Talking about lavender

Legend has it that in Provence, France, which is one of the hometown of lavender, there is such a love story about lavender ... It is said that there is a girl in a village in Provence, picking flowers in bud on a cold mountain alone, but she meets an injured traveler from afar. When the girl saw the young man, her whole heart was captured by his elegant smile! So the girl invited him home, regardless of family opposition, and insisted on taking care of him until he recovered. After a few days, the traveler's injury has healed, but their love affair has spread rapidly and has reached the point of inseparable. One day soon, the young traveler said goodbye to the girl, but the girl who was in love insisted on leaving with the youth. Although her relatives tried their best to keep her, she still insisted on going to her hometown full of roses with her youth! Just before the girl left, the old lady in the village gave her a bunch of lavender to test the sincerity of the young traveler, because ... it is said that the fragrance of lavender can make unclean things appear ... Just as the traveler was holding her hand and preparing for a long trip, the girl threw the lavender hidden in her coat on the young man. Unexpectedly, the young man's body gave off a purple light smoke and disappeared with the wind! The girl in the valley seemed to vaguely hear the young people's hearty laughter, and in this way, she was left alone ... Not long after, the girl unexpectedly disappeared. Some people think that she disappeared into the valley like a young man, while others say that she followed the rose to find the young man ... Anyway, the legend of lavender has been handed down. So until now, lavender is still regarded as one of the important tools to drive away unclean things and incense. 13.2. Legend 2 These lavender can be favored by fashion groups because they have many romantic and beautiful meanings. Lavender has a lot of connotations, implying a correct attitude towards life. People have always regarded lavender as a symbol of purity, purity, protection, gratitude and peace. Lavender also means "waiting for love". Legend has it that one day, the Virgin Mary hung the baby clothes washed by Jesus on lavender, and lavender was given the meaning of symbolizing the taste of heaven. It is also said that the Virgin Mary directly washed Jesus' baby clothes with lavender soaked water. Perhaps this is why people in the past liked washing clothes with lavender so much. However, some people say that the Virgin Mary prayed to lavender, so lavender not only has a lasting fragrance, but also has the ability to drive away the devil. Lavender Represents True Love is the most representative lyric poem in the Elizabethan era. Therefore, at that time, it was popular for lovers to give lavender to each other to express their love. During this period, Charles I of England was also an affectionate man. In pursuit of Nell Gwyn, he tied a bag of dried lavender with a golden ribbon and gave it to his lover. Provence is a love poem, and no one can stay here without moving. As for folk customs, lavender is used to perfume the bride's dress. However, in Ireland, locals will tie lavender to a bridge and pray for good luck. It is said that putting a small bag of dried lavender on your body can help you find your dream lover. When you are separated from your lover, you can hide a twig of lavender in your lover's book. At the next party, look at the colors and smell lavender, and you will know how much your lover loves you. Lavender flowers can be sprinkled on the wedding, which can bring you a happy marriage. 13.3. Legend 3 The flower language of lavender is waiting for love. There is such a touching legend: It is said that a long time ago, an angel fell in love with an earthly woman named Xunyi. I left the first tear for her, and my wings fell off for her. Although angels have to endure severe pain every day, they are still very happy. Happiness is short-lived. The angel was brought back to heaven and the happy time between him and Xunyi was deleted. Before being banished to the world, he left a tear and turned into a butterfly to accompany his favorite girl. Xunyi is still waiting for him to come back, and only the butterfly is with her. Waiting day and night in the garden where the angel left, and finally, becoming a grass. Lavender blossoms every year. They flew everywhere, looking for angels who were born. People call that plant lavender. 13.4. Legend 4 A long time ago, in a small village, there was a girl who often sat on the street and looked at the passers-by blankly and innocently, silently saying, "If there is an angel, I hope he will make my hair look like someone else's." "The girl with long purple hair is doomed to be a tragedy in such a village that is almost the size of a palm. Everyone in the village thinks that she is the incarnation of the devil, because people can't have purple hair. Her mother loves her very much, but a respected prophet in the village said that if her parents don't abandon her, disaster will soon come to the whole village. Her parents had no choice but to kick her out mercilessly. Without support, girls can only live on their own. But she is too weak to do rough work. Even if she wanted to do it, no one would ask her for help. Sometimes when she is hungry, she can only go to the forest to pick some fruits to satisfy her hunger. One day, far away from the village, she found white flowers all over the mountain, which smelled delicious and could be smelled ten miles away. Even better, even standing in a large flower field, the smell is still elegant and gentle, not pungent at all. She had never seen this kind of flower, and certainly didn't know it was lavender. People in the village have never seen it, but they love flowers. So she picked a handful of white lavender and went to the village to sell it. The fragrance of flowers attracted many villagers, who couldn't help paying for it. Since then, girls have to walk a long way to pick lavender and sell it every day. A poor child in the village followed her all day. He likes these flowers and wants to give them to his mother, but he has no money to buy them, so the girl sends him a bunch every day. She often helps those who need help, such as washing clothes for blind grandmothers and picking olives for hunchbacked grandfathers. However, the people she helped had low status, and what she said had no weight, so despite her hard work and kindness, the villagers could not accept her purple hair. When they buy flowers, they don't pretend to look away. They just drop a handful of money and take a bunch of flowers, as if staying with her for a while would be full of bad luck. One day, the prophet's granddaughter insulted her and took all her lavender. She ran into the forest and cried sadly. At this moment, a handsome boy came to comfort her. The girl was surprised and happy because no one had ever been so kind to her. But she soon found that the boy was blind, which made her sad. Such a good person can't see the beauty of the world. Compared with herself, she thinks that boy is more unfortunate. Although disliked by the villagers, at least she can see lush forests, clear streams, silent distant mountains and lavender as white as snow in her hands. So she asked Lavender to look for him and talk to him every day. The boy always takes the flowers she gave him the day before and stands where they first met, waiting for her. One day, the girl looked at the flowers in the boy's hand and said, "The poor flowers are dead! They were so beautiful last night, but now their leaves hang down and wither. Why do they do this? " "Do you know what they did? The boy said, "These flowers came to see you last night! They know I can't see, so they all volunteered to protect you for me. They go to see you almost every night to drive away annoying mosquitoes and bugs for you. " "Why don't I know? Why not let them wake me up? ""Because you slept soundly, they won't wake you. " The girl's eyes are red. From then on, she made up her mind to restore the boy's eyes to light, even if he would dislike her after seeing her. One night, the girl sold out all the lavender she picked in the morning. In order to give the boy fresh lavender, she set off for the hillside again. But she was so tired that she fell asleep when she reached the hillside. When she was asleep, she heard someone talking in her ear. "She was so tired. ""yes. " "She didn't come in the morning? Why are you here again now? " "Don't you know? She wants to give the most beautiful flowers to the boy in the forest ... ""I heard that the boy is blind ... ""Because he is blind, he is so kind to our little girl ... ""Is there any way for him to see it? "Of course! There is a spring in the forest, which is said to be the tears of love. That spring can restore anyone's eyes to light. " Hearing this, the girl suddenly woke up. She opened her eyes, but there was no one in sight, but she was not afraid at all, because her heart was calm and she knew that there must be a kind angel helping her in the dark. She remembers every word in her dream. She picked a big bunch of flowers and gave them to the boy. She told him that she was going to a far away place and would come back in a few days ... The girl finally found the pool of spring water after a lot of hardships. She filled the bottle carefully and rushed back excitedly. When she handed spring to the boy, she didn't hesitate at all. She could see that the boy was excited and his joy comforted her. Just as he put the spring water on his eyes, she left quietly. Spring restored the boy's eyes to light. Moonlight came in from the branches around him, and he saw a colorful world, lavender as snow at hand, and even many lovely mountain spirits playing happily. But he didn't see his beloved girl. The girl left quietly. She doesn't want the boy to see her appearance and her purple hair. The boy is sad, but he can't find a girl. Every day, the hill elves run around in pairs on leaves and dew on long grass, but none of them can tell him where the girl is. One day, the boy looked at the fading lavender in his hand and decided to go to the place where lavender was in full bloom to find a girl. He didn't know where that place was, but the wind brought the fragrance of lavender, and like a hairspring, he followed it step by step. Before the sun went down, he finally came to a field full of lavender. He saw the girl at first sight. The girl ran away screaming. The boy chased her and caught her. The girl cried and said, "I am a monster." We can't be together ... whoever is with me will be unlucky. " The boy hugged the girl and told her, "I don't care!" " I love you! "Just as the boy said this sentence, a light suddenly flashed in the sky, as if all the stars were falling towards them. In the streamer flying, the color of the girl's hair turned into mist, which penetrated all the lavender petals. The girl's hair gradually became golden and dazzling, and the pure white lavender became a purple sea ... People say that lavender has been purple since then. The color of this flower is the color of love ... "13.5. Legend 5 has many love stories about lavender, but strangely, many of these stories are related to the devil or sacredness. Maybe lavender has been regarded as a sacred grass with divine power since ancient times. There is a legend in medieval Europe: a beautiful village girl met a handsome gentleman, met him for a few days and even agreed to elope with him. However, just the day before they agreed to elope, the village girl suddenly became suspicious of this gentleman's identity, so she secretly brought a handful of lavender. The next day, when the gentleman appeared to take her away, the village girl secretly took out a lavender bouquet and threw it on her lover. It turns out that this gentleman is actually made of a terrible devil! The devil who shows his true colors is surprised and angry, but he is afraid of the sacred power of lavender. Had to run away. This shows that lavender is not necessarily an aphrodisiac! 13.6. Legend Six When the blue star meets the purple angel, they fall in love. God always likes to joke again and again. Stars and angels will never meet, let alone know each other. They should only be like two parallel straight lines, which will never cross or get farther and farther away. But it is a fact that stars meet angels, or angels meet stars. This star, plain, is one of thousands of stars. The difference is that it emits light blue light, so it has its own characteristics. Angels, the darling of God, have lavender wings and lavender aura. By chance, the angel passed the stars, and the faint blue attracted him. He flapped his purple wings and said softly, "You are beautiful, blue is beautiful ~!" " Since then, angels often look for stars. In fact, angels don't really like stars, just because her light blue is mysterious. Perhaps, the stars didn't expect that angels would get tired of watching blue one day. The stars are addicted to the purple light and happily think that they have all the happiness in the world, and they are the happiest people. As time goes by, angels come to look for stars less and less. The star comforted himself: "Never mind, the angel must be too busy, it must be!" " "Finally, the star could not bear loneliness and decided to look for an angel. The star strayed from its orbit and finally found the angel. The angel said to her, "it is impossible between us." I am an angel, and you are just a star. I found a real angel, a kind and beautiful angel. She is the person I want to find most in my life! " With that, she spread her purple wings and flew away. A purple feather falls in the dark sky, which is an angel's feather. The star picked it up and looked at the feather in despair. Tears poured out like a flood. She was very sad. It never occurred to her that the lover who missed the curtain would turn his back on her and leave. She cried bitterly, and all the tears she shed turned into meteor showers, blue meteor showers! How spectacular! She continued to cry until she exhausted her strength and said the same thing: "I am waiting for you! ""Finally, with all her last strength, she leaned against the stone and fell asleep slowly, never waking up again, with the angel's feather in her hand. The next day, a lot of purple grass grew around her, like the color of angel wings. People say that it is lavender, and the flower language is waiting for love ... One day many years later, the angel found that he liked not another angel, but the stars, and for some reason, the stars had deeply entered his heart! Want to forget, the angel began to miss that touch of light blue. He decided to look for her, but he couldn't find her, of course not! He came to a meadow, where there were many purple grasses. Their colors were very similar to his wings. He lay down gently and a gust of wind blew. There is a faint fragrance. The angel felt that the stars were near him, but he was too tired to open his eyes. In the twilight, he heard the stars calling softly: "You have come, you have finally come, and the love I have been waiting for has finally come back!" " Angels reach out but can't catch anything. Maybe this is a feeling, but it is so real. In the dim light, he saw the faint blue stars coming towards him, holding his hand and slowly disappearing into the fog. The next morning, a lumberjack passed by here. He found the purple angel, but he was dead. He has a happy smile on his face, as if he were asleep. He held the purple lavender tightly in his hand, as if he would never let go. A breeze blew, leaving a faint fragrance, and the sound of blade friction seemed to tell a story.