Chou Guilin said, flies and mosquitoes would be better.

"Why?" Mao asked with considerable interest. Zhou Guilin said that the community used "breaking bowl flower flower" to eliminate mosquitoes and flies, and said that "breaking bowl flower flower" is a kind of wild poisonous grass, put it or its pulp in the cesspit, it can kill maggots and mosquito larvae tsetse.

Mao Zedong curiously asked, "Why is it called 'Breaking Bowl Flower Flower'?"

Pan Zhaoqing explained, "In the past, in order to prevent children from picking this kind of flower, the farmers told the children that if they picked this kind of flower, they would have to break the bowl, and if they broke the bowl, they would not be able to eat, and that's how the name came about."

Mao Zedong heard, excitedly said, "This is a major discovery. It is a creation of the masses, a good way to promote." Then, he asked, this kind of "break the bowl flower flower" good to find?

Zhou Guilin said good to find, and finished walking to the edge of the field to pull a plant. Mao Zedong took over and looked at it and said, "Very good, take it back and show it to everyone at the meeting tomorrow." And instructed, the secretary of the county party committee and the Provincial Agricultural Department in Hongguang Society of an agricultural technician hands to write a manuscript, written tomorrow, the day after tomorrow to review the manuscript, and then the day after tomorrow in the newspaper.

Darkness fell, Mao Zedong left the Red Light Society.

The matter of "breaking the bowl of flowers" also came to fruition three days later. on March 19, 1958, the Sichuan Farmers' Daily published a material introducing this weed, accompanied by a picture of its samples. The material said: all over Sichuan in the countryside, in the field, water wells growing next to a wild plant, Pixian farmers called it "break the bowl of flowers flowers", it is picked and scattered in the cesspit, cesspool can kill maggots and tsetse, but also poisoned to kill the earthworms, centipedes, and at the same time, it is a very good green manure.

Mao Zedong recommended this material to the comrades attending the Chengdu conference and wrote a paragraph relaying the origin of this interesting name: "The comrades of the Hongguang Society said: so it is called 'break the bowl of flowers flowers,' is the adults in the countryside to teach small children not to touch the body of this plant, so that it breaks! This plant's body, so that it ruptures and a kind of juice flows out, sticking to the body and rotting the skin. It was not said so when it was told, but was said as follows: if anyone touches this 'hana-hana' (plant), when he returns home, he will be in danger of breaking the bowl by mistake."

From: Serial: Mao Zedong in 1958.