The flower language and legend of honeysuckle

Flower language of honeysuckle

As the guardian flower of Aries, honeysuckle represents mandarin ducks in pairs and kindness. In addition, honeysuckle represents honest love, devoted love, unchanging love and true love.

The legend of honeysuckle

Legend One

It is said that a long time ago, a scholar and a rich lady fell in love. One day while taking a walk, they discovered a kind of flower that bloomed in pairs with a special fragrance. The scene moved them to love, and they pointed to the flowers as an alliance, and secretly pledged to spend the rest of their lives together. However, the rich girl's parents disliked the scholar's poor family background and firmly disagreed with the marriage. They wanted to break up the lovers. The scholar studied hard for this, and finally passed the imperial examination and became the top scorer. He married his love, and they planted the flowers that had been their token of love all over the yard. This flower is honeysuckle. There is a poem to commemorate it: "The heaven and earth are filled with long summer, gold and silver are two treasures that tie the mandarin ducks together, the mountain pledge remains unchanged by wind and frost, and the hearts are united everywhere and the fragrance lasts forever."

Legend 2

A long time ago, there lived a pair of twin girls in a remote village. The older one was named "Jinhua" and the younger one was "Yinhua". One year, an unknown strange disease broke out in the village. The symptoms of the patient include persistent high fever, red spots or papules all over the body, and the patient dies shortly after becoming ill. The doctors in the village were helpless and the whole village was left waiting to die. At this critical moment, Jinhua and Yinhua took the initiative to ask to leave their hometown to seek medical treatment and medicine for their fellow villagers. The two sisters traveled thousands of miles, experienced untold hardships, and visited famous doctors in the Central Plains, but to no avail.

One day, the two sisters stayed overnight in an ancient temple on Mount Huashan. An old monk in the courtyard asked about their situation and told them the location of an old doctor. The two sisters immediately went to the local area, only to see an old man treating a dying farmer. The two sisters stepped forward to explain the reason. The old doctor said, "Your fellow villagers are suffering from heat toxicity..." Then he pointed to a room full of farmers waiting to see a doctor and said to the two sisters, "I need to treat these patients and cannot go with you. However, I can tell you how to cure the disease. You can go to the hills, valleys and woods to collect a kind of medicinal herb. Its flowers grow in pairs in the axils of leaves. They are white when they first bloom, and then turn yellow or a combination of yellow and white. They will not wither even in the severe winter. You can use it to boil medicine to cure this disease." After hearing this, the two sisters thanked the old doctor and immediately went to collect this herb. They soon returned with a full load. The two sisters boiled the collected herbs into soup and gave it to the villagers. The villagers recovered quickly after taking the medicine. From then on, the villagers called the herb "golden flowers and silver flowers" to commemorate the sisters' achievements. Later, it was gradually shortened to "honeysuckle".