I believe this proverb is from a chinese saying: "赠人玫瑰，手有余香".
There is another versioin of translation: "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose".
This proverb's literal meaning is very clean. But it carries morn than its literal meaning.
No matter how small a good deed may seem, such as giving a rose to someone, helping others, be nice to others, saying good words to others or just give a smile to someone, it often not only will give the warm feeling to the recipient, it also makes the giver fell warm, happy and satisfying.
Talking about rose, I have a story. I had my first Valentine's gift - a single stick of red rose in the valentine's day of 2009. But it was not from my hubby. I never expected a Valentine's gift from him. According to a survery, chinese men is the least romantic people in the whole world. Haha, It might not sure. I made it up. But I knew for sure my hubby was one of these practical people. .
The rose was from my manager - a nice greek guy. He brought each of the lady in our team a stick of rose in office. I immediatelly found a empty plastics bottle , filled it with water and set the rose in it and put it on the top of my desk, next to my monitor. I stared at the flower, admiring its beauty. A warm feeling simmered and grew from the depth of my heart, covered the whole body.
As soon as I reached home from office, I looked for and found a nice flower case, filled it with water and put the rose in it. I put it on the counter top of the kitchen.
on next Valentine's day, I got a surprised valentine's gift - a bunch of venlentine's rose. And again next year, next year again, with different color each year. The one in the picture is from this year valenlen's day.
