I went to Qinghai by car with a friend a few summers ago. When I arrived in Gansu, many strange plants appeared on both sides of the road. From the car, the branches were not clear, but the pink on the crown was impressive. At that time, I guessed that it should be a flower in the tree. Tall trees in Gansu are rare, and this plant has become a different kind of scenery on both sides of the road of that generation.

When we get to the service area, we can finally get a close look at this plant. Leaves are like pine needles, flowers are small, a little close to Milan, and pink is the main color. Search on the Internet. Its name is Hongjing, also called cheng Liu. It mainly grows in the northwest and Bohai sea, and is drought-resistant, cold-resistant and salt-tolerant.

Maybe it's my nostalgia for that time in go on road trip, or maybe it's my love for plants. After I come back, I often think of Hongjing. A year later, I found a red wattle on a remote road near my home. As if I had met an old friend, I often go and have a look. But when I went there again one day, the tree was cut down and the leaves and flowers were scattered all over the floor. Maybe no one will believe that I was sad for a tree for many days.

in the next few years, I often walked in the wild near my home, but I never saw a red wattle tree again. This tree seems to have never existed or existed in my life before I knew it.

Recently, I was reading "Learning from the West in Medical Enthusiasm" by Zhang Xichun, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, in which beef was said to be anti-red. This reminds me of this plant again. It records a case in which beef and red wattle were eaten together, and all the eaters were sick, and three people died because of it. There is also an old saying that an old cow turns against a flower. In other words, red wattle is not toxic, but it is toxic when it is with beef.

Nowadays, many places pay attention to eating mutton kebabs with red willows. I checked and found that red willows are red thorns. If Zhang Xichun's record is correct, you should be careful when eating kebabs in the future, and never eat beef kebabs with red Jing! ! !

do you have any red wattles? Have you ever heard of the saying that Hongjing is anti-beef?

(Some pictures are from the Internet)