Learn more about the symbolic meaning and language of chrysanthemum

Chinese traditional flowers. It is beautiful and colorful, but not to beautiful beauty, but to win simple and elegant firmness, bloom after the flowers wither. People love its delicate charm, but also love it Ling frost bloom, west wind does not fall a proud.

China endows it with noble and strong sentiment, and regards it as a symbol of national spirit and loved by people. As a flower of proud frost, chrysanthemum has always been favored by poets. The ancients especially loved chrysanthemum to name their lofty sentiment and unyielding.

Since the Song Dynasty, there has been an annual chrysanthemum festival among the people. Ancient myths and legends in the chrysanthemum and was given a good luck, longevity meaning. For example, chrysanthemum and magpie combination means "family happiness"; chrysanthemum and pine combination for "longevity" and so on, in the civil application is extremely wide.

Chrysanthemum and plum, orchid, bamboo, since ancient times is the mind of Chinese literati "four gentlemen." Chrysanthemum is not only the portrayal of Chinese literati personality and integrity, but also endowed with extensive and far-reaching symbolic significance.

1. The symbol of hermit

Since being favored by Mr. Tao Qian, chrysanthemum has become "the hermit of flowers". The book reads: "The tree is green, the tree is green." With this chaste and graceful posture, Zhuo is outstanding under the frost." It was precisely his yearning for a quiet and comfortable life. He leisurely picking chrysanthemum under the east fence, with the attitude of idyllic poet and recluse, endows chrysanthemum with unique extraordinary hermit demeanor, chrysanthemum has the spirituality of hermit since then.

2. The symbol of the fighter

A change in the image of chrysanthemum recluse, of course, to the number of late Tang peasant uprising leader Huang Chao. "The whispering west wind fills the courtyard, and the cold butterfly is hard to come." If he were a young man, he would be a young man." "When autumn comes, September 8, I will kill all the flowers after they bloom. The Soaring Incense Array penetrates Chang 'an, and the entire city is covered with golden armor." In his poems with obvious implications and tendencies, chrysanthemum has become a brave and strong fighter who has experienced many vicissitudes, pleading for the people and for heaven.

At the same time, Tang·Cen Shen "March nine days think Chang 'an hometown": strong desire to climb high, no one to send wine, distant pity hometown chrysanthemum, should be near the battlefield open. Chrysanthemum also became the representative of soldiers.

3. Symbolism of sadness