0 The beauty of cherry blossoms

What comes to mind when you hear the Japanese? Sakura. Yes. Cherry blossom is the national flower of Japan. Therefore, Japan is known as Sakura. Japan and sakura into two elements are very close and difficult to remove. Sakura has filled in all aspects of life and blood flow in Japanese society.

Once the beauty of the year

When the month of March will end, the Japanese people joyfully welcomed April. Symbolizes the end of the season late March changed the spring snow, the season when cherry blossoms are blooming. Gardens and parks that were previously covered with snow-white-pink and white and changing to warm as spring datangya.

Spring is a season that became a symbol of the coming of a bright future and hopeful. Therefore, Japanese people are welcoming spring with joy. Each of the cherry blossoms bloom, Japanese people always gather together to celebrate with family.

The celebration was conducted by browsing to the park while doing meditation as well as enjoy various delicacies at the beauty of the cherry tree. This celebration is known as hanami. Cherry blossoms are blooming too special because it only once a year. Early April and late April each year.

Sakura and Harakiri

Flowering cherry trees are in a very short period of time or shorter. Succinctness is what makes the flowering cherry as the national flower of Japan. Japanese society termed as sakura flowers that have the property "beautiful flower in a short time, then bloom".

Nature of the "short" is said to fit the Japanese people with psychiatric conditions who often chose to die rather than leave a name to live without the charm. In the story of the samurai, the suicide is known as hara-kiri or seppuku. When World War II, the end of life is known as kamikaze.

The incident reportedly ended the life portrayed in the cherry blossoms that have a short flowering nature, then falling. Harakiri is almost similar to martyrdom in Islam. The difference is, martyrdom is not carried out his own death, but a death that occurs when the fight in Allah's way.

Meaning of Flowers Sakura

As a flower that has bloomed a very short period, which is about half a month since the flowers begin to bloom until wilted, sakura has some special meaning and depth to the philosophy of Japanese society. The following is the meaning of cherry blossoms for the Japanese people.

Cherry blossoms means coolness, happiness, solitude, and tranquility.
Meaningful separation of cherry blossoms when the wind began to fall.
Beauty of cherry blossoms symbolize the joy and sadness.
Cherry blossoms remind people to always give thanks in appreciation of the life and grief.
The cherry blossoms as a reminder that all things have the opposite, there is joy and sorrow, there is life and death.
Give the beauty of cherry blossoms souls wandering.
Cherry blossoms are thought to bring luck and fortune.
When the wedding ceremony and other traditional celebrations, Japanese society is often required to drink the soup in a ceramic container of cherry blossoms which means absorbing the fortunes of the cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossoms symbolize a new life full of hope and bright future.
Those are some features that make the cherry blossoms of this flower as a matchless beauty.