Lonely and brilliant buckwheat flowers

Simple buckwheat flowers, not even "flowers", have attracted people's attention since they appeared in Korean dramas "Ghost" and "Buckwheat bloom Season". Business-minded businessmen have developed those humble buckwheat fields into tourist attractions. The flower language of the Ghost Buckwheat Flower is "lovers" and "vows of love". Ordinary buckwheat flowers are endowed with romantic cultural connotations, attracting many lovers to take couple photos and wedding photos in buckwheat flower fields. In fact, in Jeju Island, buckwheat is synonymous with "tenacity".

Jeju has barren land and changeable climate. Although crops such as rice and wheat can be planted, the harvest is very small. In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongols once ruled Jeju Island directly for one hundred years. They brought not only fierce Mongolian horses, but also buckwheat seeds. This cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant and tenacious crop thrives in the volcanic gravel of Jeju. Every year in the early summer of June, Shan Ye in the east of Jeju Island is full of white buckwheat flowers like snow. However, according to the myths and legends of Jeju people, this kind of buckwheat in Jeju Island was brought to the world by Jade Emperor, the agricultural god of Jeju.

There is a fairy tale circulating in Jeju Island: Jin Jinguo and his wife have no children under their knees, so they pray to the Buddha. The old couple sincerely offered sacrifices to the Buddha, but because the rice offered to the Buddha was less than 100 Jin, they failed to get a son and gave birth to a smart and beautiful daughter. Because it is uninvited, it is named "uninvited princess". When I was fifteen, I invited my princess to wash clothes by the river. It was love at first sight when I met Wen Daoling who was going to study, so I disguised myself as a man and went to study with Wen Daoling. * * * After reading for 3 years, Wen Dao, who was originally the son of Wenquxing, ordered him to return to the Jade Emperor. They met again with gourd seeds as a token of their love. But at the appointed time, I didn't see the figure of Wendaoling around, so I decided to go to the Tiangong to look for it myself. After many twists and turns, the two finally reunited, and the invited princess passed the test of Wendaoling's parents and became their daughter-in-law. Later, there was a rebellion in the kingdom of Tian Zi in the south of the Yangtze River, and Wendaoling died because of suppressing the rebellion. She asked the princess to try her best to put down the rebellion with the "flower of extinction" in the western flower field and save Wendaoling with the "flower of rebirth". Because of her great contribution, the Jade Emperor made the princess a deity and lived happily in the Heavenly Palace, but she wanted to live a free and independent life on earth. So, she got the grain seeds from the Jade Emperor and came to earth to sow. Later, I found that I forgot one thing, that is, buckwheat seeds. Since the princess was invited, she returned to heaven to get buckwheat seeds from the Jade Emperor. Therefore, buckwheat is sown later than other food crops, but it can be harvested at the same time as other food crops.