And then thesays: beautiful, love, friendship, light and power.Iris flower colorful: white, blue, purple, purple, yellow, and composite color;In the modern Chinese often translates fleur DE lis - - "golden lilies", the correct method of double also should be "and then".

The legend of the iris

Iris is derived from the Greek, the name of the main colour of irises is violet, there are "blue demon ji", and then because of petal shaped like a bird's tail the kite and said "lris", so the irises have a transliterated commonly known as is called "Alice".Alice is the goddess of rainbow in Greek mythology, she is the messenger of the gods and the earth.The greeks called the iris rainbow, because it is colourful, beautiful like a rainbow in the sky.

In southeast Asia and then the legend is like a fairy tale, millions of years ago, only in tropical forests have iris, which was so beautiful, not only animals and birds and the bees love them, even the breeze and flowing water to stop and admire.Think generally Israel yellow iris is the symbol of "gold", in planting iris is a custom, hope can bring wealth.

Even in ancient times people already familiar with iris, in ancient Egypt, irises and lotus, lilies, palm leaves together to form the patterns of the "tree of life".So then the first means "to life, life".The Frenchman saw irises as national flower.Because legend has it the king of the kingdom of France's first dynasty clovis in baptism, god gave him a present, is the iris.In France, the iris is light and a symbol of freedom.Think generally Israel yellow iris is the symbol of "gold", in planting iris is a custom, the hope can bring wealth to the afterlife.

The meaning of different countries and then

The roots of the irises are bulky, broad leaf such as knife, very strong vitality.But because it is the raw material of perfume, so quite a respected, also widely used.So it means - beautiful.

Irises are commonly used to symbolize love and friendship in our country, bright prospects, promising penetrative.

Europeans love kind of irises, symbol it the freedom of light.

In ancient Egypt, the iris is the symbol of power and eloquence.

Think generally Israel yellow iris is the symbol of "gold", reason has grown irises in the cemetery of customs, the hope can bring wealth to the afterlife.

Different colors have different says irises

1. The red irises (iris) flame: the love of despair

2. White irises as pure;

3. The yellow iris said friendship is formatted, warm and cheerful;

4. The blue iris is appreciate each other simple but elegant and easy or secretly admire;Others say is represents the fate of the free and broken passion, delicate and beautiful, but fragile and perishable.

5. Purple iris means love, lucky and happy believers.

6. Iris Alice (purple blue) : a good message, angel, miss you.

7. The German irises (deep blue) : holy.

8. Small iris (yellow) : to resist, concentric.

So far, the greeks often planted the flowers in the graveyard, is the hope that after death the soul can entrust Alice back to the kingdom of heaven, this is also says the origin of the "angel of love".