A Complete Analysis of Wisteria's Flower Language and Legends
Wisteria is also known as Chinese wisteria, zhao teng, teng luo, etc. It is a plant of warm and temperate zones, highly adaptable to growing environments, blooming in spring with blue-purple butterfly-shaped corollas, in purple or deep purple, very beautiful, suitable for planting beside lakes, ponds, rockeries, stone archways and other places, with a unique style, and is also often used for bonsai. Now let us take a look at wisteria's flower language and legends!
Wisteria's Blooming Period
Wisteria blooms from mid-April to early May, with a relatively short blooming period of about 7 days. Wisteria's blooming time varies with the geographical environment. In the Yangtze River basin region, flower buds begin to appear in March every year and it blooms in April; wisteria planted in South China usually opens in March; in the north it does not open until May. At the same time, in late summer and early autumn, wisteria often blooms again.
Wisteria's Flower Language
1. Flower language one: Born for love, die for love.
2. Flower language two: An intoxicating romance, lingering longing.
3. Flower language three: Devotion to you, the happiest moment.
4. Flower language four: Obsessive love.
Wisteria's Legend
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl who loved to wear purple clothes. Every day she sincerely prayed to the Yue Lao in heaven, hoping to meet someone who would cherish her. Finally one day, the Yue Lao was moved by the girl's devotion and said to her in a dream: “When spring comes, in the pagoda tree grove on the back hill, she will meet a man in white, and that will be the love fate she has long awaited.” The girl silently remembered this and waited a long time with eager eyes and longing heart.
When the day came with warm spring breezes and blooming flowers, the infatuated girl happily went alone to the pagoda tree grove as promised, nervously and excitedly waiting for the beautiful love fate that belonged to her——the arrival of the man in white. But she waited until it was almost dark, and the man in white still had not appeared. In her nervousness and disappointment, she accidentally got her ankle bitten by a snake in the grass. The girl could not walk, nor could she return home. Under the night sky, the girl began to feel afraid and panicked.
Just when the girl felt despair and helplessness, the man in white appeared. The girl cried out in surprise for help, and the man in white stepped forward and used his mouth to suck out the poisoned blood from the snake bite on her ankle. From then on, the girl fell deeply in love with him. But the man in white came from another place, and the villagers strongly opposed their marriage. Yet the girl was determined and would not marry anyone but the man in white. In the end, the two lovers jumped off a cliff together and died for love.
Later, at the edge of the cliff where they died for love, a pagoda tree grew, and surprisingly a vine twined around that tree, producing cascades of blossoms, blue within the purple, brilliant as rosy clouds, extremely beautiful. Later generations called the flowers blooming on that vine wisteria. Wisteria must twine around a tree to grow and cannot survive on its own, so some people said that the girl was the incarnation of the wisteria, and the pagoda tree was the incarnation of the man in white. Wisteria is born for love and dies for love.