Bayeux Brown (corypha umbraculifea linn)
Bayeux is palm brown, is a common tree, native to tropical Asia, it is usually about 20 meters height, tall and majestic, trunk straight, rounded, without branches, crown like a Jusan, like a palm leaf like the spread, giving a solemn, energetic feeling, green environment is an excellent tropical tree species. However, you know? Bayeux brown or disseminator of culture in Southeast Asia it. Long time ago, people of Southeast Asia created a huge palm leaf with Bayeux to record their own national language, so the history of Southeast Asian culture in a "green culture," said. Buddhism on the famous "Bayeux by" it is to use the leaves of palm leaves made of palm. Some people think that is a Bayesian brown marks the geographical and cultural tree. As long as the tropics, where Buddhism, where there is Bayesian brown. Xishuangbanna Dai Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist cultivation of palm leaves in the palm of nosocomial origin of India, Sri Lanka and other places, according to research, along with the spread of Theravada Buddhism from India through Burma was introduced, has been 700 years of history . Xishuangbanna Dai people and the people of Southeast Asia as a useful palm leaves very early generation of "paper" to record their cultural history. Bayeux their sword-shaped leaves through the simple process: dressing, pressing, boiling, drying, and then bound, with a special "stylus" can be fluent in the carved above the text, the moment after applying vegetable oil, leaf surface appeared clear handwriting. Bayeux durable, the increase in the frequency of use not only color but not the legs to make writing more and more clear that the existing century-old palm leaves by every word is still legible.
Because brown Bayeux important in the cultural value of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna region for their cultural development, as the Bayesian symbol, and often take pride in this, and even palm leaves to be deified brown that only the Buddha can be kind of sincere live it. However, scientists have uncovered the mystery, can live Bayesian tree species is the key to its ability to master the germination and planting sticks. Bayesian brown green environment is not only good products, but also a great spectacle of plants, which bloom once about 40 years, and his only flower once, and then the results of whole fruit that is cooked to death, leaving behind "children and grandchildren garden." This is botanically called a "one-off flowers and plants."
In Xishuangbanna, so far have also spread a story about the Bayeux: In ancient times, the Han, Dai, Hani ancestors went together to the Buddhist sutras, on the way back through a river, they took the boat turned over, the three shore , open the burden of drying by the book, Han texts written on paper, dried chicken as footprints, so now's character is like chicken footprints; Hani verses written on leather, and dried and roasted to eat to to eat, so now there is no text Hani; only Dai to smart, the scriptures written on palm leaves, dried clear writing remains the same, so Dai text to be preserved intact and complete, and spread so far out. |