Chinese students place ‘emergency love’ roses with romantic notes attached all over university campus to celebrate youth
- The roses were attached to trees, walls and signs around the campus with a note attached
- The idea was thought of by three students at the Henan University of Technology to show the fun of youth and love
On April 9, on a university campus in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, central China, over 100 rose stalks appeared all over the campus, on the trunks of large trees, on the walls of the lakeside corridor, and on signs by the lake warning people not to feed ducks.
“For emergency use in case of love; it is unavoidable to fall into the vulgar, but the desire for romance will last until death,” read a note attached to the flowers.
Tian Jiaming, a 19-year-old second-year student at Henan University of Technology, and two of his classmates engineered the floral takeover to show the fun of youth and the pursuit of romance.
“We ordered the flowers at noon, picked them up at 3pm, trimmed and prepped them for over an hour, and then headed out around 8pm to place them in various locations around campus,” Tian told the South China Morning Post.
Tian had the idea in his head for a long time before he put it into action.
“During my winter break, I saw in a video that such ‘emergency roses’ were placed in the streets of France, with the phrase ‘in case of love, emergency use’ on it,” Tian said. “The note made an indelible impression on me, and I thought it was the most romantic thing I’d ever seen.”
After nearly three hours of leaving the roses around campus, Tian and his friends hid at a location where they had placed many flowers and secretly observed the students’ reactions.
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