The flower language and origin legend of wisteria flowers explained
Wisteria is also known as Zhu Teng, Zhao Teng, Teng Luo, etc. It is a warm-temperate and temperate plant with strong adaptability to its growing environment. It blooms in spring, with blue-purple butterfly-shaped corollas, and the flowers are purple or deep purple, very beautiful. It is suitable for planting beside lakes, ponds, rockeries, stone archways and other places, with a unique style, and is also commonly used for bonsai. Now let us take a look at the flower language and legends of wisteria flowers!
The flowering period of wisteria flowers
The flowering period of wisteria is from mid-April to early May, and the flowering period is relatively short, lasting about 7 days. Wisteria flowering varies with different geographical environments. In the Yangtze River basin region, flower buds begin to appear in March every year and flowers bloom in April. Wisteria planted in South China usually blooms in March, while in the north it does not bloom until May. At the same time, wisteria often blooms again in late summer and early autumn.
The flower language of wisteria flowers
1. Flower language one: Born for affection, dies for love.
2. Flower language two: Intoxicating romance, lingering longing.
3. Flower language three: Devoted to you, the happiest moment.
4. Flower language four: Infatuated love.
The legend of wisteria flowers
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl who loved to wear purple clothes. Every day she sincerely prayed to the Yue Lao in heaven, hoping to meet someone who would cherish her. Finally one day, Yue Lao was moved by the girl's devotion and said to her in a dream: “When spring comes, in the locust tree forest on the back mountain, she will meet a man in white, and that will be the romance she has long awaited.” The girl silently remembered it and waited for a long time with eager anticipation.
When the warm spring days arrived and flowers bloomed, the infatuated girl went alone to the locust tree forest as promised, full of joy, nervously and excitedly waiting for the beautiful romance that belonged to her——the arrival of the man in white. But she waited until it was almost dark, and the man in white still had not appeared. In her nervousness and disappointment, she accidentally was bitten on the ankle by a snake in the grass. The girl could not walk, nor could she return home. Under the night sky, the girl began to feel afraid and panicked in her heart.
Just when the girl felt desperate and helpless, the man in white appeared. The girl cried out in surprise for help. The man in white came forward and used his mouth to suck out the poisoned blood from the snakebite on her ankle. From then on, the girl deeply fell in love with him. However, the man in white came from another place, and their marriage met with strong opposition from the villagers. But the girl had made up her mind and would not marry anyone but the man in white. In the end, the two lovers jumped off a cliff together to die for love.
Later, a locust tree grew on the edge of the cliff where they died for love, and a vine was unexpectedly wrapped around that tree, bearing clusters of flowers, blue amid the purple, brilliant as rosy clouds, extremely beautiful. Later generations called the flowers blooming on that vine wisteria flowers. Wisteria must wrap around a tree to grow and cannot survive alone, so some people said that the girl was the incarnation of the wisteria, and the locust tree was the incarnation of the man in white. Wisteria is born for affection and dies for love.