Daffodils belong to China stone onion, narcissus genera perennial herbaceous plants, bulbs quite like an onion, garlic, so the six dynasties "garlic," he said, the song dynasty called "green"., after a lot of people gave her clever, beautiful name, such as marigold, silver table, midnight blue, yake, actress and so on.There are many beautiful and moving folk stories and legends about daffodils.

When it is said that the song dynasty, an influential kyou-kan your home, when he returned to the south, by going to back to hometown zhangzhou, see the river with a water the plants, and open fragrant white flowers, and collect some, back to grow.

According to the Cai Ban township, zhang spectrum load;XFX years of the Ming dynasty, their fathers Zhang Guanghui do learning officer in Kyoto, a year leave home in the winter, and river-crossing hickey sees water found offshore water, there are emerald green leaf color, flower yellow, fragrant flowers, so pick up CAI plate under cultivation breeding new plants spread.

Legend chongming daffodils come from fujian.It was the queen of the tang dynasty empress wu to flowers open in her imperial garden, at the same time days boss, god can't spare fujian daffodil six sisters, of course, is no exception, are forced on the west chang 'an.Little sister don't let alone is queen's one flower, only through Yangtze river estuary, see a piece of pure land, jiangxin slipped down on chongming island.So, fujian narcissus five flower one, chongming narcissus flower in full bloom.

As early as the song dynasty daffodil has attention and love.The zhangzhou government record "records: Ming zheng he sailed to nanyang, zhangzhou daffodils has been as a famous flowers and much luck in public."Borrow water bloom from a strange, water sink for bone jade for muscle".Daffodils are usually grown in delicate shallow basin, however, it is very simple for life, proper sunshine and temperature, with a spoonful of water, only a few stone can take root.The winter season, the flowers wither, and daffodils which fill, is better than pine, bamboo and plum, bearing piece, therefore all previous dynasties painting countless letters are acknowledged the daffodils, present a lot of beautiful chapter.Daffodil has two main varieties: one is single, corolla, stimulation of color, calyx yellow, with a golden crown, like light, flowery fragrance, so called "marigold" jade, flowering about half a month;The other is a double, petals dozen roll into a cluster, upper corolla lower light yellow and pale white, there is no clear pay crown, called "shutter narcissus" or "jade exquisite", flowering about twenty days.Only in zhangzhou daffodils distribution scope of tiny garden, one of the eight spots in shandong foothill area, because it has advantageous conditions: blocked the sun park mountain, mountain park in oblique shadow and sunshine is shorter, cultivated the daffodils have created favorable conditions.Local songs have cloud: "mountain 18 surface of aspects of the princes, side sealing, the narcissus head."

The west about the legend of narcissus

Greek mythology, there is a boy called that sotheby's, the body down have predicted that he just doesn't see his face can always survive, children grow up handsome and beautiful, many girls in love with her, but he for their apathy, fans angry, asked the gods to punish the arrogant people.On one occasion, the lattice sotheby's hunting, to see myself in the spring, and fell in love with his own image, eyes cannot leave his face, until death at the edge of the spring.In this way, in the place where he died - daffodils grow a plant flowers.Legend, Mohammed said: "who have two loaves of bread, to sell one, buy a daffodil, for bread is the food of the body, narcissus is the food of the spirit."