Endless sea flowers…

(Baonghean.vn) - After many changes and ups and downs, today Cua Lo has become a famous coastal tourist area of ​​the North Central region. Here, in addition to the poetic scenery, clear blue sky and water, tourists also find it hard to forget the impression of a small but colorful flower, which has also become a part of the symbol of Cua Lo: Sea daisy.

Sea daisy Cua Lo.

The legend of chrysanthemum in Vietnam is associated with the filial piety of children to their parents. The story goes that there was a mother and son who lived together in poverty but loved each other very much. One day the mother fell seriously ill, the son loved his mother and tried every way to cure her but to no avail.

Faced with that situation, Buddha took pity on her and transformed into an old man and told his son to go into the forest to find a magical flower whose number of petals represented the number of years his mother had lived. The son overcame hardship and found the flower, but ironically, the flower only had 5 petals.

Heartbroken at the thought that his mother would only live for 5 more years, the son tore the petals into such small pieces that they could no longer be counted. Thanks to that, his mother recovered from her illness and lived a long life with her son. Chrysanthemums thus symbolize the wish for abundant vitality and filial piety.

Poet Nguyen Trong Tao visited the land of sea daisy flowers Cua Lo more than once. And he was so moved by the flowers and people of this place that he wrote the poem "Afternoon on a distant island", which was also set to music and performed quite successfully by many famous singers. Not knowing, when he was on the shore, the poet - musician looked out at the distant Mat or Song Ngu islands and sympathized with the marine soldiers and wrote these beautiful verses: "There was a soldier who remembered the color of sea daisy flowers/ The yellow color of the flowers, the nostalgia of the sunset/ Listening to the soldier sing about the flower/ Named after a very gentle girl/ He loved, he promised, he waited/ He promised, he waited, he loved the color of that flower".

According to the story, Emperor Bao Dai, the gallant king, also the last successor of the Nguyen Dynasty of 9 lords and 13 kings, had the merit of bringing that flower with its haunting, nostalgic color from France to this land of blue sea and white sand. Who knows, the migration of those tiny seeds, crossing layers of ocean from the cold land of the land once known as the City of Light since the 19th century to laboriously blossom and offer flowers in the tropical sea, was full of ups and downs? But today, the distant visitors have been pleased with the magical jade color of the sea, and have been overwhelmed once again by the brilliant color of flowers, running endlessly everywhere with the yellow and purple of the sea daisies, which has also been an additional step to hold back a return trip.

Sea daisy is likened to a daughter of the sea: Strong and courageous.

Sea daisy, a flower that wandered here "fated" or "fated" to find shelter with the sea, spreading the sun with purple sea hibiscus on the white sand, the long-haired flower rolls along the bright sunlight with rows of dark green poplar trees as if from the beginning of time. The sea daisy has jade green leaves, long and slender like obedient fingers that gently support the long, slender flower stem. On it, the sea daisy blooms modestly but the brilliant color is still undisguised, unmistakable. The elegant sea daisy is closed from the moment it buds, the petals are still closed to suddenly bloom on a sunny day. Each petal is dyed yellow by Mother Nature on the serrated, rounded edges, then tinged purple into the yellow-spotted flower base.

Blue sea, white sand, yellow sunshine and endless fields of daisies on Lan Chau beach

The chrysanthemum was treasured by the ancients for the reason: "Even if the leaves dry, they will not leave the branch, even if the flowers wither, they will not fall to the ground." The flower is considered a symbol of loyalty, of the gentleman, more than the pure lotus "even if the branches are separated, the heart still has the thread of love". Even when it has withered and dried up, the leaves still cannot bear to leave the branch, and the flower, having lost all its spring color and faded from the dream world, still cannot bear to leave the tree alone and return to the ground. Still lingering forever, like a reminder of the tragic memories of the beautiful days that have passed, never to return, of a flower's life.

Poet Xuan Quynh had very pure feelings about the sea daisy: "The pink sunshine helps clothes dry quickly/The sea daisy of autumn has bloomed/The bunch of sim ripens on the hillside/Listening to the gentle singing of the cradle".

Tran Hai