What is the latest language of flowers for peonies? A complete analysis of peony symbolism

The peony, with its national beauty and heavenly fragrance, has always been regarded by Chinese people as a symbol of wealth, good fortune, happiness and prosperity. Since the Tang Dynasty, the peony has been celebrated as the “national beauty and heavenly fragrance.” The peony rules over all flowers and holds a noble status. Widely recited lines by the Tang Dynasty poets Bai Juyi, “Flowers bloom and fall for twenty days, and the whole city is like mad,” and Liu Yuxi, “Only the peony is truly of national beauty; when it blooms, the whole capital is stirred,” vividly describe the grand spectacle of people pouring out of their homes to admire the flowers at that time.

What is the language of flowers for peonies?

So what is the language of flowers for peonies? And what does it mean to give peonies as a gift? Let us now look at the language of flowers for various types of peonies.

1. Peony language of flowers: completeness, deep affection, wealth, elegant and luxurious.

2. Japanese anemone language of flowers: life, anticipation, faint love.

3. Red peony language of flowers: the red flower with broad, full petals is called the king of a hundred flowers, and its language of flowers is ‘wealth and completeness’; its attribute is fire.

4. Purple peony language of flowers: a peony with purple petals, its language of flowers is ‘embarrassment’; its attribute is dark.

5. White peony language of flowers: noble and pure, dignified and elegant, graceful in countless ways, national beauty and heavenly fragrance, a person who keeps their word.

6. Green peony language of flowers: life, anticipation, faint love, wholehearted dedication.

7. Black peony language of flowers: love even unto death, or loving to death; in fact, there is no purely black peony in the peony family, and people customarily call deep red and deep purple peonies black peonies.

8. Pink peony language of flowers: elegant and luxurious.

9. Yellow peony language of flowers: bright, rich and luxurious.