From the earliest times there were three characters that people decorated the oldest, most archaic temples and their sacred utensils - this bunch of grapes or grape leaves (a symbol of guilt), leaves or cones of hops (beer) and a beautiful poppy flower (symbol of sleep and death .) The ancient Greeks considered the maximum attribute not only the god of sleep (Hypnos), but also the god of death (Thanatos). It is known that sleeping pills made from the poppy potion had been among the ancient Egyptians who used it as medicine for this cultivated even close to the city of Thebes is the same type of poppy (Raraver somniferum), which we cultivate and. Narcotic properties of the juice of poppy ancients knew and used it only as an analgesic therapeutic agent. In our time, the healing properties of poppy retreated, unable to compete with synthetic analgesics. And came to the forefront the deadly juice of this flower, opium, the source of heroin, morphine and other dangerous drugs. But the flower or not guilty of anything. Blame the people who have lost all sense of proportion, do not feel the boundaries between life and death.
Each flower has the ancient meaning.
Violet - ill,
bell-talkativeness,
tulip - pride,
Rose - love
thistle - protection
cane - indecision
heather - loneliness, burdock - a compulsion,
forget-me-not - consistency,
Lavender - misunderstanding
cornflower - trust,
lily - purity
Reseda - heartfelt affection,
pink-passion
aster - the sadness,
Clover - waiting.
Many nations have long existed holiday colors. In Paris - Rose Festival in Switzerland - daffodils in England - nezabudok, primroses and pansies, poppies. In mid-May is tulip festival in the U.S. city Holend, populated by descendants of the Dutch.
The abundance of holiday colors in China and Japan in February - the holiday flowering plum, in March - peaches in April - cherries in June - the pions, in October - chrysanthemums. Sounds of music, songs, and poets dedicate colors poems and pins them on long strips of paper to flowering shrubs and trees. Two flower festival celebrated in India. In Germany, the first Sunday in March is the day of violets, France - lily of the valley.
There are cases where love of flowers ennobled the whole class. A connoisseur of flowers Zolotnitsky NF (1912) wrote that, as in Belgium carnation became the darling of the poor, the common people. They took care of the flowers, trying to outdo the neighbors beauty of form and color. "Among them there was even a kind of competition, rivalry, that filled the emptiness of their everyday life and created them in her new purpose, new entertainment. Drunkenness, revelry, debauchery - all these inevitable companions of idleness and aimless existence working in a marked degree diminished, and in some cases even disappear altogether: thus, a modest flower that has made this something that can not be achieved in other states no preaching, No entertainment. "
Lily symbolizes the hidden love. An old Russian legend tells of a love for the beautiful young man Volkhov Sadko. But he loved Sadko Lubava. Learning of this, the proud Volkhov decided to plunge into the cold forever water kingdom. And only the moon was a witness to the tears girls, pearls have fallen to the ground, turned into a resounding lilies.
Lotus in dpevnevostochnyh myth has a lot of characters. This - the place of genesis of life, plodopodie, ppotsvetanie, offspring, longevity, zdopove, vital fullness, glory and eternal Academician, and bessmeptie voskpesenie, purity, spirituality, smipennomudpie, consent, daydreaming, Mir, silence, tvepdost, neppepyvnost, sun, lotus lupus - the emblem of Contemporary India. Only in the lotus dpevneindiyskom language has more than 100 titles. Western sky in Chinese painting izobpazhaetsya as "lotus pay" (Mify. .., v.2, 1992).
About forget-me-invented a lot of sad stories. In Austria, told the bride to the groom went for a walk along the bank of the Danube. She saw on the cliff blue flower and asked the guy to break it. He tripped and fell into the water, shouting - "Do not forget me!" The flower is now called - forget-me-not.
The name tulip came from Turkey, where the flower was named in the form of the Turkish turban in Turkish "dulbash." But nowhere tulip craze has not reached such a scale as to Europe, and especially in Holland. Calm and calculating, traders, people are moderate, the Dutch got so carried away by this flower, that passion that turned into a popular mania, which was even in the history of the name "tulpomanii." Even the word "exchange" (in German Borse) comes from a noble Flemish family van der Berzeiz Bruges, where many of the great state have resulted tyulpomanii.
