The real acacia red bean, the scientific name is called peacock bean, also known as the sea red bean, because of the size of the seed and there are small solid peacock bean and large solid peacock bean. The tree is thirty to forty meters high, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth to become a knot. Acacia beans texture firm as iron, colorful as blood, shaped like a beating heart, red and shiny, not moth, not rot, color crystal and never fade. If you look closely you will find that its red color is gradually deepened from the edge to the interior, the innermost and a heart-shaped curve around the particularly red part, really a bean double heart, heart to heart. This is the Acacia red beans, a kind of full of aura and wonderful seeds, legend has it that the heart has the pain of love is difficult to dissolve, and finally condensed into. So Acacia beans since ancient times have been interpreted as the seeds of love, but also expresses the true meaning of love, friendship and affection.
In Taiwan, Acacia beans, like jade, is a lucky charm with spirituality: when you are in love, send a string of Acacia beans that have made a wish, you will be able to get a smooth love; when you get married, the bride will wear a bracelet or necklace made of bright red Acacia beans on her wrist or neck to symbolize that men and women are linked together in a white heart until old age; after the wedding, put six Acacia beans that have been made a wish on each of the husband and wife's pillows to keep the husband and wife united and in good luck for a hundred years. After marriage, put six wish-fulfilling beans under each of the couple's pillows to ensure that the couple is united in heart and happiness for a hundred years.
Wang Wei's poem of red beans
Red beans are born in the south of the country, how many branches in the spring? I wish you would pick them up more often, this thing is the most lovesick!
Legend has it that in ancient times, a man went on a journey and his wife leaned under a big tree on a high mountain and prayed night and day; she wept under the tree because she missed her lover on the border. After the tears dried up, what flowed out were grains of bright red blood drops. Blood drops into red beans, red beans rooted and sprouted, grew into a large tree, full of red beans, people called Acacia beans. Day after day, spring and fall. The fruit of the big tree, accompanied by the thoughts in the girl's heart, slowly turned into the most beautiful red heart-shaped seeds on earth - Acacia beans.
Red beans, has an extremely deep cultural heritage. The real Acacia red beans, grain shape oversized, diameter 8 - 9 mm, a city catty 1700 seeds. This real Acacia red beans, nature endowed it with a special quality: texture firm as a diamond, colorful as blood, shaped like a beating heart, red and shiny, not moth decay, color crystal and never fade. Its shape and pattern, are "heart" shape. It is really a big heart over a small heart, heart to heart. Legend has it that the heart has the pain of lovesickness, tears under the tree, difficult to dissolve, and ultimately condensed.