Why send carnations on Mother's Day?

People often give carnations as gifts to their mothers and use them to express their love and blessing to their mothers. With the rise of Mother's Day, carnations have become the largest selling flowers in the world. What is the charm of carnations that so many people love? Let's understand its representative meaning and symbolic meaning.

1. Introduction of carnations

Carnation is a perennial herb of the family Caryophyllaceae, including many varieties and hybrids, which can bloom almost continuously in greenhouse. Carnation originated from the Mediterranean region, mainly distributed in the temperate zone of Europe and Fujian, Hubei and other places in China, is one of the most widely used flowers in the world. Carnations are often solitary, sometimes 2 or 3, with rich aromas and common colors of pink, red or white.

Second, the meaning of the representative of carnations

Most carnations represent love, charm and respect. Unlike roses, carnations represent a lighter and warmer expression of love, which is suitable for affectionate love, so children often offer carnations to their mothers. In 1907, Jarvis of Philadelphia first used pink carnations as a symbol of Mother's Day. On Mother's Day, people often flocked to buy carnations.

Third, the symbolic meaning of carnations

Carnation generally represents enthusiasm, 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, female love, family yearning, pure love, passionate love, enthusiasm, sadness and remorse, pain, greatness, holiness, kindness, sympathy, spiritual connection, sincerity, luck.

Fourth, different color meanings of carnations

Carnations of different colors have different symbolic meanings:

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.

Pink: it is said that the pink carnation is the sad tears shed by the Virgin Mary when she saw Jesus suffering. The carnation grows where the tears fall, so the pink carnation has become a symbol of immortal maternal love. It means that I will never forget you, beauty, youth, love, wish my mother young and beautiful forever; moved, beautiful, maternal love, female love, I love you passionately and so on.

Red: my heart pains, appreciates, worships, infatuates, affectionates, passionately loves, passionately, hurts heart, misses, believes your love, wishes mother health and longevity, wishes you health.

Yellow: you make me feel disappointed, abandoned, despised, long-term friendship, gratitude to my mother, refusal, insulting, insulting, forever grateful, deep friendship.

There are many other colors of the carnation, but its meaning is inseparable from love. The carnation is a symbol of immortal maternal love, representing health and good wishes. Now we are often not good at expressing feelings, most of the time is "love you in the heart is difficult to say", since can not say, then with action to show, send a bunch of beautiful carnations to the beloved mother!

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