玉堂 Yù táng ‘ Jade Hall’ is another name for the illustrious Hanlin Academy and therefore represents a wish for scholarly achievement. The similar sounding 堂 táng means ‘ hall’, so a picture of apple blossom can represent the home in a painting. Wild Chinese apple trees in Northern China are Malus spectabilis 海棠 hǎi táng which does not produce sweet fruit but are admired for their blossom in spring. Older varieties of apple prefer a cooler, moister climate than is generally available in China, so apples used to be imported from Korea and Japan making them an exotic luxury.
Here is an extensive list of flowers and fruit that are noted for their Chinese art symbolism: Apple Apricot Aubergine Azalea Bamboo Basket Bean Bottle gourd Cabbage Chrysanthemum Cinnamon Creeper Cypress Finger lemon Flowers Ginseng Jujube Lily Lotus Lychee Magnolia Maple Melon Mulberry Narcissus Onion Opium Orange Orchid Peach Pear Peony Persimmon Pine Plum Pomegranate Rose Walnut Willow Wood oil tree
So in this section we also include apples, aubergines, oranges, peaches, pomegranates and walnuts. For a good number of the plants in Chinese symbolism it is the fruit rather than the flowers that are portrayed in artwork. These make up the four ‘flower tiles’ of the game of Mahjong. There is also a seasonal association too, the four virtuous plants 四 君 子 sì jūn zǐ are spring: orchid or magnolia, summer: peony or lotus, autumn: chrysanthemum and winter: plum or bamboo. Here is a list that follows the traditional Chinese lunar months starting at Chinese New Year ( not January):ġst: plum 2nd: apricot 3rd: tree peony 4th: cherry blossom 5th: magnolia 6th: pomegranate 7th: lotus 8th: pear or quince 9th: cassia or mallow 10th: chrysanthemum 11th:gardenia 12th: poppy. Each month is associated with a flower but the list varies from place to place. While the three friends of winter are the pine, bamboo and plum blossom.Ī basket of flowers is the emblem of Lan Caihe 蓝采 和 who is one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. The four friends of the flowers are the swallow, oriole, bee and butterfly. Particular flowers are often depicted with a specific bird because they have the same symbolic meaning, so a crane and a pine tree both represent longevity. We normally only post every few days so, don't worry, it won't fill up your news feed. We tend to stay clear of politics and concentrate on the cultural side. Some posts will also keep you up-to-date with the latest pages and new features on this web site. Our Facebook page has interesting stories about China or anything China related - often not reported elsewhere on other web sites. A prostitute was often referred to as a ‘flower’. Flowers have long been associated with girls and young women, and a picture of a flower may represent one. For a long while it was the custom of women to wear a garland of flowers in their hair although white and blue flowers are unlucky and avoided. Early spring blossom was particularly valued and decorated houses for the Spring Festival. It is dedicated to the goddess of flowers 百 花深 Bǎi huā shēn. The twelfth day of the second lunar month is a minor festival to celebrate Spring and the emergence of leaves and flowers. As a plant ‘magically’ transform from producing green leaves into producing flowers the character uses a head over heels representation to show this metamorphosis under the radical for a ‘plant’. The character for flower 花 huā has an interesting origin. From very early times courtyard homes had a small garden at its heart. The symbolism of flowers in Chinese art is very rich this survey has many individual flowers each with its own specific meaning.
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