Grape has flourishing leaves and clusters of fruits. The Buddhist Scripture said that grape symbolizes an abundant harvest of all food crops.

The Chinese folks use grape as a decorative pattern to indicate good harvest, wealth and longevity.

Peony is a typical traditional Chinese flower with beautiful color and sweet smell. Its long lasting appeal attracts many people.

In the past, many Chinese poets praise the peony. For example in the Tang Dynasty where there was a poetry which denotes peony as ” the Queen of the flowers” whilst in Song Dynasty, there is poetry which named “peony which has a noble character”.

In fact,during the Tang dynasty, every year there is a Peony fair held during their blooming seasons.

Hence peony patterns are often used in Chinese traditional pattern which denotes/express thriving and prosperity, peace and happiness.

Tawny daylily is also called day lily.

It looks like orchid and its corolla is in a funnel shape. Day lily has many different kinds, some of them have 6 to 9 flowers in a stem and has great variety.

Chinese poets regarad it as the plant which willd rive away one’s worries which in Chinese called ” Wang You Cao”

Buddhism regards the Lotus as a paradise where the soul starts. Buddha is often depicted as seated on the lotus hence called the lotus seat.

Lotus symbolize noble character. Since ancient time, Chinese poets have praised lotus because it stems from mud but is not defiled and its stalk grows straight giving an impression of purity.

The twin lotus flowers on one stalk symbolize the longevityand sincere love.

Amongst all flowers, only the lotus’ flowers,fruits and seeds can exist together.

Lotus is regarded as the beauty, love, longevity and purity.

The word “lotus” sounds alike the word “continuous”. In traditional design the lotus symbolize good wish.

Rugosa rose looks very similar to rose and monthly rose. These three are regarded as three outstanding sisters of the rose family.

Rugosa rose is the most common and popular plant in the world. Its heavy fragrance and beautiful color and symbolizing nobility attracted numerous people.

Recently reported in the Star that a monk, Khenpo Yeshe (45year old) is now teaching a small boy who reincarnated from his own late master, the revered Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,a great Tibetan spiritual master.
Basics:

• Khenpo Yeshe was 23 when he came under the tutelage of his late master who is a very revered great Tibetan spiritual master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (75 years old).
• In 1991, Khyentse passed away at the age of 81. He was one of the greatest luminaries of the last century and his many students included members of the royal family of Bhutan.
• A decade later, in 2001, Khenpo was entrusted with the task of teaching the reincarnation of Khyentse, who is now 14 years old.

  
About the boy who is reincarnated from the great master, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche:

• Those who knew Khyentse noticed striking similarities in behaviour
• When receiving guests, the young Khyentse has a peculiar way of placing his hand on people’s head to bless them. With those close to him, he would put his hand around them and pull them close, as if in a hug. He would then lay his head on their head. No one had told the young boy how to do that.
• The way he sits is just like the previous Khyentse,
• The young boy also loves to play with plastic toy animals like Khyentse
• Like the previous Khyentse, the young Khyentse is very hospitable towards visitors.
• He shows great concern for the poor and those who are suffering.
• An interesting story narrated about the young boy:  “The previous Khyentse had a very close student and attendant for over 14 years – Matthieu Ricard. When the young Khyentse was a year- and-a-half, his father, Choklim Rinpoche, introduced him to one of his students and the boy looked at him. As soon as the student left, he told his father: ‘That wasn’t Matthieu.’ It was as if he was waiting for Matthieu to come back and take care of him.” 
• The young Khyentse shows a maturity beyond his years. He speaks, thinks and acts like an elderly person,
  

Append below the Interesting physic/clairvoyant story of how the young boy was discovered as the reincarnation of Khyentse Rinpoche:

• After Khyentse Rinpoche’s death, all his students, including the Dalai Lama (the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet), turned to Khyentse’s most accomplished disciple, Trulshik Rinpoche (72 years old), to identify his “unmistakable reincarnation”.
• “One day, Trulshik had a vision of our (Khyentse’s) monastery in Nepal – Shechen Tennyi Dhargye Ling – with eight stupas (usually white) which represent Buddha’s enlightened mind. One of them was bigger than the rest and was brilliant red,” says Khenpo.  “He thought it was a beautiful stupa. Then the rest of the stupas dissolved into this red stupa. And the red stupa moved over to a little monastery called Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling, east of our monastery.”  Trulshik thought it was sad that this stupa had left Khyentse’s monastery and had moved to another. Perhaps it was an ill omen for the monastery. As he pondered, he looked at the Shechen monastery and it had become even more resplendent and beautiful than before. Next he saw a parrot in a room and it spoke. When that vision vanished, Trulshik could not remember the words.
• A couple of days later, he had a vision of Khyentse and the words of the parrot came to his mind. He wrote them down. The meaning of the four-line poem was cryptic.
• “There was mention of Shechen monastery and to the east of that, born to the father Mingyur Dewai Dorje and the mother, Dechen Paldron, is the unmistaken reincarnation of Khyentse,” relates Khenpo.  “Now, everybody knew the father of the reincarnation of Khyentse as Chokling Rinpoche, and not by his childhood name. Yet, the childhood name appeared in Trulshik’s vision. He wrote down what he saw in his vision and in April 1995, sent it to the head of Shechen monastery, Rabjam Rinpoche. Rabjam is the grandson of the previous Khyentse Rinpoche.  “When the news broke, Chokling Rinpoche and his wife were delighted to entrust their son to the monastery,” says Khenpo.
• On Dec 28, 1995, Trulshik, met the two-and-a-half-year-old child, who was recognised as the reincarnation of Khyentse.
• Trulshik offered him a long white ceremonial scarf and the child, as if perfectly versed in this traditional greeting, placed it around Trulshik’s neck. 

As the wheel of destiny turns, Khenpo (45 years old) who is previously the student, now is the teacher who is now tutoring this young Khyentse who is his reincarnated master/teacher.

Chrysanthemum is a well known Chinese flower. It blooms in the autumn when all the other flowers are withered. It can stand the chilly weather and the blowing of the autumn wind. It is highly honored for its noble characters.

Many Chinese poets praise chrysanthemum to remind people about ambitions or the character of faithfulness and unyielding.

In the ancient past, chrysanthemum is so well-loved by the Chinese people that from the Song Dynasty there is chrysanthemum fair held every year. In Chinese legend, chrysanthemum is also known as a symbol of longevity.

Chrysanthemum is widely used among the Chinese people to express good wishes.

For examples:

Chrysanthemum and maple leaf has a phrase ” live and work in peace and contentment”;

Chrysanthemum and magpie means ” bring joys to a family”

Chrystanthemum and pine imply “longevity”

Orchid is one of the traditional flowers in China. Orchid is known for its sweet smell. It can be smelled in great distance, if you put a spray of orchid in the room, then the sweet smell will fill up the house.

In China, there is a saying ” the pleasant smell can cover the country”. Another name for orchid is “national sweet”.

Orchid is an evergreen plant and have a very good sharep, looks tall and erect. There is a Chinese expression “its leaves are more beautiful than its flowers”

Its leaves, flowers and sweet smell have four characters (pure color, wonderful style,lasting appeal ) with an impression of nobility and purity.

In the ancient past,the Chinese highly honored it as “the gentleman among all the flowers” Chinese scholars often take it as the symbol of pure friendship.

Pine with bamboo and plum forms the auspicious pattern called “three friends in chilly weather”.

Pine,an evergreen tree is consider to have great vitality and very attractive shape and can stand cold weather. Pine has been high ly praised for its firm and indomitable character.

The Chinese folks use this auspicious pine pattern to symbolize long life and forever young vigor.

Plum is a traditional Chinese flower which symbolize purity and nobility.

In the ancient past, Chinese scholars highly praise the plum for its distinctive character, purity, constancy, modesty. Printers and poets take plum as a motif in their articles.
In winter, plum blooms first to greet the coming of spring hence it is consider as a lucky pattern among the Chinese foks.