge, his wife thought about it, cried under the tree and died because of his name. (Li Qi's Ancient and Modern Poetry in the Northern Song Dynasty)
7. Beans are round and red. The first kind is called acacia beans, which is also another name for red beans. Its wood, oblique fork with words, can be used as a spring board, pipa groove. Its tree is also very big, with white branches and leaves like Sophora japonica, and its flowers are no different from Gleditsia sinensis. If his son is a lentil, he wears armor and is red all over. Li: "In fact, it is as red as a mountain.
"Hu, yes. (Don Li Guang and Uncle Sharla Cheung)
8. Red beans, whose real name is acacia, have leaves like locusts and pods like beans. Children mature in summer, coral-colored, big and flat. What can feed the parrot is a vine, as thin as mung beans, and it is a hedge with fruitful results. It is wooded and surrounded by a lot of trees. Fruit and fat can be played. (qingqu
Army "Guangdong Xinyu")
9. According to ancient and modern poems, acacia is round and red. Therefore, there is an old saying: once upon a time, when someone was absent, his wife thought about it, cried under the tree and died because of his name. This is different from the acacia on Han Feng's tomb, even the catalpa bungeana. Or the cloud is sea beans and so on. , haven't checked. "(Li Ming's Compendium of Materia Medica)
10. The sea red bean tree is twenty or thirty feet high, and the Song Dynasty is a little cloud: in the pod, its son is heavy. Such as big red bean flat, red skin and white meat, hence the name, Shu people take it as the fruit. ("Jiutong Tongzhi")
165438+ among the three or four pods, the pod always splits into two pieces in winter and shrinks into a flower, but the pod still doesn't fall off. Its son is as thin as a bean, flat and flat, and the color is like a little red. Coral doesn't match its color. Combination of remaining cables
Xu. (Xu Ming Shack's Travels of Xu Xiake and Travel Diary of Western Guangdong 4).
Red bean legend
Gushan, located at the junction of Wuxi, Changshu, Jiangyin and Zhangjiagang, belongs to Jiangyin and is an ancient town formed in the Southern Song Dynasty. The lonely mountain is more than 50 meters high and looks like a crouching cat, hence the name. There is 16 ancient beacon tower on the mountain, and there are Xiangshan Temple, the former Liangchao Ancient Temple and Tianxiang Pavilion at the foot of the mountain. Six or seven miles northeast of Gushan, there are red bean trees.
The red bean tree in the isolated mountain is said to have been planted by Liang Daizhao and ming prince. Xiao Tong (50 1-503), Prince Zhaoming, son of Emperor ZSZSZSZ of Lianghu, was fond of literature. He once edited Zhao Ming's Selected Works in the Selected Works Building of Guanyin Courtyard of Xiangshan Temple in Gushan. At present, there are still fragments of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in Tianxiangge site, including Inscription on Rebuilding Wenxuan Building in Gushan and Inscription on Rebuilding Prince Zhaoming's Reading Building in the fourth year of Qing Qianlong. He also said that the site of the red bean tree was originally in Antang. In the Northern Song Dynasty, a monk moved this red bean tree from other places. From then on, people called Antang Hongdou Temple, and its village was called Hongdou Village. According to "Jiangyin County Records", this tree once died in the Yuan Dynasty, but it was shaded again in the Qing Dynasty, and there was a drought in Xianfeng for six years, and this tree was fruitful. 19 18, Xu Jiuyong wrote Gu Shan's visit to the red bean tree, 1934, and Wu Yisheng wrote Gu Shan's red bean tree.
The trunk of the old red bean tree has decayed, and the trunk with a diameter of about 1 m can still be seen. The existing trees with lush foliage and flowers and fruits may be binary branches regenerated after the Qing Dynasty. Tree height 10m, 50m around crown, waist circumference of south branch 1.23m, waist circumference of root of north branch 2.90m, waist circumference of upper branch 3, respectively 1. 17, 1.85,1. 2 meters south of the tree, 1982 gave birth to a new branch with a height of 0.7 meters. South wall north, 1983 and new branch, 0.45 meters high. These two new branches are both branches connected by big trees. According to the investigation, adzuki bean trees once bore fruit in 1937, once in 1956 and four times from 1975 to 1985, among which 1983 was the most prosperous, and 1600 seeds were collected. This red bean tree germinates every May 1 and blooms every May 13-20. It ripened in Qiu Zi and was picked in June 5438+10. Its leaves are like Sophora japonica, pods are like beans, the size is like meat, the shape is like an atrium, and the color is deep red and slightly purple. The ancients thought it was a symbol of acacia, hence the name "acacia". 1982, jiangyin county government built a wall around the red bean tree and a red bean yard. The courtyard is 18. 16 meters long from north to south and 15.66 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 270 square meters. The circular portal in the courtyard faces north, and an east-west corridor is built inside. There are four glass cabinets on the wall of the corridor, displaying poems written by red beans and celebrities for the red bean tree.
There is a red bean village in Gushan Town, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province. There is a red bean garden in Hongdou Village, and there is a thousand-year-old red bean tree in Hongdou Garden.
This red bean tree in Gushan Red Bean Garden is said to have been planted by Ming Jun in Liang Dynasty. It has a history of 1400 years and is listed as a key cultural relic. Walking into the Red Bean Garden, we saw this rare and precious ancient tree, whose branches supported dozens of meters away, just like a giant umbrella. Although it has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes, it is still full of vitality and lush foliage. According to the manager, this kind of red bean tree will blossom and bear fruit every three to five years. Flowers bloom at the turn of spring and summer, and the color is white. In late autumn, the pods are brown and look like chicken hearts. The peeled pod is a heart-shaped red bean that looks like a cloud.
Red bean trees are very rare in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and they are thousands of years old, which is even more rare. Gushan red beans have one characteristic, that is, the particles are particularly large, which is incomparable to red beans in other places. Red bean tree is a national third-class protected plant, and because it only blooms and bears fruit once every few years, its seeds are particularly precious.
Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Acacia: "Red plums come in spring and spread all over the southern branches. For me, take a hug home as a symbol of our love. " After getting a pod of double red beans, Liu Dabai, a modern poet, wrote the poem "Double Red Beans" excitedly: "One bean has one person and one bag, and two red beans save tips, so we are separated from each other." Love the atrium, be the atrium, be close to the atrium, and don't teach to stay away from hate. Therefore, red beans, also known as "acacia", have been regarded as tokens of love since ancient times. Red beans are also regarded as "auspicious things to suppress evil". People put bright red red beans with delicate light on precious ornaments such as rings, bracelets and necklaces to pray for happiness.
Nowadays, red beans are not only regarded as tokens of love, but also used by many people to pin their love for their motherland, hometown and relatives and friends. At the beginning of 1949, people in Hongdu Village, Gushan selected eight big red bean films and gave them to President Mao Zedong to express their gratitude and nostalgia for the people's leaders. Chairman Mao specially asked the General Office of the Central Committee to write back and express his gratitude to the people of Gushan. In recent years, many overseas travelers and compatriots from Hong Kong and Taiwan have come to Gushan Red Bean Garden for sightseeing and brought back some red beans to cherish their nostalgia for their motherland and homeland.
The Cultural Significance of Red Bean
Produced in Guangdong and Guangxi, also known as acacia, shaped like peas and cinnabar. The ancients often used it to symbolize love or acacia.
Red beans are also called acacia. Acacia red bean is a unique cultural product of China and a long and mysterious Chinese nation. Simple traditional culture. When these red berries come in spring, Qiu Lai, take them home for my sake and as a symbol of our love. This is a well-known poem "Acacia" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei according to the national customs of the society at that time. Young men and women who reflect any historical time and space give their lovers red bean ornaments as a touching scene of affection when they decide on lifelong events. Since then, red beans have become a symbol of pure love. Love is priceless and red beans are priceless. The moral of Acacia Red Bean includes not only the affection between men and women, but also the affection between teachers and students, the affection after the separation of adversity and * * *, the affection of nation-state, and the affection of human dependence and love. This feeling is vast, and lovesickness is infinite. ...
When those red berries come in spring, they bloom in your southern branches. For my sake, take them home as a symbol of our love! -Wang Wei
The origin of acacia beans
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a man who went out to war, and his wife leaned against the big tree on the mountain day and night to pray; I cried under the tree because I missed my lover in frontier fortress. When the tears dried up, bright red blood dripped out. Blood drops turn into red beans, take root and sprout, grow into trees and be full of red beans, which people call acacia beans. Day after day, I went to Qiu Lai in spring. The fruit of the big tree, along with the miss in the girl's heart, has gradually become the most beautiful red heart-shaped seed on the earth-acacia beans.
Red beans have a profound cultural heritage. Real acacia red beans, extra-large grain shape, diameter of 8-9 mm, per catty 1700. This real acacia red bean is endowed with a special quality by nature: hard as a diamond, bright as blood, like a beating heart, red and shiny, not decaying, crystal clear and never fading. Its shape and texture are "heart-shaped". Really big-hearted, careful and soul mate. Legend has it that lovesick people can't dissolve under the tears tree and finally condense.
In the folk, acacia red beans are as spiritual and auspicious as jade: make a promise and send a string of acacia beans, 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, which symbolizes that both men and women are soul mates and grow old together; 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, acacia red bean ornaments are popular in South China. Fashion women are proud to wear exquisite red bean ornaments, and male and female lovers choose acacia red bean ornaments to express their love. Red beans, as the sustenance of acacia, have existed since ancient times!
The special significance of the number of red beans
Different numbers of acacia beans represent different meanings.
1 stands for "wholeheartedly" and 2 stands for "love"
Theory of Three Represents's "I love you" and the Four Represents "vows of eternal love"
Five represents "five blessings" and six represents "all the best"
7 stands for "I have a crush on you" and 8 stands for "I am deeply sorry, please forgive me"
9 stands for "permanent possession" 10 "love you wholeheartedly"
1 1 "I only belong to you"
5 1 stands for "You are the only one for me"
99 stands for "getting old, getting old for a long time"
Red bean acacia festival
Chinese Valentine's Day, a red bean, comes from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, which is one of the four major folklore stories in China. China Valentine's Day, which was formed from this legend, has a history of 1000 years in China. There is a love word that is more important than a thought word. Qin Guan, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a well-known poem "Queqiao Fairy", praising the sincerity of love between the cowherd and the weaver girl. The word "Queqiao Fairy" says that "if the relationship lasts for a long time, it will exist sooner or later". Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem Acacia: When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches; People who want to miss them collect more, and Mix red beans have attracted people's attention. Although a poem has different contents, its artistic conception is the same. We can imagine cowherd and weaver girl living apart, but sending acacia with red beans. Nowadays, Hodo Group Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. has invested a huge sum of money to combine the traditional folk festival Tanabata with red beans to hold the "Tanabata Red Bean Acacia Festival", which is very suitable. Zhou said that holding the Qixi Red Bean Acacia Festival is not a whim of red bean people, nor is it an opportunity for red bean speculation. Red beans should regard the Qixi Red Bean Acacia Festival as a long-term project and a significant cultural undertaking. They are going to use five five-year plans to promote the Red Bean and Acacia Festival on Qixi, so as to awaken Chinese people to carry forward their national culture and attach importance to their traditional festivals. Today, the first five-year-old birthday of the Red Bean and Acacia Festival on Qixi has also aroused great repercussions in the society. Poet Yu Guangzhong praised red beans for "resisting roses with red beans"; When He Jingzhi is in the mood, he writes "Red Bean Acacia Festival on the seventh day of July". Feng Jicai, a famous painter and writer, spoke highly of the contribution of red beans to promoting national culture and saving traditional festivals. Now many cities all over the country are celebrating Acacia Festival. For example, Ma Qianli Electric Vehicle in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province held the activities of singing Red Bean Acacia Festival, and some enterprises and businesses in Nanjing and Liaoning also held various celebrations on the day of Red Bean Acacia Festival. Hodo Group Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd.' s actions are undeniable.