Ngày xưa có một cô bé sống cùng mẹ trong một túp lều tranh dột nát. Thật không may, mẹ của cô bé lại bị bệnh rất nặng nhưng vì nhà nghèo nên không có tiền mua thuốc chữa. Một lần cô bé đang ngồi khóc bên đường thì bỗng có một ông lão đi qua thấy lạ bèn dừng lại hỏi. Khi đã rõ sự tình ông nói với cô bé:
- Cháu hãy vào rừng và đến bên gốc cây cổ thụ to nhất, hái lấy một bông hoa duy nhất trên đó. Bông hoa ấy có bao nhiêu cánh thì tức là mẹ cháu sống được bằng đấy ngày.
Cô bé liền vào rừng và rất lâu sau mới tìm thấy bông hoa trắng đó, phải khó khăn lắm cô bé mới trèo lên được để lấy bông hoa nhưng khi đếm chỉ có một cánh, hai cánh, ba cánh bốn cánh... "Chỉ có bốn cánh hoa là sao chứ? Chẳng nhẽ mẹ chỉ sống được bằng đấy ngày thôi sao", cô bé tự hỏi.
Không đành lòng cô bé liền dùng tay xé nhẹ dần từng cánh hoa lớn thành những cánh hoa nhỏ và bông hoa cũng theo đó mà nhiều cánh dần lên đến mức không còn đếm được nữa.
Từ đó người đời gọi bông hoa ấy là bông hoa cúc trắng để nói về lòng hiếu thảo của cô bé đó dành cho mẹ mình.
Dịch sang tiếng anh
The legend of the white daisy
Once there was a little girl lived with her mother in a dilapidated thatched hut . Unfortunately , her mother was very sick , but because of the poor should not have the money to buy drugs . Once time she was crying on the roadside , then suddenly there was a old gentleman passed and saw the strange thing after he stopped and asked. When he was understanded clearly her story, he said:
- You go to the forest and come next to the ancient tree is the biggest , only gather a flower at there . How many petals are there in that flower meaning your mother is lived by that days.
She immediately went into the forest and found that white flower after very long time , she climbed difficult up to took the flower, but when she counted only are there one petal, two petals , three petals, four petals ... " Only four petals that is why? Does she only lived by that days, huh ," she asked herseft.
Did not satisfied she immediately used her hand to gradually tore slightly larger petals in small petals and then also the flowers are there many petals little by little.
Then the people at large have been called white daisy to say about her pious heart give to her mother.
The legend of white daisies
Once upon a time, there was a little girl living with her mother in a dilapidated hut. Unfortunately, her mother was seriously ill but because of her poverty, she could not afford medicine. Once she was crying on the side of the road, when an old man came over and saw strange, she stopped and asked. When it was clear he told her:
- Go to the forest and go to the biggest old tree, pick a single flower on it. That flower has many wings, so my mom can live on that day.
She went into the forest and it took her a long time to find that white flower, it was very difficult for her to climb up to get the flower but when counting only one wing, two wings, three wings, four petals ... " There are only four petals, right? Couldn't you live just like that for days ", she wondered.
Unsatisfied, the girl quickly tore each of the large petals into small petals and the flower followed, many of which gradually rose to the point where they could no longer be counted.
Since then people have called the flower white chrysanthemum to talk about the filial piety of that little girl for her mother.
