Palm leaf, Chinese medicine name. For the palm family palm Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H. Wendl. leaves. South of the Yangtze River are distributed. It has the efficacy of astringency, stopping bleeding and lowering blood pressure. Commonly used in vomiting blood, labor injury, hypertension. Handmade with palm leaves braided as follows:

1, prepare materials. We only take the most tender palm leaves on the palm tree, choose the most tender palm leaves not only for the sake of looking good, more importantly, it will not be broken when folding roses. But the tender palm leaves can't be picked off by hand, you have to cut them with a knife.

2. Pick a palm leaf. Split the picked palm leaves into pieces, select one of them and remove the harder veins next to it. If this palm leaf is still relatively thick, you can divide it into two halves or cut off some of the appropriate, so that the width of about 1 centimeter can be maintained, too thick or too thin if it is not good to fold and not beautiful.

3, aligned folding the ready piece of palm fronds from the center to start folding, in the middle of the diagonal upward folded into a 90-degree angle, so that the bottom part of the overlap is a small triangle. Along the side of the small triangle to the bottom of the pressure on the bottom half of the leaf folded to the top, and then the other half of the bottom of the leaf and then folded to the top, repeated this fold, so that the last part of the short can be left, about 5 to 6 centimeters.

4, this is the most critical step. After pressing and vertical direction, the right hand presses tightly, the left hand holds that part of the leaf down slowly pull, must slowly pull. You can see the rose slowly molding, pay attention not to pull too much, to ensure that the top part of the concave also on the line.

The rose can be shaped after molding, choose the shorter part of the leaf (that is, the right hand began to pinch that part), tie a knot, knot when you make some tight on it.