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liver411

What does Artemisia mean in Chinese or Spanish?

Artemisia

以下是引用liver411在2006-4-30 15:37:27的发言：
What does Artemisia mean in Chinese or Spanish?

Artemisia:n.
[植]艾属, 艾。一种菊科蒿属的带香味的植物，有绿或浅灰色叶子，常有许多盘状花，包括艾蒿，三齿蒿，龙蒿和除虫草

I don't know what it means in Spanish either.

liver411

You meant it was the stuff being burned into smoke by herbalists to teat patients.

Artemisia

I don't know whether herbalists make use of it for treating patients.

It smells fragrant but a bit strange.People took advantage of the smell to lustrate some insects in the past.

In addition, people somewhere append it to the doorframe as the apotropaion on dragon boat festival.

liver411

Dragon boat festival? In Beijing?

whoknows

the festival is coming soon

Artemisia

“端午节”

not only in Beijing, it is the traditional festival,and most of Chinese know well.

taro

以下是引用Artemisia在2006-5-2 22:22:02的发言：

“端午节”

not only in Beijing, it is the traditional festival,and most of Chinese know well.

You meant people are having steamed sticky rice dumpling wrapped with bamboo leaves?

Artemisia

Yup, it is delicious!

oh,perhaps Mr.Taro likes the taro more than "粽子"

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liver411

I like the one wrapped with meat occasionally; however, I am not into the sticky rice favor.