I think most people know about bauhinia because it's a regional flower in Hong Kong.
Every year in early spring, the gorgeous bauhinia flowers will slowly climb every branch of the bauhinia tree, and each bauhinia flower is like a beautiful butterfly, staying on the top of the redbud tree.
Native to subtropical regions, redbuds prefer warm, moist, sunny environments and deep, fertile, well-drained acidic sandy loam soils. The bauhinia tree flourishes evergreen all year round and can bloom for up to half a year.
The scientific name of the bauhinia flower is safflower sheepshoe nails, which was first discovered in Hong Kong, China in 1880, after the joint research of the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Henry Arthur Buli and botanists, it was confirmed as a new variety of the genus of sheepshoe nails, and named after Sir Buli's surname, the original translation is bauhinia bauhinia, Hong Kong people call it "redbud flower", and because it belongs to the genus of sheepshoe nails, called "red flower sheepshoe nails" or "purple flower sheepshoe nails", and Taiwan is its flower color, called "bright bauhinia", as for its "Hong Kong orchid" nickname, It is a direct translation from the English name 'Hong Kong Orchid TrC.'
Bauhinia
In the history of Hong Kong, there is also a tragic story about bauhinia flowers: on June 19, 1898, the "Special Articles on expanding the Hong Kong Concession" signed in Bauhinia City, the British government forcibly leased a large area of land on the Kowloon Peninsula and more than 200 nearby islands (later known as the New Territories), the lease period was 99 years, and two months later, the British side ignored the strong opposition and resistance of the Chinese people, and in the roar of the cannons, forcibly held an occupation ceremony in advance, thousands of patriotic people rose up, armed to defend their homeland, and counterattacked the British barracks. The British army was severely damaged, but the population was also brutally suppressed, and 100,000 people in the New Territories lost their land. After the disaster, the villagers built a large tomb in Guijiao Mountain to bury the heroes who sacrificed heroically. Later, a tree with purple flowers that had never been seen before grew on Mount Guijiao. A few years later, the flowers bloomed all over the slopes of the New Territories, colorful, especially around the time of the Qingming Dynasty, and the flowering period was in full bloom, like a memorial to the martyrs, and this flower was the bauhinia flower.
The flower language of bauhinia is brotherly harmony, unswerving, lifelong companionship, family reunion, etc., if you meet someone who loves each other, you can also give bauhinia to each other to express the sincerity of your heart.
Bauhinia
As early as 1965, before the return of Hong Kong, the bauhinia flower was designated as the city flower of Hong Kong, and after 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China continued to adopt the elements of the bauhinia flower as the design design of the district emblem, district flag and coin.
In the center of the Hong Kong flag, the bauhinia pattern is represented by five stars, with red as the background color, corresponding to the five stars on the Chinese flag, implying that Hong Kong is an inseparable part of China and will prosper in the embrace of the motherland, symbolizing that Hong Kong compatriots love the motherland and are inseparable from the motherland.
Hong Kong Flag and Golden Bauhinia Sculpture