Sympathy Flowers Used in Different Asian Cultures

It is customary to send flowers to a funeral as they are always appreciated by the family. Also, it is appropriate to send flowers to convey your sympathies. However, different cultures have different traditions regarding sympathy flowers. These traditions have been passed down from the older generation to the current one. Thus, when you decide to send sympathy flowers, it is important that you keep these traditions and their importance in mind. You do not want to send the wrong flowers at such a sensitive event.

Asian cultures attach a lot of important to flower type and color when sympathy flowers are concerned. A different message is conveyed by different flowers and every color has a certain symbolism attached to it. In Asian funerals, the common colors used are White, light pink and light yellow. These flowers represent hope for the grieving people. The color white is the color of death and it is considered to be the most appropriate color in most Asian funerals.

Most importantly, you should know that the color Red is absolutely forbidden when you choose sympathy flowers for an Asian funeral. Red is the color of joy, happiness, passion and celebration. Thus, by sending red flowers, you would be making a mockery of the grieving people and that would be in poor taste, no matter how unintended.

The following is a list of sympathy flowers that are commonly used in Asian cultures -

If you are sending flowers to the deceased's family, it is always better to choose white but you can blend white and yellow if your flowers will be accompanying the casket. Choosing the right sympathy flowers is important but the recipient or vase it is sent in is also necessary. As has been mentioned before, red is completely inappropriate in Asian cultures' funerals and so, the recipient of the flowers should not be red.

The quality and design of the sympathy flowers is important as well. If more than two colors are used in the arrangement, it can be considered to be too distracting and exuberant. Thus, it is best to stick to two simple colors like light yellow and white while deciding on the arrangement for the piece.

Especially in China, funeral wreaths are pretty popular. The common flower combinations used in funeral wreaths are white and yellow chrysanthemums which look graceful, appropriate and tasteful. However, you can also choose a combination of roses is pale pink and white.

The protocols in Asian funerals are pretty strict and so, it is important that the flower selection is made appropriately. There are many florists who specialize in Asian funeral flowers and the same goes for online websites where the appropriate flowers are displayed when the location of funeral is specified.

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