Bai Juyi

Also known as bletilla striata.

Plant name. Tubers contain mucus and starch and can be used as paste or medicine.

Li Mingzhizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica A Grass Lily: "Its root is white, so it is named Lily."

Wang Shizhen's Notes on Xiangzu in the Qing Dynasty, Volume 9: "Yu Bingzi was a Shu, and he saw Bletilla flowers on the mountain road, because of the sentence' The west wind rains all day, and Bletilla flowers bloom all over the empty mountain'."

Zhao Shuli's Golden Word: "This enthusiastic young man is experienced. He didn't ask me how to do it, so he put mud gold on the bottom of the bowl, poured a little water and ground it with bletilla striata. "