Jasmine language and legends

What is the flower language of jasmine? Jasmine is pure, full-bodied, Qingfen and long. Its flower language expresses loyalty, respect, purity, chastity, simplicity, exquisite and charming. Many countries regard it as a flower of love. Young men and women send jasmine to each other to express their steadfast love. It is also passed on among people as a flower of friendship, putting a jasmine wreath around the neck of the guests to make it hang to the chest, showing respect and friendship, and becoming a kind of hospitality etiquette.

The floral language of jasmine

Jasmine is pure, full-bodied, Qingfen and long, with the meaning of loyalty, purity, chastity, simplicity, exquisite and charming.

1. Show loyalty and chastity. Jasmine represents pure and sincere love in love, there is no false ingredient, expressing faithful love, many countries regard it as the flower of love, and young people use it as a gift to their girlfriends to show their loyal love to each other.

Show respect and respect. When distinguished guests visit, the hospitable host forms a wreath of jasmine and hangs it around the guest's neck to show respect and friendship, which is a kind of hospitality etiquette. In solemn occasions such as weddings, it is also a very suitable decorative flower, and it is often used in the bride's bouquet.

The legend of jasmine

It is said that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there lived a farmer surnamed Zhao in Huqiu, Suzhou. His wife and three sons lived in poverty. Zhao Lao Han went out to make a living, settled in the countryside of Guangdong, and came back every two or three years to see. The wife and son are farming at home. As the child grew older, he divided the land into three sections, each of which was dominated by planting tea trees. One year, when Zhao Laohan came home, he brought back a bunch of flower saplings and only said that they were fragrant flowers liked by southerners. Zhao Laohan planted on the edge of his eldest son's tea field whether he liked it or not. A year later, small white flowers blossomed on the tree, which, though fragrant, did not arouse much interest from the villagers. One day, the son of the Zhao family was surprised to find that the tea branch had the aroma of small white flowers. Immediately checked the whole tea field, all with fragrance. He quietly picked a basket of tea and went to Suzhou to try it out. Unexpectedly, the fragrant tea was so popular that it sold out in a moment. This year, the eldest son made a fortune selling fragrant tea, and the news finally spread. When the two younger brothers learned of this, they got even with their elder brother, thinking that his brother's fragrant tea was caused by the fragrant flowers planted by his father, and that the money his brother had for selling tea should be shared equally among the three. The brothers quarreled all the time, and the two brothers wanted to destroy the fragrant flowers by force.

There is an old hermit in the village, named Dai Kui, who is deeply respected by the masses. Zhao's three brothers all went to Dai's house and asked him to judge. Dai Kui said: "the three of you are brothers and should be close to each other. In the future, you are going to get married, have children, and be parents. You can't be torn apart just for a little immediate benefit." When my brother found the fragrant tea, he sold more money, which is a good thing, and the whole family should be happy. When the God of Wealth Bodhisattva enters your house, you fight instead. How can there be such a stupid thing? You know where the God of Wealth is, these fragrant flowers. Breed and develop these fragrant flowers, and every man will plant fragrant flowers in his tea field, and all his brothers will sell fragrant tea, and everyone will be rich. Now that your fragrant flowers are famous, what if the bad guys want to steal them? Brother shift nursing, it is necessary to unite as one. If you are all selfish and do not put everyone's interests first, how will things happen? In order for you to remember my words, I give your fragrant flowers a flower name, which is called Malihua, which means to deal with people and things, and put self-interest at the end. " The three brothers were moved by the words of Master Dai. After returning home, we will live in harmony and unite in production, and our lives will become richer year by year.

Later, Suzhou jasmine became a famous local product. How many years later, Suzhou jasmine tea is famous everywhere. The jasmine flower was written as a jasmine flower, which was changed by the literati for the sake of the beauty of the character, but the meaning of Maoli is still retained in the hearts of the masses.

In the Tang Dynasty, a famous prostitute in Suzhou had a brothel named Zhen Niang, who came from a scholarly family in Changan, Kyoto. Smart and beautiful from an early age, good at singing and dancing, good at piano and chess, good at calligraphy and painting. In order to escape the an-Shi Rebellion, he fled south with his parents, got separated from his family on the road, lived in Suzhou, and was lured to Shantang Street "Le Yun Lou" brothel. Because of her talent and beauty, she soon became famous, but she only performed, did not sell her body, and kept her body like jade. At that time, there was a son of a rich family named Wang Yinxiang in Sucheng, with a good character and several talents. Unexpectedly, she fell in love with the real mother in the green house and wanted to marry her. Because she had been decided by her parents when she was young, she had to politely refuse her marriage. Wang Yinxiang still did not stop, bribed the procuress with a lot of money and wanted to stay at the real mother's place. The real Niang felt that it was difficult to disobey and hanged herself for the sake of chastity. When Wang Yinxiang learned of this, he was frustrated and extremely sad. Spent a lot of money to bury the real Niang in the scenic spot Huqiu, and carved a monument to commemorate it, carrying flowers and planting trees on the tomb, known as the "flower grave", and vowed never to marry again. Every time the literati passed the tomb of the true mother, they could not help but take pity on the beauty of the unique generation, and wrote poems on the tomb one after another.

It is said that the jasmine had no fragrance before the mother died, and its soul was attached to the flower after her death. From then on, the jasmine was fragrant, so it was called jasmine, and jasmine tea was also called fragrant soul tea.