What is the flower language and symbolism of azaleas?
The flower language of azaleas: First, forever yours. Second, it represents the joy of love, and it is said that people who like this flower are innocent and pure. The motto of the azalea is that when you see azaleas blooming all over the mountains, that is when the god of love descends.
The flower language of azaleas
Azaleas represent the joy of love, and it is said that people who like this flower are innocent and pure. The motto of the azalea is that when you see azaleas blooming all over the mountains, that is when the god of love descends.
White: the joy of being loved, its flower language is “restraint”, and the biggest reason is that it only blooms in its own flowering season; even though azaleas always give people a lively and bustling feeling, the dark green leaves are also very suitable for planting in gardens as low walls or barriers.
The legend of the azalea
Azaleas are very beautiful. The tubular flowers come in many colors such as deep red, light red, rose, purple, and white. When azaleas bloom in spring, the whole mountain is brilliantly colorful, like rosy clouds encircling the forest, and people praise them as the “Xi Shi among flowers”. The colorful azaleas awaken in people warm and beautiful feelings about life, and they also symbolize the prosperity and strength of the country and the happy life of the people. This is the true meaning of why our country's people love azaleas.
According to legend, in ancient times the State of Shu was a peaceful and prosperous country. The land there was fertile, products were abundant, people had ample food and clothing, were free from worry, and lived very happily. However, the carefree and affluent life gradually made people lazy. From morning to night, they lived in a drunken dream, visited prostitutes and gambled for pleasure, indulged in enjoyment, and sometimes even forgot the time for sowing.
The emperor of the State of Shu was named Du Yu. He was a very responsible and diligent ruler, and he loved his people very much. Seeing people enjoying themselves and forgetting their worries, he was extremely anxious. In order not to miss the farming season, every spring planting time he rushed about everywhere, urging people to sow quickly and seize the spring light. But year after year, this instead made people develop the habit that if Du Yu did not come, they would not sow.
Finally, Du Yu fell ill from prolonged overwork and bade farewell to his people. But he still could not forget his people. His soul turned into a small bird, and every spring it flew everywhere, letting out cries: Quick, sow the grain, quick, sow the grain. It cried until blood flowed from its mouth. The bright red blood droplets scattered across the mountains and plains and turned into beautiful flowers one after another.
People were moved, and they began to learn from their good ruler Du Yu, becoming diligent and responsible. They called that small bird the cuckoo bird, and they called the flowers transformed from that blood azaleas. This is the origin of the idiom “zigui cries blood”. Later, “the azalea cries blood” was used as a metaphor for extreme sorrow. And because the cry of the cuckoo bird sounds like “better go home”, later “better go home” was mostly used as a phrase for longing to return home or urging people to return to their hometown.