What is the meaning of red roses? The meanings of different numbers of blooms
Red roses are the most common fresh flowers, but true red roses do not exist. Cut red roses are actually Chinese roses (Rosa chinensis), and red roses used for herbal tea are mostly Pingyin roses, which strictly speaking are not red but light purplish red. Below, let us take a look at the meaning of red roses and what different numbers of blooms represent!
The meaning of red roses
I love you, passionate love, the hope of stirring passionate love with you.
The meanings of different numbers of red roses
1 bloom: You are my only one
2 blooms: There is only you and me in the world
3 blooms: I LOVE YOU
4 blooms: Vow, promise
5 blooms: No regrets
6 blooms: Smooth going
7 blooms: Secretly loving you
8 blooms: Making amends
9 blooms: Growing old together, steadfast
10 blooms: Perfect in every way
11 blooms: Wholehearted love
12 blooms: All my love
13 blooms: Secret crush
14 blooms: Pride
15 blooms: Keeping hold of the one you love
The story and legend of red roses
In ancient Greece, legend has it that Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was the most beautiful goddess in the world, and even Zeus, king of the gods, fell in love with her. But Aphrodite rejected Zeus's love. Zeus turned love into hate and forced Aphrodite to marry the ugliest of the gods, Hephaestus, the god of fire. Aphrodite was extremely miserable; she had secretly fallen in love with the beautiful youth Adonis.
But then misfortune struck: one day, while out hunting, Adonis was bitten by a wild boar on the artery in his foot, and the blood would not stop flowing, and he fell to the ground. As he fell, he let out a long, agonizing cry: “Aphrodite——" Hearing her lover's sorrowful call, Aphrodite rushed to save him. The stones and thorns in the forest cut her feet and hands, and blood dripped all along the way. Yet when she reached Adonis's side, he had already bled out completely, and in the end she could not save her beloved. Aphrodite wept loudly, and with her weeping, wherever her blood had dripped along the way, clusters of beautiful red roses, red as if about to drip, bloomed.
From then on, red roses became the symbol of steadfast and unchanging love. But red roses always have thorns.