The birthday flower for February 3rd is cardamom.

You may not be able to tell that cardamom is a perennial herb. It has a thick rhizome, some brownish red, and large green leaves growing in two rows. The leaves are long and narrow, lanceolate and wide. The flowers are shot out from the base of the stem. The hanging flower spikes are elongating significantly like a ginger plant. The flowers appear to be sparsely arranged and orderly in nature. The corolla is white. The fruits are oblong in shape and pointed at both ends. The smell is fragrant and strong. If you use it as a condiment, you may not like it.

It is usually thought that cardamom is the favorite of bearded men. Unexpectedly, the plant that grows there is originally abundant in the humid forests of southern India. Its wild fruits are used in many seasonings. Use with essential oils. Nowadays, large areas of Sri Lanka and Guatemala in the south are planted in large quantities and have become major high-yield areas.

Cardamom will bloom in bunches and is not ugly. The bunches of flowers are strung together, pink and white, and attract the eye. Blooming in the broad green leaves they grow on their own, faintly breaking up the flower colors that are difficult to see in a season.

In the past, it was believed that cardamom, a strange tropical plant of the ginger family that loves dampness and humidity, came from afar. In fact, it is also planted in southern China. Yunnan and Guizhou are not as good as India and Indonesia, which have countless origins. Plant much less. Therefore, those who have an image of history should still remember what the main purpose of those Western powers coming to the East was not just to spend money, but also to bring back a lot of spices, of which cardamom was one of them.

Cardamom is spicy and spicy. As a spice, it is equivalent to the aniseed we usually use to enhance the fragrance. It is even more powerful in removing the smell. It may be difficult to come across such good condiments in tropical areas of Europe. Perhaps they have never been produced in-house, and there are only a handful of them.

In order to ensure the increasing demand among the royal family and the nobility, the supply slowly spread to ordinary people. Of course, no matter how much there is, the supply exceeds the demand. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is demand in distant places. In Italy and the United Kingdom, saffron was a symbol of exclusivity at that time. How could such an attractive thing be used casually and shared everywhere. Therefore, those first-class spices are also in great demand and supply. Cardamom is also hugely popular.

This is an amazing moment that history has bestowed on cardamom, and there are no flaws in it. Its appearance in China is even more meaningful, and a word often mentioned is "cardamom age". This is to be praised, what a beautiful and coveted youthful grace, and it is also a compliment to a thirteen-year-old girl.

When the great poet Du Mu was overflowing with feelings of farewell, he wrote the poem "Farewell" affectionately and silently, "Pingping has been curling up for more than thirteen years, and the cardamom leaves are on the head in early February. The spring breeze is ten miles away on Yangzhou Road. "It's better to roll up the bead curtain."

This is Du Mu who was traveling in Yangzhou in his prime. When he was bored, he met a woman who couldn't let go. He wrote a cardamom poem and gave it to her. This young woman is the "thirteen-year-old" in the poem, and it must be because of this young woman who is more than thirteen years old and has a difficult love relationship.

Just like the bud of cardamom, it is an accurate and vivid metaphor to the cardamom that is still shy.

Although Du Mu can't show mercy, Cardamom Flower should certainly be more expressive and expressive, because she is very unique.