Blue Lotus, there are many legends, you can see.
Historical legends
Ancient Egyptians early on the blue lotus as a symbol of life, never withered blue lotus ah, as life, endless. At that time, in the Nile River on both sides of a large area of land, growing everywhere in the pavilion of the lotus. There are many varieties of lotus flowers along the Nile, mainly red, white and blue varieties. Red lotus is 525 BC by India through the Persian Gulf into Egypt, Herodotus called it "the Nile's red lilies", the Egyptian natives called it "Coptic bean flower" or "Egyptian bean flower The Egyptian natives called it the "Coptic broad bean flower" or "Egyptian broad bean flower". Nowadays, this kind of red lotus flower is rare. The flower that best represents the Nile is the white lotus, which is also known as the lily of the valley or the "fragrant waratah". When summer comes, in the middle of the dense layers of green leaves, blooming large flowers. This flower is white and red, charming and moist, like a fairy, like a beauty out of the bath. It has both graceful and elegant appearance, and proud of sludge temperament, doubly praised by the people. Archaeologists from the unearthed artifacts to prove that as early as the pyramids before the advent of the Nile River on both sides of the full of this white lotus. Blue lotus is called "Arabian water lily" or "water lily". This kind of lotus also blooms brightly and colorfully. They can be found in large parks and botanical gardens. Every summer, the Nile River floods, the water level rises, and the color of the water changes from clear to muddy and then to reddish-brown. Although the flooding can bring fertile mechanism, but also to the people's lives caused by disaster. Therefore, the Egyptian history for the "Nile River to marry women" custom, that is, every summer when the river flooding reached its highest point, the pharaoh ordered the country's most beautiful girls thrown into the river. This process is said to have continued for thousands of years. To date, it has become a grand festival of the Egyptians, only, the bride into a plaster made of models. As a rule, the Nile River each year, the wedding date by water experts according to the river flooding and determine the situation. It is usually set on August 28th. Before that, all departments have to make the necessary preparations. When the water experts determine the date of the wedding of the river, they immediately report it to the Minister of Irrigation, who writes to the Minister of Agriculture, who writes to the Supreme Religious Court, which is responsible for writing a hymn in praise of the Nile. The President of the Supreme Religious Court then wrote to the Mayor of Cairo and charged him with the responsibility of preparing for the celebration. While the governor proceeded with the preparations, he sent a letter to the Ministry of Defense requesting it to provide the fireworks and sparklers needed for the wedding night on the Nile.
Related Legends
The first version
The magical Snowy Plateau has a blue lotus, commonly known as the Blue Lotus, that can bring the dead back to life, and there is only one of this flower, which blooms only once in 500 years.
The second version
It is said that before every woman is reincarnated, Buddha will give her three lotuses to choose from, the red lotus flower heralds riches, the white lotus flower indicates beauty, and the blue lotus flower represents wisdom. Choose the red lotus woman is like a vine on the sky tree, over the eye of the glory and wealth can not change the end of the tree toppled monkeys scattering ship; choose the white lotus woman will have the beauty of the country, but inevitably that becomes the fate of the collateral; and the blue lotus is not the flower of the world, have the vision to choose it the woman will become a rare goddess of the world in the materialistic turbid flow of the non-branched, Pavilion Pure Planting.
The third version
Legend has it that there is a blue lotus flower that never withers on Xiyun Mountain, and anyone who has seen it will be happy. The monks of Tianhai Temple also said that monks who had seen the blue lotus flower ended up becoming a generation of high priests. So, two brothers, Daikong and Daiwu, decided to go to Xiyun Mountain to look for the legendary Blue Lotus. They traveled all the way to Xiyun Mountain in rain and wind. Along the way, when he saw people suffering, he would help them, but Wu did not think so, thinking that he would delay their journey. After all the hard work, in a night as cool as water, they finally saw the legendary blue lotus. The blue lotus flower grows in the center of the lake, and under the moonlight, it shines with a cool color. The empty and the empty stood in the night color, admiring this magical flower for a long time. That night, Daikong saw the blue lotus flower in his sleep, but the flower was no longer in the center of the lake, but quietly bloomed in the sea of his heart. But he could not sleep, he went to the center of the lake, and the moment he reached out to pick the flower and touched the petals with his fingertips, the blue lotus flower withered away. In the ending of the story, Daikong later became a generation of monks, although the blue lotus flower withered, but in the sea of his heart always bloomed a beautiful blue lotus flower, bloomed in the sea of the heart of the blue lotus flower will never wither
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