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The first fragrance in the world-Jasmine

"It is rumored that the spirit species is out of fashion, so no one can carry it on a voyage. If I study the history of flowers in the next year, it will be listed as the first fragrance in the world. " -(Song? Jiang Kui) Jasmine

Jasmine, an erect or climbing shrub of Jasminum in Meliaceae, can be as high as 3 meters. It is a famous raw material for scented tea and an important raw material for essence. Flowers and leaves can be used as medicine to treat redness, swelling and pain, and have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Widely distributed in China.

jasmine jade bone ice muscle, musk deer brain dragon saliva, quiet and infinite in the wind. If you plant a tree in the courtyard and on the terrace, you will feel refreshed in the hot summer.

The hot and changeable weather didn't make it fall, but it seemed like a gift to it. When other flowers put away their leaves and lowered their heads in the blazing sun, the jasmine still stood upright with its head held high, becoming more and more crystal clear in the sun. Thin branches are very resilient, supporting pairs of oval leaves, green and shiny. White and round buds are dotted among the layers of branches and leaves, glowing with pearl luster.

after a storm, it's even greener and spotless. But seeing it let the wind and rain beat me, I walked leisurely, spreading branches and leaves in the wind and rain, nodding and smiling at you; When the rain clears, it hides pearls and jade with green leaves, and it is so spirited and calm that it really answers the sentence "Wandering with the clouds outside the sky".

the beauty of jasmine also lies in the dynamic beauty of the flowering process. Jasmine always blooms freely at night, as if unwilling to disturb people's sleep. At this time, it absorbs wind and drinks dew, and is accompanied by the stars and the moon. It is most fragrant, and it is more refreshing when the breeze blows.

Picking three or two flowers and putting them indoors actually fills a room with delicate fragrance, which not only calms the nerves, but also repels mosquitoes. It seems that jasmine's sweet bone has never been for itself, and its character is really called curling autumn moon.

Early the next morning, the double-petal floret, as white as jelly, was full of branches, simple, natural and amiable. In the Song Dynasty, Ye Mao wrote a poem: "Exposed flowers wash out the whole body white, and Shen Shui smokes it into bone-changing fragrance."

Jasmine is not as elegant as a peony, nor as romantic as a rose, but it has its own elegance and simple heart, and a wisp of fragrance only lingers around the world. And this wisp of fragrance is not only a soothing flower fragrance, but also a clear tea fragrance, and even a herbal fragrance that helps the world.

According to the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, jasmine can be used as medicine, which has the functions of invigorating qi, relieving depression, eliminating filth and harmonizing the middle. Efficacy of treating diarrhea, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis and sore poison.

China people have plum blossoms in winter and jasmine in summer. One is that "the sharp sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold", and the other is that "one flower can smoke a room full of fragrance, and the jade is still cool in hot weather"; One is "Qiao doesn't fight for spring, but only reports spring." When the mountain flowers are blooming, she laughs among the bushes. One is that the sky is clear and green, and the five fingers are blowing clouds. Trees and trees are in a strange south knot, and every jasmine blooms. "

Although the two places have their own fragrance, this high wind and severe festival leads to the same goal!