English name : Pomegranate
Chinese aliases : Anshihuan, Ruo pomegranate, Danruo, Jinpiao, Jinpang, Tuolin , Tianpian
Biological classification
Peony pomegranate flowers Flowers like peonies
Boundary : Phytophyta Plantae
Portal: Angiosperms Magnoliophyta
Organism: Dicotyledon Magnoliopsida
Sub-Organism: Rosidae
Organism: Myrtaceae Myrtales
Family: Punicaceae
Genus: Punica
Pomegranate
Subgenus: Punica
Subgenera: Pomegranates p>
Varieties of the same genus: white-flowered pomegranate var. albescens DC., yellow-flowered pomegranate var. flavescens SW., multiple-flowered white-flowered pomegranate var. multiplex
SW., heavy-flowered red-flowered pomegranate var. pleniflora Hayne, and so on. Pomegranate seeds are edible.
[edit]Morphological characteristics
Pomegranate: sweet, sour and astringent, warm, with insecticidal, astringent, astringent, dysentery and other effects. Pomegranate fruit is rich in nutrients, vitamin C content is one or two times higher than apples and pears. Needle-like branches, leaves are obovate or elliptic, glabrous. Blooms in summer, mostly orange, but also yellow and white. The berries are subglobose and ripen in the fall. Outer seed coat fleshy translucent, juicy; inner seed coat leathery.
The pomegranate is a deciduous shrub or small tree that becomes evergreen in the tropics. The crown is tufted and naturally round-headed. The roots are yellowish brown. Strong growth, easily rooted between the roots. The tree can reach a height of 5-7 meters, usually 3-4 meters, but the dwarf pomegranate is only about 1 meter high or shorter. The trunk is gray-brown, with verrucous protuberances, and the stem is twisted to the left. There are many branches in the crown, and the shoots are angled and mostly square. Branchlets are pliable and not easily broken. Primary branches are staggered on the vigorously growing branchlets, with small spines. The length of the thorns is related to the species and growth. The vigorous trees have more thorns, and the old trees have fewer thorns. Bud color varies with the season, with purple, green and orange. Leaves opposite or clustered, oblong to oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 2-8 centimeters long, 1-2 centimeters wide, apical tip, glossy surface, midvein raised abaxially; short petiolate. Flowers bisexual, according to the ovary developed or not, there are campanulate flowers and tubular flowers, the former ovary developed good at fertilization results, the latter often withered fruitless; generally 1 to several inserted in the current year at the tip of the new shoots and below the end of the leaf axils; sepals are hard, fleshy, tubular, 5-7-lobed, and the ovary is continuous, persistent; petals are obovate, and the same as the number of sepals and alternating, imbricate arrangement. The flowers are monopetalous and double-petalous. Heavy varieties of androgynous polypetalous and infertile, petals up to dozens; flowers mostly red, also white and yellow, pink, agate and other colors. Stamens numerous, filaments glabrous. Pistil with a style of 1, the length of more than the stamens, carpels 4-8, the ovary inferior, mature into a large and multi-chambered, multi-seeded berry, each chamber has a majority of seeds; outer testa fleshy, bright red, light red or white, juicy, sweet and acidic, that is, for the edible part; inner testa for the corneal, but also degradation of soft, that is, the soft-seeded pomegranate. Fruit pomegranate flowering period in May-June, pomegranate flowers like fire, fruit period in September-October. Flowering pomegranate flowering period in May-October.
Introduction of raw materials
Pomegranate pomegranate is the fruit of the pomegranate family plant pomegranate. Native to the Western Regions, it was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty, and there are mainly different varieties of pomegranate such as onyx pomegranate, pink-skinned pomegranate, green-skinned pomegranate, and jade pomegranate. Mature pomegranate skin color bright red or pink, often cracked, revealing the crystal like gem-like seeds, sweet and sour juicy, although eating trouble, but aftertaste. Because of its bright color and fullness of seeds, it is often used as a celebratory fruit, symbolizing many children and grandchildren. Pomegranates are ripe during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day festivals, and are a good gift for friends and family. Pomegranate can eliminate female menopausal disorders.
Nutritional analysis
1. broad-spectrum antibacterial: pomegranate skin contains a variety of alkaloids, antibacterial test confirmed that the pomegranate's alcohol leachate and peel decoction, has a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, and its Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, Vibrio cholerae, dysentery bacillus, etc., has a significant inhibitory effect, which is the strongest shigella dysentery bacillus, the pomegranate skin water immersion in the tube of a variety of skin fungi also have varying degrees of inhibition. Various skin fungi also have different degrees of inhibition, pomegranate peel decoction can also inhibit influenza virus;
2. astringent, astringent: pomegranate acid, containing alkaloids, ursolic acid, etc., there is obvious astringent effect, can astringent intestinal hemostasis, coupled with its good anti-bacterial effect, so it is the treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, blood in stools and spermatorrhea, demodicosis, and other diseases of the good product;
3. anthelmintic Insecticide: pomegranate bark and pomegranate tree root bark contain pomegranate bark alkaloids, human parasites have anesthesia, is to expel worms and kill worms, especially on the tapeworms to kill stronger, can be used for the treatment of worms and abdominal pain, scabies, etc.;
4. Hemostasis, eyesight: pomegranate flowers are sour and astringent, and flat, if the drying of the research powder, has a good hemostatic effect, but also to stop the reddish-white belt. Pomegranate flowers soak water to wash the eyes, but also has the effect of eyesight.
Related people
General population can eat
1. suitable for dry mouth, diarrhea, tonsil inflammation;
2. unsuitable for constipation, urethritis, diabetic, solid heat stagnation.
Food Compatibility
Pomegranate can not be eaten with tomatoes, crabs.
Therapeutic effects
Pomegranate warm, sweet, sour and astringent, into the lungs, kidneys, large intestine meridian;
with the production of fluids to quench thirst, astringent and astringent, stopping diarrhea and stopping the bleeding of the efficacy;
The main treatment of fluids deficient in dry mouth and throat dry, irritable and thirsty, chronic diarrhea, long diarrhea, long diarrhea, blood in the stool, bleeding, and leakage of the disease and other conditions.
Selected pomegranate remedies
1, sour pomegranate, calcined charcoal sex research powder, a day to serve, the treatment of intestinal slippery diarrhea; if you add brown sugar to serve, the treatment of intestinal wind and blood.
2, sour pomegranate skin, calcined charcoal, research powder, each time to serve 6 grams, the treatment of chronic diarrhea; if the external application of the mouth, the treatment of mouth sores and all the sores in the mouth bleeding.
3, sour pomegranate skin, decoction or brown sugar service, treatment of dysentery, blood in the urine, nose bleeding.
4, sour pomegranate skin, decoction of water and honey service, treatment of hemorrhage.
5, 15 to 30 grams of sour pomegranate skin, add brown sugar in the amount of decoction, treatment of diarrhea in the spleen.
6, sour pomegranate skin 5 grams, 10 grams of raw hawthorn, *** research finely ground, divided into two times, with brown sugar rinse water to serve, cure water diarrhea.
7, sour pomegranate skin powder, daily morning service 6 grams, water, for long diarrhea or blood in the stool.
8, 15 grams of sour pomegranate skin, 10 grams of fennel, decoction of water, the treatment of chronic dysentery.
9, sour pomegranate skin 30 grams, water decoction, punch 6 grams of Xuanming powder, fasting, drive roundworms.
10, pomegranate tree root peel, take the second layer of skin 15 grams (children half), decoction of brown sugar, also drive roundworms.
11, 30 grams of pomegranate skin, betel nut 120 grams, water decoction, morning fasting once served, an hour later, then take 15 grams of nitrous oxide or 6 grams of rhubarb, to drive tapeworms.
12, pomegranate peel decoction, cold wash, for yellow water sores.
13, fresh pomegranate skin dipped in alum, rub the affected area, three times a day, for psoriasis.
14, white pomegranate flowers seven, Xia Gu Cao 10 grams, water decoction, treatment of carbuncle.
15, white pomegranate flowers, Xia Gu Cao 30 grams, decoction or add a small amount of yellow wine service, or powder, each time to serve 6 grams, three times a day, boiled water to serve, the treatment of tuberculosis.
16, 20 grams of white pomegranate flowers, decoction, three times before meals, dysentery, prolapse.
17, white pomegranate skin, a white lotus seedling, water decoction, treatment of excessive menstruation.
18, pomegranate flowers, water decoction, treatment of vomiting blood, coughing blood or diarrhea for a long time; if 10 grams of rock sugar, served on an empty stomach, it is the treatment of intestinal fever blood.
19, red pomegranate flower research fine powder, mixing sesame oil to apply the affected area, the treatment of burns; if the dry powder sprinkled on the wound, it can stop bleeding.
20, pomegranate flowers dried and powdered, blowing nostrils, several times a day, the treatment of nosebleeds, if you add a few ice chips blowing in the ear, the treatment of otitis media.
Other related
Pomegranate is native to Iran, Afghanistan and other Central Asia, that is, the ancient state of Anshi. Western Han Dynasty Zhang Qian mission to the Western Regions, got the seed and return, planted in the Central Plains, also known as Anshi pomegranate.
Remarks
1. Fever, dry mouth and tongue, bad breath can be relieved by eating pomegranate; summer fever, dry mouth, drunkenness and thirst can be eaten pomegranate;
2. Don't dye the juice to the clothing, otherwise it will be difficult to wash off;
3. Pomegranate eating will damage the teeth, and will also help to fire phlegm.
[edit]Ecological habits
Light-loving, have a certain degree of cold tolerance, like moist and fertile stone
gray soil, flowering period May-July. Heavy petal is more difficult to bear fruit, in order to observe the flowers; single petal is easy to bear food, in order to observe the fruit. Calyx leathery, berry subglobose, mature in the fall. Seed fleshy layer for fresh food or processed into a refreshing drink, the rind of the fruit into medicine, warm, sour and astringent flavor, astringent, stop bleeding, insect repellent effect.
[edit]Origin and distribution
The pomegranate is native to Iran, Afghanistan and other countries in Asia Minor. Today in Iran, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan, as well as Georgia **** and the country's mountains at an altitude of 300-1000 meters, there are still large wild pomegranate forests. Pomegranate is the earliest human cultivation of fruit trees and flowers -. Now China, India and Asia, Africa, Europe along the Mediterranean, are cultivated as a fruit tree, but especially in Africa. The United States is mainly distributed in California. Spain on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe pomegranate as the national flower, in 500,000 square kilometers of the country, whether it is the plateau mountains, towns and villages before and after the premises, or seaside city parks, gardens, pomegranate flowers planted more. Pomegranate in the country of origin of Iran and nearby regions are widely distributed, selected and bred a number of excellent varieties.
Pomegranate imported into China, because of its beautiful flowers and fruits, easy to cultivate, loved by the people. It is included in the lunar calendar in May, "the month of flowers", called May for "pomegranate month".
Now China's north and south, except for very cold areas, are cultivated and distributed.
With Shaanxi, Anhui, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan and Xinjiang and other places more. Beijing, Tianjin area in the microclimate conditions can still be planted in the ground.
North of the mean annual extreme minimum temperature -19 ℃ isotherm, pomegranate can not be planted in the open ground, generally more pots cut.
China's pomegranate to produce fruit-based key production areas, there are Shaanxi Province, Lintong, Qianxian, Sanyuan, Anhui Province, Huaiyuan, Xiaoshan, Suixi, Chao County, etc., Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, Suzhou, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Xuzhou, Pixian, etc., Yunnan Province, Mengzi, Qiaojia, Jianshui, Gongzheng, etc., Sichuan Province, such as the Haili area. Yecheng pomegranate in Xinjiang, the fruit is large and high-quality, known throughout the world. More to Anhui Huaiyuan pomegranate best, as the saying goes: Huaiyuan pomegranate, Dangshan pear.
Pomegranate wine pomegranate uses fruit edible; juice can be brewed;
peel and root bark has astringent antidiarrheal, insecticidal effect;
can also be used as a black dye; leaves can be replaced by tea after frying.
Pomegranate can be both flowers and fruit. Small potted pomegranate flowers can be used to set up potted flower group or for indoor ornamental, large fruit pomegranate can be planted in large pots, in the flower decoration for three-dimensional furnishings or as background material.
Medical use: used for slippery diarrhea, long diarrhea, and other conditions.
[Edit Paragraph]Propagation Cultivation
Pomegranate is more tolerant of barrenness and drought, afraid of waterlogging, the reproductive season requires a lot of water Cultivation The cultivation of pomegranate is mainly garden cultivation, fruit tree cultivation, bonsai and pot plant cultivation and other ways.
Commonly used cuttings, planting and pressing for propagation.
Cuttings, spring selection of biennial branches or summer cuttings of semi-woody branches can be used, 15 to 20 days after insertion of roots. Divided plants, can be in early spring in April when the buds sprouting, digging the strong root tiller seedlings planted.
Pressing, spring and fall can be carried out, do not have to carve, buds sprouting before the root tiller pressed into the soil, after the summer rooting cut away from the mother plant, can be a seedling in the fall. Open field cultivation should choose a place with sufficient light and good drainage. During the growing process, fertilize once a month. Need to diligently remove the root seedlings and cut off the dead, diseased, dense and long branches, in order to facilitate ventilation and light. Potted plants, suitable for shallow planting, need to control watering, prefer dry rather than wet. During the growth period, it is necessary to pick the center to control nutrient growth and promote the formation of flower buds.
The pomegranate blooms three times a year, so there are three times the results, generally to the head of the fruit or two-flowered fruit is well developed. It should be harvested in a timely manner according to the characteristics of the variety, fruit maturity and climate conditions and other phases. Pomegranate fruit ripening signs are: (1) fruit skin from green to yellow, colored varieties fully colored, fruit surface appears glossy. (2) Fruit ribs appear. (3) The red or silver-white needle awns in the pulp cells are fully visible. (4) The seeds are full and the soluble solids content of the fruit juice reaches the concentration inherent in the variety. Mature fruit harvested before the rain, rainy weather prohibit harvesting.
Seedlings propagated by cuttings or divisions begin to bear fruit in 3-4 years of planting, while live seedlings propagated by seeds take more than 10 years to blossom and bear fruit.
[Edit Paragraph]Ornamental value and garden use
The tree is beautiful, beautiful branches and leaves, young leaves in early spring, graceful: summer flowers, bright colors; autumn fruit hanging, or planted alone or clustered planting in the courtyard, the corner of the garden, planted in the garden of the outskirts of the door, planted in the path next to the stream, slopes, the side of the building, but also made into a variety of stakes and for the vase of the flowers for ornamental
Pomegranates are very nutritious, especially the pomegranate.
Pomegranate nutrition is particularly rich, containing a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, the fruit contains vitamin C and B vitamins, organic acids, sugars, proteins, fats, and calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals. According to analysis, pomegranate fruit contains 17% carbohydrates, 79% water, sugar 13 to 17%, of which the content of vitamin C is 1 to 2 times higher than apples, while the fat, protein content is less, the fruit to pin fresh mainly.
[edit]Medicinal value
Pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, has aided digestion, anti-gastric ulcer, soften blood vessels, lowering blood lipids and blood glucose, lower cholesterol and many other functions. Can prevent coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, can be achieved to stimulate the stomach and refreshment, enhance appetite, life extension effect, for those who drink too much alcohol, alcohol has a miraculous effect. Pomegranate can be said to be the whole body is a treasure, fruit skin, roots, flowers can be used as medicine. Its pericarp contains malic acid, tannin, alkaloids and other components, according to experiments, pomegranate skin has obvious antibacterial and astringent function, can make the intestinal mucosa astringent, so that the intestinal mucosal secretion is reduced, so it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, dysentery bacillus, Escherichia coli has a better inhibitory effect. In addition, the pomegranate rind contains alkaline substances, insect repellent effect; pomegranate flowers have haemostatic function, and pomegranate flowers soak water to wash the eyes, there is a brightening effect. Modern medical research found that pomegranate skin contains "root skin alkaline" on typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, tuberculosis bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a variety of skin fungi have inhibitory effect. There are a lot of folk prescriptions for pomegranate fruit, skin and leaves, such as:
Mouth sores
①Pomegranate skin, calcined charcoal powder, apply to the mouth, twice a day. Can also add a little Qingdai. ② pomegranate pulp with seeds mashed, soaked in boiling water, cooled water gargling, 1 day several times, can cure mouth and tongue sores and mouth ulcers.
Diarrhea
① pomegranate peel 15 grams, decocted with brown sugar or white sugar drink, 2 times a day, take before meals. ② pomegranate peel 15 grams, nutmeg (oil) 10 grams, decoction. ③ fresh pomegranate skin 30 grams, mashed as mud, applied to the navel, fixed with adhesive tape, 24 hours to change the medicine once, generally 1-3 times with the medicine can be healed. This formula is also suitable for the treatment of pediatric diarrhea. ④ fresh pomegranate 1, with the skin mashed, add a small amount of salt, water fried, can cure long diarrhea.
Hemorrhoids
Pomegranate with skin calcined charcoal, research into a fine powder, add the right amount of sugar and mix well, each time with water to send 5-7 grams, 2 times a day.
Blood in the stool
①pomegranate peel appropriate amount, fried dry powder, 9 grams per serving, 3 times a day, boiled water. ② pomegranate calcined charcoal storage, research fine powder, add brown sugar appropriate amount of mixing, 9 grams per serving, boiled water, 3 times a day.
Prostate prolapse
①30 grams of pomegranate skin, 15 grams of alum, decoction water to wash the affected area. ② pomegranate skin, Chen wall soil, add a little alum, thick decoction of fumigation, then add five times the seeds fried research compresses on it. (3) pomegranate skin 15 grams, decoction soup, first smoked after washing.
Nosebleed
① pomegranate flowers or pomegranate leaves, rubbed into small clusters into the nostrils, several times a day. ② pomegranate skin 30 grams, water decoction.
Burns
①Red pomegranate flowers, finely ground, mixed with sesame oil on the wound. ② pomegranate peel appropriate amount of powder, mixing sesame oil to rub the affected area.
Otitis media
①pomegranate flowers on the tile roasted and powdered, add a little ice chips, blow into the ear. This can cure otitis media pus does not dry. ② pomegranate peel 15 grams, roasted, add ice chips 1 gram **** powder spare. Treatment with hydrogen peroxide to clean the pus in the ear, wipe dry with a sterilized cotton swab, take the powder and blow into the ear, once a day or every other day.
Psoriasis
①fresh pomegranate skin, dipped in alum and rub the affected area, 3 times a day. ② pomegranate skin (fried charcoal research fine) 1 part, add sesame oil 3 parts, mix into a paste, coated with the affected area. 2 times a day, many consecutive effective.
Women under the belt
Pomegranate peel burning sex, research fine powder, fasting each time to take 3-6 grams, sugar water.
Vaginal sores
60 grams of fresh pomegranate peel, 15 grams of Lonicera japonica, 3 grams of Chuanlian, decoction bath, 1 time a day in the morning and evening.
Uterine prolapse
Pomegranate skin 30 grams, five times, alum 6 grams each, decoction external wash.
Wind and fire red eyes
Fresh pomegranate leaves 50 grams, wash, add 500 milliliters of water, decoction to 250 milliliters, filter off the dregs of the medicine, use the medicine to wash the eyes or eye drops.
Tonsillitis
Fresh pomegranate 1-2, take its fleshy seeds and pound them, soak in boiling water and filter, gargle after cold, several times a day. This formula can also cure laryngitis, mouth sores, stomatitis.
Traumatic bleeding
① pomegranate flowers, water hyacinth each equal parts, sun-dried or dried, finely powdered mix, external wound, gauze bandage pressure. ② pomegranate skin 500 grams, Wu Yao, five times each 125 grams. First decoction of pomegranate skin, five times as long as the seeds, fried 20 minutes, and then add Wu Yao decoction for 10 minutes, remove the dregs of the medicine, the cotton will be sucked dry, sun-dried spare. Apply to the wound, plus bandage. Be careful not to expose the wound to cold water. (3) Pomegranate flowers, dried and powdered, sprinkled on the wound. ④ pomegranate skin 20 grams, 10 grams of cinnamon kernel, add 0.3 grams of ice chips and well, compress the affected area.
Dyspepsia
1 sour pomegranate 1, pulp and seeds chewed and swallowed. ② fresh pomegranate peel 15 grams, mashed in the navel Shen Que point, 12 hours to remove, every two hours again. This formula is suitable for simple pediatric dyspepsia, can also be used as an adjunctive treatment for diarrhea, bloating, poor appetite. (3) 30 grams of pomegranate peel, 1 dose per day, decocted in water and divided into 2 doses, served 3-5 doses. Pediatric discretionary reduction. ④ pomegranate skin, eggplant root 30 grams each, *** roasted yellow powder, 3 grams each time, boiled water, morning and evening 1 time. Pediatric discretion. ③, ④ formula is also suitable for the treatment of diarrhea.
Neurodermatitis
① fresh pomegranate skin dipped in alum powder, rubbing the affected area, 3-5 times a day. ② pomegranate skin (fried charcoal, research for fine powder) 1 part, 3 parts of sesame oil, mixed into a paste, coated with the affected area, 2 times a day.
Repel roundworms, tapeworms
Pomegranate skin, betel nut, equal parts, finely ground, 10 grams per serving, (pediatric discretion), 2 times a day, for two days.
Chronic bronchitis in the elderly
Sour pomegranate, every night to contain, to the extent of healing.
Red pomegranate is rich in minerals and has two major antioxidant components - red pomegranate polyphenols and anthocyanins - as well as linoleic acid, vitamins C, B6, E and folic acid. Pomegranate contains calcium, magnesium, zinc and other mineral extracts, can quickly replenish the skin's loss of moisture, so that the skin texture is brighter and softer.
Nutrition Facts List of Red Pink Pomegranate
(Contains per 100g) Ingredient Name Content Ingredient Name Content Ingredient Name Content
Edible Part 57 Moisture (g) 78.7 Energy (kcal) 64
Energy (kJ) 268 Protein (g) 1.3 Fat (g) 0.1
Carbohydrate (g) 19.4 Dietary fiber (g) 4.9 Cholesterol (mg) 0
Ash (g) 0.5 Vitamin A (mg) 0 Carotene (mg) 0
Retinol (mg) 0 Thiamine (mcg) 0.05 Riboflavin (mg) 0.03
Nicotinic Acid (mg) 0 Vitamin C (mg) 13 Vitamin E (T) (mg) 3.72
a-E 0 (β-γ)-E 1.49 δ-E 2.23
Calcium (milligrams) 16 Phosphorus (milligrams) 76 Potassium (milligrams) 218
Sodium (milligrams) 0.8 Magnesium (milligrams) 16 Iron (milligrams) 0.2
Zinc (milligrams) 0.19 Selenium (micrograms) 0 Copper (milligrams) 0.17
Manganese (mg) 0.18 Iodine (mg) 0
[EDITORIAL] New medical findings
The popular crimson pomegranate juice has been found to ward off cancer cells in laboratory test vessels as well as in experimental studies on rats, U.S. researchers said in a report.
In the study, published this week in the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers noted that they injected human prostate cancer cells into a rat and gave it a prostate tumor. Then they gave it pomegranate juice. After a period of "dietary therapy", they found that the tumor shrank. Pomegranate juice is rich in antioxidants, chemicals that give fruits and vegetables their deep color, and also resist chemicals that damage cells that can develop into cancer or other diseases.
Dr. Hasan Mukta, a professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, who led the study, said, "Our research is still in its infancy, but adds more evidence that pomegranates contain very powerful chemicals that resist cancer, especially prostate cancer. Now we have even more reason to test it in humans to see if it can prevent and treat cancer." It's a big step from treating rats infected with human cancer to treating humans, but other studies have also concluded that pomegranate juice and other foods rich in messing with oxidizers can help deal with tumors. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer ranks behind lung cancer as the second leading killer of humans, with 30,000 people dying of prostate cancer this year. 230,000 American men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but most are not treated in time.
The pomegranate is native to the area of Persia (present-day Iran) and was introduced to China in the second century BC. "What year Anshi country, ten thousand miles tribute pomegranate flowers. A long way to the side of the river source, because of the Han ambassador rubbing." According to Jin - Zhang Hua "Museum Zhi": "Han Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions, and got the pomegranate seeds of the Anshi country of Tulin to return to the country, hence the name Anshi pomegranate."
[Edit Paragraph]Cultural Connotation of Pomegranate
Perhaps because the pomegranate is the product of the combination of China and foreign countries, so there are many poems about pomegranate by famous writers throughout the ages, forming a unique pomegranate culture. Pomegranate has many beautiful names: Dan Ruo, Wodan, Golden Poppy and so on. Dan is the meaning of red, pomegranate flowers have big red, peach, orange, pink, white and other colors, the most fire-red, so the color left to the people is fire-red, May of the lunar calendar, is the most colorful pomegranate flowers bloom in the season, May is also known as "pomegranate month".
May pomegranate flower god, is the legendary ghost king Zhong Kui, and as for the folk painted portrait of Zhong Kui, ears are inserted a red pomegranate flowers, more fire-like character Zhong Kui to do the fire-like pomegranate flower god, it is the poetic imagination of the ancient people, but it is also the most appropriate. In the Ming people's flower arrangement "master guest" theory, pomegranate is always listed as one of the flower master, known as the flower alliance master, supplemented by gardenia, marshmallow, child chrysanthemum, Dianthus, yew, etc., these flowers are known as the flower guest secretary or the flower order, more metaphorical concubines, maidservant, see the ancient people on the pomegranate reverence.
Pomegranate flowers and fruits and beautiful, red and lovely, sweet and delicious, is a metaphor for prosperity, prosperity, harmony, unity, auspiciousness, reunion of the omen, is the people of China's favorite fruit of good luck, in the folk to form a lot of pomegranate and pomegranate folk customs and unique folk pomegranate culture: pomegranate seeds full, in the folk symbolize the child and fruitful; people commonly use " Pomegranate with branches and leaves, cut a corner, revealing the fruit of the pomegranate" pattern to symbolize the many children and grandchildren, called "pomegranate open a hundred children"; pomegranate is an important gift to each other, the Mid-Autumn Festival to send pomegranate, become a symbol of the festival of good luck; pomegranate pomegranate original for the "stay", so it is given the meaning of "stay", "folding the willow to give goodbye" and "send pomegranate to pass on friendship", become a characteristic folk custom of the Central Plains. The "willow" and the "pomegranate" have become the folklore with the characteristics of the Central Plains.
Pomegranate and Chinese dress culture also has a close connection, this may be due to some people say that pomegranate flowers like the train of the dancer, Emperor Liang Yuan Di's "Wusi song" in the "hibiscus for the band pomegranate skirt" of the filler, "pomegranate skirt" of the allusion to the cause of this came. The allusion to the "pomegranate skirt" comes from this. In ancient times, women wore skirts, mostly like pomegranate red, and at that time, the pigment for dyeing red skirts was mainly extracted from pomegranate flowers, so people also called red skirts "pomegranate skirts", and over time,
"pomegranate skirts" became a pronoun for young women in ancient times, and people described men as "pomegranate skirts", which was the name of a young woman. People describe the man who is conquered by the beauty of the woman, they call him "fall under the pomegranate skirt".
[Edit Paragraph]Language and Legends
The Story of Pomegranate The pomegranate was originally known as the pomegranate. According to history, around the second century A.D., pomegranates were produced in the Western Regions of An and Shi (present-day Bukhara and Tashkent in Uzbekistan), which were part of the Chinese dynasty at the time. The pomegranate was introduced to the interior of the country during Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty. There is also a beautiful story about this. After Zhang Qian arrived at Anshi country in the Western Regions, there was a tree in front of the house where he lived with blossoming flowers, as bright as fire. Zhang Qian loved it so much that he often stood beside it to admire it, and later learned that it was a pomegranate tree after inquiring. Later, the drought, pomegranate flowers and leaves withered. Zhang Qian watered it from time to time, so that its branches and leaves returned to green and the pomegranate blossoms became colorful again. When Zhang Qian completed his mission and returned to the Central Plains, the king of Anshi Kingdom asked him to bring back the pomegranate tree instead of giving him gifts and money, which the king gladly agreed to do. Unfortunately, Zhang Qian was intercepted by the Xiongnu on his way back to China, and lost the pomegranate tree in the rush. When Zhang Qian and his men arrived at Chang'an, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty led all the officials to go out to meet him. At that moment, he saw a young woman in red dress and green clothes, panting and tearing, running towards Zhang Qian. Emperor Wu and all the officials were shocked, not knowing what had happened. Zhang Qian took a good look and was shocked, wasn't this the girl he coaxed out of the house when he stayed in Anshi Kingdom? It turned out that the night before Zhang Qian's departure, the door of his room was gently knocked open, only to see that the girl was bowing to him, requesting to go to the Central Plains with his benefactor. Zhang Qian could not understand what was going on, but thought that it must be an envoy of the Anshi Kingdom who wanted to escape to the Central Plains with him. Being an ambassador of the Khan, he could not cause trouble by this, so he persuaded her to leave the door. I didn't want her to come after me again today. Zhang Qian asked: "Why are you chasing us for thousands of miles when you are not in Anshi Kingdom? The girl replied with tears in her eyes: "I don't want to be rich, I just want to return the favor of watering, but I was robbed in the middle of the journey, so I couldn't follow you all the way." The girl suddenly disappeared and turned into a pomegranate tree with abundant flowers and leaves. Zhang Qian suddenly realized, and reported to Emperor Wu about watering the pomegranate tree in Anshi country. Emperor Wu was so pleased that he ordered the flower workers to transplant it to the imperial garden, and since then there have been pomegranate trees in the Central Plains.
Pan Yue wrote in his fugue on pomegranates, "Pomegranate, the world's most curious tree, the famous fruit of the nine states, the flavor soaked in liquid, the fragrance overflowing."
The pomegranate is a treasure, its flowers, leaves, fruits, shells, roots and skin can be used medicinally. Pomegranate flowers "dry for the end, and iron Dan service for a year, white hair such as paint", visible its hair function, but more pomegranate flowers are used to stop bleeding. Folk often use pomegranate leaves to treat bruises, leaves pounded on the injury. Pomegranate fruit red as agate, white as crystal, its flavor is sweet and delicious. Pomegranate root skin can kill insects, pomegranate pericarp sour, can stop diarrhea and dysentery. If used appropriately, pomegranate is an effective folk single recipe.
Flower Language The Flower Language and Symbolism of Pomegranate, Pomegranate Flower Representation: Ripe Beauty
Native to Iran and Afghanistan, pomegranate is a very beautiful flower, pomegranate flower unisexual flowers, flowers on a tree with female and male flowers, and female and male flowers are easier to distinguish, because the female flower is larger than the male flower and beautiful, but the male and female flowers are very good-looking flowers, the color of flowers is mostly red or white Both male and female flowers are very beautiful, with red or white flowers. Both attract bees and butterflies. From a distance, it looks like a mature woman wearing a colorful dress dancing there, very also look. Therefore, it is the language of the flower: the beauty of maturity[2]
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China: The Chinese regard the pomegranate as a good-luck charm, thinking that it is a symbol of good fortune and many children. Ancient people called the pomegranate "a thousand rooms with the membrane, a thousand children as one". Folk wedding time, often in the new room desk or other disposal of pomegranates to cut the skin, revealing the berries, there are also pomegranates to gift wishing good luck. Common auspicious paintings are "pomegranate open a hundred children", "three more", "Huafeng three blessings", "more children, more happiness" and so on.
International: There is a red pomegranate on the national emblem of Spain, which is the national flower of Spain. Pomegranates are both ornamental and edible. Pomegranates bloom in early summer. In the green leaf shade, lit up a fiery red, brilliant as smoke and haze, gorgeous. Appreciate the flowers, and then after two or three months, the red fruits and hang all over the branches, just like "
Fruit star hanging, light as glass base, such as the Shanshan of the green water." It is "Danbao knot show, Hua (flowers) and beautiful." Modern pomegranate growing in China, is the Han Dynasty Zhang Qian mission to the Western Regions when brought back to the country. People borrowed pomegranate seeds to wish for the multiplication of offspring, family prosperity. Pomegranate tree is a symbol of wealth, good luck and prosperity. In Spain, 500,000 square kilometers of land, regardless of the highlands and mountains, towns and villages, in front of the house, or coastal parks, pomegranate trees can be seen everywhere.
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Pomegranate (Pomegranate Sister) Pomegranate, commonly known as Pomegranate Sister, is a maid in the Chinese Mansion in Stephen Chow's version of "Tong Pak Fu Points at Autumn Incense", who is known for being ugly and extremely narcissistic, and was later synonymized with Pomegranate Sister for being ugly and narcissistic.