April 16:Aries

Birthday flower: wild tulip

13th century, the servant of the virgin Mary, yao aceh's flower

Since ancient times, Christianity is a link to the sage and specific flower habits, this followed in the church when honor saints, often caused by altar ornament with blooming flowers!In medieval Catholic monasteries, is like a garden center of planting all kinds of flowers, over time, the church will be 366 days of saint respectively and different flowers together, form the so-called flower calendar.At that time most of the monasteries in southern Europe, southern Europe is Mediterranean climate, very suitable for planting flowers.Liliaceae wild tulip is chosen to sacrifice the servant of the virgin Mary in the thirteenth century, from Siena yao aceh.It is a perennial plant, natural growth in Europe, west Asia and north Africa and other places.

says: chastity

Wild tulip grow naturally in the Mediterranean, are all the tulips species.In Roman mythology, the tulip is blatter god's daughter, she in order to escape from the autumn bells god's desire is wishful thinking, so request Diana, the god of chastity, turned himself into a flower.So it means "virginity".People who are born by this kind of flower blessed, belong to the pure feeling, for love is very single-minded, very happy by people you love.

Birthstone: diamond

Diamond name comes from the Greek "ADAMAS", meaning cannot conquer something, this is arguably the most accord with the name of the diamond.It is the hardest substance on earth, and its value changes little, have all kinds of subjective and objective factors of the value.

Color almost all natural diamond slightly a little bit, and this little color difference is about the quality of the diamond and rank.The best diamond is blue and white, the second is pure white.On the engagement ring with a diamond, it is the most formal usage.

The legend of the diamond

In the French royal regent diamond is one of the most valuable gem.It in French Louis xvi queen Mary Anton ni was put to death on the guillotine, follow the other gems were stolen.However, only the regent diamond miracle was found.Later, the diamond to napoleon, and was set on the wear on the hilt of his coronation.Shortly afterwards, napoleon was banished to the island of Elba, queen Mary Louise will regent diamond dug up from the hilt, back to her home country, Austria.But then her father brought the diamonds to France again.This diamond is currently showing the Louvre museum in France.