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Mystical Udumbara Flowers Bloom Once Every 3,000 Years

In recent years, the mysterious udumbara flowers have been sighted all over the world. This flower is ultra-mystical and it is said to bloom once every 3,000 years. Strangely, it grows on any medium and on some really surprising surfaces, such as glass, paper, Buddha statues, and so on. The blossom of this plant is ...

Mikel Davis

Udumbara flowers on a Buddha statue.

Pretty, Fragile, and Potent: Flowers of Chinese Medicine

Flowers are one of the most beautiful natural sights. Coming in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors, they convey their fragile messages to passersby, including humans and insects. Insects are drawn to flowers and rewarded with nectar. They carry the pollen that ensures the continuity of the species. Since A.D. 500, flowers have been ...

Emma Lu

Wildflowers.

Art Focus: Painter Katie Whipple and Her Flowers

Katie Whipple is a painter from New York famous for her flower paintings. Married to Brendan Johnston, who is also an artist by profession, Whipple’s studio is located in Southampton on Long Island. The painter Katie Whipple grew up in Indiana. Her mother was a self-taught painter who encouraged Katie Whipple’s talents from a young ...

Jessica Kneipp

Artist Katie Whipple.

Flowers for the Living

One day, a man stopped by a flower shop to order a bouquet of flowers to send home to his mother who lived miles away. As he was about to step into the shop, he noticed a little girl crying on the sidewalk. He walked up to her and asked: “Why are you crying?” The ...

Nspirement Staff

Keepsakes in a Traditional Chinese Wedding

With a long history of 5,000 years, China’s rich cultural connotations and traditional cultural heritage are embodied in its architecture, literature, painting, calligraphy, arts, and customs. The traditional Chinese wedding also has significant meanings, often characterized by particular marriage keepsakes. Red double happiness The Chinese character “双 喜,”  known as double happiness (pronounced shuāng xǐ ...

Nspirement Staff

A Chinese bride and groom dressed in red.