Efficacy of sea willow
1. What is sea willow, is it a plant or an animal?
Baidu Encyclopedia has a related explanation: sea willow, scientific name black coral, looks like silk willow on land, and it is difficult to collect it with suction cups and seabed stones. In addition, it is widely used, so it is regarded as the treasure of the ocean. Sea willow looks like a tree, so it is called sea willow.
Sea willow is a submarine shrub with a life span of tens of thousands of years, belonging to the marine plant Cycas. Many people think that sea willow is a kind of marine plant because it looks like a tree. In fact, it is an authentic marine animal, belonging to the coelenterate Cycadaceae, a kind of coral, and is a close relative to the jellyfish that is often eaten!
Sea willows are generally born on seabed rocks with a water depth of more than 30 meters and a height of 3-4 meters. A kind of red willow in sea willow is bright and pleasing to the eye. When it first came out of the water, the leaflets on the branches sparkled and the branches were elastic. After being out of water for a period of time, the branches become very hard. Because there are red, white and Huang San water ghosts when the sea willow comes out of the water, it can turn into black iron color after drying, so it is also called sea iron tree. More interestingly, when it rains every day, its surface color will become dull and secrete a small amount of mucus, so it is called "small meteorological station".
Second, what is the function of sea willow?
Sea willow is full of treasures and has a wide range of uses. Using the unique shape, gorgeous colors and delicate wood of sea willow, after pruning, planing, polishing, cutting and drilling, various exquisite artistic treasures such as pipes, bonsai, bracelets, teacups, rings and beads were carved, which were once noble playthings of ancient emperors and generals. 1985, Dongshan Island, Fujian Province, excavated an ancient tomb of the Song Dynasty, and found some bracelets, rings and wine glasses made by sea willows from the coffin pivot. These things are intact, indicating that Salix is tough and corrosion-resistant. In Dongshan Island fishing village, people can often see sea willow pipes with different shapes on their mouths. The pipe made of it is cool and refreshing to use and has natural filtering effect. For smokers, without a sea willow pipe, they will cry. Smoking with sea willow pipe will have a faint fragrance, cool and moisten throat, reduce fever and clear lung.
Sea willow also has important medicinal value. Boiling chicken head with sea willow can stop bleeding, and cooking soup can also cure low back pain. Salix gorgonioides, containing sesquiterpenes of Salix gorgonioides; The results of structural determination, pharmacology and pharmacodynamics show that it contains no N element, has strong physiological activity and detoxification, and has good effects of lowering blood pressure, slowing heart rate, anti-arrhythmia, anti-vasospasm and ileal hypoxia. Materia Medica of past dynasties, such as Tang Materia Medica, Herbal Supplement, Compendium of Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica, are recorded. Some species and corals, jellyfish, etc. It is still widely used in clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, especially in coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and has anticancer effect.
Third, the handicrafts made by sea willow.
Sea willow is subdivided into golden willow, tiger willow, stone willow, black willow, etc. Some excellent varieties only grow in the Taiwan Province Strait. Sea willow is quite rare, only a few trees a year.
Folk artists take the branches of Salix psammophila in the sea as raw materials, and carry out elaborate artistic processing in line with the concept of "the meaning of nature, the way of discovery". Make full use of the unique shape, natural color and mottled texture of sea willow, and finally make various exquisite pipes and cigarette holders according to the shape of raw materials through cutting, rotating, grinding, drilling, carving and other processes, in addition to bracelets, rings, ornaments, tea sets, bonsai and other items. The pipes and cigarette holders made of Salix are not only exquisite in workmanship, but also cool and delicious for smokers to use, and they are not addicted to getting angry. If they smoke after staying up late, they will feel stuffy in their mouths the next day, and their medicinal value can be imagined.
Sea willow carving is a little more complicated than other kinds of carving. This is because some shells or other impurities will be attached to wild sea willows, and sculptors need to remove impurities bit by bit before carving on hard sea willows. This process is a delicate work, and it is not impatient at all. But sometimes, in order to keep the original flavor of the sea willow carving, the sea willow craftsmen will deliberately leave some traces of underwater parasites on the sea willow to let everyone know that it is a treasure from the sea.
Because the sea willow has no fixed shape, every handicraft it makes is unique. The carved sea willow works are bright in color and unique in shape, not only afraid of falling, but also afraid of fire. Inspired by the carving of Shoushan stone, the artist creatively carved various exquisite and realistic figure ornaments, flowers, birds, insects and fish with sea willows. These decorations are very popular with collectors. In short, no matter how you carve it, you can't lose the charm of sea willow carving with both form and spirit.
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Salix is a submarine shrub with a life span of 1000 years, belonging to the marine plant Cycadaceae. It looks like a willow on land, and it is difficult to collect it with a sucker. In addition, it is widely used, so it is regarded as a treasure in the sea. Sea willow looks like a tree, so it is called sea willow. Because its branches are tough, impervious and not damaged by fire, it is also called "Shenmu". Known as meteorological observation, whenever the weather is about to change or a typhoon comes, the pipe made of sea willow will suddenly become dull, and the skin will be dead and slightly wet, and it will feel slightly wet when touched by hand. Once the weather clears or the typhoon returns to the south, it will return to its original state, which is also a way to judge whether the sea willow is true or false. Another way is to wrap your hair around the sea willow and let it burn. Hair keeps growing. This method is relatively simple.
Salix psammophila usually grows on seabed corals or rocks with a water depth of 10 meters and a height of 5-6 meters. There are dozens of varieties such as blood willow, red willow, rattan willow, stone willow, black willow and coral willow, among which blood willow and red willow are better. It takes about 300-400 years to grow into sea willow with a diameter of 2 cm, which can be used to process pipes.