A Niu lived to be 13 years old. He said to his mother, "mom, your eyes are not good." Don't spin and weave day and night in the future. I have grown up, I can support you! " So I went to Zhang's rich man's house to do small long-term work, and both mother and son came through thick and thin. Two years later, my mother's eye disease became more and more serious and she soon became blind. A Niu thought that my mother's eyes were blind to me, and she should be cured anyway. While working for the rich man, I grow vegetables in the dark in the morning and sell vegetables to earn some money to buy medicine for my mother. I don't know how much medicine I took, but my mother's eye disease is still not getting better.
One night, A Niu had a dream that a beautiful girl came to help him grow vegetables and told him, "There is a smallpox swing dozens of miles west along the canal. There is a white chrysanthemum in the swing, which can cure eye diseases. This kind of flower won't bloom until the Double Ninth Festival in September. When the time comes, you can give this flower to your mother, which will definitely cure her eye disease. " On the Double Ninth Festival, A Niu took dry food to the ceiling to find white chrysanthemums. It turns out that this is a wild field full of weeds, called wild field. He searched there for a long time, but only Huang Juhua couldn't find the white chrysanthemum. He found a white wild chrysanthemum beside a small mound in the grass, which kept swinging on the grass until the afternoon. This kind of white chrysanthemum is very special, with nine branches in one stem. There is only one bloom, and the other eight are in bud. A Niu dug up this white chrysanthemum with roots and soil and planted it next to his house. After his watering and care, eight flowers soon opened, fragrant and beautiful. So he picks a chrysanthemum and gives it to his mother every day. After eating the seventh chrysanthemum, A Niu's mother's eyes began to see again.
The news that white chrysanthemum can cure eye diseases spread quickly, and villagers came to watch this unusual wild chrysanthemum one after another. The news also reached the wealthy Zhang Man. Rich Zhang Man called A Niu and ordered him to transplant chrysanthemums into the Zhangjia Garden at once. A Niu certainly won't. Rich Zhang Man sent several people to A Niu's house to rob the white chrysanthemums. Because of the competition between the two sides, the chrysanthemum was broken, and they just left. A Niu was very sad when he saw that the white chrysanthemum which cured his mother's eye disease was raped. He sat beside the broken white chrysanthemum and cried till dark, and refused to leave until late at night. After midnight, his hazy tears suddenly lit up, and the beautiful girl he dreamed of last time suddenly came to his side. The girl advised him, "A Niu, your filial piety has been rewarded. Don't be sad, go back to sleep! " A Niu said, "This chrysanthemum saved my family. How can I live if it is dead? " The girl said, "Although the stem of this chrysanthemum is broken, the root is still there. She's not dead. All you have to do is dig out the roots and transplant them to other places, and the white chrysanthemums will grow. " A Niu asked, "Girl, who are you? Please tell me, I am so grateful to you. " The girl said, "I am the chrysanthemum fairy in the sky, and I am here to help you." I don't need to repay you. As long as you follow a "Chrysanthemum Ballad", white chrysanthemums will surely grow alive. " Then Juxian read: "Three points and four heads, watering in May, throwing materials in June, covering the head in July and August, and rolling hydrangeas in September." It disappeared after reading it.
A Niu went back to the house to read Ju Xian's "Chrysanthemum Ballad" carefully, and finally realized its meaning: planting chrysanthemums requires transplanting in March, pinching flowers in April, watering more in May, fertilizing frequently in June, protecting roots in July and August, and hydrangea-shaped chrysanthemums can only bloom in September. A Niu did it according to the instructions of Chrysanthemum Fairy. Later, many branches grew on the old roots of chrysanthemum. He cut off these branches to make cuttings, and then cultivated them according to the saying of "planting chrysanthemums" On the ninth double ninth festival in September of the following year, white chrysanthemums were in full bloom and the fragrance was overflowing. Later, A Niu taught the poor in the village the skills of planting chrysanthemums, and more and more people planted white chrysanthemums in this area. Because A Niu discovered this white chrysanthemum on the ninth day of September, people later called it Chrysanthemum Festival, and formed the custom of enjoying chrysanthemum, eating chrysanthemum tea and drinking chrysanthemum wine.