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Her name is Cuihua.
As soon as I heard the story, I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Ji Ran, who was sitting side by side with me listening to the story, quickly glared at me and twisted my arm, and smiled apologetically at the storyteller.
I touched the twisted flesh and glared back at Ji Ran angrily, how can you blame me, it's really funny! How can there be a heroine in the story called Cuihua, the soil is like a roller driving through the country road and raising dust, the heroine is called Cuihua, what is the male protagonist's name? Do you want to call Big Niu Brother and the second dog? In the legendary stories, which heroine's name is not tactful, what white tassel Gu Manzhen's.
Besides, this girl named Cuihua doesn't necessarily look uglier than Gu Manzhen, a white tassel.
In front of us, is the statue of this emerald flower girl, the statue is made of a whole piece of white marble, three meters high, standing in front of the main building of this tulip park, after several decades, it is still white and flawless as the first time I saw the world. This girl wears a tropical sarong, carries a bamboo basket on her arm, and her face is really beautiful, like a Chinese, with gentle eyes, but more contoured than the average Chinese, with a high nose and high eyebrows.
Ji Ran and I traveled to this tropical island, this tulip park is known as a must-see attraction for tourists, and this emerald flower girl is the patron saint of the park, and the locals call her the goddess of flowers.
I came with a longing, but I didn't expect that the name of this flower god would be Cuihua! It's a terrible sight.
In the face of my ridicule and loss, the storyteller, the old director of the park, seemed calm as water, he stood up, leaned over and groped into the bamboo basket of the flower god: "Do you think the name Cuihua is very earthy?" But if you think about it, there are thousands of kinds of flowers in the world, most of them are red, white, blue, and pink, but how many kinds of green flowers can you think of? Cuihua Cuihua, the original meaning is green flowers, green flowers are very rare and precious, but they have been misinterpreted by later generations, called falsehood, and have become the most cheesy things......"
He took his hand out of the bamboo basket and spread out the things in front of Ji Ran and me.
It turns out that although this bamboo basket is carved in stone, the flowers inside are fresh, and they are picked and put in by the director every day.
In the bamboo basket of the flower goddess Emerald Flower Girl, there is a green tulip.
Emerald flowers refer to green tulips.
Ji Ran and I came to this island in the southeast region in the spring of 2018, when it was the number one tourist attraction on major travel apps. It meets all the requirements of modern people for a tourist attraction, such as the beautiful, emerald red tropical scenery, the delicious, fleshy and fresh aromas, the local people singing and dancing in the sarongs, and of course, the absolutely modern luxury toilets and accommodation services hidden behind the scenery of the past.
However, this was not the case at the beginning.
Time goes back to the 30s of the last century where the flower god Cuihua is located, when the southeast region was still called "Nanyang", since the end of the Qing Dynasty decades before the story occurred, "breaking into the east", "going to the west", "going to the South Sea" and "selling piglets" have become the four main ways for the Chinese to make a living and seek wealth. By the 30s, this small island in the Indonesian archipelago had been cultivated by three or four generations of diligent Chinese into a prosperous land with a reputation in China.
But the Chinese were still second-class citizens here, and the island was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch colonial government. The Dutch, like all Caucasians at that time, were full of disgust and fear of the Chinese, and the construction of the island had to rely on the Chinese, but they did not want the Chinese to be civilized people with ideas and culture, but only wanted them to exist as cheap labor. The Chinese are discriminated against by the Dutch on this island, and while holding more than 80% of the wealth, they enjoy almost zero respect, and even their place of residence is enclosed in a special area, which is called, China town, Chinatown.
In the summer of 1932, the ball was held at Wang's house in Chinatown.