In ancient time, honey was regarded as nature's most valuable substance, it was even used to pay tax in some places. In a Roman myth, the God of Love applied bee honey on his arrow, while a myth from Northern Europe said that pollen and bee honey are the secret of God's eternal life.

As a matter of fact, man always gives worship to bee. 6000 years ago there were paintings of bee on Spanish caves; almost at the same time, people began to realize the virtue of pollen, it was found in the caves of the Middle East countries, which suggested that these cave people also ate pollen.

A story said that Napoleon regarded the bee kingdom the ideal structure of a nation, so he made the bee as the sign on his badge. Hawaiian aborigines considered pollen precious as it represents youth and health. The former Soviet Union government conducted a survey on the people with longevity, the result showed that over a half of these people kept bee and ate bee honey regularly

If we journey back 4000 years to ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics show the story of the bee’s life. So primitive man had discovered the delight of honey by then — for centuries it was the only sweetener available.

In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle wrote of the bee. Three hundred years later, Virgil the poet and Pliny the naturalist, carried the story further.

In England under Saxon rule, honey was accepted by some landlords as part-payment for rent from tenants. The bee had truly earned a valuable place in society. In 1792 a blind naturalist, Huber, published a book in Geneva on bees and honey. The honey industry that we know today began to grow.

Sixty years later in Philadelphia, Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, a minister and teacher, invented a new kind of beehive. It was a rectangular wooden box in which he stood a row of frames. Each frame provided a place for bees to build the wax cells that form the honeycomb. The frames could be taken out separately so that one honeycomb could be removed without hurting the others.

Pollen is the sperm of the plant, people have long realized its unpredictable living forte. To carry on the experiments and researches of the previous generation, FLP continues to explore the natural virtue of bee products for the well-being of mankind.

• History tells of an old Roman saying, "Madam, treat your husband with honey and you will possess his heart."
• Abraham Lincoln liked bread smeared with honey and bee bread. (Bee bread is honeycomb containing pollen and honey.)
• Honey is the oldest sweet known to man.
• Ancient Romans greeted their guests with honey, saying, "Here is honey which the gods provide for your health. It is the elixir of life. Partake."
• An old saying: "Honey is the dew distilled from the stars and the rainbow."
• Queen Anne of England used honey to pamper and treat her famously magnificent hair. This was a secret so closely guarded that it became public knowledge only after her death.
• Honey is the ONLY NATURAL FOOD that is made without destroying any kind of life.
• It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
  
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