The Language and Legends of the Bellflower: A Complete Guide
The bellflower is also known as the bell flower, tile-tube flower, and bellflower, among other names. It is an annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Campanula in the family Campanulaceae, native to northern Eurasia. Its flowers are bell-shaped like wind chimes, and its colors are bright and elegant. It is very popular in Europe and is a common herbaceous flower in small gardens in late spring and early summer. Let's take a look at the language and legends of the bellflower!
The Value of the Bellflower
The bellflower is suitable for arranging in small gardens as flowerbed and flower border material. It is mainly used as a potted flower, but can also be used in open ground for flower borders, and is suitable for arranging in small gardens as flowerbed and flower border material. If the bellflower and ornamental sunflower are used as the main materials, paired with ivy, Japanese climbing fern, and baby's breath in a basket arrangement, it expresses a joyful atmosphere of vigor and prosperity. If purple bellflower is used as the main flower, paired with white lilies, delphinium, and asparagus fern in a flower arrangement, it will appear quiet and gentle.
The Language of the Bellflower
1. Gratitude: If you like this flower, you are a person who is grateful for kindness. You will remember the favors others have done for you. But you are extremely self-centered, trust your own feelings, are somewhat cold toward others, and care a great deal about other people's shortcomings, making the friends around you afraid to approach you easily, and you gradually become isolated.
2. Jealousy: The bellflower that appears in Greek mythology was loved by the sun god Apollo. The jealous west wind threw a disc at the head of the bellflower, and the blood that flowed out splashed onto the ground, where the bellflower bloomed. Therefore, its language is jealousy. Anyone born under the blessing of this flower has a relatively strong desire for exclusivity, hoping that their lover belongs to them twenty-four hours a day. However, this will mostly produce the opposite effect!
The Legend of the Bellflower
It is said that long, long ago, there was a pair of ill-fated husband and wife. The husband was a blind man who made a living by telling fortunes for others, and the wife was a skillful weaver. Although their life was hard, they were also happy!
Because the husband was blind and could not see her, the wife would hang a bell on herself every day. As her body swayed, the bell would make a crisp sound. In this way, no matter where the wife was, the husband could find her. The husband also loved hearing the sound of the bell. While the wife busied herself in the house, the husband would sit in a rocking chair listening to the bell, as if listening to a melody with a beautiful tune. In the bell's sound, he heard the wife's care for him, and also heard the wife's tenderness and kindness. When he was deeply absorbed in listening, he would even gently tap out the rhythm on the table, immersing himself in it.
In the past, when the husband went out to tell fortunes, the wife would weave cloth at home. By evening, the wife would have prepared the meal and would walk to the entrance of the village to wait for him to come home.
One day, the husband went out as usual. He went to a very remote small mountain village to tell fortunes for people. On the way home, when passing a turning point halfway up the mountain, he encountered a carriage speeding toward him head-on. To avoid the carriage, he stepped several times toward the roadside. He dodged the carriage, but he lost his footing and fell off the cliff, and was never seen again. Many years later, a bridge worker discovered his skeleton.
But the wife still stood at the entrance of the village waiting for her husband to return, just as before. However, even when the moon hung high, there was still no sign of her husband coming back. The wife very much wanted to go out and look for him, but she did not know where her husband had gone to tell fortunes for people, and she also worried that if her husband came back and could not see her, he would be sad, so she still stood there waiting. Only when the sun rose did she sadly go home.
Several days passed in succession, and there was still no trace of her husband. Several months passed, and several years passed. The people in the village saw her waiting so devotedly and felt very sympathetic toward her. Every time they went out, they would also help inquire about news of her husband.
One day, a merchant returned from a very distant place, and it was said that he had brought back news of her husband. The wife happily asked the merchant, “When can my husband come back?” Seeing the happy expression on her face, the merchant really could not bear to tell her that her husband had already died several years earlier. But the wife was still waiting there for his answer, so he had no choice but to tell her the truth. When the woman heard this news, she did not speak or cry, and quietly walked away.
The wife returned to the entrance of the village and quietly leaned beside the big rock, continuing to wait for her husband to return. The people in the village advised her to go home, but she only smiled and did not say another word. She no longer wove cloth, and leaned beside the big rock waiting day and night.
Year after year passed. One day, the villagers discovered that the woman beside the big rock was gone, and that in that spot grew a green plant, on which there were also several bell-shaped things. The villagers all said that this small green plant had been transformed from this woman, and gave it a nice name——called “bellflower.”
From then on, the “bellflower” also became a token by which young men and women conveyed their feelings to each other. It represents an eternal wait and a promise to love only you for a lifetime. The person who receives a “bellflower” from a loved one will be happy for a lifetime.