Tongshu calendar: Princess of Flower: Morning Glory in Fairy Tale

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This illustration comes from "Black Princess and other Brazil fairy tales" published in London in 1916, depicting the story of "Princess of Flower".

There is a beautiful princess named Frete. She likes to spend, living in a marble palace on a mountain. Many princes came from all directions, fascinated her beauty, and proposed to her. But Frete told every prince that if he wanted to marry her, he had to guess what her favorite flower was. The princes said that they were roses, lilies, and night jade, and there were many beautiful flowers, but these were wrong. In the end, a handsome young man named Joyce guessed that the favorite flower of the princess was the glory. Regarding the glory, there is a very romantic description in this story:

"At this moment, Joyce glanced at the window, and the morning sun came in, which was extremely dazzling. The vines around the fence trembled in the breeze. One of them stretched out a slender rolling finger and seemed to be beckoning to him. He got up from the bed and smiled. Look! A pink and white flower crossed the window sill and nodded to him. It was a cow flower. What a beautiful, fresh, and fairy girl, there are dew in the cup, and the small green leaves are so elegant —— It's like a sharp heart! "

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