柳暗花明:
柳:willow
暗:today this character means dark but here, it means dense-----the willow grows so well so dense that it covers the sun, so the color here become dark.
花:flower
明:colorful
柳暗花明 is a 成语,柳暗 describes the dense willow and 花明 describes the colorful flower. anyway, this 成语 describes a view of flourishing plant.
this 成语 comes from 山重水复疑无路,柳暗花明又一村.
山:mountain
重:repeat
水:water but here, it means river(only in the poem)
复:repeat
疑:doubt
无:no / none
路:route
柳暗花明:i have explained
又:again
一:one
村:village
this phrase describes that a person is walking in a mountain. He can only see the rock and river again and again, he cant find any route. So he doubts that he is lost. but suddenly, he find some flourishing plant and after these plants, he find a village, which means he has found a route, he has not been lost any more.
today, we use just 柳暗花明 to express that we have been stuck in somewhere and we think we lose, but then we find a way to get rid of it and get success. then we can say: 柳暗花明
for example, u are working on a very very hard math problem, u are stuck and u think u cant solve it. suddenly, u find a way to solve it, now u can say: 真是柳暗花明啊!
this word is NOT a negative word at all. but make sure that u have understood what i have said here very well before u make your tattoo.