Why do we use chrysanthemums in Qingming?

Qingming Festival is a day when people who have traveled to other countries return home and bring their relatives and children to visit the graves of their ancestors. You will see them holding bouquets of flowers to offer to their ancestors, and more often than not, they are chrysanthemums. This is because chrysanthemum means "remembrance", and chrysanthemum can express the remembrance of people. In the early days, this expression did not exist in our country and was introduced from abroad. This is also the reason why everyone pays tribute to chrysanthemums.

The chrysanthemum flower language contains the meaning of "nostalgia", chrysanthemum can be used to express the nostalgia for someone, so the chrysanthemum is offered at the time of the Qingming Festival. Also: chrysanthemums are commonly found in yellow and white, which are lower in tone compared to other flowers, and it is our custom that cooler, lighter colored flowers that are not brightly colored are usually used in funerals, so chrysanthemums are also used in funerals in large quantities.

The yellow chrysanthemum represents the elegant gentleman character, while the fuchsia chrysanthemum represents the passionate life, and the white chrysanthemum represents the respect for the deceased chrysanthemum is a traditional Chinese flower. It is beautiful and colorful, but not to the delicate color to take the charm, but to the elegant and chaste to win, blooming in the hundreds of flowers after the fade.

People love its elegant charm, but also love its frosty bloom, the west wind does not fall of a proud bone. China gave it noble and strong sentiment, as a symbol of national spirit as a national treasure, chrysanthemum as a flower of frost, has been favored by poets, the ancients especially love to chrysanthemum name Zhi, as a comparison of their own noble sentiments, steadfastness and unyielding.

Chrysanthemum in the Chinese culture of flowers and trees in the status of quite heavy. As early as in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, that is, "September Rongju" records, and Qu Yuan is the first person to chrysanthemum self-comparison, he was in the Li Sao in ink, describing himself as "eating autumn chrysanthemums in the fall of the Ying," and "would rather hold incense on the branches of the old, do not dance with the yellow leaves of the east wind! and "I would rather grow old on the fragrant branches than dance with the yellow leaves in the east wind". The founder of the real chrysanthemum culture is Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty, the "chrysanthemum friends" and chrysanthemums with the night and day to live in the "autumn chrysanthemums full of gardens", he had to chrysanthemums of the realm of the depth of the past and present no one can reach.

In the Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran depicted the countryside chrysanthemum-appreciation situation of "to come to the Chung Yeung Festival, but also to come to the chrysanthemums"; and his contemporaneous Huang Chao's "the city is full of golden armor" has become a talking point of the people today. In the Song Dynasty, it was a scene of Chrysanthemum Festival in which "all the restaurants were tied up with chrysanthemums to make a hole in the house". The poet Li Mengyang of the Ming Dynasty, "only now in the autumn colors, can not help but chrysanthemums" and the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "the maple leaves are falling, frost piles of white chrysanthemums" can be seen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum winds are more and more prevalent. In the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the first chrysanthemum poems, is more intestinal pen.

In these chapters of the chrysanthemum, there is no trace of mourning-related ink. Chrysanthemum mourning meaning from abroad, few people realize that the use of chrysanthemums to sweep the graves, as with roses to express love, in fact, is mainly the result of the "Western customs eastward"; and even fewer people will know, chrysanthemums from China all over the world. European dictionaries appear on the word "chrysanthemum", about the end of the 17th century, the Dutch in the business will be introduced from our country after the 18th century chrysanthemums into France, and then the mid-19th century was introduced to Latin America ...... so that all over the world.