May 1:Taurus

Birthday flowers: red carnations

The first bishop, the small flowers of Jacob

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 and together, to 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.Red carnation QuMaiKe, petals villous, biennial plants.This flower is to commemorate the 62 12 as one of the disciples of Jesus - little Jacob, is also the first bishop of Jerusalem, he came by the killing of the jews.

saysFriendly:

The red carnation is a kind of dioecious plants, only the male strains of stamens and pistil only two female plant.If you want to, you have to have the male plant and female plant at the same time.In addition, the red carnation baishi often bloom near bamboo, the two mating, color soft pink flowers, so it means "friendly".Born by this blessing says, usually has pretty good interpersonal relationships, and many heterosexual friends, too.However, among all the friends carefully choose life partner, is the right thing to do!

Birthstone: emerald

Pure bright light, like spring green emeralds, had the characteristics of mood bright beautiful, no wonder the ancient Romans will see it as a gem, and used as an idol of the eyes.As western there is an old proverb: "want to find a flawless emerald, and far more difficult than beauty find a perfect person."

As western there is an old proverb: "want to find a flawless emerald, and far more difficult than beauty find a perfect person."Almost all natural emerald defective, this is the best evidence prove that it is the true natural gems.Emerald is all the stones, imitation and synthetics at most one.In the age of the gem identification method has not yet universal, it used to be the root of many stone chagrin, sad!

The legend of emerald

Cleopatra kristi opie took leave many legends, heard her favorite or emerald green.At the time of the old continent, and the only emerald mines in Egypt.Legend has it that the mine for kristi opie took all the individual, and so do the "rob li opie pull off mountain".The Alexander the great conquered Egypt said, and left all kinds of cruel story of a tyrant, Nero, for the emerald produced here, there are abnormal persistent love.Nero will be enshrined in the temple of the emerald has given his queen Bhopal.Bhopal with this stone made a pair of glasses for Nero and nine pieces of her own personal ornaments.