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Why do Chang 'an women wear jasmine in Tang and Song Dynasties?
Jasmine has been a common beauty flower since ancient times. People use its flower extract as perfume, which is fragrant and lovely. Jasmine contains organic substances such as benzyl alcohol, linalool ester, jasmonate, etc., which has certain beauty effects. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "steaming oil to get liquid, making fat head to make face smooth" can make long hair moist and fragrant. Another kind of jasmine is called Big Jasmine, which is also a beauty flower. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, women in southern China gathered flowers to make garlands, and they "wrapped clouds around their temples" or "steamed oil to get liquid", with pungent fragrance and the effect of "moistening muscles with long hair". Jasmine beauty once prevailed in Jiangnan.

"Romantic refused to chase after spring, cut jade group crisp element. It is suspected that the fairy came by herself and stayed next to the city for one night. " This poem is about jasmine.

Jasmine was introduced to China from Southwest Asia as early as the Han Dynasty, with a history of 1600 years. Jasmine is innocent and elegant, with beautiful mountains and beautiful flowers, pure and pure, and strong fragrance. As the ancient poem says, "a flower can smoke a room, and jade is still cold on a hot day." The savage did not dare to disturb the goddess, so he broke the branch and put it next to the pillow. "

Jasmine is the most common fragrant potted flower, with green leaves and white flowers and strong fragrance. Among Jasmine, Jasmine is the most famous, commonly known as Jasmine.

"bloom is full of gardens, but its fragrance is not as good as it". This is the jasmine flower that "one flower can smoke a room". Although jasmine is not dazzling, it has both the sweetness of roses and the fragrance of plum blossoms, both the elegance of orchids and the elegance of magnolia.

Jasmine is pure, rich, fragrant and ancient, and its flower language expresses loyalty, respect, purity, chastity, simplicity, exquisiteness and charm. Many countries regard it as the flower of love, and young men and women give jasmine flowers to each other to express their undying love. It is also passed on from person to person as a flower of friendship. It has become a hospitality etiquette to wear a jasmine ring around a guest's neck and let it hang down to his chest to show respect and friendship.

Molly's poem: "Born with a fairy posture, jade bone Ice Muscle. Be arrogant. Light and elegant, coming out for the first time. It's Shui Gong Xian, Yue Gong Zi and Han Gong Fei. Praise is clear, rhyme is better than water. Laugh at Jiang Mei, it blooms late in the snow. The fragrance is mild and the leaves are soft. It is always appropriate to pick with Wang Lang and wear with beautiful women. "

The fragrance of jasmine seems to be only favored by women, especially ordinary women. A woman is pleasing to herself, with a jasmine flower on her head, black hair and white flowers, which has a good visual effect; Strong fragrance attacks people, which seems to be a hidden provocative language.

Tao Anmeng by Zhang Dai: Outside the house by the river, there is a terrace, bamboo columns and curtains. Xia Yue took a bath and sat on the balcony. In the water buildings on both sides of the river, the jasmine wind began to smell good to children. The female guests lightly fanned, and their temples slowly tilted, which was feminine and charming.

Therefore, the ancients have long summed up the custom of jasmine: a jasmine flower is only for assisting makeup, but who was born to charm women? All the flowers are in bloom, only this one is in bloom. Those that are open at dusk make people unable to play, and they are kept secret until dawn. Pedicels have no holes and are unique. People with loopholes can't stand it unless they have them, and naturally think they have a foothold. If so, a woman's makeup is something that falls from the sky. All the other trees are planted by men, and this flower is planted by a woman alone. Since she is a woman, she should be treated as family. If you have a beautiful wife, you can only find Alinbu. If you have a jasmine wife, it will be the whole world. -Li Yu's Random Thoughts

Jasmine originated in Persia and India, and was introduced to China in Han Dynasty. It was once called "Xiye Tea" and "Milk Flower". Because I don't know the cultural tradition of China, the smell is too greasy, which makes people who write poetry and prose unbearable. However, women like it and it is used as perfume. As for wearing jasmine, it is recorded in the Book of Jin: "Everyone wears flowers, and it is Dai Xiao the Weaver Girl." It is also used when offering Buddha. Buddha is a foreigner, and I won't refuse her support. Zheng Yu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, even said in Poems at Song Window that jasmine was introduced to China with Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. So jasmine has a special name in Buddhism, called "Haohua".

However, vulgarity and elegance are inherently intertwined. Yu Yonghe, a group of Wang Xizhi's elegant people, will meet in Lanting, Huiji Mountain in the ninth year. A group of talented people, with a few talents, is also a national treasure of history. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Bai Letian and Su Dongpo ruled Hangzhou successively, and the government was harmonious, and the Qing Festival reflected the world. But after work, prostitutes travel around the mountains looking for flowers and asking for willows. I'm afraid there is no shortage of jasmine fragrance. Zhang Dai mentioned this and sighed, "It's really an affair, and I cherish the joy of the world. It is impossible to pursue it again! "