People in ancient times steeped curcuma to make a fragrant wine and offered it to their ancestors.
Tips
mistakes
The kitchen spice turmeric is 姜黄, the ground rhizome. 郁金 is the root tuber of the same group of plants, sold as a herbal medicine, so a recipe that calls for turmeric means 姜黄.
memory
The tulip, 郁金香 'curcuma fragrance', was named after this much older aromatic.
