General Knowledge And Skills Of Sending Flowers In China
Sending flowers is a kind of knowledge and also a kind of art. There is so much you can tell by flowers. When you receive flowers, do you understand the implication delivered with them? Are you kind of confused when you want to send flowers to others? Do you know the meaning of a bouquet of red and white roses? Has anyone told you the lilies you want to send to patients should be disposed of in some way beforehand? We shall express and comprehend the meaning of sending flowers in a proper way if we want to make the most of this art.
We should be aware of the languages and implications of flowers first before we master the true meaning of flower art and show the free and leisurely beauty of flowers coming from the essence and elegance of the nature. Upon long-term evolution, people assign respective implications to various flowers to deliver and express emotions. For example, passing the imperial examinations in ancient times was called as “plucking osmanthus; seeing off friends is called “plucking willows”; peaches are presented to wish seniors for longer live; sending pomegranates to new couples deliver the implication of expecting more children; as for “pines, cypresses, bamboos, chrysanthemums, lotuses, they all have their own explicitly fixed implications bases on their respective characteristics.
Multiple forms of flowers tell their various stories. Let’s begin with general knowledge of sending flowers to review the full picture of flowers’ implications.
Cultures and customs of different nationalities define their respective taboos in sending flowers, so do not simply copy the practice in one nation to another. Every flower has its own meaning and delivers the meaning in silence. Therefore, send corresponding flowers according to different status of the receiver.
Boys and girls in passionate love usually send each other roses, lilies or osmanthus, which are beautiful, delicate and neat and full of aroma and perfectly serve as the token and symbol of love.
When sending flowers to a friend to celebrate his/her birthday, Chinese rose and pomegranate, which bear the token of “flaming years, splendid prospects”, shall be our first choice.
Roses, lilies, tulips, freesia, gerbera, etc, are on the top of the priority list when you want to give your congratulations to a new tied couple. And several branches of gypsophila will make the bride look more gorgeous and unworldly when she holds the flowers in her hands.
It will be very appropriate when you visit relatives or friends in holidays with reineckia carnea which implicates happiness and auspice.
A husband and wife can send each other albizia julibrissin which has long leaves and one leaf matches and embraces with another at night, bearing the token of eternal love between the couple.
Send peony to a friend who is about to set out for a long journey as the flower has bright color and represent the hard feeling for the upcoming departure.
Begonia, also named as “lovesickness red”, is a proper selection to comfort someone who has got a setback in love as it bears the implication of lovesickness.
Sending flowers to patients has many taboos: do not give them a whole pot of flowers in case the patients may misunderstand that you want their diseases to take roots”; do not select flowers with strong aroma as the aroma may make patients cough, especially for patients undergoing surgeries; flowers with too bright colors will irritate the nerves of patients and arouse their agitated mood; camellias are thought to be inauspicious as they tend to have bud drops. Plain and elegant calla lilies, plain freesias and gladiolus as well as carnations can al delivery your regard and wish of their earlier recovery. You may also select flowers that the patients personally prefer and that are favorable for the patients’ cultivation of temperament and faster rehabilitation.
With noble and unsullied quality and the name of gentleman of flowers, orchids will be your first choice when you visit a revered senior.
When celebrating for the opening of a new business/shop or the founding of a company, on the option list there are red Chinese roses, peonies, Christmas flower, Chinese rose and crape myrtle, etc, which have long blossom period and flourishing blossoms and bear the token of thriving prosperity and financial success.
In spring festivals, dahlias, peonies, daffodils, peach flowers, solanum pseudocapsicum, cumquat, pyracantha koidzumii are usually on the portfolio to augur auspice.
When visiting parents you can carry gladiolus, carnation, lilies, chrysanthemum gypsophila, and put them in a flower basket or make them into bunches, wishing parents of eternal love and happiness.
For the celebration of the birthday of seniors, sending jonquils, dahlias, winter jasmines, evergreens and orchids, etc, which implicates long lives just like the eastern sea and the southern mountain in healthy state and eternal retaining of youth, will be very suitable.
To celebrate the birthday of someone of the same generation, pomegranate, ivory flower, red Chinese rose, etc, can be proper selections which bear the meaning of retaining youth and securing a prosperous future.
Azalea, dahlia and ivies can be sent to commercial and industrial personnel to wish for their splendid prospects and successful businesses.
Orchid, plum, red maple and clivia are optional if you send flowers to a retired officer to express your admiration of his/her long reserved integrity and gentlemen manner and generosity.
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