Pomegranate, symbolizing wealth and auspiciousness, beautiful love, many children and many grandchildren, mature and beautiful, is the national flower of Spain and Libya, and the flower of seven cities and cities such as Zaozhuang, Xinxiang, Xi'an, Hefei, Shiyan, Huangshi and Jingmen. In the hearts of old Beijingers, pomegranate flowers are the three favorites juxtaposed with flower pots and fish tanks.
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In Spain, the pomegranate flower is associated with the loyal and sad love story, somewhat similar to the Chinese Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, except that one is transformed into a pomegranate flower and the other is transformed into a butterfly.
Legend has it that more than two thousand years ago, princess Yujing of Spain fell in love with a commoner boy. The king put Princess Yujing under house arrest, then found a crime and sent the young man far away. Princess Yujing came to the garden rockery every day and thought of the young man with tears.
The following year, the princess, who was overly missed and sad, died. Soon, where the princess's tears were sprinkled, a tree grew, a fiery red flower, a round ball-like fruit. After the fruit is peeled, the seeds are crystal clear, like human teardrops. The king, missing his daughter, named the tree Pomegranate.
Because of this legend, the pomegranate flower is listed alongside the carnation as the national flower of Spain.
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In Northern Europe, pomegranate flowers are related to the relationship between husband and wife, and the story process is somewhat similar to that of the mainland Mengjiang female husband-seeking, but the ending is a comedy.
Legend has it that there is a couple of gods and goddesses, and the wife Freya is the god of beauty and love. Her husband, Audur, is the embodiment of summer, mainly leading people to select human heroes on the battlefield filled with smoke and smoke, and place them in the Grand Palace of Cessrinir.
Later, Audur grew tired of his fairy life with Freya and said goodbye. Leave Freya alone at home.
Freya decided to go out in search of her husband. Wherever she went, the tears of her husband's thoughts dripped on the stone, and the stone was soft; it dripped in the mud and turned into golden sand; it fell into the sea and condensed into amber, and because of this, there is now gold all over the world.
After many hardships, Freya finally found Olivia's happiness like a bride under the sunny southern pomegranate tree.
To this day, Nordic brides wear a crown of pomegranate flowers when they marry.
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In the mainland, it is said that when Nuwa refined the stone to repair the heavens, she lost a red gem at the foot of Lishan Mountain.
In the Han Dynasty, Prince Anshi, who was far away between Lake Balkhash and the Aral Sea, saved a golden-winged bird that was about to freeze to death while hunting one day. After recovering from its injuries, the golden-winged bird flew to Lishan and placed the ruby in the AshiGuk imperial garden. A year later, where the stones were placed, a tree with red leaves grew, and King Anshi gave it the name "An pomegranate".
In 119 BC, when the Anshi Kingdom was in a great drought, the red land was thousands of miles, the crops were yellow, and the pomegranate trees in the imperial garden were dying. Zhang Qian, who was passing through AnShiguo on his way to the Western Regions, passed on the experience of building water conservancy in the Han Dynasty to Anshiguo, and the crops came alive and the pomegranate trees were revitalized. When Zhang Qian returned to China, he politely refused the gold and silver jewelry sent by King An Shi and only accepted some pomegranate seeds. Since then, the "ruby" has become a pomegranate, which blooms in Chang'an Shanglin Garden and the foot of Lishan Mountain, and the Lintong pomegranate is also famous in the world.
According to research, pomegranates are really native to southeastErn Europe and Central Asia, and it is indeed introduced to the mainland from the western region in the Han Dynasty. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the folk used pomegranate flowers to dye skirts, without variegated colors, colors, red as durian flowers, and the wearers were beautiful and moving. The Southern and Northern Dynasties poet He Sicheng once wrote a poem called "Nanyuan FengMeiren": "The eyes are delicate, and the lips of Dan are smiling." Wind-rolled grape belt, sunshine pomegranate skirt"
It is rumored that Because Yang Guifei was very fond of pomegranate flowers and liked pomegranate skirts. Emperor Tang Ming ordered people to be widely planted in Huaqing Pond West Xiuling, The Queen Mother Ancestral Hall and other places. Whenever the durian flowers are in full bloom, a wine banquet is set up in the "blazing red and fiery" pomegranate flower bushes, and Yang Guifei, who is dressed in a pomegranate dress, admires the durian flowers and eats pomegranates.
Because Emperor Tang Ming ignored the government, the ministers became angry with Yang Guifei and refused to pay tribute to her. Emperor Tang Ming ordered that if a civilian official and military general saw a noble concubine and did not perform the ceremony, he would be severely punished for the crime of deceiving the king. After that, the courtiers saw Yang Yuhuan and had to kneel down and salute. "Bow down under the pomegranate skirt" has become a joke for men to worship noble and beautiful women.
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