Tour 2018 Wuhan Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition These knowledge necessities

Abstract: chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in China. Nowadays, many people regard it as a flower of mourning, so what does it mean?

Chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in China. Nowadays, many people regard it as a flower of mourning. What on earth does it mean? If you know this, isn't it a way to go to the 2018 Wuhan Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition to appreciate flowers and righteousness?

The implication of Chrysanthemum in Ancient Times

As early as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were records of "September Rongju", and qu Yuan, a great romantic poet in China, compared himself to chrysanthemum. He waved ink in Li Sao, describing himself as "falling from autumn chrysanthemum" and "would rather be old on incense branches than dance with the east wind with yellow leaves". The founder of the real chrysanthemum culture was Tao Yuanming in the Jin Dynasty. This "chrysanthemum friend" accompanied the chrysanthemums day and night so that his residence was so deep that he was second to none. His "picking wild flowers by the fence and accidentally seeing Nanshan" made the chrysanthemum a hermit among the flowers.

Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty described the situation of "waiting until the day of Double-ninth Day in September to taste the chrysanthemum wine again" in the countryside to enjoy the chrysanthemum. In the Song Dynasty, it was the Chongyang Shengjing that "restaurants were tied up into caves with chrysanthemums". The Ming Dynasty poet Li Mengyang "only in this autumn, endure for chrysanthemums" and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "Maple leaves fall, frost flowers pile up white chrysanthemum" can be seen that the chrysanthemum wind flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The chrysanthemum poems in A Dream of Red Mansions are even more important. From the allusions of these chrysanthemums, we can clearly see the love of chrysanthemums by ancient poets. The chrysanthemum is blooming with frost, the pride of the west wind and its bearing of "this flower blossoms more without flowers" are endowed with unyielding noble sentiment, which has won people's admiration and admiration.

Chrysanthemums also express auspiciousness and longevity in Chinese history. Chrysanthemums bloom in September. "Nine" is the largest number in the number of units, which is called "to number" and "positive number." so chrysanthemums, like the double yang of 99, are endowed with the meaning of auspiciousness and longevity. The purpose of "picking wild flowers by the fence" is to eat the health benefits of chrysanthemums for health. "inadvertently seeing Nanshan" also means that "life expectancy is longer than Nanshan."

The context of the modern meaning of chrysanthemum

In ancient times, chrysanthemums were used to bless or praise the living, so why do chrysanthemums now become the flowers of funerals and use them to mourn the dead?

Sweeping tombs with chrysanthemums is the same as expressing love with roses, which is mainly the result of the spread of western customs to the east.

The word "chrysanthemum" appears in European dictionaries. After the Dutch introduced it from China in business at the end of the 17th century, the chrysanthemum was introduced into France in the 18th century and then introduced into Latin America in the mid-19th century. All over the world.

In Europe, chrysanthemums are most planted in cemeteries, because European traditional culture holds that chrysanthemums are the flowers of cemeteries, which must not be carried if they are a guest or a gift. In Latin America, chrysanthemums are also known as "demon flowers".

We can see its position in the West. With the invasion of Western culture, the meaning of chrysanthemum in the West has also been introduced into China. The mourning meaning of chrysanthemum has gradually replaced the meaning of hermit flower and become the well-known flower of graveyard.