Day lily is a flower food with high nutritional value and medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating day lily can make people "calm, worry-free and trouble-free", so day lily is also called " Forget-worn grass". Daylily, also known as daylily, soothing vegetable, forgetwort, and daylily, is a famous ornamental flower. It is also listed as a vegetarian treasure together with mushrooms and fungus. Its stems, roots, and leaves can also be used as medicine. Daylily has a cultural origin. Daylily, known as "Chinese specialty vegetable", is also known as daylily, forget-me-not, daylily, healing flower, deer onion, soothing vegetable, brain-boosting vegetable, daylily, Yinan, etc. It belongs to the Liliaceae family and Hemerocallis genus as a perennial herbaceous plant. It is golden in color and rich in fragrance. It is fragrant, smooth, tender and sweet when eaten. Since ancient times, it has been praised as "a treasure on the table" and "a famous flower to watch, a good medicine to eat, and a delicacy to eat". It is said that before the uprising, Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, had a poor family, suffered from diseases, and had edema all over his body. He was in poverty, hungry and cold, so he often begged for food. He once met a kind-hearted old woman named Huang who cooked some daylilies for him to eat. After a period of time, Chen Sheng's edema gradually subsided, his disease was cured, and his body became stronger. Later, he and Wu Guang organized a peasant uprising and became the first peasant leader in history. In order to thank Mrs. Huang for her kindness, Chen asked her to stay at home and called daylily the forget-me-not grass. When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang led the peasant uprising army to capture Chenzhou (now Huaiyang County, Henan Province) and establish themselves as the capital, the soldiers trampled the vibrant day lilies to pieces in the chaos. There was a local girl named Jinzhen. , was very sad to see this situation, so he carefully managed and cultivated it. As a result, these day lilies came back to life. The trees are tall and graceful, full of charming flowers. In order to commemorate the daylily girl, people named the day lily the daylily. During the Qing Dynasty, local officials in Yongzhou (at that time, Qidong County and Qiyang County were not separated and were under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou Prefecture) began to pay tribute to the court as local tribute. Ji Xiaolan, a court official of the Qing Dynasty and a romantic talent known as an iron-tongued man, loved to eat day lilies. When he saw the day lilies on the table during meals, he would dance with joy and couldn't help himself. He praised: Day lily is a good vegetable, refreshing and crispy, with endless flavor. People who often eat day lily are smart. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once used "Siwu Soup" as his diet regimen for fitness. The "four things" namely daylily, black fungus, bean bowl, bean sprouts, and daylily rank first. "Siwu Soup" has complete nutritional components. It is a good way to replenish blood, nourish blood and beautify the body. It is also a cheap and high-quality delicacy among daily vegetarian meals. Daylily is a specialty agricultural and sideline product of China. It is grown as an ornamental flower in some other countries in the world, such as Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Only in China it is grown for food. It was originally a flower plant growing in the mountain wilderness. It has a long history of cultivation in my country, dating back more than 2,000 years. At present, its main production areas are Qidong, Shaoyang, Gansu and other places in Hunan, with a cultivation history of about four to five hundred years. In the first year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1448), brothers Guan Fumin and Guan Fushun, villagers of Yongnian Village, Guanjiazui Town, Qidong County, began to transplant and cultivate day lilies in the Dafu Garden and Bean Garden of the village. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was also planted in Huangtupu, Buyunqiao, Jiangjiaqiao, Taihetang, Shaodong County, Gansu Province and other places in Qidong County. At present, the daylily planting area in the country is nearly 300,000 acres, mainly distributed in Hunan, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces. Among them, Qidong County in Hunan has increased from about 19,000 acres at the beginning of liberation to 160,000 acres now. Day lily is suitable for various soil types, but red and yellow soil is the best. The average yield is more than 800 kilograms of dried vegetables per mu (1 kilogram of dried vegetables for every 7 kilograms of fresh vegetables). December of the lunar calendar every year is the best time for rhizome transplantation, and the harvesting period is from late May to late August of the solar calendar. The best time for daily picking is before 10 o'clock, and it is easy to bloom after 10 o'clock. Its effective growth period is 9- 10 years, plowing and replanting should be done 9-10 years after transplanting.
In the mid-1980s, scientific researchers led by the Qidong County Agricultural Science Institute conducted in-depth research on the breeding of new daylily varieties and high-yield cultivation and propagation techniques, and cultivated a large number of new daylily varieties. , mid-ripening and late-ripening three types. The early-maturing type includes: April flower, May flower, early morning flower, and early tea mountain sliver flower *** 4 types; the medium-maturing type includes: short-arrow mid-stage flower, high-arrow mid-stage flower, Mengzi flower, white flower, eggplant flower, twig flower, long flower, black beak flower, tea sliver flower, firecracker flower, Cai Chao flower, red rib flower, Chongli flower, stick flower, money flower, green bougainvillea, rough flower. There are 20 types of arrow flowers, high ridge flowers, and long-nosed flowers; 4 late-maturing types include: inverted arrow flowers, fine bougainvillea, mid-autumn flower, and large bougainvillea. Qidong area now mainly grows three medium-ripening varieties, namely Chonglihua, Mengzihua and Baihua. The reason why Qidong County day lily was awarded the title of "China's Regional Product of Origin" on December 10, 2003 is because of its unique characteristics. Compared with fresh day lilies from Gansu and other places in the north, the appearance characteristics are: those from Qidong are light yellow or green-yellow, with uniform and shiny strips, and no green strips. Most of them from other producing areas are bright yellow, with uneven strip colors and uneven luster. It shows that there are green strips of vegetables sandwiched between them. In terms of size and length, individual plants from Qidong are slightly shorter, while individual plants from other origins are slightly longer and thicker. Sensory characteristics: The smell has the unique fragrance of yellow pollen, no toxic smell or other odor, no insect infestation, mildew, or impurities; the flesh is plump, and there are no more than 2,300 dried flowers per kilogram. Physical and chemical characteristics: The moisture content of Qidong does not exceed 15%, the total sugar content is not less than 3.75%, and the protein content is not less than 11%. The use of day lily as a good medicine has long been recorded in various medicinal books. Incomplete statistics: "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Hemerocallis fulva has a sweet taste and slightly cool qi. It can remove dampness and diuresis, remove heat and relieve stranguria, quench thirst and relieve annoyance, and open the chest." A wide diaphragm makes people feel calm and free from depression." "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet, non-toxic." "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Sweet, flat", "Treat women with consumptive fever and dry blood." "Compendium": "Sweet, cool, non-toxic"; " "Reducing dampness and heat." "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cure red and astringent urine, irritability and heat in the body, and remove alcoholic jaundice." "Bencao Tujing": "It calms the five internal organs, benefits the mind, and improves eyesight." "Lingnan Medicine Collection": "Decoct it with water to treat toothache." "Anwei Medicinal Materials": "Cure night blindness." "Brain-boosting food - Huanghua; Cai" published in the first issue of "Medicinal Diet and Diet Therapy" in 1998. "; "Day Lily for Treating Difficult Diseases" published in the 24th issue of "Chinese Food" in 2000, edited by Yang Rixin, and "Chinese Food Composition List" published by Peking University Medical Press in December 2002, edited by Qu Fan, Jiangsu "Anti-cancer Food and Traditional Chinese Medicine" published by Science and Technology Press in 1994, "Daylily as Food and Medicine" published in "China Food News" on March 29, 1999, and "Daylily as a Food and Medicine" published in "China Food News" on January 29, 1999 "Daylily Dietary Recipes", "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" (Part 2) edited by Jiangsu New Medical College and published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in October 1997, and "Secret List of Traditional Chinese Medicine" edited by Pang Guoming and published by China Medical Science and Technology Press "Comprehensive Collection of Prescriptions and Magical Uses" and other books have clear descriptions of the nutritional, health care and medicinal value of day lily.