Buying New Year flowers during the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in Guangzhou neighborhoods to welcome the New Year. In 2023, with the theme of "nostalgia, ecology and fashion", the flower market in Haizhu District adopts a combination of "online + offline" mode, and a total of 39 offline flower shopping points in 18 streets of the district are now on sale. On the afternoon of January 15, the reporter came to the Lijiao Village Community Flower Market on Nanzhou Street and saw that the mainstream flower varieties of the Spring Festival such as New Year oranges, peach blossoms, chrysanthemums, and silver willows had been put on the shelves, and the scene had a strong taste of the year.
Delicate pink peach blossoms, colorful Phalaenopsis, rich and colorful tulips... The reporter learned that the flower market in Lijiao Village Community on Nanzhou Street is set up on Lijiao Avenue, from the Lijiao archway to the Lijiao flow temporary diversion area. The reporter saw at the scene that a number of annual flower and orange stalls, chrysanthemums, peach blossoms, flowers, green potted plants, Phalaenopsis orchids, etc. were set up on the side of the road in just a few hundred meters, and various flower varieties were placed on the scene for citizens to choose.
"We all grow our own peach blossoms here, about 150 yuan a tree."
"Our Phalaenopsis orchids are very beautiful, 16 plants cost 380 yuan in this pot, and 68 yuan in small pots for 3 plants."
"This is a four-season orange, half a person so tall, 100 yuan a pot"
"These small pots of chrysanthemums cost 10 yuan a pot."
Flower market stall owners introduced.
The reporter roughly counted that there are at least twenty or thirty flower varieties on sale in the community's flower market, such as golden fruit, narcissus, lily, gladioli and so on. At the scene, passers-by successively consulted the store for prices, and the store also introduced the characteristics of their own New Year flowers one by one and made quotations, and the atmosphere at the scene was hot.
Wei Weizhou, the manager of the Lijiao Flow Temporary Diversion Zone, told reporters that he has worked here for more than ten years, and basically every year before the Spring Festival, he will set up a community flower market to Chinese New Year's Eve for a week. In order to allow the public to purchase New Year flowers faster, a sale point began on January 11, and the business hours are from 7 am to 8 pm every day, so as to facilitate the purchase of Chinese New Year flowers after work. In addition to the flower year and orange stalls, Lijiao Village has also set up a New Year goods street service area in the Lijiao mobile temporary channeling area, where New Year food and Spring Festival goods are sold. "The assortment is quite complete."
Aunt Li, who purchased spring couplings on the spot, told reporters that she has lived in Guangzhou since she was a child, and her grandson is just 2 years old, and this year she will buy more New Year oranges, New Year flowers, as well as Spring Couplings and New Year food to go home, arrange the atmosphere at home in advance, and at the same time buy some crafts for her little grandson, so that he can feel the strong atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
【Photo reporter Wei Jingwen】
【Editor Huang Xiaoxia】
Source: Nanzhou Street
Some of the images are from Nanzhou Street
Source: Microcommunity e-Jiatong Mengyuan Nanzhou (WeChat: xxsbejtnz)