The meaning of lilac is love and diligence, which means more love. Its flower language is purity and first love, and this pure love makes lilac a symbol of a girl who yearns for love in literati's works. Lilac flowers are pure, beautiful, fragrant and elegant, belonging to deciduous shrubs or small trees of Syringa in Meliaceae.
The colors of flowers are purple, lavender or blue-purple, as well as white purplish red and blue-purple, of which white and purple are the majority. The flower language and symbol of lilac flowers represent innocence, first love, humility, sad thoughts and brilliance, which implies the hope of love and secret knot. In fact, there is not only a flower language, but also a flower language waiting for love and joy of spring.
The story of lilacs:
In ancient times, a young scholar went to Beijing to take an exam. It was getting late and he stayed in a small shop by the road. The shop was opened by father and daughter, and they were very enthusiastic. The scholar was very grateful for their hospitality and stayed in the shop for a few more days. The shopkeeper's daughter, a student who reads books, is virtuous and knowledgeable, and she has a feeling of admiration. The scholar saw that the girl was beautiful, smart and capable, and she liked it very much.
The two vowed to worship the heavens and the earth under the moon, and their hearts were tilted. Then the girl wanted to test the scholar, and put forward that she should be right. The scholar did not think twice: cold wine, one o'clock, two o'clock and three o'clock. Just as the girl was about to open her mouth, the shopkeeper came in and saw that the two had privately agreed to live for life. She was so angry that the girl cried that they really loved each other and asked her father to fulfill it, but the shopkeeper refused. The girl is strong-willed and killed.
The shopkeeper buried his daughter on the back hillside according to her last wish. The scholar was heartbroken and could no longer seek fame, so he stayed in the shop to accompany his father-in-law, and Weng Xu lived in sorrow. Soon, the girl's grave was covered with lilac trees, and the fragrance was overflowing. The scholar was amazed. He went up the mountain to see lilacs every day. One day an old man passed by and said.
This is the girl's bottom line for you, "cold wine, one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock;" Lilacs, a hundred heads, a thousand heads, ten thousand heads. " In order to miss this innocent and kind girl and respect her unyielding noble sentiment towards love, future generations have since regarded lilacs as the flower of love, and called this "marriage couple" "life and death couple" as a quatrain, which has been passed down to this day.