桃树名称中的神奇意蕴

Magical Meaning Contained in the Chinese Definition of Prunus persica

桃,中华原产,文化意蕴丰富。文献分析表明,古人多从“逃避”意义上使用“桃树”一名,认为桃能驱逐凶魅邪祟逃避。利用现代生物学知识分析揭示,桃适于制作防身手杖,用来驱逐蛇兽,进而被赋予驱逐凶鬼邪祟的神秘功能;桃果致敏,吃桃有过不适的孕妇嗜酸时要远离桃树,使采集渔猎时代的先民意识到桃树的神秘特性。先民因此命名其树为“逃树”,并创造“桃”字用作专名。

Prunus persica,Chinese origin,contained rich cultural implications.Literature analysis shows that the ancients use the definition of peach tree,especially in the meaning of “escape” because of Homophonic,believing that peach can drive away evil spirits and evil spirits can be threaten by the peach tree.Using modern biological knowledge analysis reveals that peach is suitable for making self-defense walking stick and used to drive away snakes and beasts,which endowed with the mysterious function of driving away evil spirits;Peach allergies,pregnant women had discomfort symptom of eating peach,but sour things addicted,so that ancestors aware of the mysterious characteristics of peach tree in the collection of fishing and hunting times.Therefore,the ancient people named the tree as “escape tree”,and created the new character “Tao” as a special name.