The yellow apricot flower has a tight attach with Vietnam’s village, Vietnam people since the ancestors exploited and broadened land. This flower goes through tough weather then bloom in Tet Holidays, symbolized for Vietnamese who get over hard time and obstacles to protect motherland and meaningful life. Like the yellow apricot flower with the deep root in order not to be bended in the storm, no matter where Vietnamese are, we always keep the moral and tradition of the ancestors.
The meaning of yellow apricot flower
There are reasons for Vietnamese choosing the yellow apricot flower as a decorated item in our house in Tet Holidays. The image of a blooming yellow apricot flower in the beginning moments of spring after suffering from severe weather reminds of Vietnam people’s beautifully graceful spirit in work and fights through many generations. This flower metaphors for the ability of understanding moral of Vietnamese in meditated poems in Lý, Trần dynasty.
The yellow apricot flower has a tight attach with Vietnam’s village, Vietnam people since the ancestors exploited and broadened land. This flower goes through tough weather then bloom in Tet Holidays, symbolized for Vietnamese who get over hard time and obstacles to protect motherland and meaningful life. Like the yellow apricot flower with the deep root in order not to be bended in the storm, no matter where Vietnamese are, we always keep the moral and tradition of the ancestors.
Like this flower vents the old leaves in the end of winter to make room for cloves and yellow flowers blooming in spring, Vietnamese always sacrifice for next generations to have a better life.
The apricot yellow flower keeps the sap deep inside the trunk to prepare the nutrition and health for flowers blooming; Vietnamese always keep the moral in mind which leads to good behaviors, in order to be helpful to ourselves and the others.
Through time and the bad weather conditions, the yellow apricot still gets over it in silence, waiting for the spring to bloom. This is why this kind of flower is considered to be the symbol of the sacrifice, patients and graceful spiritual values of the ancestors during the progress of building homeland and maintaining the tradition.
Since the ancestors exploited the land, and established the regulation of villages, we focused on moral education. Each name of any villages or towns attached to historical events and best wish for next generations to have the best luck.Many villages all over Vietnam have pagodas, which were regarded as schools, to teach moral lessons as well as a place for spirit. Every region in Vietnam, every village has a house to express their respect to the ancestors and people who died for the country. Every year, young people, from many places, come back to see and have time with their parents, visit their grandparents’ tombs, edit the family tree, remind the lessons passed through many generations. The yellow apricot flower in the garden of Vietnam’s pagoda is an important image in Buddhism literature in Lý, Trần Dynasty. In the insights of the great manners, the image of this flower in difference moments of a day, through four seasons then blooming moment is a magic. It is deserved to be the symbol of the carefree state in this life. Mãn Giác meditator has a poetry “ Cáo tật thị chúng” with the yellow apricot flower transferred the message of the spiritual power hidden in each person. These are capability of a independent life and intellect, which is a general vision in the ups and downs of life, regardless the discipline of the frame of timing and space.
The image of Vietnam Yellow apricot
The idea of recovering and developing the origin of Vietnamese tradition, Vietnam Yellow apricot would be a warm and beautiful picture of spring with colors of happiness, energy, endless power, growth and prosperousness, and Vietnamese traditional beauty. All of these will be expressed at Nha Trang Peace & Innovation Village so that this city will become an impressive place which contains Vietnam ethical and traditional value through tourists’ eyes.