The latest detailed explanation of ivy's flower language and legends
Ivy is also known as Tudou Teng, Zuantian Feng, and other names. It is a perennial evergreen climbing shrub of the genus Hedera in the Araliaceae family, with an elegant, plain, and fresh style. It is often kept indoors as a large potted plant. When it is allowed to cover an entire wall and the wind blows past, the vines and leaves stir, making it very beautiful. It is deeply loved by people around the world. Now let us take a look at ivy's flower language and legends together!
Ivy's flower language
Combined love, loyalty, friendship, affection. Ivy was formerly considered a magical plant and symbolizes loyalty. In Greek mythology, ivy represents Dionysus, the god of wine, and has the symbolic meaning of joy and vitality, while also symbolizing immortality and eternal youth.
Ivy's symbolism
Ivy is a very beautiful evergreen climbing plant, suggesting that spring stays forever, so it has the lovely name “evergreen ivy” and is deeply loved by people. Giving ivy to a friend expresses that the tree of friendship remains evergreen. If a friend gets married, the bride's bouquet is also inseparable from the beautiful presence of ivy, wishing “happiness in the new marriage and growing old together”. At weddings, you will find that the bride often has a piece of green plant inserted in her hair; that is ivy used to ward off evil. The bride's bouquet is also inseparable from the beautiful presence of ivy, implying that life will not be affected by petty people or demons and monsters, while a man wearing it can discern a lover's likes and dislikes. In addition, ivy also represents loyalty, marriage, love, friendship, and affection, representing friendship or love that stays fresh forever and never fades.
The legend of ivy
Ivy was a kind and beautiful young girl, and John was a handsome and strong young man. This happy pair of lovers was blessed by relatives and friends. John decided that after this year's grape harvest, he would marry his beloved Ivy. Every day he worked twice as hard, watering and weeding in the vineyard. Ivy stayed by his side every day, singing to encourage him. Ivy's singing voice was so clear and sweet that every day when she opened her mouth to sing, all the birds would stop and listen quietly!
One day the king went out hunting and rode past the vineyard, where he heard Ivy's moving singing and was deeply intoxicated. He followed the song and found Ivy, discovering that she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and immediately decided to marry Ivy and make her his bride. The king ordered his guards to bring Ivy back to the castle. To prevent John from taking revenge, he also had John captured and brought back to the castle.
The king imprisoned Ivy in the high tower on the west side of the castle and imprisoned John in the high tower on the east side. Although Ivy refused to become this domineering king's queen, the king's order could not be changed. He ordered that the royal wedding be held the day after tomorrow, and on the same day, John would be hanged.
A kind maidservant secretly told Ivy the news. Ivy was anxious, afraid, and heartbroken, and cried alone in the high tower all night. When the sun rose again from the east, she looked at the east tower surrounded by golden sunlight and softly began to sing as she had in the past. The morning was very quiet, and the song traveled across the castle and drifted into John's ears. Although Ivy's singing was soft and delicate, in John's ears it was as loud as thunder. Ivy sang firmly: even in death, I will not leave you.
Lovers understand each other without words. Late that night, Ivy quietly leaped down from the window. The earth goddess saw what happened to this pair of steadfast lovers who died for love, and she opened her arms to receive both of their bodies. Then, something magical happened! An ivy vine grew from the east tower and the west tower respectively. The stems and leaves of these two ivy vines grew rapidly. They covered the ground and crawled over the walls. Their vines entangled each other, branch crossed with branch, leaf overlapped with leaf, and in a single night they covered both castles. People could not tell which plant came from the west tower and which one grew from the east tower.