夜迹晨拾

张泉灵，震后随即出现在灾害现场的央视记者。这里是她在央视网站个人主页和她的新浪博客。

放假了，又是一个十·一黄金周。今次又有不同！带添添去天文馆看童话影片《银河铁道之夜》。她已经是第二次看此片了，看来她挺喜欢这个唯美主义的作品。 她的唯美主义倾向有时真的让人有些担忧。开演前参观，看到四叶草饰物，她很喜欢。同她几天都没见了，我几乎没有犹豫就满足了她的愿望。戴上确实很好看！等闲下来翻翻包装上的说明，不曾想这“四叶草”还有不小的学问。而在此期间，她很快学会了“叶”和“草”两字。

幸运草（Clover），又名四叶草，是多年生草本植物，一般只有三片叶子，叶片呈心形。在野生三叶草里发现一株四叶草的几率是十万分之一。传说中的幸运草是夏娃从天国伊甸园带到大地上的，花语是幸福。因此，自公元200年起，四叶草即被认为是幸运的象征。

在欧洲，自古便将三叶幸运草视为三体合一（天父 · 基督 · 精灵），将四叶幸运草当成真实之爱的表示。四叶草的每片叶子都有着不同的含义：第一片代表“名誉”（Fame）；第二片代表“健康”（Health）；第三片代表“爱情”（Love）；第四片代表“财富”（Wealth）。

页首图片取自此链接，其它图片取自 Flickr。

For how many times these lyrics have been heard?

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

And how many of us actually know about this?

Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), one of the best-known European mountain flowers, belongs to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name comes from German edel (meaning noble) and weiß (meaning white). The scientific name, Leontopodium means “lion’s paw”, being derived from Greek words leon (lion) and podion (diminutive of pous, foot).

Edelweiss is a protected plant in many countries, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Slovakia (Tatra National Park), Slovenia (since 1898), Austria (since 1886) and Romania (since 1933).

It usually grows in inaccessible places, which is why it is associated in Slovenia with mountaineering. Its white colour is considered in Switzerland a symbol of purity and due to its beauty, it obtained its Romanian name, floarea reginei (Queen’s flower).

(Definitions from Wikipedia, some photos from Flickr).

And, “the edelweiss grow only in high mountain and not easy to get,so in the past it was very danger to get it. Someone says: If you really love me, you should bring me edelweiss…”