peony flower

In spring, the flowers are blooming, the flowers are blooming, and the flowers are red and red. Every April, the rich flowering and beautiful colors of the peony are striking in the flowers. Peony, beautiful posture; peony, jade, fragrant, and fragrant. The Chinese have always regarded peony as a symbol of wealth, prosperity, and happiness.

The peony is a small shrub of the genus Ranunculaceae, which is 1-2 meters high, with fleshy flesh and hypertrophy. Leaves alternate, three times and three leaves. Flowers are solitary on the top of the branches, 10-20 cm in diameter, with single and double petals. Peony is also called Luhan, Rat Gu, Baishuangjin, Fuguihua, and Muxi medicine. It is native to China and distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces. There are still wild peony in the Qinling Mountains and northern Shaanxi mountains.

Peony flowers, color and fragrance are absolutely. Colorful colors, red, yellow, blue, white, pink, green, purple, beyond the hundred flowers. Even if the flowers are the same as safflower, some are like Dan, some are like fire, some are like red agate; the same is white, some are like ice, some are silver, some are like white jade. The flowers are sultry and intoxicating. Peony is known as the "king of flowers."

In the Han Dynasty, the root bark of the peony was called Danpi, which is a valuable medicinal material. It has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood and dispersing phlegm. In the "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic", it was said that Danpi. Because, knowing that peony is medicinal, there must be a process, from which it can be imagined that people know peony, must be before the Qin and Han dynasties. Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, peony has become a valuable ornamental flower. "Hai Ji" said that the 100-kilometer of the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty was the Xiyuan, and it was necessary to tribute all kinds of flowers to the whole country. There were peony among the flowers sent from all over the country.

In the Tang Dynasty, the peony became the precious flower of the palace, and the peony garden was specially opened in Lushan. Tang Minghuang Li Longji and Yang Guifei once celebrated under the peony flower, Li Baifeng slammed into the palace, and wrote a famous sentence: "The famous flower and the country are both happy, and the king is smiling!" Explain the spring breeze, Shen Xiangting North Relying on the shackles." The Chinese book sang people peony poems, in which the words "National Colors 酣 酣 ,, Tianxiang Night Dyeing Clothes", when Tang Minghuang listened, greatly appreciated, and asked the nobles to drink a purple gold wine in front of the mirror table. Expressing the artistic conception described in the poem, Peony has won the reputation of “National Colors and Fragrance”.

In the capital Chang'an, every time I went to Hunchun, the people who watched the peony were "cars and horses mad", and they were crowded with people. Bai Juyi once wrote poems describing the grand occasion of the year: "Flowers bloom and fall on the 20th, and people in a city are mad." The poet Liu Yuxi also said: "Only the peony is the national color, and the city is moving when the flowers bloom."

Luoyang in the Northern Song Dynasty, planting peony, enjoying peony, became a wind, really "Luoyang Peony A world", "Spring City is everywhere flying flowers." Every household in Luoyang grows peony, which is the same as Yangzhou peony, and is called "the world's first." "Luoyang is the most suitable flower, and the peony is especially wonderful in the world." The poet Ouyang Xiu not only wrote this kind of grand occasion, but also had "Luoyang Peony" and so on. He once traveled to more than 10 gardens in the city, to the Yao family's Chiba yellow peony and The Wei family's Chiba meat red peony is especially respected. Yao Huang is known as the Kao, Wei Zi is known as the flower, "Yao Wei has always been Luo Qiqi, Qianjin does not hesitate to buy prosperous", it is said that they both sensational Jinghua. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Sichuan Pengzhou Peony once replaced Luoyang, and it was in the world.

In the Ming Dynasty, the peony of Zhangzhou was popular, and the rise of peony in Caozhou was called the “Hometown of Peony”.

Nowadays, the famous peony varieties are light goose yellow, brocade red, Wanzhong purple, phoenix white, etc., and even more rare are two-color flowers.

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