What does the latest carnation mean?

We all know that the second Sunday of May every year is a very humane holiday-Mother's Day. On this day, careful and filial children will buy a bunch of carnations and give them to their mother in person to repay her years of upbringing. But do you know what carnations mean? What does Mother's Day have to do with carnations? Let's take a look at it together.

What does a carnation mean?

Carnation has passion, charm, softening love, true feeling, mother I love you, warm blessing, love you, warmth, kindness, no cost maternal love, tolerance, mother's flower, strong affection, family yearning, pure love, passionate love, enthusiasm, sadness and remorse, love pain, greatness, holiness, kindness, sympathy, spiritual connection, sincerity, luck, yearning and other symbolic meanings.

Carnations of different colors

1. White: sweet and lovely, innocent, pure love, gifts of good luck to women, pure friendship, my living love, everlasting love, faith, elegant love, truth, respect.

2. Pink: I will never forget you, beautiful, young, love, wish my mother young and beautiful forever; moved, beautiful, maternal love, female love, I love you passionately.

3. Red: my heart hurts, appreciates, worships, infatuates, motherly love, affection, warm love, enthusiasm, broken heart, yearning, believes in your love, wishes your mother good health and longevity, and wishes you good health.

4. Yellow: you make me feel disappointed, abandoned, despised, long-term friendship, gratitude to my mother, refusal, insult, insult, everlasting gratitude, deep friendship.

Mother's Day and Carnation

May 9, 1906 was an ordinary day, but it was a sad day for Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia in the United States, because that day her beloved mother left her forever, and in the days after that, she washed her face with tears. Miss it.

In 1907, at the anniversary of her mother's death, she wanted everyone to wear white carnations in memory of her late mother, and she proposed that Mother's Day be held on the second Sunday of May every year. So she wrote numerous letters to many influential people to put forward her own suggestion.

On May 10, 1908, thanks to her continuous efforts, her hometown of Philadelphia organized the first Mother's Day celebration in the world. Subsequently, the Presbyterian Church in Seattle took the lead in celebrating her mother. Mark, a famous American writer. Twain wrote to Anna himself. Miss Jarvis praised her for her great initiative and said she also brought white carnations to mourn her loving mother.

After the unremitting efforts of Anna and others on May 7, 1914, the United States Congress finally passed a resolution designating the second Sunday of each year as National Mother's Day to show respect and gratitude to all mothers, which was promulgated and implemented by President Wilson on May 9 of the same year.

The first National Mother's Day was held in the United States on May 14, 1914.

In May 1934, the United States issued Mother's Day stamps for the first time, showing a mother with her hands on her lap, looking happily at a bunch of bright and beautiful carnations in a vase in front of her. With the spread of stamps, Mother's Day and carnations have been linked together in the minds of many people. Carnations have become a symbol of maternal love and are respected by people. People place their thoughts on and respect for their mothers on carnations. At the same time, carnations have become an indispensable gift for mothers.

We don't know when Mother's Day was introduced into China, but since the 1990s, many Western festivals have been slowly introduced into China, and so has Mother's Day. For Chinese people, the greatness of Chinese mothers is incomparable, so Mother's Day spread quickly in China and has now become one of the most important festivals in China.