April - Lilies in the streets

Article & photos:Hanoi

The season passes so quickly that everyone seems to want to hold on to the flowers, hold on to the month of April, hold on to time. Many people buy lilies as a habit of the flower season, as an April promise.

During this time, lilies can be seen everywhere, whether in offices, restaurants, shops or private homes. This flower has a magical attraction, not colorful, just pure white, elegant, pure, noble but still extremely simple and rustic.

Suddenly, I remembered the painting “Girl with lilies” by the famous painter To Ngoc Van. The painting is beautiful, a holy beauty that is simple and graceful. The girl in the painting is the typical beauty of a young girl in Hanoi, with a shy, mysterious appearance. It is not clear why the author named the painting after the lily (Western). Is the name lily more beautiful than trumpet flower? Or is it possible that this flower originated in... the West and this name came first? Actually, that is not important. But the beauty of that painting, the beauty of the girl, the beauty of that flower has transcended time.

Playing with lilies is an elegant hobby of Hanoians. No one knows when it started, but it must have been at least since the time the famous painter To Ngoc Van painted his masterpiece.

Lilies are not a flower unique to Hanoi, but lily season is still a flower season of Hanoi with the image of flower stalls passing through the streets creating a unique feature of the capital in April.

The Thanh