Zanthoxylum bungeanum (scientific name? Maxim. ) is a small deciduous tree of Rutaceae and Zanthoxylum; Spines on stems as high as 7 meters often fall early, with short thorns on branches and small leaves on leaves, and leaf axes often have very narrow wings; Small leaves are opposite, sessile, ovoid, oval, sparsely lanceolate, with large top of leaf axis, finely divided teeth on the leaf margin and oil spots on the teeth.
The rest have no visible or scattered oil spots, the veins are slightly concave on the leaf surface, the inflorescence is terminal or born at the top of the lateral branches, and the inflorescence axis and pedicel are densely pubescent or hairless; Tepals are yellow-green, with roughly the same shape and size; Female flowers rarely develop stamens, have carpels, and the style is obliquely bent backward. The fruit is purple-red, and a single mericarpus is scattered with slightly raised oil spots, with or without short awn tips at the top; It blooms in April-May, and bears fruit in August-September or 65438+1October.
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Zanthoxylum bungeanum was first recorded in the Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is a collection of folk poems in the Western Zhou Dynasty, from which we can see that Chinese people used pepper more than 2,000 to 3,000 years ago. Ancient people thought that the smell of pepper could ward off evil spirits. In some dynasties, the court used pepper to penetrate paint to paste walls. This house is called "Pepper Room" and is for ladies-in-waiting. Later, comparing the pepper room with the sentence "After the pseudo-discussion" in the sixteenth chapter of the Collected Works of Cao Cao and A Dream of Red Mansions, it is enough to prove that the quasi-pepper room enters the palace early on the second and sixth day of each month.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum bears many fruits. There is a saying in The Book of Songs that "the pepper is solid but prosperous". Zanthoxylum bungeanum is also an aromatic preservative. Judging from the excavated tombs of the Han Dynasty, the inner coffins are often filled with the fruits of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which probably takes advantage of the efficient insect-proof and antiseptic effects of Zanthoxylum bungeanum. At the same time, there are also feudal superstitions of "reproduction" and having many children and grandchildren. Among the cultural relics unearthed from Liu Sheng's tomb (BC 1 13) excavated in Mancheng County, Hebei Province, China, there are well-preserved Zanthoxylum bungeanum.
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