What are the flower language and legends of the bellflower?
The bellflower, also known as bellflower, tile-tube flower, and bell flower, is an annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Campanula in the family Campanulaceae. It is native to northern Eurasia. Its flowers are bell-shaped like wind chimes, and its colors are bright and elegantly simple. It is very popular in Europe and is a common herbaceous flower in small courtyards in late spring and early summer. Now let us take a look at the flower language and legends of the bellflower!
The value of the bellflower
The bellflower is suitable for being arranged in small courtyards as flowerbed and flower border material. It is mainly used as a potted flower, and can also be used outdoors in flower borders. It is suitable for being arranged in small courtyards as flowerbed and flower border material. If bellflowers and ornamental sunflowers are used as the main materials, paired with ivy, climbing fern, and baby's breath in a basket arrangement, it expresses a joyful atmosphere full of vitality and flourishing prosperity. If purple bellflowers are used as the main flower, paired with white lilies, delphiniums, and asparagus fern for a flower arrangement, it will appear quiet and gentle.
The flower language of the bellflower
1. Gratitude: If you like this flower, you are a person who knows how to repay kindness. You will remember the favors others have given you in your heart. But you are extremely self-centered, trust your own feelings, are somewhat cold toward people, and care a lot about others' 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, and from it bloomed the bellflower. Therefore, its flower language is jealousy. Anyone born under the blessing of this flower has a relatively strong desire for exclusivity and hopes 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 hard-luck couple. The husband was a blind man who made a living by telling fortunes for others, and the wife was a skillful weaver. Although the two lived a hard life, they were also happy!
Because the husband was blind and could not see himself, 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 very much liked hearing the sound of the bell. While the wife busied herself in the house, the husband sat in a rocking chair listening to the bell sound, as if listening to a little tune with a beautiful melody. In the bell sound, he heard the wife's care for him, and also heard the wife's gentleness and kindness. When he was listening entranced, he would even lightly tap out the rhythm on the table, intoxicated with himself.
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 help people tell fortunes. On the way home, when passing a turn on the mountainside, he encountered a horse-drawn carriage speeding toward him. In order to avoid the carriage, he stepped several times in a row toward the roadside. He avoided 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.
However, the wife still stood at the entrance of the village waiting for her husband to return, just as before. But even until 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, 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 still there was no trace of her husband. Months passed, and years passed. The people in the village saw her waiting so foolishly and deeply sympathized with her. Every time they went out, they would also help inquire about news of her husband.
One day, a merchant returned from a very far place, and it was said that he had brought back news of her husband. The wife happily asked the merchant, “When can my husband return?” 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 and did not cry. She quietly walked away.
The wife returned to the entrance of the village and quietly leaned beside the large rock, continuing to wait for her husband to return. The villagers urged her to go home, but she only smiled and did not say another word. She no longer wove cloth, and leaned beside the large rock waiting day and night.
Year after year passed. One day, the villagers discovered that the woman beside the large rock was gone, and 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 the woman, and gave it a nice name——called “bellflower.”
From then on, “bellflower” also became a token by which young men and women conveyed their feelings to each other. It represents an eternal wait, and the promise of loving only you for a lifetime. Whoever receives a “bellflower” given by a beloved will be happy for a lifetime.