What is the symbolic meaning of peach trees?

1. Peach contains primitive beliefs of totem worship and reproductive worship, and has folk symbolic significance of fertility, auspiciousness and longevity. These symbolic meanings exist in national psychology in various forms and are extended, developed, integrated and changed through folk activities.

2. Peach blossom symbolizes spring, love, beauty and ideal world; Branches and trees are used to exorcise evil spirits and seek happiness, which stems from the animism concept in folk witchcraft belief; Peach and fruit blend into China's fairy tales, which means longevity, health and fertility.

3. The flowers, leaves, branches and fruits of peach trees all shine with the light of folk culture, and the life consciousness expressed in them permeates the texture of peach culture in China.

4. Peach's "prolific and easy to grow" has a symbol of fertility because it breeds life: many children are blessed, the messenger of spring means marriage. Secondly, influenced by the concept of "animism" of the ancestors, people endowed Tao with the function of ward off evil spirits, thus protecting its life and making Tao have auspicious symbolic significance.

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Poetry on peach trees;

1, The Book of Songs: "Peach flies away and burns its glory."

When the poet saw the delicate willow branches and bright peach blossoms in spring, he thought of the bride's youth and beauty.

2. Tang Bai Juyi's Peach Blossom in Dalin Temple

In the world of April, the flowers have withered, and the peach blossoms in the ancient temples have just bloomed.

I want to find a place where my life is dying, but I don't know that it has been moved here.

Moral: In April, the flowers have run out, and the peach blossoms in the ancient temples in the mountains have just opened. I often regret that spring has gone nowhere to look, but I don't know that it has come here.

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