This is Dodd. Of course, this is a dodder, although the true shape of its plant can't be seen. The real dodder is the seed of this plant. It won't be full until it falls. But by that time, the plants of Cuscuta chinensis have already lost the fresh and elegant feeling brought by pale yellow, yellow or yellow, but have been browned, especially the warty fruits gradually protruding from the filaments, giving people a ferocious and ugly feeling. Cuscuta chinensis, the seed of this plant, is wrapped in this ugly fruit. Smaller than millet, brown or yellow, very inconspicuous. People here will not harvest this seed, they will die and plant it themselves.
The first time I saw dodder was in the flax field of my hometown. When the light blue flax blooms, the dodder grows up, and the contrast between blue, yellow and green is also very beautiful, but the stalk of flax is hard, and I can't help it. Too much, so I pulled it. This filament is tightly wrapped around the flax stem, but it is really very slender and fragile before it is tightly wrapped, and it can't stop at all. What's more, farmers don't grow flax very much, and this grass doesn't take him seriously. Also, farmers all know the truth of stubble. This kind of grass seems to grow only in flax fields, and one kind of wheat or corn is almost extinct. Wheat straw is empty, corn straw is hard, and dodder grass seems helpless.
Later, I learned that I was reading Du Fu's Three Officials, Three Farewells and the famous Wedding Candle. At the beginning, I said, "Toast is connected with Ma Peng, so it doesn't take long to recruit vines. It is better to abandon the roadside than to marry a woman and ask for a husband. " Toast and Ma Peng became the symbols of his wife and husband, which made people feel pity and love for this plant. Later I learned that I was not the only one who felt this way. Since ancient times, they have always been the symbol of husband and wife in literati's works. The first chapter of The Book of Songs says "Mulberry with Scenery"; "So there was the Tang Dynasty? To the great patriotic bubble land. Who is in my heart? Beautiful yi. " Followed by the more famous "I am in Sang, want me to enter the palace and send me to the top." This is another story, and I don't need to repeat it. Later generations of Tang dynasty interpreted it as dodder from the beginning. Of course, some people say that Tang should be Tang Di, which is another story. In Nineteen Ancient Poems, Ran Ran solitary bamboo wrote, "Ran Ran solitary bamboo is rooted in Mount Tai. I am newly married to you and have become attached to my daughter Luo. " He began to combine dodder with female images, which laid the foundation for later literary works and even the image of dodder in people's minds. Jiang Yan of Liang Dynasty wrote, "Dodder is attached to a female radish, so it is not long enough to attract vines. Toast and level, what they send will never move ",let us know the origin of the first few words of Du Fu's" Newly Married ". When Li Bai wrote in "Ancient Meaning", "You are a female radish and my concubine is a dodder flower. The diaphragm is not self-directed, it is tilted by the spring breeze. Hundreds of zhangs and tuo are far away, and they are lingering into a family. Who says it's easy to meet each other, each on a green cliff? Female radish is fragrant and broken. The branches are entwined and the leaves are fluttering. Children don't know the roots, because who is fragrant. Double emeralds in the middle nest, purple mandarin ducks in the night. Knowing two grass hearts, the tide is easy to measure. " Almost completely restored the image of dodder. In fact, from the perspective of the ancients, Cuscuta chinensis has a better name, and that is female Luo. The female Luo is also called, which is more common in ancient poems. Xiao Yayi's poem: "I am with a woman, a man." Shan Gui: "If someone is a mountain, Xue Lixi will take care of his daughter." History of rites and music in Han Dynasty: "Phoenix grass sac, female Roche." Tang Yuanzhen's poem "Sleepwalking in Spring": "Luo Fu, the daughter of Gao Song, welcomes Yu Pei." Modern textual research shows that female radish is actually a kind of ground-covering plant, parasitic on pine trees, so it is also called songluo, which is common in the south. People in Yunnan can even eat it as a vegetable, and of course it can also be used as medicine. It is not the same thing as dodder. To be consistent with dodder, I think it should also be cassia twig, cassia twig is hemp, and cassia twig is dodder born in hemp. There is a Mount Moro in Zhejiang, which was the hometown of the teacher at that time. What do you mean by dodder? Of course, Cuscuta Cuscuta's name is far more than these beautiful and elegant sounds. Our hometown calls it jute thread, doesn't it? Jute thread is wrapped around flax, which is more real, such as silkworm, dodder, rootless vine, wild fox, bean parasite, rattan, radish seed and so on.
The dodder in the eyes of farmers is different from that in the eyes of literati. Farmers pay more attention to its use value, so in the story of traditional Chinese medicine, dodder has become a blind Chinese medicine discovered by a concerned farmer through careful observation and painstaking research, which can treat traumatic injuries, especially low back pain. Indeed, Cuscuta chinensis is a very common but effective Chinese medicine. Nourishing liver and kidney, consolidating semen and reducing urine, preventing miscarriage, improving eyesight and stopping diarrhea. Especially after entering the modern society, people began to pay attention to the quality of life while improving their living standards. This nourishing and pleasant medicinal material has gradually entered people's daily life and almost become a kind of food. Although buying and selling drugs is not allowed on the Internet, this kind of food and drugs can be seen everywhere when you open Taobao.
However, a noteworthy problem is that dodder has become a kind of harm in nature, which is the biological invasion of Japanese dodder. Huaxi newspaper reported that at the foot of Wufeng Mountain in Nanchong, Sichuan, Japanese dodder was flooded, and many trees withered or even died because of the entanglement of dodder. In addition to the superior reproductive ability and adaptability of this plant, the rising price of dodder in recent years has prompted many people to plant this plant in large quantities, leading to this plant going out of the countryside and even entering the city. It harms common herbs, and then harms woody plants such as trees.
From the traditional delicate and touching to the ferocious and terrible invaders, the image of dodder has changed, which makes people sigh, "It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing too fast."