Tulip (scientific name: Tulipagesneriana), a herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Tulip of the Liliaceae family, is the national flower of Turkey, Kazakhstan, and the Netherlands.
English name: FlowerofCommonTulip, FlowerofLateTulip, name of traditional
Chinese medicine: Tulip “Supplements to Materia Medica”; Tulip “Taiping Yulan”; 3-5 leaves, strip-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, terminal flowers single, large and showy, tepals red or mixed with white and yellow, sometimes white or yellow, 5-7 long cm, 2-4 cm wide, 6 stamens of equal length, glabrous filaments, no style, enlarged stigma in the shape of a cockscomb, flowering in April-May, its exact origin has been difficult to verify. But more than 500 years ago, because the headscarves worn by people in Central Asia were similar to tulip flowers, its original name Tulipa means “turban” in Turkish. Therefore, some experts believe that its origin is probably in Turkey and the Mediterranean. It spread to the Netherlands in 1863.
1. Reflect the home style of helping others.
According to legend, during the Second World War, there was a famine in the Netherlands in one winter, and many hungry people ate the bulbous rhizomes of tulips, and relied on tulips to maintain their lives. The Dutch are grateful for the life-saving grace of tulips, so they use tulips as their national flowers. How tulips killed the Dutch people, we can clearly see here that people who know this story and see tulips in a family must be able to understand the spirit of the owner’s helping others.
2. It embodies the home style that the owner does not worship money and advocates noble spirit.
There is such a legend in the Netherlands: tulips originally grew on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, and were introduced to Europe from Turkey in 1554. They became popular immediately and became the target of crazy financial speculators in the Netherlands in the 17th century. Someone even made up a story: In ancient times, there was a beautiful girl who lived in a majestic castle, and three warriors fell in love with her at the same time. One gave her a crown; one gave her a sword; the other gave her a pile of gold nuggets. But she didn’t fall in love with anyone, so she had to pray to the Flower God. Flora felt that love could not be forced, so he turned the crown into flowers, the sword into green leaves, and the pile of gold into bulbs, and together they became tulips. In order to express love to boys and girls on Valentine’s Day every year, in addition to roses, tulips have also become the best choice to express their affection to their lovers. This story deepened the impression of the Dutch on the flower. Some propaganda media even promoted a motto: “Whoever despises tulips offends God.”