Elm tree in the north of our country is more common, in the south is extraordinarily rare. In the old house in the former northern rural areas, you can often see the front and back of the house are planted elm trees. Even some of the age of the elm tree is as big as the mansion, the trunk of the whole tree is so rugged that a person can not hold!
Small flowers old home is in the northern countryside, small flowers vaguely remember, in the past in the countryside, almost every family, in front of the house have to have a few large elm trees! At that time, the spring to eat elm money, summer on the tree to pull out the bird's nest, don't mention how happy! But with the development of the times, high-rise buildings, even in the countryside at least two or three floors, which led to now planted in front of the elm tree less and less people! Even the old elm trees have been cut not a few, so why do people like to plant elm trees in the yard in ancient times? Want to know the answer? Then follow the small flower to see it!
1, good moral
_No leaves before the elm tree, will grow elm money. It looks like the coins that people used in ancient times, and also has the same pronunciation as the name of the coins "Yu Qian". Therefore, planting elm money in front of and behind the house symbolizes a happy life and a surplus of money! In some places, there is even a saying "Plant elm money behind the house, and the owner will be rich." This sentence in the era of food and clothing, who heard who is not moved ah! It is because of this saying, who shall not in their own home around, plant a few trees? Otherwise, other people's homes have "copper money string" your home is not, that looks how bad ah!
2, can shade
_Elm it belongs to the tree, once the summer growth rate is fast, leafy. It will be planted in the yard can also be shade, this time in the front, put a stone table and stone benches that is simply perfect! In the winter the leaves have fallen off, this will not block the sun, it seems the whole yard is full of sunshine!
3, hunger
_Everyone should know that elm money is edible, but you do not know is that its leaves, bark and roots are also edible! Therefore, in the ancient pre-Qin period, the elm tree can save the famine of this ability was also discovered by the people! As long as there is a disaster year, then the elm tree will be called "life-saving tree". In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" there has been a record of this "in the year of famine, farmers to take the skin for powder, food as food, not to lose people".
Elm and elm practice is actually the same _, can be steamed to eat, make them into a green dough or porridge is a good practice! Little Flower had heard the old man in the family say this before, they all relied on these elm trees to hold them up in the past when there was no food to survive! They didn't even dare to peel off the bark of the elm trees to eat, because they were afraid that the elm trees would die, and only dared to pick the leaves from the trees to eat!
The leaves that grew from one elm tree were enough to feed the family from spring to fall! But in the winter, they could only endure hunger until the next spring, when the elm trees grew new leaves! Some of the people who did not have elm trees would steal the leaves from other people's trees, and if they were caught, they were beaten up by their masters! Only those who had experienced the famine could realize how important the elm tree was! Since then, people will plant elm trees in front of and behind their houses regardless of whether there is a famine or not, so that if there is a natural disaster or something else, they can still keep a backhand!
Now you know why people in ancient times like to plant elm trees in the yard! Even if it's not pretty, it's worth planting a few! Actually, elms are easy to plant and cuttings have a high survival rate. If you live in the city friends like, you can raise elm potted plants ah! When you see an elm tree when you go out to play in the future, cut off its branches! Remember to take cuttings in the peak season so that the survival rate will be higher!