We often use (yellow flower girl) to describe the girl who has not yet married, the word "yellow flower girl", not only in ancient times, put into modern times, everyone is familiar with it, everyone knows, so what does the yellow flower in this (yellow flower girl) refer to? But it doesn't mean a yellow flower.
Decal yellow
There are many folk sayings in ancient times, but the most convincing of them is an explanation that has been handed down in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty had a younger daughter, which was more interesting. She was so tired of playing outside that day that she fell asleep in the flowers. When she got up, an interesting thing happened. The petals of a plum blossom fell on her face, and when she woke up again, the petals left a plum mark on her forehead. When Liu Yu came over, he found the petals on his daughter's face, and he thought it was very beautiful, so he told her not to rub off the petal mark.
The princess listened to his father's words, and indeed did not wash her face for several days, but she thought about it carefully, and she could make another one out of the petals. So every day after that, she would put petals on her face, which formed a trend at that time. For convenience, the girls no longer use petals so troublesome, directly on the face with a colored pen to draw a petal, which is the future appliqué yellow.
Because it is becoming more and more popular, many people have also begun to dress themselves in this way, so they directly call this way of dressing "plum blossom makeup". The ancients referred to chrysanthemums as "yellow flowers", because chrysanthemums have the characteristics of being proud of frost and hardiness, which is just used to describe a person's noble character. Based on this, the ancients reversed the word "huahuang" and used it in front of the word "girlfriend", constituting the word "yellow flower girl", on the one hand, it means that the girl is not married, on the other hand, it also means that the girl's heart is pure and her character is chaste.
Tiny fluff on both sideburns
In the countryside in some parts of China, the yellow flower girl will also be called the yellow haired girl, which is the fine fluff of the girl's two sideburns. When a woman gets married, the old man will use white mud to pluck or shave off the fluff of the bride's sideburns as a ceremony for the girl to become a woman. Yellow flower girl refers to virgin, that is, unmarried woman, but the connotation of this word in modern times can only refer to virgin, can not be equated with unmarried woman, and the word yellow flower originally referred to plum blossoms, and later was attached to chrysanthemums. The buds with buds to be released, called "yellow flowers", refer to the pure virginity and unmarried white jade flawless maiden.
The parable of man has discipline
The word "yellow flower girl" is also very interesting, in ancient times, unmarried women in makeup, like to use yellow paint on the forehead or face to draw something. The yellow flower is what we now call the chrysanthemum, and is often used as a metaphor for man's discipline. Therefore, adding the word "yellow flower" in front of the girl also symbolizes a woman who is not yet married and can maintain her virginity.
Because the ancients lived in the era, there was a custom of male superiority over female inferiority, so the requirements for women's chastity were very high. After the word "yellow flower girl", it is also a kind of constraint on women. But now is a new era, and everyone is equal. Women are not only able to keep their virginity, but they are also free to fall in love and marry their beloved.
In ancient times, the literati liked to use "yellow flower" to refer to chrysanthemums, and the "Chrysanthemum Spectrum" said: "Chrysanthemum herbs are also based on yellow, so they are generally called yellow flowers." Because chrysanthemums can be proud of frost and hardiness, often used as a metaphor for people having discipline, so the ancients who are very famous for the festival will reverse the word "yellow flower" and call it "yellow flower", to describe the purity of the unmarried woman's heart and the innocence of the chastity, and the word "yellow flower girl" has become the exclusive title of unmarried girls. Therefore, the "yellow flower" in "yellow flower girl" refers to chrysanthemums.