Cherry blossom flower language: life, warm, pure, noble
Cherry blossom is a symbol of love and hope, representing the elegant, simple and pure love. Cherry blossom is like the ignorant girl's, quietly open in the spring, full of white and pink cherry blossoms, is the most beautiful language to tell the lover love. The heart of someone, such as the lonely cherry blossom rain, slowly disappeared in the depths of time, leaving an eternal memory.
Sakura: life, happiness for a lifetime
Never give up, the law of destiny is the cycle
Sakura grass: no love other than you, youthful and unrepentant love
Mountain cherry blossom: pure/noble/light
Mountain Cherry Blossom: smile at you, spiritual beauty
Western cherry blossom: kind education
Winter Cherry Blossom : the mystery of the East
Heavy cherry blossom: quiet
Symbolism of cherry blossom
Sakura is warm, pure and noble. After the severe winter, it is the first to bring the breath of spring to the Japanese people, and every year from March 15 to April 15 is the "Cherry Blossom Festival" in Japan. When the cherry blossoms are in bloom, people sit on the ground under the cherry trees with wine and food, enjoying the cherry blossoms and drinking at the same time, which is really a great pleasure in life. "If you want to know the soul of Yamato, you can see the cherry blossoms under the rising sun.
Japanese people believe that life is very short, living should be as brilliant as cherry blossoms, even if it is death, should be decisive to leave. Cherry blossoms wither, not dirty, very dry, and therefore is honored as a symbol of the spirit of Japan. Japanese people not only enjoy cherry blossoms, but also eat cherry blossoms, its cherry blossom ice cream is also a unique flavor.
There is also a kind of cherry blossom is called Western cherry blossom, and its flower language is the education of kindness, this flower language comes from, when the famous American president Washington's education course, because, he had told his father very honestly: "It is I who cut down the cherry blossom tree." ! So the Western cherry blossom symbolizes kind education.
Legends about cherry blossoms
Legend 1: Legend has it that the cherry blossom tree was just a small grass, and then it grew into a tree because there was once a young girl who liked to wear a pink dress cut her own throat with her sword, and the red, hot and wet blood became the nourishment to make the small grass turn into a big tree, which bloomed the white and then pink cherry blossoms every year.
Legend two: in the distant East Japan, there is a story that under the beautiful cherry blossom tree, there are many souls belonging to those samurai. Legend has it that cherry blossoms were originally only white, and those unfulfilled ambitions of the samurai chose to end their lives under their favorite cherry blossom tree, and the red blood slowly seeped into the soil, gradually dyeing the petals of the cherry blossoms red, and the redder the petals, the more souls there were under the tree.
Legend 3: According to legend, in the old days, when cherry blossoms were only white, valiant samurai chose to disembowel themselves under their beloved cherry trees. For when a samurai thought he had reached the splendor of his life, he chose to end his life. So the blood flowed under the cherry tree, and from then on, the cherry blossoms bloomed red. The redder the petals of the cherry blossoms, the more dead souls under the tree, and the more they reflected the "spirit of Japan".
A good place to enjoy the cherry blossoms
Prince Bay Park
is Hangzhou's oldest cherry blossom viewing destination. In March and April, it is the best time to enjoy cherry blossoms. The West Lake side of the Prince Bay Park is a must-visit place for people to enjoy the flowers. Most of the cherry blossoms here are saplings planted in 1988, almost 1200 trees. The blooming cherry blossoms belong to the Chinese cherry blossom. There are about 500 cherry trees in Prince Edward Bay Park***, most of them are Japanese cherry blossoms, Japanese early cherry blossoms and Japanese late cherry blossoms. There are only 17 Chinese cherry trees, all introduced from Jinggangshan three years ago.
Address southwest corner of West Lake, Nanping Mountain, under the Lychee Peak
Wenyingying Liu Lang
The cherry trees here are very concentrated, more than 170 trees planted into a piece, very imposing. Occasionally, when the wind blows, the pinkish-white petals flutter about, and no one will be unmoved by this "cherry blossom rain". Cherry blossom trees are mainly Japanese early cherry trees, and there are also some pink Japanese late cherry trees. Every spring and March, the green willow season, ten thousand willow trees fluttering in the wind, just like the green wave over the sky, the blue wave surging. East of the garden lawn lawn stands "China and Japan no longer war" monument, towering in the sea of Japanese cherry blossoms in the snow, for the people of China and Japan as a symbol of friendship and friendship.
Address of the West Lake, five of the Ten Scenes, is located on the southeast shore of the West Lake, the Qingbo Gate at the large park
Lone Mountain
Hangzhou, Lone Mountain, cherry blossoms planted in two places, one is the back of the Lone Mountain Qingxue Lodge, there are 20 trees. The other is in the Pinghu Autumn Moon, directly across the West Lake Museum of Art, the legendary "King of Cherry Blossoms". Lonely Mountain north of the entrance to the Xiling Yinshe and clear snow around the hut, dozens of Japanese early cherry blossom quietly bloom, snow-white flowers in clusters of cast prints in the verdant foothills and willows between the green, looking at the trance trance white clouds floating in the mountains, the breeze whisked by, a flurry of petals like crystalline snow flakes, sprinkled in the search for the spring of the people between the hair and shoulders.
Address West Lake Scenic Area, Hangzhou City
Wuhan University Cherry Blossoms
Wuhan University Cherry Blossoms bloomed in mid-March, to the second half of the most flourishing, the flowering period is shorter, only 13-20 days or so. In the campus of Wuhan University, in addition to the cherry blossom garden, the fourth teaching building, Kunpeng Square, humanities and science museum, administration building, the school hospital area, as well as the main teaching building of the Ministry of Engineering, the Ministry of Information Technology, Star Lake, the Ministry of Medicine and other places have the cherry blossom can be appreciated. The best place to enjoy cherry blossoms is the Sakura Garden, which is named directly after the word "sakura". The cherry blossom garden is mainly filled with Japanese cherry blossoms, and there are more than 10 kinds of cherry blossoms of 6 kinds of cherry blossoms such as early cherry blossoms, late cherry blossoms, and weeping cherry blossoms, etc. The colors of the blossoms are rich and colorful, and the branches and trunks of the cherry blossoms are different from each other, and the blossom period is different. Whenever the winter is over and the plum blossoms wither, the early cherry blossoms open, followed by the small day cherry blossoms, the weeping cherry blossoms and the late cherry blossoms. In full bloom, the cherry blossom garden is like a sea of flowers, thousands of tourists come, stay and watch, like a drunk, "March cherry blossom viewing, only Wuda" of interest.