{"id":296,"date":"2007-02-15T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/language-of-flowers\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:53:35","slug":"language-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"The language of flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese contact I talked to today mentioned that he gave his girlfriend 11 red roses yesterday. I asked whether the number of roses had any significance, and he told that it stand for &#8220;\u4e00\u5fc3\u4e00\u610f&#8221; (one heart, one desire). This got me think about the meanings attached to different flowers.<\/p>\n<p>I found a site about &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianbazaar.com\/meanings.html\">the language of flowers<\/a>&#8216;, which explains the meanings of a variety of flowers. Apparently during the Victorian age (1837-1901), a knowledge of floriography, as it was called, was as important to people as being &#8216;well dressed&#8217;. It wasn&#8217;t just the variety of flower that carried a meaning, but the number, colour and arrangement, and also the way they were presented &#8211; giving a flower with the right hand signified &#8216;yes&#8217;, while giving one with the left hand signified &#8216;no&#8217;, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples: red roses signified love, respect and\/or beauty; yellow roses joy, jealousy, friendship (one yellow rose with 11 red ones meant love &#038; passion); orange roses fascination; and deep red roses bashfulness or shame. A single cherry blossom stood for education; a white chrysanthemum for truth; lupine for imagination; and a shamrock for lightheartedness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese contact I talked to today mentioned that he gave his girlfriend 11 red roses yesterday. I asked whether the number of roses had any significance, and he told that it stand for &#8220;\u4e00\u5fc3\u4e00\u610f&#8221; (one heart, one desire). This got me think about the meanings attached to different flowers. I found a site about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}