"The diaphragm is slender and green, with snow yellow. Spring is not self-sufficient and flowers are fragrant. "
There is a legend about the winter jasmine: a long time ago, there was a flood on the ground, crops were flooded, houses collapsed and people had to gather on the top of the mountain. Heaven and earth are chaotic, and even the four seasons can't be distinguished. Dayu led people to control water. Dayu stayed with his newly married girl for a few days because he was busy with water conservancy, and then left. When Dayu left, he untied the vines around his waist and gave them to the girl. A few years later, the river was dredged, floods returned to the sea, crops were unearthed, willows sprouted, and finally people settled. Dayu happily came back overnight to find his beloved girl. Far away, he saw the girl holding the bunch of vines and standing on the high mountain waiting for him, but when he saw it, the girl had turned into a stone statue. It turns out that since Dayu left, the girl has stood on this mountain every day and looked around. Rain or shine, freezing cold, never disappear. Later, over time, the girl turned into a stone statue, with vines in her hands and vines in her blood. I don't know how long it took, but Jing Teng actually sent out new branches. Dayu came forward to call his beloved girl, tears fell on the stone statue, and Jing Teng actually opened a golden flower. Vitex negundo blooms and floods disappear. In memory of his beloved girl, Dayu named this flower "Winter jasmine".
I like winter jasmine because it is the messenger of spring. When the chill of winter is not far away, the winter jasmine is the first to tell people that spring is coming! At this time, Jasminum nudiflorum leaves tender green, and the tender green branches hang down softly. There are so many beautiful petals on the hanging branches that they almost cover them. The spring breeze is blowing, and the jasmine in spring is swinging its soft branches, like dancing happily in the air, smart and beautiful. From a distance, the yellow flowers of winter jasmine seem to be small horns. Look carefully, the bright yellow petals of the winter jasmine are divided into two layers, and each layer has six petals. Some are like yellow butterflies singing and dancing in the stamens, scattering six yellow petals, some are like shy little girls hiding behind green leaves, like playing hide-and-seek with people, some are full of flowers and bones! Bend down and smell, ah, you will smell a fragrance. Immersed in the flowers, at this moment, you will suddenly feel inspired by the Spring Festival and flourish.
Winter jasmine is not as delicate as a rose, nor as tall and straight as a pine, but it has a tenacious spirit. When Baihua is still hibernating, it bravely dances with the cold spring. Its tenacious spirit deeply attracted me and touched me! They just cluster around the earth, dare to challenge the cold winter and are not afraid of the cold. They are the first people to report the coming of spring with their lives!
Winter jasmine, winter jasmine, you are the most beautiful flower in my heart.