The legend of lavender

in ancient Greece, lavender was called Nardus, sometimes referred to as Nard for short, which came from a Syrian city called Naarda. In ancient Rome, a pound of lavender could be sold for 1 denarii, which was about equal to the salary of a farm worker at that time, or the reward of a barber for cutting the hair of 5 people. The Romans put lavender and all kinds of herbs in the bath water, and they introduced this bathing method to Britain. In the era of the Black Death, glove-making workers in Grasse, France, often soaked leather with lavender oil, so many workers escaped the plague. This story may have some truth, because plague germs are spread by fleas, and lavender can drive away fleas.

lavender flower language: waiting for love. Lavender is a fragrant purple-blue flower. It is as romantic as its location. This flower, born in Provence, France, has a beautiful love legend.

Legend 1

In Provence, France, which is one of the hometown of lavender, there is such a love story about lavender ... It is said that there was a girl in the village of Provence, who was alone in the cold mountain picking flowers in bud, but she met an injured traveler from far away. When the girl saw the young man, her whole heart was captured by his graceful smile! So the girl invited him home, regardless of the opposition of her family, and insisted on taking care of him until he recovered. After a few days, the young traveler's injury has recovered, but their love affair has spread rapidly, and it 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 insisted on going to her hometown full of roses with the youth! Just before the girl left, the old lady in the village gave her a bunch of lavender, asking her to use it 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 took her hand to prepare 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! In the valley, the girl seemed to faintly hear the young people's hearty laughter, and in this way, she was left alone ... Before long, the girl unexpectedly disappeared. Some people thought that she disappeared into the valley like the young people, while others said that she followed the scent of lavender flowers to find the young people ... Anyway, the legend of lavender was handed down. Therefore, until now, lavender is still regarded as one of the important tools to drive away unclean things and incense.

Legend 2

These lavender can be favored by fashion groups because they have many romantic and beautiful meanings. Lavender has great connotation, which implies 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 washed baby clothes of Jesus on lavender, and lavender was endowed with the meaning of symbolizing the taste of heaven. It is also said that the virgin Mary washed Jesus' baby clothes directly with water soaked in lavender. Perhaps this is why people in the past liked to wash clothes with lavender so much. However, some people say that the virgin Mary prayed to lavender, so lavender not only has a persistent fragrance, but also has the ability to expel the devil. "Lavender represents true love" is the most representative lyric poem in Elizabeth's era. Therefore, it was popular for lovers at that time to give lavender to each other to express their love. During this period, Charles I of England was also an amorous man. When he was pursuing Nell Gwyn, he tied a bag of dried lavender with a golden ribbon and gave it to his beloved. Provence is a poem of love, and no one can live here without moving. As for the folk custom, lavender is used to perfume the bride's dress. In Ireland, however, locals will tie lavender to a bridge to 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. When you get together next time, you can know how much your lover loves you by looking at the color and smelling the fragrance of lavender. At the wedding, you can sprinkle lavender flowers, which can bring you a happy marriage.

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 taken back to heaven, and the happy time between him and Xunyi was deleted. Before he was demoted to earth, he left a tear, which turned into a butterfly to accompany his favorite girl. And Xunyi is still waiting for him to come back, only the butterfly is with her. Waiting day and night in the garden where the angel left, and finally, turning into a grass. Lavender flowers bloom every year. They flew everywhere, looking for the angel who was demoted to earth. People call that plant lavender.

Legend 4

Long, long ago, in a small village, there was a girl who often sat on the street, looked at passers-by blankly and innocently, and silently said, "If there is an angel, I hope he will make my hair look like others'." The girl has long purple hair, which is doomed to be a tragedy in such a village that is almost the size of a palm. Everyone in the village thinks she is the incarnation of the devil, because it is impossible for people to 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 befall 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 so weak that she can't do rough work. Even if she wants to do it, others won't ask her for help. Sometimes when she is hungry, she can only go to the forest to pick some fruit to satisfy her hunger. One day, far away from the village, she found white flowers all over the mountains, which smelled fragrant 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. The villagers 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, the girl has to go a long way to pick lavender to sell every day. There is a poor child in the village who follows her all day. He likes the flowers and wants to give them to his mother, but he has no money to buy them, so the girl gives 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 who have been helped by her have a low status, and what they say has no weight, so despite her hard work and kindness, the villagers still can't accept her with purple hair. When they buy flowers, they don't pretend to look elsewhere, but they just throw down 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 very sad. Such a good person can't see the beauty of the world. Compared with herself, she felt that the boy was even more unfortunate. Although she was rejected by the villagers, at least she could see lush forests, clear streams, silent distant mountains and lavender as white as snow in her hands. So she sent lavender to him every day to talk with him. The boy always holds the flowers she gave him the day before and stands at the place 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 all dead! They were still so beautiful last night, but now their leaves are hanging down and withered. 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 don't you let them wake me up? " "Because you slept so sweetly, they won't wake you up." The girl's eyes were 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 evening, the girl sold out all the lavender she picked that morning. In order to give the boy fresh lavender, she set out for the hillside again. But she was so tired that she fell asleep after arriving at the hillside. When she was asleep, she heard someone talking in her ear. "She is so tired." "Yes." "Didn't she come in the morning? Why are you coming 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 ... ""Just 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! There is a spring in the forest, which is said to be the tears of God of Love. That spring can restore anyone's eyes to light. " Hearing this, the girl suddenly woke up. She opened her eyes, but saw no one, 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 remembered every word in her dream. She picked a big bunch of flowers and gave them to the boy. She told him that she would go to a far-away place and come back in a few days ... The girl finally found the pool of spring water after many hardships. She filled the bottle carefully and hurried back excitedly. When she handed the 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 rubbed the spring water on his eyes, she left quietly. The spring restored the boy's eyes to light. Moonlight came in from the branches around, and he saw the colorful world, lavender as white as snow at hand, and even many lovely hill spirits playing happily. But he didn't see his beloved girl. The girl left quietly. She didn't want the boy to see her appearance and her purple hair. The boy is very sad, but he can't find the girl. Every day, the hill elves ride around in pairs on leaves and dew on long grass, but none of them can tell him where the girl is. One day, looking at the fading lavender in his hand, the boy decided to look for the girl in the place where lavender was in full bloom. He didn't know where that place was, but the wind brought the fragrance of lavender, which was like a hairspring, and he followed it step by step. Before the sun went down, he finally came to the field full of lavender. He saw the girl at first sight. The girl ran away screaming. The boy ran after her and grabbed her. The girl cried and said, "I am a monster. We can't be together ... whoever is with me will have bad luck." 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 a mist, which penetrated all the lavender petals. The girl's hair gradually turned golden and dazzling, and the pure white lavender turned into a purple sea ... Since then, lavender has always been purple, people say. The color of this flower is the color of love ... "

Legend 5

There are many love stories about lavender, but it is strange that many of these stories are related to the devil or sacredness. Maybe lavender has been regarded as a sacred herb with divine power since ancient times. There is a legend in medieval Europe: a beautiful village girl met a handsome gentleman, met him for several days, and even agreed to elope with him. However, the day before they agreed to elope, the village girl suddenly became suspicious of the identity of the gentleman, so she secretly took a handful of lavender with her. 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. As a result, she found that the gentleman was actually turned into a terrible devil! The devil who showed his true colors was surprised and angry, but he was afraid of the sacred power of lavender. Had to run away. This shows that lavender is not necessarily an aphrodisiac!

Legend 6

When the blue star meets the purple angel, they fall in love. God always likes to play jokes again and again. Stars and angels will never meet, let alone know each other. They should only be like two parallel straight lines, never crossing or getting farther and farther apart. But it is a fact that the star meets the angel, or the angel meets the star. The star, plain and unremarkable, is one of thousands of stars. The difference is that it shines with 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 by the star, and the faint blue attracted him. He flapped his purple wings and said softly, "You are so beautiful, and the blue is so beautiful ~!" Since then, angels often look for stars. In fact, angels don't really like stars, just because of her light blue mystery. Perhaps, the stars didn't expect that angels would finally get tired of watching the blue one day. The star indulges in the purple light, and she happily thinks that she has all the happiness in the world, and herself is the happiest person. Time passed day by day, and the angel came to look for the star less and less. The star comforted himself: "Never mind, the angel must be too busy, it must be!" " Finally, the star couldn't bear the loneliness, and decided to look for an angel. The star deviated from its own track and finally found an angel. The angel said to her, "It is impossible between us. I am an angel, but you are just a star. I have found a real angel, a kind and beautiful angel. She is the one I really want to find in this life!" With that, she opened her purple wings and flew away. A purple feather fell in the dark sky, which was an angel's feather. The stars picked it up and looked at the feather in despair. Tears burst out like a flood. She was very sad. She never thought that her lover who missed the curtain would turn her back on her and leave. She cried bitterly, and all the tears she dropped turned into meteor showers, blue meteor showers! How spectacular! She continued to cry until she ran out of strength, saying the same thing: "I will wait for you!" " Finally, she exhausted her last strength and leaned against the stone slowly.