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Birthday flower: amaryllis

Meters in the thirteenth century, the monastery of missionaries, st hashim, 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.Amaryllis is a kind of lycoris radiata perennial herbaceous plants, originated in South Africa, but fragile, bulbous plants, it was chosen to sacrifice to the 13th century monastery, elder brother more missionaries ─ ─ the haixin.He places in eastern Europe to promote the spirit of Christianity and doctrines, pages offer a lot.

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A fragile amaryllis bulb plant.In Britain a amaryllis must be protective against its confinement, and wants enough sunlight, plants can hardly survive.All in all, this kind of plant constitution is weak.So it means "weak".All born blessed this kind of flower, is the drift of Lin daiyu.Weak appearance, easy to cause the sympathy of the opposite sex, thus cause love feelings.

Birthstone: agate

It is said that due to the original agate stone shape and brain is similar, so called it "agate".No matter in the old testament or the classic of Buddhism, agate deeds are recorded.

In the east, it is one of the Sapporo, seven Jane.Agate can be divided into chalcedony and agate.Rough stone color is not complex, called "chalcedony", a straight line parallel stripes rough stone is called "onyx" (JieZi agate).According to the color of the original stone, sardonyx, red agate etc.Recently, the general will be dyed black agate are collectively referred to as agate.

The legend of agate

Legend, the goddess of love and beauty of the Buddha boroditsky, lying on a sleeping under the tree, her son eros, secretly took her glittering nail clippings, and merrily merrily with nails to fly in the sky.Fly into the air of eros, accidentally dropped your nails, and fell to the ground fingers turned to stone, agate.So some people think that have agate, can strengthen the love, adjust yourself with the affection between the lover.In Japanese mythology, the jade face comb MingYu life to amaterasu, is a crescent-shaped green agate, it is also one of Japan's three kind of artifact!