A symbol of hawthorn is delicious food. I believe that many people have eaten the delicacies made of hawthorn, such as candied haw, hawthorn cake and so on, which are very delicious, so, it means delicious food.
With the development of literature and art, in recent years, a film called "the love of hawthorn trees" has been sought after and loved by people, and hawthorn, has also become a synonym for pure love.
Once upon a time, there was a Camel Mountain in Shandong. At the foot of the mountain, there was a beautiful girl, pomegranate. Pomegranate fell in love with a young man named Baijing. They loved each other deeply. However, the beauty of pomegranate shocked the emperor. The emperor sent someone to take pomegranate away to force her to be his own concubine. Open but pomegranate would rather die than from, deceive the emperor, said he would be filial for his mother for 100 days. The emperor had to find a quiet courtyard for her to live in.
After pomegranate was robbed, Baijing went to Nanshan, where she could not keep watch, and finally turned into a small tree. Pomegranate later fled the palace, fled to Nanshan, saw the incarnation of Baijing, and was devastated. The sad pomegranate has also become a tree and bears red fruits, which people call pomegranate. But the emperor cut down the tree, and ordered that it should not be called pomegranate, to be called scum, which means the scum in the mountain. But people like strong pomegranate, she is called hawthorn.
This legend is actually about ice sugar gourd.
It is said that in the Shaoxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, song Guangzong's favorite concubine suffered from a strange disease. She was yellow and skinny and didn't like eating. The Royal doctors used a lot of valuable medicine, but it didn't work. The imperial concubine became seriously ill every day, and the emperor had no choice but to publish the imperial list. A quack doctor revealed the list. It seems that after the princess's illness, he said that he would eat 5-10 pieces of tangbizi and brown sugar before meals, and the disease would be cured in half a month. The imperial concubine recovered as expected.
The emperor was very happy, according to this method to make food, later this method spread to the people, it became ice sugar gourd.
