The flower words and legends of epiphyllum

Epiphyllum is a famous ornamental flower, commonly known as the beauty under the moon, Qionghua, etc., is an epiphytic succulent shrub of the cactus family. When the summer and autumn festival makes the sky full of stars and the dead of night, epiphyllum will open and show beauty and beauty, but the flowering time is very short and fleeting, which often wins the strong interest of flower lovers. Let's take a look at the flower words and legends of epiphyllum.

The flower words of epiphyllum

A moment of beauty, a moment of eternity. Epiphyllum blossoms for a very short time, so there is a "flash in the pan", people use a flash in the pan to describe good things that do not last, similar idioms are between fingers, flint, fleeting, fleeting, and so on.

The life of epiphyllum

Epiphyllum flowering season is generally from June to October, flowering time is generally after 8 o'clock in the evening, blooming time is only 5: 10 minutes, very short. When epiphyllum blossoms, the kaleidoscope slowly tilts up, slowly opens the purple coat, and then the snow-white flowers composed of more than 20 petals bloom. But only 3 or 4 hours later, the Corolla closed and the flowers withered quickly, which was really a flash in the pan.

The legend of epiphyllum

Epiphyllum was originally a flower god. She blossoms every day and the four seasons are brilliant. She also fell in love with the young man who watered her and weeded her every day. Later, the Jade Emperor learned that the Jade Emperor was furious and wanted to break up the mandarin ducks. The Jade Emperor caught the God of Flowers, demoted her to epiphyllum, which could only bloom for a moment every year, prevented her from seeing her lover again, and sent the young man to Lingjiu Mountain to become a monk and named Weituo to make him forget the past and forget the God of Flowers.

After many years, Weituo really forgot the god of flowers, devoted himself to practicing Buddhism, and gradually achieved something. But the flower god can never forget the young man who used to take care of her. She knew that every year in late spring, Weituo would come down the mountain to collect Chaolu fried tea for the Buddha. So epiphyllum chose to open at that time. She blossomed the spirit that had been gathered for a whole year in that moment. She hoped that Weituo would look back at her and remember her.

But thousands of years later, Wei Tuo came down the mountain year after year to collect morning dew. Blooming silently for a year in the pan. Weituo never remembered her. Until one day a thin man walked past the epiphyllum and saw the melancholy and lonely feelings of the flower god. He stopped and asked the flower god, "Why are you sad?" . The flower god is amazed, because mortals can not see the real body of the flower god. If there is a golden light on the head of Da Luo Jinxian, the one who has just passed by is obviously a mortal, how can he see his true body? Hua Shen hesitated for a moment but replied, "you can't help me." He waited silently for Weituo to stop answering the man's words.

Forty years later, the skinny man walked past the epiphyllum again and asked the sentence 40 years ago, "Why are you sad?" The flower god hesitated for a moment again and replied, "you may not be able to help me." The skinny man smiled and left. Forty years later, a thin old man reappeared at the Flower God, and the originally thin old man looked even more dying. The man at that time had become an old man, but he still asked the same words as 80 years ago, "Why are you sad?" . Epiphyllum replied, "Thank you, a mortal. You have asked me three times in your life, but after all, you are mortal and dying. How can you help me? I am a flower god punished by heaven for love." The old man smiled and said, "I'm Peggy. I just came to break the fate that didn't work out 80 years ago." God of Flowers, I have come to send you a sentence: the fate of fate will come to an end, and the flowers will blossom and return to dust. " Then the old man closed his eyes and sat down.

As time went by, the last ray of the setting sun began to cross from the old man's hair to his eyes. The old man smiled and said, "A flash in the pan is Weituo. Why is there anything wrong with such a situation? heaven and earth punish me, and I will open it when there is no eye in the sky." the old man grabbed the flower god, and at this time the setting sun slipped into the old man's eyes, and the old man died and went to Buddha with him. The god of flowers met Weituo in the kingdom of Buddha. Weituo finally remembered the karma of the previous life, and the Buddha knew that the karma of Weituo came down to earth. Because the old man of I.M.'s violated the rules of heaven, his soul wandered all his life. You cannot travel to the west by crane, nor can you enter the Pure Land of the Buddha in the East. In the end, you will be punished by heaven and there will never be reincarnation.

A flash in the pan, only for Weituo. So the epiphyllum is also known as Wei Tuohua. Also because epiphyllum met Weituo after sunset, epiphyllum blossomed at night.