What does the butterfly symbolize? I believe everyone is no stranger to butterflies. Butterfly is a common insect, which has certain symbolic significance in China. Next, I will take you to know more about what the butterfly symbolizes.
What does the butterfly symbolize? 1 1. In ancient times, there was a legend that "Liang Zhu became a butterfly". Butterflies have been used to symbolize the beautiful and true love between life and death since ancient times.
2. "Butterfly Qi Fei" is often used as an ornament to express wishes for the bride and groom to grow old together.
3. The homonym of "butterfly" of butterfly and auspicious "blessing" is also considered as a symbol of auspiciousness.
4. Butterflies emerge from their cocoons and become beautiful from ugliness, which is a symbol of freedom and success. These are the common meanings and symbols of butterflies.
Butterfly implication related information:
Butterflies are loyal to their lovers and have only one partner in their lives. They are one of the loyal representatives of the insect world. Butterflies are considered as symbols of good luck and beauty. Such as butterflies and butterflies, are often used to symbolize sweet love and happy marriage, which shows the pursuit of perfection and beauty of human beings. Also, because butterflies are homophonic, they are also used to describe longevity.
Butterflies are famous for their beautiful patterns, symmetrical patterns and dazzling colors. There are more than13,000 species, such as Cuifeng butterfly and Tiger butterfly. What people can really see with their own eyes are only prepared specimens and ornamental butterflies in the National Botanical Garden. It is just a romantic legend to let these beautiful spirits truly exist around us and be within reach.
Today, however, we have turned this legend into reality. On the wedding day, we received a beautiful living thing and made a beautiful wish at the same time, symbolizing a free and romantic butterfly, dancing slowly from your hand, letting go of our ideals and wishes, and making ourselves the protagonist in the legend. How amazing! Therefore, flying butterflies will surely become a fashionable brand-new wedding culture!
What does the butterfly symbolize? 2. The image of butterflies has a lot to do with people in China. When it comes to China music, we always think of the violin concerto Butterfly Lovers. Butterfly Lovers is the most famous butterfly story in China. When it comes to China's philosophy, we think of Zhuangzi. One of Zhuangzi's most famous philosophical metaphors is the dream butterfly.
In the usual psychological consultation, when I analyze the psychological image for the counselor, the image of butterfly appears frequently; When reading the works of Jung and other western psychologists, we often mention the images of other animals, but it is difficult to see butterflies. Is butterfly a symbol of some psychological characteristics of China people?
In the world of psychological symbols, the meaning of butterfly is mixed: it can symbolize freedom and beauty, as well as soul and death. The most important symbolic meaning of butterfly is transformation: the ugly caterpillar will become a beautiful elf, which is the most striking transformation.
Let's start with the story and do some psychological analysis on the butterfly image.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are classmates. Because ancient women were not allowed to go out to study, Zhu Yingtai, as a studious woman, dressed as a man to go to school. She and Liang Shanbo's classmates read * * *, and they have deep feelings, but Liang Shanbo never knew Zhu Yingtai's female identity. When Zhu Yingtai came home, Liang Shanbo went to see her off. On the way, Zhu Yingtai hinted at Liang Shanbo's female identity and suggested that he propose to Jia Zhu. Liang Shanbo did not immediately understand these hints. After he understood what they meant, he hurried to Zhu Jia, but Zhu Jia had forced Zhu Yingtai to marry someone else. Zhu Yingtai died of depression and illness because he didn't want to marry anyone else. Liang Shanbo went to her grave to pay his respects. The grave was opened and Liang Shanbo jumped in. He and Zhu Yingtai became two butterflies and lived together.
The ancients believed that death was not the end, but the transformation. The death of the body may be the liberation of the soul, just like a butterfly flying out of a pupa.
In Liang Zhu's story, butterflies symbolize beautiful love. Not only that, it also symbolizes freedom. In the story, the reason why Liang and he can't be together is that Zhu Jia intervened in the marriage. In ancient China, marriage was entirely decided by parents, and I had no right to make my own choices. The freedom of marriage has brought great pain to many young people. One of the meanings of Liang Zhu becoming a butterfly is that as butterflies, they are now free.
Besides freedom, or closely related to freedom, are death and soul. Butterflies also often symbolize death. In Liang Zhu's story, they will also become butterflies when they die. Butterfly can symbolize death because it is light and can fly, which is very consistent with the characteristics of the soul in people's minds. Another feature of butterfly is that it has a deformation process. Its larvae become pupae and then butterflies. The larva of a butterfly is so different from its appearance that no one can tell from its appearance that they are the same kind of life. This feature is the same as China's ancient view of death. The ancients believed that death was not the end, but the transformation. The death of our bodies may be the liberation of our souls.
We can also say that the thick and stupid flesh of larvae symbolizes real life, while the light and colorful wings of butterflies symbolize the spiritual world. The symbolic significance of Becoming a Butterfly is that the reality may not be beautiful, but the spiritual world can be beautiful, just like a butterfly. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai failed in the real world, but they had a wonderful life in the spiritual world. The grave is actually the pupa of Liang Zhu, where they hatch themselves into a beautiful spiritual existence of love.
In Zhuang Zhou's mind, death is not necessarily free from the bondage of body and reality, and butterfly is the most suitable image to express this meaning.
Zhuang Zhou said: "When I dream, I am a butterfly-did I become a butterfly in Zhuang Zhou's dream?" Or did the butterfly wake up and become Zhuang Zhou? " Why did Zhuang Zhou use butterflies as a metaphor instead of comparing himself to rabbits or pigs? The reason is the same. Because Zhuang Zhou is thinking about life and death, thinking about what death is. In Zhuang Zhou's mind, living is not necessarily better than death; Death is not necessarily a release from the bondage of body and reality, so he chose the most suitable image to express this meaning-butterfly.
Butterflies are beautiful, but fragile. It has no strong body. In the sense of psychological symbol, butterfly symbolizes a beautiful, detached, sensitive and fragile character.
Butterfly is a dream of China people. The content of the dream is "a beautiful soul that a person should have".
In the culture of China, there are many butterflies.
Under the oppression of violent politics in feudal autocratic society, although these butterflies have good wishes, they have no strength to fight. They can only pin their hopes on another world: the dream world, the fantasy world and the world after death. With the help of Taoist or Buddhist theories, they told themselves that the world after death might be better. All kinds of dissatisfaction in life are seeking compensation in another world. Their psychological energy is not enough for them to resist all kinds of pains and troubles in life, so they use religion and fantasy to escape from reality and this ugly real world.
Among China literati, there should be many people dreaming of butterflies. These people do not have the psychological strength to turn the real society into an ideal society, or even the courage to change their own destiny. They are too fragile.
Butterflies are also the dream of China people. The content of the dream is "a beautiful soul that a person should have". Whenever I hear butterfly lovers's beautiful melody, my sadness comes out of my heart. I hope we can be braver, don't let the soul leave, and make the world more real and beautiful because of us.
Butterfly's self-defense warning color
The postman butterfly has red and black wings, and its bright stripes clearly show that this butterfly is poisonous and predators should stay away from them. But it is actually non-toxic.
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Nymphalidae belongs to Nymphalidae. The world famous mimetic butterfly. Distributed in the southwest and central parts of China, in the low altitude areas of the Himalayas. When it stops, its wings are tightly folded and erected, which hides its body deeply and exposes the ventral surface of its wings. The belly is completely bronzed and looks like dead leaves in autumn, which often changes with the seasons. The color and shape are the same as those of leaves. A black stripe and thin line runs through the middle of the front and rear wings, much like the midvein and branching vein of a leaf; At the end of the hind wing, there is a "tail" very similar to the petiole. The dead-leaf butterfly is still on the branch, so it is difficult to tell whether it is a butterfly or a leaf.
In order to avoid injury and survival, besides the warning color and mimicry mentioned above, butterflies also have the instinct to take various self-defense ways to scare off foreign enemies, such as:
When the male butterfly is caught, it can turn out a pair of excretory glands at its ventral end, and immediately emits a stench, which makes natural enemies such as insect-eating birds have to give up to avoid harm.
There is a stinking horn in the center of the front edge of the chest of Papilio larvae. When it is frightened, the forked smelly horn turns out immediately, and the smelly liquid volatilizes, so that the enemy hates it and avoids its harm.
Another example is that the ⅴ-instar larvae of Papilio formosana are frightened, and when they turn out the smelly horns, they also make the three pectoral segments protrude into an extra-large triangle, which cooperates with the three black spots above to form a threatening posture like a poisonous snake, so as to defend themselves.
For example, when the ⅴ-instar larva of Papilio Papilio is frightened, it can lift the first five sections of the insect's body, and with the unique markings on its ventral surface, it looks like the posture before the cobra attack, threatening foreign enemies, which is intriguing.
Shape characteristics of butterflies
The body shape is mostly between 5~ 10cm, and the body is divided into head, chest and abdomen; Two pairs of wings; Three feet. There are a pair of hammer-shaped antennae on the head, with thick ends and wide wings, which stand on the back when resting. Butterfly antenna is rod-shaped, and each node at the end of the antenna is thick and hammer-shaped. The body and wings are flattened by scaly hairs. The abdomen is slender. The largest is Papilio Queen Alexandra in eastern New Guinea, with a female wingspan of 3 1cm. The smallest butterfly in Afghanistan has a wingspan of only 7 mm, and its mouthparts are mouthparts. Feet are walking feet; Wings are scale wings; Totally perverted.
The scales on the wings of butterflies not only make them colorful, but also serve as raincoats for butterflies. Because the scales of butterfly wings are rich in fat and can protect butterflies, butterflies can fly even if it rains lightly.
What does the butterfly symbolize? Butterflies are called the beauty of the insect kingdom. Whether in ancient poems or jade carvings, butterflies are always the small insects with the highest frequency. The ancients loved butterflies mostly to express their feelings.
Sincere love is one of the meanings of butterflies. The love story of "Liang Zhu become a butterfly" has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, so a pair of Qi Fei butterflies will be used in the jade carving to express the praise of pure love. And such a jade butterfly is most suitable for giving to a lover to express loyalty to love.
Freedom is also one of the meanings of butterflies. Butterflies fly freely among the flowers, symbolizing the enviable pastoral life. This is also the life that everyone yearns for in modern high-pressure society. Isn't this the emotion expressed by "Saint Zhuangzi daydreaming, bewitched by butterflies"?
Although rural life is far away from us, wearing jade butterflies can also make people feel the free and easy meaning of butterflies yearning for freedom.
Breaking the shackles is also one of the meanings of butterflies. The process of breaking a cocoon into a butterfly is painful. Only through hardships can you become a dancing butterfly, and so can people. Only when he dares to break the shackles and thrive in a tough environment will he soar like a butterfly. Wearing jade butterfly can always remind yourself to persist in struggle, live and struggle.