The language and legend of Viburnum

Flower Language

Beautiful romance, perfect love, infinite charm.

The original name of Qionghua refers to the flower with beautiful flowers, and it can also be written as Qionghua. In the extensive and profound Chinese culture, Hua means flower and beautiful jade. People use the word "Qionghua" as the name of a specific flower to praise its beauty like precious jade. When people think of beautiful things, they always think of romance and perfect love.

Legend 1

The water of Yangzhou's Slender West Lake is clear and picturesque all year round, but a toad appeared and ate children, and made the lake water very turbid. The little water god in the Slender West Lake was blinded by poison during the struggle. With the help of a bird, the water god found the Fairy of the Jade Flower and regained his sight. Fairy Qionghua couldn't bear to see the water of Suzhou's West Lake become turbid, so she came down to earth and used the water from the Milky Way to wash away the filth. The toad demon couldn't defeat the fairy Qionghua, so he found the golden toad and wanted to turn Yangzhou into a lifeless dead city. In the critical moment, the white magnolia turned into a rain of flowers dancing in the sky, and perished together with the demons. From then on, the city of Yangzhou was filled with holy magnolias.

Legend II

A touching story about Yangzhou Qionghua is widely circulated among the people in our country. According to legends from ancient times, the magnolia is a heroic flower that keeps itself clean and refuses to succumb to the favors of the powerful. The magnolia is a rare flower that is unique to Yangzhou and unparalleled elsewhere. Even Emperor Yang of Sui traveled thousands of miles to recruit workers to build the canal, just to go to Yangzhou to admire the magnolia. But when the canal was completed, the magnolia flowers were destroyed by a hailstorm, and Emperor Yang of Sui had made a wasted trip.

Then peasant uprisings broke out in various places, the Sui regime collapsed, and Emperor Yang of Sui died in Yangzhou. Hence, there is a saying that "When the flowers die and the Sui officials are destroyed, there is no point in looking at the flowers." It is said that he went to Yangzhou three times to see the magnolia flowers, but returned disappointed each time. Whether Emperor Yang of Sui really went to Yangzhou to see the magnolias is not recorded in the official history, but the story comes from the 47th chapter of The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties: "The joy of seeing the magnolias ended at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the fragrance of the martyrs died was fading away."