Dancing grass is a very magical plant. As long as you hear beautiful music or someone sings a lyrical song to it, the leaves of the dancing grass will start to dance with the rhythm of the music. The dance of Dancing Grass is beautiful but not singular, and it is also an elegant waltz. Two leaves on the same branch are a pair of dancing partners. The two young green leaves sometimes embrace, sometimes cross, and sometimes each rotates 180 degrees backwards and embraces each other affectionately. , and then dance separately. When the music started playing, the whole dancing grass looked like a high-end social dance, with colorful hair and shadows, and every branch and leaf was full of love.
Dancing grass is definitely a clean and self-sufficient dancer, because this kind of grass has a quirk: if it plays a weird tune, even if it is a popular DISCO song, it will frown and stop. Stop dancing. Dancing grass has no nightlife at night. It will fly back with its feathers hanging vertically on the branches, like a well-behaved lady, sleeping quietly.
Dancing grass is also a "wet" person. It is particularly happy every sultry cloudy day or when the sky is clear after rain. Dozens of pairs of leaves on the whole plant fly up and down, which is lively and interesting, and very spectacular.
The Dancing Grass grows like a girl. Each slender branch is embedded with one large, two small and three leaves, like a beautiful woman's eyebrows. The shape is a bit like bamboo, but the texture is softer. Much more. Dancing grass can grow up to about half a meter. There seems to be a kind of aura among the sparse branches and leaves, which reminds people of the ancient saying: it can be viewed from a distance but not played with. So I have to admire the uncanny craftsmanship of creation.
The mysterious beauty always attracts people to find out what she is. According to Zhang Junjie, manager of the Dancing Grass Cultivation Base, Dancing Grass is also called lover's grass, sentimental grass, and romantic grass. It originally lived in the original tropical rainforest in southern Yunnan, and it was Zhang Junjie who introduced it to the Central Plains. In 1996, when Zhang Junjie was working in Shenzhen, he met a friend whose home was on the edge of the tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. One time while chatting, a friend accidentally said that his grandfather planted several pots of dancing grass, which aroused Zhang Junjie's curiosity. He went to his friend's house to have a look, and sure enough he discovered the magic of this grass. This small herb grows naturally in the tropical rainforest. It was accidentally discovered and transplanted by a friend's grandfather. Later, through Zhang Junjie's hands, after several twists and turns, it finally settled in the north.
Dancing grass not only dances, but also has other effects. Zhang Junjie introduced: In fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, dancing grass existed in the Central Plains. Li Shizhen’s "Compendium of Materia Medica" has records that the roots, stems, and leaves of dancing grass can be used as medicine. Use it to make wine and take it in the morning and evening. One cup has special effects on treating bone disease, rheumatism, arthritis, waist, knee and leg pain. Washing your face with the young leaves soaked in water can make your skin smooth, white and tender. It is said that ethnic minorities in Yunnan usually have several pots in their homes, and girls in the city also like to plant several pots on their balconies. They pick a few leaves and soak them in water to wash their faces every day to beautify their skin.
The price of dancing grass is not expensive, only a dozen yuan for a small pot, and one or two hundred yuan for a large pot.
Planting and maintaining dancing grass is not difficult, but there are some things you must pay attention to. Dancing grass blooms every year in September of the lunar calendar. The flowers are purple-red. Each flower is like a small sunflower. Many flowers are combined into a string, which is also very beautiful. After the flowers bloom, they will set seeds. The outer shell of the seeds is hard and waxy. Before sowing, the wax needs to be removed and soaked in warm water for 24 hours. Otherwise, they will be buried in the soil and take four to five years to germinate. The soil must be fertile and loose to allow the roots to breathe oxygen. Dancing grassland is a tropical plant that likes sunshine, high temperature, and moist air. Northerners must pay attention to this if they want to grow it well.
Zhang Junjie is an expert in cultivating and planting dancing grass, but he can't figure out why the dancing grass dances. A professor from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences once conducted research on dancing grass and said that there is a sponge in the cells of the petiole of the small dancing leaves. This sponge is sensitive to medium and low frequencies, that is, 35 to 65 decibels. Sound has a vibrating effect. However, the professor could not explain other phenomena of Dancing Grass clearly, but he still persisted in his research.
No matter what physical or chemical principles dancing grass follows, the graceful dancing of the grass makes it favored by more and more people. Just imagine, coming home from get off work every day, turning on the stereo, How comfortable it would be to lie on the sofa and watch a dance of grass.