The Flower language and symbolic meaning of Bauhinia

Bauhinia, also known as safflower Bauhinia, is native to China and is known abroad as "safflower camel hoof tree". It is the flower of the Hong Kong Special Administrative region. Do you know the flower language and symbolic meaning of Bauhinia? Let's take a look at the language and symbolic meaning of the bauhinia flower with the editor.

The Flower language of Bauhinia

Family affection, brotherly harmony, family prosperity.

The symbolic significance of Bauhinia

Bauhinia blossoms, a branch, a turn, such as dyed, picturesque. Wandering in the heart of how much concern, the wind blowing bauhinia, countless flowers, let the melancholy poet to see things miss relatives, the brotherly love that accompanied day and night is gone forever like the fallen flowers that have not returned.

In the flower shadow, do you feel the eyes that look forward to the return of the traveler in the distance, making you feel the warmth of a touch of family affection? Being invited into the courtyard has become a traditional courtyard tree. Bauhinia takes root deeply in the courtyard of the common people, which has always been a symbol of family and beauty, flesh and blood, and has become a representative plant of kinship.

The allusions of Bauhinia

1. Legend of Flower language

In early spring, the bauhinia blossoms at the smell of spring, and the gorgeous flowers are densely covered with every branch of the whole tree. the flowers have the same color as roses, shaped like a flock of flying butterflies, dense layers, covered with purples. The reason why the bauhinia flower is used to compare family affection, symbolizing brotherly harmony and family prosperity stems from an allusion:

It is said that during the Southern Dynasty, Jingzhao Yin Tian Zhen was separated from his brothers Tian Qing and Tian Guang, and when other property had been separated, he finally found that there was a Bauhinia tree with sparse branches and flowers in the yard. That night, the three brothers discussed to cut the bauhinia tree into three sections, each divided into a section. Early the next morning, when the three brothers went to cut down the tree, they found that all the branches and leaves of the bauhinia tree had withered and all the flowers had withered. Seeing this, Tian Zhen could not help sighing to his two brothers, "people are not as good as wood."

Later, the three brothers put their families together again and lived in harmony. The bauhinia tree seemed to understand human nature, and then it came back to life and grew luxuriantly.

2. Myths and legends

According to legend, Bauhinia is not called Bauhinia but Wusang, the black mulberry tree is the sacred tree of the Heavenly Palace, the flowers can stay in Yan Meifa, and the leaves can take a bath. The root can prolong life, so it becomes the queen mother's favorite flower. In order not to let it wander the world, she put the flower seeds in a secret place, except for her favorite Zixia fairy who weaves colorful clouds, no one knows where she puts the flower seeds.

Later, the Zixia fairy, who was protected by the Queen Mother, went so far as to come down to earth privately, and became husband and wife under the pseudonym Zhinu and Niulang, which became a story widely spread throughout the ages. This is a story known to both women and scholars in China.

Later, when the Queen Mother knew about it, she angrily took the Zixia fairy back to Heaven and locked her up in a small room as a sign of punishment. later, after her anger gradually subsided, she was allowed to meet with Niuquelang Bridge on the seventh day of July every year. She also asked her to continue to look after the black mulberry trees in the Heavenly Palace to relieve her loneliness.

Zixia fairy eagerly looked forward to the annual magpie bridge meeting with Niulang. When she asked the villagers in the village, the cowherd shook his head sadly and told her that the villagers in the village had a strange disease, itching all over, dry hair, and the village was in a mess. Hearing this, the Zixia fairy thought of the black mulberry tree in the Heavenly Palace, which can cure all kinds of diseases and purple flowers. Why not let the mulberry seeds be scattered all over the world for the benefit of the people? When she thought of it, the Zixia fairy asked the cowherd to wait for a moment. She came to the place where the Queen Mother treasured the mulberry seeds, secretly took out the lanolin jade bottle full of mulberry seeds, returned to the cowherd, and told the cowherd the function and use of the mulberry species, so that he could bring the seeds back to the earth to plant widely, and use the mulberry tree to cure the strange diseases of the villagers.

When the Zixia fairy gave the bottle to the cowherd, the erhu god had discovered the action of the bauhinia fairy, and the Erlang god broke off to drink "bold!" How dare you take the gods and things of heaven with you? why don't you hand them over as soon as possible! " Hearing this, the cowherd panicked, and the Zixia fairy saw that the situation was not good. She immediately took out the lanolin jade bottle, pulled out the cork, and poured all the mulberry seeds into the world. The mulberry seeds fluttered and fell on the earth. The kind of seeds took root and sprouted in the face of water. It has become the most prosperous and beautiful bauhinia forest in the world.

Later, the villagers bathed the whole body with the leaves and roots of mulberry trees, and the strange disease was cured. In memory of the kind and beautiful Zixia fairy, people call this kind of tree Bauhinia, and this kind of flower is called Bauhinia, because the folklore saying of this kind of flower is: "unswerving, never give up." So the bauhinia is given to their loved ones by many young people as a token of love.