The so-called daylily, that is, forgetfulness, also called purple daylily. Perennial rooted herb, belongs to the lily family. Can be roughly divided into edible and ornamental, edible mostly single petal, commonly known as golden needle, also called yellow cauliflower. Ornamental more for heavy petals, specialized for artificial potted plants or for garden landscape. In Europe and the United States is also known as the tiger lily or a day lily, to its flowers only open a day for the name, from sunrise to sunset, every other day that is replaced by another, two blooms.

Daylilies are native to southern China, Siberia, Japan and Southeast Asia. Widely adapted, hardy, like wet, also drought-resistant, like sunlight, also tolerate semi-shade. General soil can grow, to well-drained, fertile sandy loam is the best.

China's mother flower: daylily flowers

Hunan Qidong Guanjiazui town yellow cauliflower long before the carnation became a symbol of motherly love, there is also a kind of mother's flower in our country, which is daylily flowers.

Daylily in our country has thousands of years of cultivation history, daylily, also known as deceiving grass, deceiving is the meaning of forgetting. The earliest written records are found in the "Poetry - Wei Feng - Bo Ruoxi": "Where to deceive the grass, say the back of the tree". Zhu Xi said: "Deceive the grass, make people forget; back, North Hall also."

Another title forgetfulness (forgetfulness grass), from the "Museum": "Daylily, eating it makes people good joy, forgetfulness, so it is called forgetfulness grass." The Poetry Scripture says: "The north hall is dark, you can plant daylilies"; the north hall represents the meaning of mother. In ancient times, when a child traveled far away from his mother, he would plant daylilies in the north hall in the hope of alleviating his mother's longing for her child and forgetting her worries. Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his poem "Poem of a Wandering Son", "The daylilies grow on the steps of the hall, and the wandering son travels to the ends of the world; the loving mother leans on the door of the hall, but does not see the daylily flowers." Wang Coronation's "Occasional Book" says, "The wind and sun are good today, and the daylilies are blooming in front of the hall. Holding a cup for mother's birthday, the joy of no clamor."

Successive generations of literati also often for the subject of chanting, Cao Zhi for the ode, Su Dongpo for the poem, Xiahou Zhan for the fugue, one by one, pointing out the status of daylilies in life.

Daylily is also known as 'Yiman Grass', 'Terroir Records': 'Expectant mothers wear its grass to give birth to a man', so called this name.

China's ancient times often to daylily on behalf of the mother, to the old mother's birthday couplets are: "daylily quite beautiful Hui Nanji, Mei Calyx Shu Fang around the North Hall"; "Peach knot three thousand years old, daylily blossom eight hundred spring." When Mother's Day comes every year, besides choosing carnations as Mother's Day gifts, choosing daylilies, which have symbolized mother's love since ancient times, is also a good choice. Daylilies bloom, may all mothers in the world be happy and well!