Peony, a national beauty and fragrant, has always been regarded by Chinese people as a symbol of wealth, auspiciousness, happiness and prosperity. I have sorted out the meaning and flower language of peonies, hoping to help everyone!
The flower language of peonies
The flower language of peonies: perfection, passion, wealth, grace and splendor.
Autumn Peony: life, expectation, light love.
Red Peony: A red flower with a generous shape, it is called the king of flowers. Its flower language is "wealth and perfection", and its attribute is fire.
Purple Peony: A peony with purple petals. Its flower language is "embarrassing" and its attributes are dark.
White Peony: Noble, dignified and elegant, elegant, beautiful and trustworthy, it is the highest compliment to a woman and the most desirable gift in a woman's heart.
Green peony: life, expectation, light love, dedication.
Black Peony: Love even to the death. In fact, there is no pure black peony in the peony family. People are accustomed to calling dark red and dark purple peonies black peonies.
Pink peony: graceful and luxurious.
The meaning of the peony flower
The peony, a national beauty and fragrant, has always been regarded by Chinese people as a symbol of wealth, luck, happiness and prosperity. Since the Tang Dynasty, peonies have been praised as "the beauty of the country and the fragrance of heaven". Peony dominates the crowd and has a noble status. Poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote poems such as "It takes twenty days for flowers to bloom and fall, and everyone in the city is crazy" and Liu Yuxi's poems such as "Only peonies are the true national beauty, and they move the capital when they bloom."
Among bonsai flowers, peony is the king of flowers, with royal style and high grade. It is the most ideal choice to give to relatives and friends to express sincere wishes and high respect.
White peonies are placed in offices and bedrooms. When you see her beauty, it gives people a comfortable visual enjoyment. Seeing things, thinking about people, enlightening life, making you wise and far-sighted, and inspiring deep inner inspiration. . Displayed in hotels and guesthouse business areas symbolizes prosperous business. White peony symbolizes style: kingly style, and people’s pursuit and yearning for beautiful things.
Yellow peony: bright, rich and luxurious.
Symbolic meaning
People in the Tang Dynasty loved peonies even more. During the peony blooming season, a peony festival was held, and the people of Chang'an came out of the city, drunk and crazy. The palace also loved peonies. The poet Li Zhengfeng praised them as "the beauty of the country" and "the fragrance of heaven". The Emperor of Tang Dynasty greatly appreciated it. "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" has since become another nickname for peony. Peony, with its unique richness, splendor and luxuriance, is regarded as a symbol of prosperity, happiness and peace in traditional Chinese consciousness.
Peonies are large and gorgeous flowers and have always been regarded as a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Legend has it that Wu Zetian, the first empress of our country, ordered all flowers to bloom at the same time in the winter season. All the flowers did not dare to disobey, but peonies refused to bloom, showing their steadfastness. In anger, Wu Zetian demoted Peony to a banquet. Luoyang. Peony has therefore won more people's love and appreciation. To this day, Luoyang’s peonies are still very famous. Peonies are rich in color and have different metaphorical meanings:
Peonies are unique and precious flowers in my country. They are graceful, dignified, and rich in fragrance. They are known as "the beauty of the country and the fragrance of the sky". They are known as wealth, good luck, and prosperity. A symbol of prosperity.
The historical origin of peony flowers
The origin of peony culture, if peonies entered poetry in the Book of Songs, has a history of about 3,000 years ago. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, peony was recorded in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" as a medicinal plant, and peony has entered pharmacology. The image of peony already appeared in the famous painting Luo Shen Fu by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yang Zihua of the Northern Qi Dynasty painted peonies, and peonies have entered the field of art. During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty established an area of ????two hundred miles in Luoyang as the Xiyuan Garden. From that time on, peonies were cultivated artificially and entered the royal gardens for the first time.
A large number of peony poems emerged in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Yuxi's "Only peonies are the true national color, and the flowers move the capital when they bloom." "It takes twenty days for the flowers to bloom and fall, and everyone in the city goes crazy" and other eternal masterpieces describe the grand splendor of peonies in Chang'an. In addition to the publication of a large number of peony poems, there are also peony poems and poems, such as "Peony Ode" by Shu Yuanyu of the Tang Dynasty, "Peony Ode" by Li Deyu, etc.
Luoyang in the Northern Song Dynasty made outstanding contributions to the formation of Chinese peony culture. By the Northern Song Dynasty, peonies began to move out of the palace courtyards and into ordinary people's homes, forming peony folk customs, which led to the emergence of a large number of new varieties and a large number of peony works, such as Ouyang Xiu's "Luoyang Peony", Zhang Xun's "Luoyang Flower Book", Lu You's "Tianpeng Peony Book", Qiu Jun's "Peony Honor and Disgrace", Zhang Bangji's "Chenzhou Peony Story", etc. (Peony wg365.org) A large number of poems and songs describing peonies emerged, and China's unique peony culture began to take shape. People in the Song Dynasty highly respected peonies. Not only did visiting peonies become a folk custom and an activity that all people participated in, but peonies also became one of the main materials in poetry, painting, porcelain, weaving and embroidery, sculpture, religion and other fields. The formed peony culture penetrated into all aspects of social life, and peony fashion surpassed that of the Tang Dynasty.
Yao Sui of the Yuan Dynasty had "Preface to Peony", Ming Dynasty Gao Lian had "Peony Flower Pu", Wang Xiangjin had "Qunfang Pu", Xue Fengxiang had "Bozhou Peony History", and Qing Dynasty Wang Hao had "Guangzhou Peony Pu". "Qunfang Pu", Su Yumei's "Cao Nan Peony Pu", Yu Peng's "Caozhou Peony Pu", etc. Peony poems and lyrics scattered in various works and anthologies of the past dynasties, peony legends and stories throughout folk flower towns, as well as peony cultural phenomena in sculpture, carving, painting, music, drama, clothing, daily life, food, etc., are not uncommon. .
After liberation, peony planting developed rapidly, peony culture was gradually valued, and a large number of peony researchers and experts emerged. Peony culture is compatible with many sciences and its composition is very broad. It includes all cultural fields such as philosophy, religion, literature, art, education, customs, and folk sentiments. The cultural information provided in peony culture can reflect the basic outline of national culture and conform to the "holographic law" of the universe.
Modern peony planting pattern: In terms of scale, Luoyang is China’s peony viewing and tourism center, Heze is China’s peony planting and breeding center, and Bozhou is the medicinal peony planting center.
The legend of "Purse Peony"
In ancient times, there was a state called Ruzhou, and there was a small town in the west of the state called Miaoxia.
There is a wonderful custom here: once a young man or woman gets engaged, the woman must personally give the man a purse embroidered with mandarin ducks. If it is a baby wedding, the bride's sister-in-law or the eldest sisters from the neighborhood will have to embroider one on her behalf as a lifelong token.
There lived a beautiful girl named Jade Girl in the town. Jade Girl was skilled in embroidery and weaving. Especially the various flower patterns on her embroidered purses often attracted bees and butterflies to fall on them. It can be seen that Deep skill.
For such a good girl, the marriage proposals were definitely pushed through the threshold, but they were all politely declined by the girl’s family. It turns out that the girl has a man she loves, and her family agrees. It's a pity that the young man has been exiled outside the Great Wall for two years, and there is no news from him, and he has never received any money.
The jade girl looked forward to her day by day, thought about it every night, and missed her so hard that she embroidered a purse every month to express her longing for her, and hung it on the peony branch in front of the window. Over time, the purses formed strings and turned into what people call "purse peonies".
The history of peony cultivation in China has formed a pattern in which the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are the main cultivation centers, and other regions are secondary cultivation centers or important cultivation areas. With the change of dynasties, peony cultivation centers changed, but the main cultivation centers were always located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. The transfer process is: Luoyang (Sui) - Chang'an (Tang) - Luoyang (Five Dynasties, Song) - Bozhou, Caozhou (Ming) - Caozhou (Qing) [4]. This is the main line for the formation and development of peony varieties in China. In addition, there are several development centers: the first is the Yangtze River Delta, around Taihu Lake and southeast Anhui; the second is Chengdu and Pengzhou in the northwest corner of the Sichuan Basin; the third is Lanzhou and Linxia in Gansu; and the fourth is Guanyang in Guangxi.