Fifteen years ago, to Luoyang, it is "filling the streets Ju is to look at flowers," the bloom season. Although they were not yet the annual Peony Fair, but the formation of flowers for thousands of years spent view custom Queshi turbulent flow waves: to Wangchenggongyuan car was packed, the streets have to do is to look at flowers people who buy flowers. Had just arrived in Luoyang me, though scholars have read the Tang and Song poetry peony, but the person on the ground feel Bai Ju-yi, "花开花落on the 20th, a city of beings Ruokuang" and Liu Yuxi "Only Peony Makuni color, bloom Season moving the capital, "the poetic, but still feel excited and surprised, heart is thrown up in Luoyang the respect and admiration.
Luoyang is located in the western part of Henan Province, in ancient times known Yuzhou, because is located in the north of Luohe named, is a famous historical and cultural city. From the first feudal dynasty in Chinese history since Xia, there have been providers, the Western Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui and Tang dynasty in this 13 its capital, lasted for over 2,000 years, accounting for 5,000 years two-fifths of the history of civilization is known as China's "ancient capital of nine dynasties." Han and Tang Dynasties, the "majestic fortresses, magnificent palaces, to the highest in the world." At the time of Luoyang is the national political, economic and cultural center, the "Eastern Capital", "poems are", "Huadu" and laudatory. A long history to Luoyang left a rich and splendid culture of accumulation, the famous Northern Song Dynasty historian Sima Guang this end lamented that "if I asked you something old and Xing Fei, please look in Luoyang City, jun."
Luoyang to spend, it naturally refers to the peony flower. Song writer Ouyang Xiu in the "Luoyang Peony" wrote: Luoyang other flowers called "fruit flowers. Say: a flower and so on. To the peony flower is not one straight Yue and its meaning for the world is really single peony flower, which the name of the book, not in the Yue-Peony and we can see also. his love of weight of the case. "Since ancient times, Luoyang Peony Take a wide variety, color preposterous and legendary. As the Luoyang climate, soils are particularly suitable for planting peonies, peony flowers here, huge, super-Yiqun Hui. Ouyang Xiu praised "Luoyang to spend the most suitable pulse, Peony is particularly strange world." Luoyang Peony, therefore has "Aromatic", "king of flowers", "10000 spent a product," a lot of good name.
Luoyang Peony rich, folk have a very interesting legend. Said that it was a snowy winter day, Empress Wu drinking poetry, take advantage of drunken revelry pen wrote edict: "You, on the Ming Court, rushed Primula known to spend the night shall be issued, MO until dawn the wind." Flowers impressed by this fate, night blooming burgeons, only Peony Kangzhi not open. Empress Wu rage, then has banished to the Luoyang peony. A strong and unyielding to the Luoyang Peony in full bloom on the head high, it also angered the Empress Wu, in turn ordered the Peony burned. Who knows though peony branches scorched, but in the spring of next year, but be even more filled with. Luoyang peony is known, the localities have attracted those who came to buy, which makes Luoyang Peony spread nationwide. Peony and more people prefer, praise them as "fresh bone just the body", "coke bone Peony." Since Tang Dynasty, peony of-sheng, than Luoyang. Song Ouyang Xiu peony once made to be compared across China were obtained Peony "out of Luoyang who today for the best in the world" conclusion. Since then, "Luoyang Peony under heaven" is known to the world that has been passed.
Nature has given Peony miraculous color Tianzi magnificent country. Luoyang peony has always been a wide variety, to the Song Dynasty more than 100 varieties, particularly among the "Yao Huang", "Wei Chi" the most famous, known as the Peony's "King" and "after." Today, there are over 300 varieties of Luoyang peony, red, yellow, purple, white, ink, pink, blue, green and a lot of color, there is the transitional color between colors. Some flowers large, petal-layer Diego high-rise up thermometer; some flowers age a long time and longevity of more than a hundred years; also some color richly varied, a tree can be opened out of pink and white flowers, even in a take can also be separation of powder, white two-color, very wonderful. Because in the same strains of different flowers or the same flower Leis, then the Three Kingdoms 2 Soochow beautiful old daughter of Qiao Qiao Xiao Qiao big names of the. "Drunken Yang Fei" colors, such as the Tang Dynasty drunken beauty and so on. There are also "lying ink Dragon Pool", "pea green", "Zhao powder", "champion Red" and many other valuable species.
Luoyang peony flower, as today, Luoyang, who has been widely planted in parks, flower beds and along the street, planting area has reached more than 4,000 acres, 1,000 thousand trees and over 610 kinds of varieties. During Qingming, Guyu season, red and white Dailv, Yan-hong cha purple, Qili gorgeous, beautiful, just as roads lead to color-color ribbon meandering walk through the city. Luoyang flowers many places, but the best place is still Wangchenggongyuan. Park is located in the north of Luoyang City, Zhongzhou Road, covers an area of 1080 mu, which is the largest comprehensive Luoyang city parks, due to the construction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty King City, named after the site. Park area by the ancient culture, peony garden, and several other components, both long-term traditional conception, but also no shortage of rich modern. Ancient culture area, from "Ji Sheng-chu," Forest of Stone Tablets, "God yuan Taiwan" Diange and "Jicheng Hall", "Huai Zhou Ting", "Ming Gate" composed of antique buildings, surrounded by corridors, compact structure, reflecting Zhou, Wang Du, "Jia Ru Ji Sheng" in connotation; Shao music profile construction Simple and elegant, equipped with bells, stone has been exhausted, orchestral and other ancient musical instruments, reflects the extensive and profound culture of weeks; Jiuding He Tu Luo Shu-wall and the stone reflects the Chinese ancestors remarkable wisdom and talent. Peony Region from the composition of several large peony garden, peony planted four thousand trees and more than 500 species, of which Luoyang red, 2 Qiao, Zhao powder, Yao and other yellow varieties of early majority. Blooming season, Colorful, colorful and is good at the ancient city of flowers. Peony trees, a white peony fairy sculpture one, slim, Graceful. When we looked around, the red one, a group of purple, pink clusters, as well as black peony garden pretty charming, flowers overflowing. Luoyang Peony charming but not flirtatious, luxurious without Jiaoshe, plump blazing Park Run, grace Self-see dignified. Of particular note is the Luoyang Peony "trail Ying Chi" have more than one or two species, its pattern of large, leaves the Min Mao unprecedented. I remember two years ago in Guangzhou Friendship Pavilion of chrysanthemums, there is a potted flower went so far as the 13000, at the time saying that "incomparable", see today's Luoyang Peony "flower can Ying Chi", I can not help but exclaim "Heaven and Earth luck", and because collection Tang, Song, Ming and several generations of Poets of the sentence and the praise, saying:
"Palace cloud blossoming Ying Asaka,
Dou Li-hua BAI Bao-bar before. "
"Several bud Sin Yan fire out,
1 Yixiang heaven. "
"Pink flower Lu Xiang-Yun warm new
The dawn and the spring of concentrated wealth and smoked. "
"Luoyang in March to spend, such as Jin,
Were woven into a number of efforts? "
Author: sunmg
