We all love flowers. They are magnificent creations of nature of amazing shapes and bright colors. The most colorful representatives of the plant world. Flowers are the heroes of various stories, myths, legends, tales, folk sayings and proverbs.
How did different nations relate to them? Folk wisdom subtly observes the characteristics of flowers, which is why numerous colorful aphorisms arose - verses, proverbs and sayings about colorful inflorescences. For example, the statement: “A proverb is a flower, a proverb is a berry.” What proverbs can you recall?
Symbol of life and beauty
Colors have many meanings and symbols. Allegorically, they personify short-lived beauty. Color is also important.
In addition, this is the most common gift. They are given to adults, young people, lovers, parents, friends. Flowers are the personification of our strong feelings. They decorate not only festive events, but also mournful, sad ones.
Change of seasons
In any world culture, flowers are considered a reflection of the cycle of being - they are born, bloom and fade. In the sayings and proverbs about flowers, the symbolism of plants is practically not reflected, their significance is related to the life process, the change of various conditions and seasons.
In China and Japan they say: “Flowers bloom at the right time” and “Live, keeping calm. Spring will come, and they will bloom themselves. ” However, it was precisely noticed: "You can not simultaneously admire the moon, flowers and snow", "Fallen flowers will not return to the branches."
A Russian proverb about flowers observes: "People rejoice in the summer, and a bee rejoices in a flower."
French proverbs remind: "A wedding in the blooming month is a wedding that brings tears in the future." The Russian equivalent of this expression - the meaning of which is that if the wedding is in May, you will toil later.
Another French proverb about flowers rightly remarks: “All flowers that are still blooming are only seeds today.” And Russian proverbs are more tied to rural work: “Spring is beautiful with flowers, and autumn is stacks”, “Know by colors that it’s summer”, “Do not grow grass after autumn, do not bloom flowers in the snow in winter”. The people of the mountains came up with their talking proverbs, for example, that rain would spill in the mountains and flowers would appear in the steppe.
Double nature of flowers
Often in proverbs and sayings the double nature of flowers is played out. This indicates the ambiguity of people's behavior in life, the manifestation of their qualities. The Japanese believe that beautiful flowers do not bear good fruit. The Russian proverb about flowers says: “A flower is beautiful, but a sharp spike”, “Flowers are beautiful and poisonous.” Not only roses have thorns - nettle also blooms, but you won’t make a wreath from it, and when the nettle blooms, it is beautiful.
Many proverbs say that beautiful flowers are deceiving, like people: "Outside is beautiful, inside is dangerous." That in every person there are good qualities and bad ones. This is a Turkish proverb, saying that a charming person puts flowers out, and takes away the needles inside.
Africans compare lies with flowers and claim that it gives flowers, but not fruits.
An empty person is compared with beautiful plants, but barren: “Red, colorful, and empty flowers”, “Red, like poppy flowers, stupid like a stump”, “Roses (empty flowers) have no fruits.”
Pride is a flower grown in a devilish garden, says a French proverb. The expression has a similar meaning, where it is said that a snake can live in lush thickets of flowers. However, the snake makes poison from the same flower, and the bee makes honey. The liar is compared to a snake lurking under a beautiful flower garden. “The more luxurious the rose, the sharper the thorns” - again the Russian proverb.
The Japanese consider: “We can’t find inflorescences on a dead cherry tree” and “Two varieties of flowers cannot be found on one tree.”
Beauty and love in flowers
Of course, you can not do without comparing colors with love - faithful or short-term.
Russian proverbs say: "The scarlet flower catches the eye", "The moth will fly onto the red flower." However, beauty is not always a source of happiness: “A beautiful flower has a short life” and “A bright flower does not grow on the sidelines for long”.
They will say of unhappy love: "The flowers bloomed, but faded, the young man loved the girl, but left him."
However, hope for the future still remains. In Indonesia, they say that a wilted flower can bloom. Although, of course, it often happens that the flower is beautiful, it fades very quickly.
It is compared with girlish beauty: “A girl is not a poppy, she will not lose petals in a day”, “A girl who does not know love is like a flower that does not know the sun”, “A beautiful girl in a round dance, like a poppy flower”.
Flowers - careless creatures
In some nations, they are associated with carelessness and dreams. The Chinese believe that rice cake is better than flowers, and in Azerbaijan they say that you don’t feed the donkey with violets. The Russian proverb says: "Today you are in flowers, tomorrow you will be in tears."
Love for life and hope for the best
Other proverbs compare the happiness and beauty of life with plants and advise you to always find the positive, be able to enjoy the little things and take care of what is given to you.
“Where there are flowers, there is honey,” the Russian proverb explains. The Vietnamese advise: “If there are flowers, rejoice in them, no, rejoice in the buds” and “Where you see flowers, there you will find butterflies.”
There is hope for the future in beauty: "If you want to receive fruits from a tree, take care of its flowers." And also: "Where there are no flowers, there can be no cosiness." It is also said that herbs bloom after rain, and the soul of a song.
"Thousands of joyful days fail, and flowers don't bloom for a hundred days." And in order to maintain a positive mood, there is an excellent recipe: "Three things delight the heart and quench sorrow - flowers, water and female beauty." After all, an optimist even has a weed plant beautifully, and a pessimist can curse a beautiful rose.
Steppe flowers
There are also tricks where it comes to certain varieties, their qualities, differences. There are proverbs dedicated to the rose, poppy, bell - garden and field pets.
Here are the proverbs about a bell, a field flower, roses and nettles: “Tsesolenok like a bell”, “Blooms like a poppy flower”, “Leave wild flowers in the field”, “Black poppy, yes tasty, and the radish is white, but bitter”, "Roses do not exist without thorns," "Not every stepmother is like nettle, and not every stepdaughter is a cute flower."
Poems, proverbs and sayings about flowers adorn our speech and make it more colorful, understandable. This is especially important when we communicate with children. Thanks to witty and precise expressions, they better remember what is at stake. And what proverbs about flowers for children can I mention? Short, capacious, colorful and clear at the same time. For example: “In the neighboring yard the flowers are brighter”, “These are flowers, and the berries will come later.”