The moral of mistletoe:

Westerners regard it as a sacred plant and often use it to decorate Christmas trees. People who stand under mistletoe at Christmas should accept anyone's kiss and can't refuse it.

Mistletoe evergreen represents hope and abundance. There is a famous English saying that there is no happiness without mistletoe.

Mistletoe, as its name implies, is a kind of plant parasitic on other plants. It is evergreen all the year round, with yellow flowers and white or red berries in winter. Drinking its juice can prevent infertility. A long time ago, our ancestors knew how to make bird glue with the mucus of mistletoe fruit, so birds fell into people's hands and became delicious on the table.

Mistletoe is called "the golden branch of life" in the west, but it has become a symbol of death in Nordic mythology: Bird, the god of peace, the son of Odin and the god of love Frigga, was shot to death by the evil god Loki with a dart made of mistletoe. Frija's sad tears dissolved the evil of mistletoe and saved her son. So she promised that whoever stood under the mistletoe would get a kiss. This myth has evolved into a western Christmas tradition: if a woman occasionally passes by or stands where mistletoe hangs, the man next to her can go up and kiss her. Westerners believe that this is a sign of the combination of the two sexes and many children. This is also in line with the customs of the ancient Celts. They believe that red mistletoe fruit is a symbol of female vitality; White fruit represents male fertility; They all represent the primitive Mother Earth.

In another version of this myth, Frigga refused to give up hope after Balder was stabbed by a parasitic branch of a Dendrobium plant. She asked Hermór to ride Odin's eight-legged god Masray Bunier to the land of the dead. Hull, the queen of the dead world, put forward a condition: Bud can only be resurrected if all living and inanimate objects cry for him. Then, everything cried, and it is said that these tears are dew in the morning. There is only one female giant, Thokk (Thokk. Living underground, she doesn't need light, so she won't cry for Bud, so Bud can only stay in the country of death. However, in another story, this giant was actually changed by Loki to prevent Bud from resurrecting.

According to tradition, mistletoe, regarded as an evil thing, can be used to help pregnancy and lightning protection; Hanging in the room can resist bad luck and witchcraft, and hanging at the door can prevent witches from entering the room. Mistletoe was once regarded as a "panacea", and some tribes in Africa would wear it before the war to avoid injury.

The Austrian put mistletoe on the threshold in case of nightmares. When Christmas comes, English people will hang branches of mistletoe and put them on pillows.

Divination dream Swedes use mistletoe branches as probes to detect gold veins. Mistletoe has been circulating in the border areas adjacent to Austria and Italy.

Life can make people invisible.

Cai Zhiheng, an online writer, wrote the novel Mistletoe.