Hyacinth is not a native flower of China, but a kind of flower with rich colors originating in the northeast of Mediterranean. Its cultivation history can be traced back to the 15th century. The name of hyacinth comes from the beautiful Greek mythology. Because a beautiful flower grows in the blood pool of Apollo's favorite young people, it is named by its name - jacintos, which is literally translated as "Hyacinth".
It is said that the handsome young jacintos and Apollo are close friends, and Jeffrey, the God of the west wind, also likes this beautiful young man, so he is often jealous of it.
Once, when he and Apollo were throwing discus on the grassland, they were found hiding in the trees by Jeffries. Jealousy made him lose his mind. When Apollo threw discus to jacintos, the God of the west wind quietly made efforts to adjust the wind direction, making discus hit jacintos heavily on his forehead. The boy suddenly fell to the ground. When Apollo arrived, he had already fallen into his own blood pool. Apollo picked up his friend and cried.
A moment later, he found that there were a lot of purple flowers growing in the place where yashintos blood flowed. In order to remember his friends, the sun god named the flower yashintos.
Since then, purple hyacinth has the meaning of jealousy and sorry, at the same time, it has the same pronunciation with Greek "forever", so it also has the meaning of eternal remembrance.
