Tulips(郁金香) are the national flower of Iran and Turkey. The European name for the flower is a misuse of the Persian word for turban(头巾), a mistake probably arising in the common Turkish custom of wearing flowers in the folds of the turban. Alternatively, the misuse may have arisen because this eastern flower, when not yet in full bloom, looks like a turban. In Persia, to give a red tulip was to declare your love for someone. The black center of the red tulip was said to represent the lover's heart, burned to a coal by love's passion.

    Originally growing in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), tulips were imported into Holland in the sixteenth century. When Carolus Clusius wrote the first major book on tulips in 1592, they became so popular that the tulips in his garden were stolen from time to time. As the Dutch Golden Age grew, so did this colorful flower. They were commonly seen in paintings and at festivals. In the mid-seventeenth century, tulips even created the first economics bubble（泡沫经济）, known as "Tulip Mania". At that time, tulips were so expensive that they were used as money until the market for them crashed.

    Today, Holland is still known for its tulips and other flowers, often sincerely called "the flower shop of the world." Tulips are planted in great fields of beautiful color, and transform the landscape into a sea of different colors. Tulip festivals are held throughout the country in spring. However, the most well-known tulip festival is organized in the Noordoostpolder, a province in the central Netherlands, each year. Held in the middle of the tulip fields, this flower festival runs from late April to early May. The Dutch people took their love of tulips abroad when they settled, and tulips and tulip festivals are now found in New York and Michigan, where the connection to their Dutch roots is still very strong.

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       却说那妖精原来行者第二棍也不曾打杀他。那怪物在半空中夸奖不尽道：“好个猴王，着然有眼，我那般变了去，他也还认得我。这些和尚他去得快，若过此山，西下四十里，就不伏我所管了。若是被别处妖魔捞了去，好道就笑破他人口，使碎自家心。我还下去戏他一戏。”

       好妖精，按耸阴风，在山坡下摇身一变，变做一个老公公，真个是：

       白发如彭祖，苍髯赛寿星。耳中鸣玉磬，眼里幌金星。

       手拄龙头拐，身穿鹤氅轻。数珠掐在手，口诵南无经。

       唐僧在马上见了，心中大喜道：“阿弥陀佛！西方真是福地，那公公路也走不上来，逼法的还念经哩。”八戒道：“师父，你且莫要夸奖，那个是祸的根哩。” 唐僧道：“怎么是祸根？”八戒道：“师兄打杀他的女儿，又打杀他的婆子，这个正是他的老儿寻将来了。我们若撞在他的怀里啊，师父，你便偿命，该个死罪；把老猪为从，问个充军；沙僧喝令，问个摆站。那师兄使个遁法走了，却不苦了我们三个顶缸？”行者听见道：“这个呆根，这等胡说，可不諕了师父？等老孙再去看看。”他把棍藏在身边，走上前，迎着怪物，叫声：“老官儿，往那里去？怎么又走路，又念经？”那妖精错认了定盘星，把孙大圣也当做个等闲的，遂答道：“长老啊，我老汉祖居此地，一生好善斋僧，看经念佛。命里无儿，止生得一个小女，招了个女婿。今早送饭下田，想是遭逢虎口。老妻先来找寻，也不见回去。全然不知下落，老汉特来寻看。果然是伤残他命，也没奈何，将他骸骨收拾回去，安葬茔中。”行者笑道：“我是个做虎的祖宗，你怎么袖子里笼了个鬼儿来哄我？你瞒了诸人，瞒不过我，我认得你是个妖精。”那妖精諕得顿口无言。行者掣出棒来，自忖道：“若要不打他，显得他倒弄个风儿；若要打他，又怕师父念那话儿咒语。”又思量道：“不打杀他，他一时间抄空儿把师父捞了去，却不又费心劳力去救他？还打的是。就一棍子打杀，师父念起那咒，常言道：‘虎毒不吃儿。’凭着我巧言花语，嘴伶舌便，哄他一哄，好道也罢了。”好大圣，念动咒语，叫当坊土地、本处山神道：“这妖精三番来戏弄我师父，这一番却要打杀他。你与我在半空中作证，不许走了。”众神听令，谁敢不从，都在云端里照应。那大圣棍起处，打倒妖魔，才断绝了灵光。