Because of the frequent excessive rains and the merciless torrid summer sun, the trumpet creeper hasn’t bloomed for just once at all. But it was not too bad, it finally bloomed at the courtyard, besides, it reminded me of a legend, which I will tell everybody here~~
The trumpet creeper, which comes from China, is a variety of deciduous arbor-vine plant. The saffron yellow or red and yellow flowers whose appearance is like a trumpet often bloom in later summer. It blooms for a very long time in the blossom time. Once in Korea, the trumpet creeper was allowed to plant only in scholar’s courtyard. If the common people was found having planted this flower in their own courtyard, they would be arrested and beat very seriously until they promised they wouldn’t plant it again. So this flower was also called “The Scholar Flower”.
It was said that in a village called “the land of Loong” in the west of FuJian in China, a rich man whose surname was Dong lived there, he had a very beautiful daughter, and her name was LingXiao, she did very well in writing poems and drawing pictures. When the rich man’s daughter was grown up, he discussed with her wife about their daughter’s marriage and tried to find a man with the equal rank of their daughter. Then they requested their friends and relatives to find a good son in law.
But they knew nothing about the fact that her daughter had fallen in love with the handsome and diligent, honest long-term hired hand—Liu Mingquan! The kind-hearted girl often sent the tasty foods to Liu and also tailored and sewed clothes for Liu behind her parents’ back, the young couple vowed their love would endure forever and they would live and die together. 
The matter was known by the rich man and his wife, they got very angry and gave Liu a very big lathering, then left him in the wildness. Liu even didn’t live to the next morning. In the second day, the common people buried him beside the small stream, and a few days later, a marvelous thing took place: A big luxuriant willow grew up right below the grave of Liu Mingquan. The thin and long wicker waved with wind just like streams of tears.
The girl was immured by her parents because of violating the family rules, she refused to have anything to eat and drink and just continuously kept her mind with Liu Mingquan, just a few days later she got emaciated very much. And one day, a servant girl told her that Liu Mingquan had died for more than ten days. When heard of that, LingXiao rushed out of door like getting crazy until reaching the Liu Mingquan’s grave, she made three bowing to his grave and collided onto the willow to die with a rush. At that time, she changed into a rattan and climbed along the trunk with becoming thicker and thicker. Just after a little while, it grew up with the willow together, and in the end of the branches many red flowers bloomed. 
Afterwards, the flowers changed from the LingXiao girl could cure rheumatoid arthritis and bruises, bleeding, and so on. So people called this variety of traditional Chinese medicine as “The LingXiao Flower” in honor of LingXiao girl, and the name was used until now. 
The other names of LingXiao flower: flower of common crapemyrtle floslagerstroemiae Indicae, fuchsia, trumpet flower
Attributes: cold in nature, taste sweet and sore.
It has the work of promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis and many other functions.
Text in Korean: http://blog.daum.net/524co/16152586
Text in Chinese: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5fc6d74a0100dkry.html
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