The Meaning and Symbolism of Michelia Figo
Let's talk about the meaning and symbolism of Michelia figo and briefly describe the related knowledge of its symbolic significance, details as follows:
Michelia figo
Scientific name: Michelia figo (Lour.) Spreng.
Also known as: smiling beauty, smiling plum, hill node, white magnolia, tang huangxin tree, banana flower, banana shrub
Evergreen shrub, 2-3 meters high, bark gray-brown, branches dense; leaves leathery, narrowly elliptical or obovate-elliptical, blooming period March-May, fruiting period July-August.
Native to southern provinces of South China, with wild ones found in Dinghu Mountain, Guangdong, growing in the shade of mixed forests. Fragrant flower wood, bracts smooth as jade, fragrance subtle as orchid.
Michelia figo flower language: constraint, reserve, beauty, dignity, purity, noble, dignified.
Because the flower of Michelia figo blooms but does not open, seems to smile but not speak, this characteristic greatly represents the implicit and suggestive meaning of Chinese people. Therefore, its flower language is: reserve and constraint.
The Legend of Michelia Figo
It is said that during the Song Dynasty in Lin'an, there was a loving couple, Yang Naicai and Li Xiuying, who were both good at poetry and painting and were very much in love. However, soon the Yuan army invaded Lin'an, and facing the fall of the nation and the separation of life and death, Yang Naicai took the mirror from his wife's dressing table and smashed it into several pieces, giving half to his wife and keeping the other half himself. He told Li Xiuying: with your talent and appearance, you will definitely be sent to a noble family, you must live well, and if I survive by chance, I will come to the market to sell broken mirror pieces on the 15th of every month, in hopes of reuniting the broken mirror.
The Meaning and Symbolism of Michelia Figo
As expected by Yang Naicai, Li Xiuying was indeed sent to the residence of Minister Wang Baochao and became his concubine. But she missed Yang Naicai day and night, and every 15th of the month, Li Xiuying would send someone to the agreed market to buy mirror fragments. Five years passed, and after experiencing various hardships, Yang Naicai and Li Xiuying were finally reunited.
Yang Naicai and Li Xiuying returned to their hometown and lived a peaceful and loving life among the people. Thirty years later, the couple, both 88 years old, passed away on the same day, same month, and same year. Later, a tree grew on their joint grave, the flowers of which only opened but did not release, resembling a smiling face, extremely beautiful and fragrant, which is Michelia figo.
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