The flower language of Platycodon grandiflorum

Flower Language

Platycodon flowers represent eternal love, love without regrets and hopelessness.

I dare not keep a flower easily, and it seems that I don’t even expect to keep a flower. The heart breaks slowly, it’s you and it too! According to legend, the blooming of Platycodon grandiflorum represents the arrival of happiness, but some people are destined to have no chance of happiness and cannot catch or keep it. Perhaps the best way to express your love to your loved one is to bless them from afar, just like you are looking at the gentian flowers from afar.

legend

Legend 1: The Korean word for "Platycodon" is "Doraki". The legend goes that in Mingjian, a Korean nation, there was a girl named Daolaji. Her family was poor and had debts that they could not repay. The landlord wanted to use her to pay off the debt. Her lover angrily hacked the landlord to death and was thrown into prison. The girl was heartbroken and died of grief. Before he died, he asked to be buried on the path where young people went up the mountain to chop firewood. In the spring of the following year, a small purple flower bloomed on her grave, which people called "Doraki". (Why are the legends always so strikingly similar? I must have watched too many melodramatic TV dramas!)

Legend 2: Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Kikyo in a village. She had no parents and lived alone. But there was a boy who played with Kikyo, who said to her, "Kikyo, I'm grown up and I want to marry you," and the two of them made an agreement!

A few years later, Platycodon grew into a beautiful girl, and the boy grew into a handsome young man, and the two became an enviable pair of lovers. But in order to make a living, the young man had to go out to sea to fish and went to a very far place. The boy went out to sea on a boat, but Kikyo kept crying. But the young man was gone for ten years and never came back.

Kikyo wanted to become a nun, but she could not forget him in her heart, so she always ran to the beach. Decades passed like this, and Kikyo had become an old man. Looking at the sea, Kikyo thought of the young man who never came back, and shed tears.

Suddenly, the seaside gods appeared! The gods told it to give up its longing, and Kikyo's eyes slowly closed and its body turned into a flower. Later, people called the flower Platycodon, and the Platycodon was looking at the sea for the boy.