Russia
After the Russian Emperor Nicholas I ascended the throne in 1825, he sent generals to escort his mother Maria Feodorovna back to the imperial palace (now Pushkin City). Then the general went nearby and saw a sentry with a gun standing by the road, but the place he guarded was empty. The general was very surprised. He asked all the officials, but no one could make it clear, only that it was a rule of court etiquette. Later, he learned in St. Petersburg that the sentries in the Royal Garden had been set up for 50 years. The basis for setting up posts is a paper order to "set up a sentry at 500 steps outside the East Wing". Every time the general comes to Huangcun, he must look at this mysterious sentry post, and courtiers and even the queen herself are very interested in it. The secret of setting up a post finally came out. It turned out that Queen Catherine II was the first to order the establishment of posts. In those days, the queen often walked in the garden. One day, she found a blooming rose, beautiful and moving, and wanted to leave it to one of her grandchildren. So she ordered a guard to be set up beside the flowers to avoid being picked by others. But the next day, she forgot all about it, and the sentry watched it year after year. After the queen's death, of course, the rose bushes had already withered, but the sentries kept rotating in the same place. Long before roses appeared in Russian gardens, there were many colorful stories about roses around the world. Beautiful and touching legend.
India
According to ancient Indian mythology, roses are noble in India, and even the law expressly stipulates that anyone who offers roses to the emperor has the right to ask the emperor for everything he wants. At that time, Brahmins of the highest caste decorated their temples with roses and sprinkled bright roses on the avenue where they sacrificed to the Lord God. In the decorations of the emperor's bedroom, there is also the brilliance of roses, so roses are the most popular tribute flowers. Lakshmi is the goddess of beauty and happiness in Brahmanism and Hinduism, and is recognized as a peerless beauty. It is said that she was born as a rose bud consisting of 108 large petals and 1008 small petals. Vishnu, the sun god in the Vedas and the master of the universe, saw this charming beauty and immediately awakened her with a kiss and became his wife.
Iran
The legend of rose in ancient Iran enveloped the whole East like a fog. Because ancient Iranian poets praised beautiful roses, ancient Iran became a paradise for growth and reproduction. A Persian poet said that roses are a gift from God. Once all the plants came to ask God to appoint a new master to replace the water lily, because the water lily forgot her responsibility as a master at night. At the request of plants, God appointed the white rose with self-defense weapons as the queen of plants. The outer petals of some white roses are pink, which is also a beautiful story in Persian legend. It is said that the nightingale fell in love with the new high queen at first sight, and hugged the beautiful high queen selflessly. The sharp thorn pierced his heart at once, and deep red blood gushed from his chest, dyeing the rose petals red, so the outer petals of the white rose still retained the pink hue. Persians' love and worship of roses also infected Turks, more precisely, all Muslims.
Egypt
It is said that in 4 1 BC, Cleopatra, the beautiful queen of Egypt, conquered the suspicious Roman commander Marcus Antony with the magical power of rose petals. The story goes like this: in Roman custom, the small petals on the rose ring are sprinkled with wine at the banquet. Drinking this wine shows that you have deep respect for the person who sprinkled the petals. Anthony was wary of Cleopatra and worried that she would betray her, so he asked his attendants to taste all the delicious food on the table first. At that time, the queen ordered the poison to be sprinkled on the rose wreath. Anthony was drunk, made a solemn love oath to the queen, and then spilled the petals from her wreath into the glass. When he raised his glass, the queen snatched it from him and ordered the prisoner who was about to be executed to drink Anthony's wine. The prisoner was poisoned on the spot. Cleopatra said affectionately to Anthony, "Look, honey, I can live without you, and I can kill you easily …" Anthony was conquered.
Greece
Greece, the center of ancient world civilization, also regarded roses as a gift from God. In the works of Greek poets, the appearance of roses renders beautiful mythical colors. According to the poet, the rose was created by the snow-white foam on Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty (Venus in Roman mythology), when she was born from the seawater foam. When the goddess saw the roses on her body, they were as beautiful as the goddess, so she was amazed and sprinkled nectar that could make people live forever. Nectar makes the rose fragrant, but it has not withered forever, which is the result of jealousy among some gods. The origin of the red rose is a lingering legend in Greek mythology. Aphrodite's lover, God of Nature, and handsome man adonis were unfortunately injured by wild boar while hunting. When the goddess heard the news, she lost her mind and ran to the victim in adonis. On the way, the rose pricked her foot. Blood drops on the flowers, so the white rose becomes a red rose. Ross is pronounced "Luo" in Latin. The origin of this name has a legend in Roman mythology: Flora has no feelings for Amur, the flower god, and has been avoiding him for a long time. One day, the cunning Cupid shot her with the arrow of love, and Flora fell in love with it from then on, but Amor loved the new and hated the old, and abandoned Flora. When the goddess was disappointed, she decided to create a flower that would cry and laugh, mixed with sadness and joy to masturbate. When the goddess saw her magical creation, she couldn't help shouting out the name of her beloved "eros" (this is what the Greeks call the goddess of love). But because of shyness and excitement, she called it "Luo" and left out "Er", so she named it "ROSE". In addition to the colorful legends in mythology, the ancient Greeks also believed that roses had practical value. It is said that in the 5th century BC, Apathia, a famous geisha in Athens, had outstanding intelligence and moving colors. When she was a child, she had a wart on her cheek. Although she was treated by a famous doctor, it didn't work. Warts are destroying her beautiful appearance more and more, making her miserable. Fortunately, one day she dreamed that a beloved pigeon flew in from Aphrodite, and suggested that she collect withered petals on the forehead of the statue of the goddess (Greeks usually put roses on the goddess), make ointment, and apply it on the wart to cure it. Sure enough, Portia became the most gorgeous beauty in Greece and the wife of Pericles, a famous strategist and commander in chief in Athens.
Italy
In Greece, the rose is a symbol of love and beauty among the gods, but it is used to express the joy and sadness of human beings on earth. When roses took root and propagated in Rome, they gained new functions and symbols. * * * During the Republic of China, roses embodied lofty morality and rewarded meritorious deeds; During the decline of Rome, it became the most evil symbol, and it was a luxury that ruined the rich and powerful. At that time, flowers were all over the sea. At a banquet of Emperor Helio Gabarra, in order to satisfy the tyrant to the greatest extent, rose petals fell from the ceiling, countless petals fell on diners, and many guests were buried in the flowers and suffocated. It even produced a special industry: rose ring compiler; Also opened a unique rose exchange, with full-time brokers engaged in rose trading. The attitude of the Romans towards roses influenced the early Christians in western Europe. At first, they regarded roses as a symbol of fornication and destruction. But with the passage of time, roses finally changed people's prejudice with their beauty and fragrance. Hundreds of years later, the priests forgot the role of roses in the decline of the Roman Empire and declared roses as the flowers of heaven. A legend about the crucifixion of Jesus tells the story of the moss rose. When Jesus was crucified, the cross was dyed red with blood. The little angels collected blood in a golden jar, and a few drops of blood fell on the moss. Moss immediately absorbed these blood drops to prevent the blood of the savior from being desecrated. Gorgeous moss roses came to the world from now on, so that people will always remember the blood spilled by the savior for human sins.
China
This is a story that happened in China, an ancient oriental country, 3544 years ago. Among the many disciples of the Buddha, there is such a pair of men and women ... the enthusiasm of men; Just like the name: love! A woman's character is gentle, just like her name: lover! One day, when they were studying Buddhism together; I found two flowers in bud on a hill, because I have never seen such a flower and I don't know its name. They are all curious. The man wanted to take it off and have a look, but he was accidentally stung by a flower, and bright red blood immediately flowed out; The woman picked up his hand and inadvertently shed a tear, which fell at the same time as the drop of blood on the man's hand and fell in those two flowers respectively ... they are both Buddhists; They couldn't be together, so they broke up with a smile; The man went to the sky; Woman, go underground! When he came back, he and she both had better names ... The man changed his name to Yue Lao, and he hoped that the woman would not remember him, but his job was to make couples remember each other; Holding that little red line in his hand; However, how many people know that those little red lines are actually the bright red blood he dripped ... The woman changed her name to: Meng Po, who wants the man to forget her, and her job is lucky to cook soup, commonly known as "Meng Po Tang". How many people know that those bowls of "Meng Po Tang" are actually her tears ... Love must have flowers, so those two.