pakistani girls love jasmine
2024-09-14
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"what a beautiful jasmine flower, fragrant and beautiful all over the branches..." the song "jasmine flower" is sung all over the country, but did you know that there are many varieties of jasmine flowers, and their origin is not china, but the south asian subcontinent. some say it comes from ancient persia. there is a kind of "jasmine flower" that is loved by pakistanis and is called motia in pakistan.
summer is the season of jasmine. when children start to sell jasmine garlands with wooden poles at traffic lights, it means the hot rainy season has arrived. just like chinese girls like to wear gardenias, pakistani girls like to wear jasmine bracelets, called "gajra". jasmine bracelets here usually add two roses to a circle of pure white jasmine flowers, making the fragrance of the bracelet more fragrant. such bracelets are equivalent to two or three yuan in rmb, which is affordable and many people wear them.
girls who love beauty always try to decorate themselves. in addition to bracelets, they also weave jasmine flowers and wear them in their hair. they have a light and unique fragrance and look elegant and refined, which inevitably becomes a beautiful scenery on the street. local girls told reporters that they also scatter jasmine petals in some places at home, such as on the bed, to make dreams fragrant.
in addition to bracelets, jasmine flowers have a wide range of uses in the subcontinent. before entering a mosque or temple, people often sell petals and garlands of jasmine flowers, which people can buy as offerings to gods or saints. when you visit the tombs of saints and pay homage to the coffins of saints, you can smell the fragrance of this flower around you.
in addition, people also use this flower in celebrations such as weddings. generally, it is used as a bride's headdress or bracelet, and together with the gorgeous mehndi patterns on the hands, it is full of romance. sometimes jasmine can also be decorated on clothes. when the youngest son of india's richest man got married recently, the bride wore a unique flower shawl made of marigold and jasmine.
jasmine is also a herbal medicine. traditionally, indians use fresh and ground jasmine juice to treat sores, itching, etc. for hundreds of years, rural india has used ointments made from jasmine roots to relieve labor pains.
however, jasmine flowers will wither and turn yellow in one or two days after being picked. how can we preserve them? the chinese dry jasmine flowers and make jasmine tea, while pakistanis prefer to make them into perfumes and fragrances. the south asian subcontinent has a long history of making perfumes. people have long been using steam distillation to extract essential oils to make "ittar" or "attar".
it is very common for pakistanis to use perfume. when you walk in a shopping mall, you will see people holding perfume and asking you to spray some. they not only spray perfume on their bodies, but also spray a lot of it in the air. after walking around the mall, your clothes will smell of perfume when you return home.
