What does the lily represent?
Today, I will explain to netizens what the lily represents, the flower language and related topics about the legend of flower cultivation. I believe it will be helpful to you, let's learn about it together!
The flower language of lilies is mostly positive and represents positive energy! The color of lilies commonly seen in our lives is white, symbolizing purity and majesty;
Moreover, lilies of different colors also have different flower languages. For example, the flower language of pink lilies is young and elegant, while that of yellow lilies is wealth and nobility.
Who should lilies be given to?
Pink lilies: Pink is the favorite color of girls, symbolizing sweetness and cuteness. Therefore, pink lilies are very suitable for lovers, with the good meaning of young and elegant. On important days such as Valentine's Day and Qixi Festival, giving pink lilies can be more creative than giving roses!
Yellow lilies: The color of yellow lilies looks shiny and is not very common. They also have a good ornamental effect when placed at home. However, yellow lilies have different meanings in different occasions. For example, giving them to patients symbolizes a wish for early recovery; if given to couples, it means the meaning of breaking up; if given to friends, it symbolizes eternal and stable friendship.
White lilies: White lilies are suitable for friends, lovers, and family, symbolizing deep love and a hundred years of good union.
There are four legends about lilies:
1. In one legend of lilies, it was said that there was a country called Shu in the Sui area of Sichuan province in ancient times. The monarch and the queen loved each other deeply, and they had a hundred princes.
After the monarch and the queen got older, the monarch married a young and beautiful concubine. The concubine gave birth to a young prince for the old monarch the second year after she entered the palace.
The old monarch was very happy to have a son at an old age and spoiled him greatly. However, the concubine thought differently. She thought that her own son would never be able to compete with the hundred princes born to the queen for the throne. So, she slandered the queen, saying that the queen had incited the hundred princes to rebel. The old monarch, being senile and unable to distinguish right from wrong, ordered the queen and the hundred princes to be banished from the country.
The neighboring country of Shu was called Dian. Dian had long been eyeing the land of Shu and wanted to invade it. Seeing that the monarch of Shu was so foolish and even banished his own son from the country, Dian believed the time had come and immediately launched an attack on Shu.
Although Shu was originally a strong country, the civil and military ministers, since seeing the monarch favoring the concubine, believing slander, and banishing the queen and princes, were all dispirited and unwilling to work for the monarch. Therefore, the army of Dian captured cities and soon approached the capital of Shu. The situation was extremely critical.
The monarch, being helpless, had to personally lead the troops. However, being old and physically weak, plus the loss of prestige, the soldiers in the army only cared about saving their own lives and no one was willing to charge. At this moment, the monarch suddenly saw a group of cavalry approaching from afar, not many in number, but very brave, charging into the enemy's camp and fierce fighting, actually routing the enemy and sending the remaining few into flight.
When the monarch led the army to meet them, he saw clearly that the seemingly divine aid was actually the hundred princes he had banished, along with their retainers.
At that time, the monarch was so happy and ashamed that he didn't know what to say. An old minister hurried over and said to the monarch, "Your Majesty, a united family prospers. You should bring the queen and the princes back to the palace. Only when the family is reunited can the country thrive." The crown prince said, "Father, you can rest assured. Mother has always taught us to unite and assist you together. We, the hundred brothers, will never separate and will strive to govern the country together." The monarch was so moved that he couldn't say a word.
Later, the queen and the hundred princes were indeed brought back, and the concubine also admitted her mistake. From then on, Shu became even stronger and more prosperous.
Shortly afterwards, a strange thing happened. In the high mountains where the princes fought against the enemy, an unusual plant grew out of nowhere. Later, people named it "lily" because of its underground stem layer叠合 characteristic and its association with the story of the hundred princes saving the king of Shu, giving it a symbolic meaning of brotherhood unity.
Later, modern people also compare lilies to love, symbolizing "a hundred years of good union"...
2. There is another legend about lilies that is said to be far away on a cliff, there grows a beautiful lily and a lily fairy lives there, but only those with good intentions can see it. If someone with evil intentions wants to pick it, they will find that the cliff disappears when they approach it, and when they walk away, they see the lily still standing on the top of the mountain.
The lily has been on this mountain for nearly a thousand years, waiting for someone who treats her sincerely to come one day. She can bear the endless loneliness for this.
One day, a boy heard about this rumor and went through countless difficulties to find it. Before entering the mountainous area, he smelled a refreshing fragrance that lifted his spirit, and he even seemed to hear the sound of silver bells laughing.
When he reached the top of the mountain, a lily was quietly growing there. As the breeze blew, it spun around like a girl dancing, a scene that cannot be described with words. The boy was stunned and couldn't say a word. There are such beautiful flowers in the world. Seeing it is like seeing one's dream lover!
The boy built a thatched cottage on the mountain so he could see the lily every day. He watered, fertilized, and shaded the lily. Whenever he had time, he would stare at the lily, his eyes burning as if it were his lover. He gently stroked the petals as if he were stroking his lover's face, murmuring his longing to it all day long.
Gradually, when the lily saw him, it would spin around, and when the wind blew, it would even emit a laugh, as if happy to see him. One day, a beautiful girl in white appeared next to the lily. This was the legendary lily fairy, and the boy's sincerity moved her. "Follow me," she said, "and I will make you happy."
The lily's bright eyes that had seen the world's joys and sorrows were shining at him. The boy's eyes showed no deceit, only sincerity and love. Perhaps he could be trusted. I have been lonely for a long time and can now enjoy the happiness of the world.
The boy said, "Let the moon and the mountains witness my love for you!" The boy held the lily and said, "I will never leave you. I will slowly accompany you to the ends of the world and grow old with you." The lily just leaned on his chest, feeling that she was no longer a floating cloud.
The next day, the lily left the cliff where she grew, taking only the lily plant with her. The boy took her to an inn and said, "Wait for me here, and I will come back to pick you up." The lily waited and waited until a month later, when she heard the sound of joyous music outside. She went out and saw the boy riding a horse, with his new bride in the flower sedan chair.
Hearing a crisp sound, the lily's pot of flowers fell to the ground, the petals falling one by one. As a gust of wind blew, it disappeared without a trace. The lily's face was covered with tears. At this time, it started to rain, and the people in the street saw the lily's figure gradually fade away, as if it had vanished like smoke! And the boy suddenly fell off the horse, unconscious. After he recovered, he could only say "lily" and nothing else.
It is said that on the road to the cliff where the lilies grow, overnight, it was covered with thorns, and small blue flowers bloomed on them. When people who heard this legend tried to find the legendary lily, they would faint for a day and a night as soon as they approached the small flowers. When they woke up, they would forget their purpose for coming. And the legendary lily and the lily fairy also became just legends. No one has seen them again!
3. There is a legend about lilies in Germany that almost everyone in the world knows. A girl named Alice lived with her mother in the Harz Mountains. One day, Duke Lomberg passed by in a carriage and saw Alice. He thought she was a fairy descending from heaven and immediately invited her to the city. He thought that as a duke with great power, he could do as he pleased.
Alice, however, refused. The duke would not give up and held the girl tightly. The girl screamed, calling for heavenly protection, and suddenly, with a divine wind, she disappeared. In her place, a lily grew, emitting a refreshing fragrance. This is the origin of the foreign legend of the lily. Lilies represent purity and respect, especially white lilies, which are highly regarded. In those times, girls wore white clothes and held a lily in their hands, symbolizing nobility and chastity. In many images of the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages, lilies were painted without stamens or pistils, meaning no sexual evil thoughts.
Lilies represent what meaning
4. In Greek mythology, there is another legend about lilies: Zeus, the god of gods, had a son named Hercules. He had accomplished 12 heroic deeds. Hercules heard that drinking the milk of the goddess Juno could make him immortal. However, it was not easy to obtain Juno's milk! Zeus thought of a plan, inviting the gods to a feast and intentionally arranging a large amount of Nectar (the drink of the gods) for Juno. Juno indeed got drunk. Zeus then called his son Hercules to suckle Juno's milk. Hercules sucked harder and harder, and the milk that couldn't be swallowed in time flowed to the ground, and wherever the milk flowed, a white and fragrant flower grew, which people called a lily.
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