Flowers used to symbolize a wide range of feelings from pure hatred to the being love. But nowadays this meaning is lost in daily routine. Anyway let’s take a little excursus back to those days when flowers meant a lot.
The majority of ideas are obvious enough to understand them without resorting to the help of internet or something else. The meaning is closely connected with the color. For example, white color symbolizes innocence, cleanliness and frankness while black color symbolizes sorrow and mysticism. However it is better to keep in mind that flowers themselves have a lot of meaning in spite of the color, also the meaning may differ significantly from one country to another. Chrysanthemum is thought to be a cemeterial flower in most European countries from Sweden to Italy. The tradition originates in Japan. For example, In Finland you better not to give Madonna lily to people who invited you for a dinner however in the Middle Ages Lilium candidum symbolized innocence. Also there are some countries in which you have to be extremely careful with flowers. For example, a bouquet of violet flowers probably will not be taken in Mexico and Brazil because they symbolize death in these countries. In Chile yellow flowers symbolize contempt. White color in Guatemala is thought to be mourning. The situation is very specific on the African continent. In Kenya flowers are used to express condolence and in Tanzania flowers are forbidden at all.
Thereby, flowers may go not only as beautiful signs of your devotion, respect or love to someone but the world of flowers is much deeper than people from all over the world interpret it. Flowers represent a great sphere of creativeness. People who are called florists create true art masterpieces out of flowers of different color and shape. And it is a hard question where they draw their inspiration for creation of such masterpieces. India is famous for their amazing religious holidays which are full of bright colors and bouquets of beautiful flowers. By the way, talking about India, a couple days ago I found pretty interesting speech of Kamal Nath, Indian National Congress on youtube. Maybe it will awake your interest as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUucjGMGZIU. Anyway, take a look around next time you will be walking on the street. How many flowers are there? Don’t they bring beauty and some special meaning in our world? Think about it.
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