Because kapok blooms brightly red but is not vulgar. Its strong trunk is strong, its posture is upright, and it is heroic and spectacular. The color of the flowers is as red as the strength of a strong man. The color is just like a flower. Like a hero's blood dyeing the treetops red.
The Hero Flower is a specialty of the South and the city flower of Guangzhou, Kaohsiung and Panzhihua. Its five petals with strong curves surround a dense bunch of yellow stamens and are gathered in a tight receptacle. , each one is as big as a rice bowl, spreading downward from the top of the tree in the spring. The Hero Flower is also called kapok, and even its fall is particularly heroic. When it falls from the tree, it remains in its original shape in the air, spinning all the way down, and then falls to the ground with a "snap".
The flower language of kapok is to cherish the people around you, cherish the happiness in front of you, and don’t regret it after losing it, when it is too late.
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The root and stem extracts of kapok can be used as astringents, analgesics, etc. Its juice can be used to treat dysentery, and its root bark, stem bark and Pricks can be ground into powder to make ointments that can be used to treat acne. It is said that whenever kapok blooms, many old people and children in the village will pick up fallen flowers and then dry them in the sun, which can be used to make tea, soup and medicine.
According to the "Miscellaneous Notes of the Western Han Dynasty", during the Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, paid tribute to the beacon tree to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is said that the beacon tree was the kapok tree, so it was first called the beacon tree. Kapok not only has many names, but also has many allusions to its name. It seems that the name Jibei comes from a legend. It is said that there is an old Li hero named Jibei in Wuzhi Mountain, who often leads the people to defeat foreign invasions. Once because of a traitor's report, the old hero was arrested. The enemy tied him to a kapok tree and tortured him severely. The old hero was unyielding and mighty, and was finally brutally killed. Later, the old hero turned into kapok trees, so the kapok tree was called "Jibei" to commemorate this old national hero.
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