The legend of wisteria tells a poignant story of a love that transcended life and death
The elegant purple of wisteria is especially romantic and graceful in the season when blossoms fall in profusion. The legends about wisteria always stir the heart so deeply. The flower language of wisteria is: a bittersweet love, a deep and lingering attachment. This flower language mainly comes from the legend below.
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There is an ancient and beautiful legend about wisteria: there was a beautiful girl who longed for a romantic destiny, so every day she prayed to the red-robed Yue Lao in heaven to grant her wish. At last, the red-robed Yue Lao was moved by the girl's devotion and told her in a dream: "When spring arrives, in the small grove on the back hill, she will meet a man in white, and that will be the romantic destiny she wishes for.
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When the warm days of spring arrived and flowers bloomed, the infatuated girl went alone to the small grove on the back hill as promised. She waited for her beautiful destiny -- the arrival of the man in white. But she waited until it was almost dark, and still the man in white had not appeared. In her nervousness and disappointment, she was instead bitten on the ankle by a snake in the grass. The girl could no longer walk, and it was hard for her to return home; she was terribly frightened.
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At the moment when the girl felt despair and helplessness, the man in white appeared. The girl cried out in joyful surprise for help. The man in white came forward and used his mouth to suck out the venomous blood from the snakebite on her ankle. From then on, the girl fell deeply in love with him. But the man in white came from a poor family, and their marriage was opposed by the girl's parents.
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In the end, the two lovers jumped off a cliff together to die for their love. On the edge of the cliff where they died for love, a tree grew, and on that tree a vine was actually entwined, bearing cascades of blossoms, purple tinged with blue, brilliant as rosy clouds. Later generations called the flowers that bloomed on that vine wisteria. Wisteria must entwine a tree to grow and cannot survive on its own, so some say the girl was the incarnation of the wisteria and the tree was the incarnation of the man in white. Wisteria is born for love and dies without it.
A love that transcended life and death
The elegant purple of wisteria is especially romantic and graceful in the season when blossoms fall in profusion. The legends about wisteria always stir the heart so deeply. The flower language of wisteria is: a bittersweet love, a deep and lingering attachment. This flower language mainly comes from the legend below.
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There is an ancient and beautiful legend about wisteria: there was a beautiful girl who longed for a romantic destiny, so every day she prayed to the red-robed Yue Lao in heaven to grant her wish. At last, the red-robed Yue Lao was moved by the girl's devotion and told her in a dream: "When spring arrives, in the small grove on the back hill, she will meet a man in white, and that will be the romantic destiny she wishes for.
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When the warm days of spring arrived and flowers bloomed, the infatuated girl went alone to the small grove on the back hill as promised. She waited for her beautiful destiny -- the arrival of the man in white. But she waited until it was almost dark, and still the man in white had not appeared. In her nervousness and disappointment, she was instead bitten on the ankle by a snake in the grass. The girl could no longer walk, and it was hard for her to return home; she was terribly frightened.
[Click the image to learn more details]
At the moment when the girl felt despair and helplessness, the man in white appeared. The girl cried out in joyful surprise for help. The man in white came forward and used his mouth to suck out the venomous blood from the snakebite on her ankle. From then on, the girl fell deeply in love with him. But the man in white came from a poor family, and their marriage was opposed by the girl's parents.
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In the end, the two lovers jumped off a cliff together to die for their love. On the edge of the cliff where they died for love, a tree grew, and on that tree a vine was actually entwined, bearing cascades of blossoms, purple tinged with blue, brilliant as rosy clouds. Later generations called the flowers that bloomed on that vine wisteria. Wisteria must entwine a tree to grow and cannot survive on its own, so some say the girl was the incarnation of the wisteria and the tree was the incarnation of the man in white. Wisteria is born for love and dies without it.
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1. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking first, is the Rosa rosae (tumi flower).
The blooming of Rosa rosae -- the beauty of the end of the road. When the Rosa rosae blooms, all flowers are done; as dust and smoke pass, how much remains known? Rosa rosae is the last flower of summer; once it blooms, there is no turning back, and it can no longer continue to be beautiful. What despairing and decadent words these two are. The blooming of Rosa rosae represents that a woman's youth has already passed. The blooming of Rosa rosae signifies the end of a relationship. Loving to the point of Rosa rosae means that the most brilliant, most flourishing, or most unforgettable love in life is about to be lost.
2. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking second, is the red spider lily.
Red spider lily -- Manjusaka. The red spider lily blooms, blooming on the far shore; when the flower blooms there are no leaves, and when the leaves grow there are no flowers. They long for and cherish each other yet cannot meet, walking the far-shore road alone. The red spider lily is the tenderness of demons. In legend, it is the flower that voluntarily threw itself into hell; it was sent back by the demons, yet still lingered on the road to the Yellow Springs. The demons could not bear it, so they agreed to let it bloom on that road, giving guidance and comfort to the souls leaving the mortal world. The red spider lily blooms for a thousand years and falls for a thousand years; flower and leaf never meet. Love is not bound by cause and effect; fate determines life and death. The past story is the memory I owed from the previous reincarnation. When nothing is owed anymore, she will drink all the water in the bowl in her hands in one gulp, then walk into the gate of reincarnation, just like a saying: "If you chose to forget, it means you loved in your heart..."
3. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking third, is the epiphyllum.
Epiphyllum -- the beauty under the moon. The epiphyllum appears only for a fleeting moment, only for Weituo.
Epiphyllum is also called Weituo flower. The Weituo flower is very special; it always chooses to bloom at dawn, at the very moment when the morning dew first condenses. Legend says the epiphyllum was a flower spirit. She bloomed every day and was radiant through all four seasons. She fell in love with a young man who weeded for her every day. Later, the Jade Emperor learned of this and flew into a rage, wanting to separate the pair. The Jade Emperor demoted the flower spirit to a flower that could bloom only for an instant in her entire life, forbade her from ever meeting her lover again, and also sent the young man to Lingjiu Mountain to become a monk, bestowing on him the name Weituo, making him forget his past and forget the flower spirit. But the flower spirit could not forget that young man. She knew that every year in late spring, Venerable Weituo would go up the mountain to gather spring dew to brew tea for the Buddha, so she chose to bloom at that time! She hoped to see Venerable Weituo once, just once, and once would be enough! Sadly, spring comes and spring goes, flowers bloom and flowers fade, and Weituo still does not recognize her!
4. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking fourth, is the laurel tree.
Laurel tree -- the sorrowful crown of laurel, burying Apollo's love.
The sun god Apollo fell in love with Daphne. He knelt before Daphne and poured out his feelings to her. As soon as Apollo's hand touched Daphne's body, Daphne began to transform into a laurel tree. Apollo gazed at the laurel tree that Daphne had become, helpless; he could only pick a few leaves and weave them into a crown to wear on his head, comforting and pitying himself. The laurel tree gives off fragrance; that night the wind loved the moonlight, and the golden color of Apollo's radiance could not compare with Daphne's bravery. No love can stand above freedom.
5. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking fifth, is the sunflower.
Sunflower -- the flower that turns with the sun. There is no willow catkin rising with the wind; only the sunflower leans toward the sun.
Clytie was a water nymph. One day, in the woods, she met the sun god Apollo, who was hunting, and she was deeply enchanted by this handsome god and fell madly in love with him. But Apollo left without even glancing at her. Clytie eagerly hoped that one day Apollo would speak to her, but she never met him again. So she could only gaze at the sky every day, watching Apollo drive his golden, resplendent sun chariot across the sky. She stared unblinkingly at Apollo's course until he set. Every single day, she sat there blankly, her hair disheveled, her face haggard. At sunrise, she would look toward the sun. Later, the gods took pity on her and turned her into a large golden-yellow sunflower. Her face became the flower disk, forever facing the sun, following him every day, telling him of her never-changing love. Apollo never knew that a fool had once given complete and wholehearted love.
6. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking sixth, is the twin flower.
Twin flower -- cruel yet beautiful, using the deepest hurt to express the deepest love.
Legend tells of a pure white and beautiful flower in the darkness, with a moist and fragrant scent yet full of bewilderment. On a single stem they love each other, yet also fight each other, struggling without end. They use the deepest hurt to express the deepest love, until death. They are even willing to kill each other. Because when either one dies, the other also quietly rots away. The twin flower, one plant with two blossoms, blooming in competition. In the end, one is bewitchingly gorgeous and captivating, while the other withers and fades. This is a kind of helplessness, and also a kind of fate. Perhaps neither of them wants it; it is merely, amid the day-and-night entwining, an inadvertent outcome. All things in the world are just this cruel.
7. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking seventh, is the dandelion.
Dandelion -- love that cannot stop. It is said, "Whoever can find a purple dandelion will gain perfect love." Carrying lanterns, holding lanterns, escorting the bride, shouldering the trunks, poof!" The dandelion's downy hairs are like the tiny parachutes of the ant kingdom. In a burst of artificially blown storm, they hover and dance in the air for a while, then scatter in all directions and disappear. Please remember the strength of endurance and the plain, pure beauty. Know that you have bravely lived on after being trampled and ravaged. If in the future you are trampled and ravaged again, you must still bravely live on, but do not taste again the suffering you have already tasted!
8. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking eighth, is lavender.
Lavender -- waiting for love, searching for that angel banished to the mortal world.
It is said that long ago, an angel fell in love with a mortal woman named Xunyi (Lavender). He left his first tear for her, and his wings fell off for her. Although the angel had to endure severe pain every day, they were still very happy. But happiness was very brief. The angel was captured back to heaven, and the happy time he had shared with Xunyi was erased. Before being banished to the mortal world, he left another tear, and the tear turned into a butterfly to accompany the girl he loved most. And Xunyi, still foolishly waiting for him to return, had only that butterfly for company. Day and night she waited in the garden where the angel had left, and in the end she turned into a small plant. Every year it blooms pale purple flowers. They fly to every place, searching for that angel banished to the mortal world.
9. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking ninth, is the narcissus.
Narcissus -- narcissism, falling deeply in love with one's own reflection.
Narcissus was a beautiful youth in Greek mythology. Every maiden who saw him fell deeply in love with him. Yet Narcissus was proud by nature, and no woman could win his love. The lake was unfamiliar to Narcissus. Narcissus walked over, sat by the lake, and was just about to reach out and touch the lake water to try what kind of feeling it was, when, fixing his eyes on the smooth, mirror-like surface of the lake, he saw a perfect face and could not help but be astonished as if by a god. Narcissus thought: Who is this beauty? So beautiful. After gazing for a while, he realized that when he waved to the beauty in the water, the beauty in the water also waved to him; when he smiled at the beauty in the water, the beauty in the water also smiled at him; but when he reached out to touch the beauty, the beauty immediately disappeared; when he withdrew his hand, after a moment, the beauty appeared again, looking at him with deep affection. Of course Narcissus did not know that what appeared on the lake's surface was actually his own reflection. He actually fell deeply in love with his own reflection. Unwilling to lose the person in the lake, he guarded the lakeside day and night. In the end, because he was infatuated with his own reflection, Narcissus sat withered and died by the lake. The god of love took pity on Narcissus and turned him into a narcissus flower, blooming in places with water, so that he could forever look at his own reflection.
10. The flower with the most poignant story background, ranking tenth, is wisteria.
Wisteria -- born for love, dying without it; an intoxicating romance, a lingering longing.
There is an ancient and beautiful legend about the wisteria flower: there was a beautiful girl who longed for a romantic destiny, so every day she prayed to the red-robed Yue Lao in heaven to grant her wish. At last, the red-robed Yue Lao was moved by the girl's devotion and told her in a dream: "When spring arrives, in the small grove on the back hill, she will meet a man in white, and that will be the romantic destiny she wishes for." While the girl was waiting, she was accidentally bitten on the ankle by a snake in the grass, and she was terribly frightened. At that moment, the man in white appeared. He came forward and used his mouth to suck out the venomous blood from the snakebite on her ankle. From then on, the girl fell deeply in love with him. But the man in white came from a poor family, and their marriage was opposed by the girl's parents. In the end, the two lovers jumped off a cliff together to die for their love. On the edge of the cliff where they died for love, a tree grew, and on that tree a vine was actually entwined, bearing cascades of blossoms, purple tinged with blue, brilliant as rosy clouds. Later generations called the flowers that bloomed on that vine wisteria. Wisteria must entwine a tree to grow and cannot survive on its own, so some say the girl was the incarnation of the wisteria and the tree was the incarnation of the man in white. Wisteria is born for love and dies without it.