China Weather Network News "There are several plums in the corner of the wall, and Ling Han drives alone." Plum blossoms bloom in winter, are hardy flowers, and have been loved by people since ancient times, symbolizing purity, humility and tenacity. On the mainland, the time to watch plum blossoms varies greatly from north to south, with the southern part being able to enjoy plums as early as December each year, while the northern part waits until early spring. China Weather Network specially launched the 2022 National Plum Viewing Map, come and see if your plum blossoms have bloomed.
The 2022 Plum Blossom Viewing Map is here! The best viewing period from north to south spans a wide range
Plum blossom is the first of the top ten famous flowers in China, together with pine and bamboo, known as the "three friends of the cold year", belongs to the hardy flowers, the average temperature of the surrounding environment reaches 5 °C, and some varieties can flower. Plum trees are widely distributed in the mainland, and their figures can be seen from north to south China, so the best viewing period of plum blossoms spans a larger span.
Judging from the 2022 national plum blossom viewing map, in addition to Suzhou and Hangzhou, in early January, most of the plum blossoms in the southern plum viewing resorts have successively entered the best viewing period of plum blossoms. Among them, the plum blossom blooming period of Nanjing Meihua Mountain, Wuxi Plum Garden Hengshan Scenic Area, Wuhan East Lake Moshan Plum Garden, Chengdu Du Fu Caotang and Kunming Heilongtan Park will last until February to March, and the famous Xiangxuehai of Hangzhou Chaoshan Scenic Area and Suzhou Guangfu Scenic Area will also enter the plum blossom viewing period at the end of January. During the Spring Festival, there are plums to be appreciated in the southern viewing resorts.
In the north, the winter cold is far better than in the south, and the average temperature from December to January is mostly below the freezing point, and it will take some time for the plum blossoms to bloom. The plum garden of Beijing Botanical Garden will not be able to appreciate plums until late February, and the plum blossoms in Qingdao Shimei'an Scenic Area will be even later, and will not bloom until mid-March.
In the middle of winter, in the north, where the trees are withering and the wind is cold, there are no plum blossoms to be appreciated. People often confuse the wax plums that bloom in the north at this time with plum blossoms. Although there is also a plum character in the name, the wax plum is not a plum blossom, and there are differences between the two, regardless of variety and appearance.
In terms of varieties, the wax plum belongs to the deciduous shrub of the wax plum family, while the plum belongs to the small deciduous tree of the rosaceae family. From the appearance point of view, the two are also very different, the flower color of the wax plum is relatively single, mainly yellow; plum blossom is colorful, different varieties of flower color are red, pink, white and other colors. In addition to color, the shape of the flowers is also different, the wax plum flowers are mostly bell-shaped, the petals are mostly heavy petals; the flowers of plum blossoms are mostly butterfly-shaped, and the petals are single-petaled, compound-petaled, and heavy-petaled.
Appreciation Ofi Gui focuses on 5 aspects in "Exploration"
Chinese love plum blossoms, since ancient times, literati and scholars not only enjoy the plums outdoors, but also often make plum pots to taste the charm of plum blossoms in the house. Appreciating meigui in the word "exploration", generally focusing on the five aspects of shape, color, fragrance, rhyme, and time. Xiaobian shares with you the three styles of plum appreciation, namely "look at plums", "shoot plums", "transplanting", to see in addition to the charm of viewing plum blossoms, how to shoot plum blossom pictures, make plum blossom bonsai.
The ancients believed that plum viewing came first with form. Plum blossom branches or curves like a dragon, or invincible, changeable and regular, showing a strong sense of strength and rhythm of the line. There are three forms: pitching, leaning, sideways, lying down, leaning, hoping, etc., and the posture is divided into three types: upright, flexed and crooked. Plum blossoms are colorful but not demon, the floral fragrance is elegant and noble, not too rich, often described by ancient literati with dark incense, exploring the plum season, wandering the sea of flowers, people are intoxicated.
The highest realm of plum appreciation lies in the appreciation of rhyme. How to get the charm of plum blossoms, the ancients have long studied. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda has a cloud in the "Plum Spectrum": Mei wins with rhyme, and is high, so it is expensive to be horizontal and thin and old branches and strange stones. This kind of plum blossom beauty evaluation standards have been passed down to this day, the folk have the "plum rhyme four expensive" plum appreciation tips, to be expensive and rare is not expensive, expensive old is not expensive and tender, expensive thin is not expensive fat, expensive is not expensive.
In addition to appreciating plums, "shooting plums" also has skills, and if you want to shoot the style of plum blossoms, you need to pay attention to two points. First, shooting plum blossoms need to choose branches into the picture, plum blossom branches are changeable, elegant posture, choose the right branches can set off the beauty of plum blossoms. Second, combined with the "plum rhyme and four noble" plum appreciation tips, when shooting, you can combine the "blank" technique in Chinese paintings to intentionally vacate part of the space, and the picture will be cleaner, thus reflecting the noble and elegant character of plum blossoms.
If you also want to move plum blossoms indoors, you must know the plum blossom arrangement techniques. The selection of plum blossom branches should not be too much, the use of the main body flower arrangement method is better, choose a stout plum branch to highlight the main body. In the choice of flower utensils, try to choose a plain and light color, highlighting the elegance of plum blossoms.
Have you mastered the above three styles of plum appreciation? At present, it is in the critical period of epidemic prevention and control, and watching plum blossoms needs to pay attention to personal protection, and try not to get together and not to gather. Finally, present a group of plum blossom pictures, take you to a cloud plum tour first. (Text/Jiang Yi Design/Zhang Li Data Support/Shi Yan)
On January 5, 2022, plum blossoms bloomed in the urban area of Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province. (Hu Panxue/Visual China/Copyright Image Source Visual China)
On January 3, 2022, Huizhou, Guangdong, Thousands of acres of plum blossoms bloomed in Lianghua National Forest Park. (Zhou Nan/Visual China/Copyright Image Source Visual China)
On January 11, 2022, plum blossoms were in full bloom at Linyang Temple in Fuzhou. (Contracted Contributor/Visual China/Copyright Image Source Visual China)
Source: China Weather Network