Red Tulip is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on February 28th, 2017.
Red Tulip
This lovely tulip image was captured on a bright spring day in a park near my home. I love the flaming red color which is brilliant and cheerful. ... more
Title
Red Tulip
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This lovely tulip image was captured on a bright spring day in a park near my home. I love the flaming red color which is brilliant and cheerful.
The color red in flowers is usually associated with love so it also follows that the red tulip would mean eternal love, perfect love, true love, undying love and more. Aside from the color, the red tulip was believed to be a symbol for love because of one legend associated with it. The main character in this Persian legend is Farhad and Shirin.
Farhad loves Shirin who is a beautiful young princess but did not have the courage to confess his love. When he heard news of Shirin’s death, he wallowed in grief and committed suicide. It is said that red tulips blossomed in the same spot where droplets of his blood fell. Ever since then, the red tulips became the symbol for true and eternal love. It also became a symbol for declaration of love since the world came to know how much Farhad loved Shirin through the red tulips.
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February 28th, 2017
