Is Heather really like the legend says?

Some people say that heather makes people feel the pain of breathing. This kind of pain is not the pain felt by the body, but the pain of extreme psychological discomfort; some people say that it is the original taste of life, which makes people avoid it.

Some people say that every puff you take is an otherworldly and indescribable taste; every puff you take is a hormone rooted in the earth; every puff you take is a real breathing pain.

When heather comes out, it will always make you avoid it with a blushing face. When heather comes out, there is always the smell of men silently crying and women crying! Is heather really the most notorious flower in spring?

In my impression, the first time I learned about heather was at the end of the novel "Wuthering Heights":

"I searched all the way, and soon found the one next to the garden. The three tombstones were found on the slope. The middle one was gray and half buried in the heather. Edgar Linton's tombstone was still surrounded by turf, and moss had climbed under his feet. Heathcliff. That piece is still bare."

"Under the clear and pleasant sky, I lingered around the three tombstones, watching the moths fluttering among the heather and bluebells. Listening to the gentle breeze blowing through the grass, I thought to myself, who would have thought that in such a peaceful land, the people who sleep here are not peaceful."

I have never seen heather. To be precise, I don’t know Heather yet. Of course, I don’t know what it tastes like? Even though I walked through heather and smelled a strong, strange smell, I didn’t know it was heather. However, I am very curious, is the heather really like the legend? Is it really notorious?

One morning, I passed by Manfulou (an antique hotel). There are two lifelike stone lions standing in front of the Manful Tower. His two eyes were as wide as copper bells, staring at the stone steps in front of the door. The sun poured down, and the blue stone lions shone brightly.

Not far in front of the stone lion, there are two trees with flowers in full bloom. The rice-like flowers are densely embedded in the leaves, like shining stars in the night sky. The sun shines and shines brightly.

I was attracted by the blooming flowers of the two trees in front of me. I stopped and looked at the two trees carefully. What kind of trees are they? What kind of flower is blooming? I thought to myself.

I quickly took out my mobile phone and opened the "Xingse" applet to take photos and identify them. The identification result came quickly: Heather! Are the two trees in front of me heather trees? I’m still not sure that the tree I photographed is really a heather tree. Another important reason is that I didn’t smell the legendary strange smell.

I walked a few steps closer to it, leaned closer to the flowers, and smelled it carefully, but I still didn’t smell the legendary strange smell. I even began to doubt, is it really the heather blooming on the heather tree? So, further searching through the search engine revealed that it was indeed a heather tree!

Is it because my sense of smell is different from that of many people? Maybe! I don't quite understand. Anyway, I didn't smell that weird smell. Perhaps the sense of smell varies greatly between people!

It reminds me of when I was a kid, a truck leaked gasoline from its fuel tank and lay on the ground. All the friends playing with it covered their noses and felt the smell. I'm not like them. I don't find it unpleasant. On the contrary, I like the smell of gasoline.

Coriander, also called coriander. I also like its refreshing smell. However, some people still say that coriander tastes bad, smells bad, and even calls it stinky.

A statement or a point of view, when most people think it is what it is, I wonder if we should maintain a skeptical attitude and look at it with critical thinking until we Experience it yourself and express your feelings, and you may be able to see the difference in one thing.

The two heather trees in front of me, one big and one small, have something very different about them. The trunks are very thin and short, with many branches. However, the canopy is huge. It is precisely because the trunk has many branches that it can support the huge crown, right? Standing in front of them, the crown of the tree is so big that the existence of the trunk is ignored.

The flower language of heather: "lonely, majestic, solemn, and boring". After consulting some ancient records about heather, I found that there was no comment on heather as a "flower of evil". On the contrary, there are praises for the heather. Heather also symbolizes love in traditional culture.

It is said that after Tang Xuanzong ordered Concubine Yang to die in Maweipo, he left for Shu. Walking to Fufeng Road, we stopped at a temple on the way.

A heather tree in the Zen courtyard is full of snow-white five-petal flowers. The small white flowers are no more than the size of fingertips. They are gathered into bunches, bunches into clusters, and clusters into clusters. It was round and opened into a spherical shape. Xuanzong felt that the flowers bloomed neatly and dignifiedly, so he thought of the imperial concubine and called it the "upright tree".

Heather is therefore linked to Li Yang’s love legend. When talking about heather, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty will think of Mawei. When talking about the upright tree, lovesickness wells up in his heart. This is also the legend of the origin of the heather tree being called the “Correct Tree”.

Is Heather really like the legend says? Is it really notorious? At least, I don't think so. Some people like a flower and some don't. This is natural. Therefore, when we walk through the heather on a sunny morning in spring or in the evening, we stop to admire it and smell it. Maybe your feeling is not what the legend says.