What are the flower meanings and legends of the iris?
The iris is an important garden plant, with large and beautiful flowers and fresh green leaves, offering high ornamental value. Many species are used for garden viewing, and in landscapes they can be used to arrange flower beds, planted in wet beds, by pond edges and lakesides, or arranged into specialized iris gardens, and can also be used as cut flowers and ground cover plants. Now let us take a look at the flower meanings and legends of the iris!
The flower meanings of the iris
Elegance. The iris represents the messenger of love. Although it has thick roots, broad sword-like leaves, and very strong vitality, because it is a raw material for making perfume, it is quite respected and widely used, so its flower meaning is elegance. People born under the blessing of this flower have a soft and charming temperament and are good at socializing, but they are not people who toy with the world. They have a plan for the future, know how to play, study, and work. This can be said to be the lifestyle of such people. Is such a life not very elegant?
The meanings of the iris
The iris is named because its petals are shaped like an iris bird's tail. It comes in colors such as blue, purple, yellow, white, and red. The transliteration of its genus name is commonly known as “Alice”. In Greek mythology, Alice is the goddess of the rainbow. She is the messenger between the gods and the mortal world, and her main task is to carry the souls of kind people after death back to heaven via the rainbow bridge between heaven and earth. The colorful irises each represent different meanings. White iris represents purity, yellow indicates everlasting friendship and enthusiasm and cheerfulness, blue is appreciation of the other person's simple elegance and generosity or secret admiration, and purple implies love and good fortune.
The legend of the iris
Iris is the name of a girl. She was originally the precious daughter of a landlord family, very beautiful and clever, and she loved dancing very, very much. When she was 16, she fell in love with a long-term hired laborer who worked for her family. He was a very handsome young man, and his worn clothes could not hide his handsome appearance.
However, no matter what, Iris's father did not agree to them being together. In the old society, without the order of parents and the words of a matchmaker, they could not be together. So the two wanted to elope, but the young man worried that Iris was a precious young lady who had fallen in love with him on impulse, and that if she truly came with him she would not be able to endure hardship.
No matter how Iris assured him, the young man still rejected Iris. From then on, Iris was no longer happy and no longer danced. In the end, she committed suicide in that patch of unnamed white flowers that she liked. From then on, this patch of white flowers was no longer white, and slowly turned into many colors. Every flowering season, it was as if thousands of butterflies were dancing there, and from a distance it also looked like Iris dancing gracefully. Later, people called this patch of unnamed flowers iris flowers.