The flower language of the balloon flower is eternal love, with an analysis of its meaning and symbolism
In "The Forest in Full Bloom" there is a passage describing the balloon flower: amid the drifting autumn dew, one can faintly see many balloon flowers in the distance; these flowers, like thin cotton quilts, bloom in the autumn dew in loneliness. Though the balloon flower is beautiful, it is lonely, and this loneliness becomes a kind of steadfastness, which is eternal love. And this lonely waiting will bear no fruit, so it is a hopeless love.
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Many times the balloon flower is used to give to a lover, expressing a hope for eternal love, or given to those who will never meet again. These two contradictory flower languages are interpreted very well by the balloon flower.
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The blooming of the balloon flower represents the arrival of happiness once again, yet some people can grasp happiness, while others are destined to have no fate with happiness; they cannot grasp happiness, nor can they keep the flower. So the two opposite sides of the balloon flower's flower language are precisely the best interpretation of love in this world.
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Little by little, the orchid-purple balloon flowers bloom so brilliantly in the clustering of summer. Sometimes one thinks that once obtained, it is eternal, but the balloon flower is not like this; when one thinks one has obtained the balloon flower, one will find that the purple flower quickly fades.
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Then it slowly grows lighter, until at last it becomes a white flower -- vivid life suddenly turns pale in an instant, and only at this moment will one understand why the flower language of the purple balloon flower is happiness on one side and deep pain on the other.