A new way to confess love on Qixi: write a plant love letter and see an exhibition

Not long ago, Shaoyao launchedthe call for submissions "Write a love letter with plants,"to write about your story connected to plants and confess your love to the most important person in your life.

Soon, the comment section received submissions from many young women. Reading one romantic and heartfelt love letter after another, Shaoyao couldn't help but marvel that so many talented people were hidden among our followers!

Below are a few excerpts that Shaoyao liked best, to share with everyone.

Author: Gongzi Fan

The water of the Xiaoqing River babbled along

The trees still looked somewhat bleak

The setting sun cast our long silhouettes

Lightly upon that once-abandoned ancient road

The waist-high green foxtail grass by the roadside

Still carried the scent of last autumn

Gently swaying and waiting in the breeze

I curled up and buried my face among them

Watching your figure gradually blur on the hillside

Quietly leaving my tears behind in that unnoticed wilderness

"Wild Chrysanthemum"

Author: Yuemeng Mo

Wild chrysanthemums all over the hillside, elegant and faintly fragrant

They are the stars studding the night sky

Each one is like your deep-set eyes

I stand amid the clouds of flowers

When I think of you, my heart is a bright and sorrowful river

Like the moon with a huge wound in the sky

On the dark other side, there must be a rabbit, right?

The stars have already gone

Yet longing spreads endlessly like wild chrysanthemums

Do I ride the wind and moon, or ride sorrow away?

Image source: Duitang

Author: Woshi Yinidi

The moss in the small town tells of ancient times,

But do you know?

When I met you, the blue bricks had just been laid.

This is a portrait, and also the love letter I'll love most in my life.

Author: Tudou Bushi Xia

A lifetime has hidden many secrets, such as

That water lily stolen from the pond

And that late summer

The dead branches in the deep mountain cave, and

The emerald green beneath the camphor tree behind the house

Glass jar

And of all the secrets, you

Are the one buried deepest of all

"Autumn Ginkgo"

Author: Pineapple

In late autumn the tall tree's leaves are like flowers,

Leaning by the window, gazing as if at golden gauze.

I wish to borrow a distant traveler to carry my words,

Just as ginkgo leaves carpet the edge of the world.

Author: Miss Wu

The irises have bloomed, the black locust trees are bustling,

The cherries begin to shyly make their exit,

The loquats have long been quietly gathering strength.

Late spring, thin summer, the cicadas have not yet sung,

It's still too early for crystal-white lychees and iced watermelon,

Cherries and golden balls, sweet and tart.

I miss you just right.

Image source: Duitang

"Night Escape"

Author: Luya

On a winter night I knocked over a lamp

The moss all over the room burst into flame

I grabbed a plum branch

Swung up onto my horse

Crossing the mountain forest, drowsy and half asleep

In a daze, the plum blossoms rasped and croaked

Past the river mouth

Across the plank bridge

The bright moon shines on the accumulated snow

Sunken boats race to set out

One dream stretches through three months

Through winter and then through spring

The plum blossoms fall away, the leaves grow lush

The water village rings out

Wine banners in the wind

In misty rain, straw sandals carry me into the thatched inn

Knotweed sprouts, spring bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse soup

Innkeeper, oh

My flowers have arrived

My horse has arrived

But the horseshoe fell away in winter

Awakening of Insects thunder

Qingming hemp

Lend me a set to forge

Good wine and good food, wait for my horse

When winter is deep and the moon is high

While the snow lasts, I can go home

"The Dandelion Speaks"

Author: Fangchi

Free like me, unrestrained, yet not my own master.

I want to draw near your warmth, but the wind blows me the opposite way.

I once bloomed tenderly, then was drenched by rain until bruised all over.

So it is, just so.

I wish to be as strong as a cactus, guarding this tenderness.

I long for a butterfly's wings, to fly to your side.

So it is, just so.

I've learned to keep deep feelings buried in the snow.

I've learned to forget the pain.

So it is, just so.

Let the wind blow me farther, scattering the last trace of sorrow....

Let the rain give me more melancholy, extinguishing the last thread of fantasy....

Image source: Duitang

Author: Kiyu

The feeling of liking you

Is like a spring bamboo shoot

I thought I didn't care

Yet unknown to me, it had long taken root in my heart

Only waiting for the spring rain

"Morning Glory"

Author: Plant a Sweet Pea Next Year

You are the morning glory.

I smile at you,

Like a ray of morning sunlight passing through your chest,

And then brilliant flowers bloom.

Unfortunately, the morning glory's blooming season is too short.

So now I've planted morning glories all over my balcony,

Hoping to see the beautiful flowers every day.

Author: Hualou Xipan

When the moment comes

I'll give you three roses

One pink

Because the heart-flutter of first love is soft pink

One red

Because the burning passion of youth is fiery red

One white

Because the dreamlike beauty of memory is pure white

I only hope that when time takes away their moisture

It won't carry off their radiance and fragrance

I want to be, in the love poem of your youthful years

The part with sugar...

Author: Wei He

The rose that has witnessed countless sweet loves

Will it get diabetes

The bluebell flower with so many bells hanging on it

Will the wind blow out a song "East Wind Breaks"

The violets layered and clustered together

They must never feel lonely in their whole lives

Slender in form, graceful and elegant, gazing out in solitude

It's the ranunculus that never knows how beautiful it is

Fluffy yellow, golden bright, fragrant and floating

The acacia burdened with blooms on every branch, it's the color of youthful dreams

Beauty lies in the bones, not the skin, with winding and lively lines

With a bony frame as elegant and refined as the snow willow,

It's a poetess pacing and chanting beneath the moon

The little lotus has just revealed its pointed tip

A tree full of summer cicadas singing their song

Image source: Duitang

Author: Feiyangcao

Your fragrance always drifts in the air,

The faintest scent can wake me up.

You stand beneath the bamboo fence, in a brand-new dress

Gently smelling the roses

Turning into a dream of mine!

At different times, in different places, plants express different emotions. Flowers and plants may seem quiet, yet behind them lie human feelings.

So, we carefully selected some works from all the submissions, paired them with succulents of various forms, and put them on public display in a mysterious corner of Beijing Xidan Joy City --"Plant Love Letters by Kaishiba"。

The display stand is in a romantic ice cream color scheme. Inside transparent acrylic glass covers are placed fresh potted plants, and beside the different flowers are written different love letters.

Many people stopped to look closely, appearing thoughtful, as if they had touched some tender place in their hearts.

In this era, fewer and fewer people believe in the existence of true love, and we spend less and less time in the company of sincerity. How should we express the love we have nowhere to place?

Joy City decided to wholeheartedly record and share this longing and yearning, gathering three-dimensional sensory experiences of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, using love to open the heart, presenting an emotional expression of true love set free, love conquering all.

Joy City "Joy, up to Love" 2018 national brand campaign, aiming to focus on the emotional world of today's young people, and to stir the expression of true love within.

From August 10 to August 23, jointly presented by all Joy City locations in Beijing Chaoyang, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chengdu, Shenyang and Yantai, dedicated to every lively soul, meeting love by chance.

Among them, the most eye-catchingBeijing Xidan Joy City "Joy, up to Love -- Love? Letter" special exhibition,will beAugust 17 - September 17warmly staged.

Besides the "Plant Love Letters" from peony fans, the exhibition also features many novel, fun and wildly imaginative interactive booths, encouraging people to bravely express their true love.

For example"Love Letter Calendar Message Wall"

This is a message wall filled with love and confessions,

12 months in a year,

Each month has a representative color,

And also a representative love poem,

Which color, which love poem

Can come closest to your heart?

For example

"Poetry Island"

Just spin the reel casually

And you can put together a poem

A love poem that is uniquely your own

And also

"Scent Story Book"

One scent is one story

Each love letter has a different scent to represent it

Among the 9 scents contained in the flasks

Blend a scent that belongs to "that person"

In the "Joy, up to Love -- Love? Letter" special exhibitionMore novel things are waiting for you to unlock in person~

If you happen to be near Beijing Joy City, why not take your loved one to the venue on Qixi, and feel this pink atmosphere rushing toward you!

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The images in this article are from Visual China and Duitang