The morning sun is near the window, the spring flowers are blooming, and the fragrance of peonies is coming. The courtyard is a peony, the street is lined with peonies, and the vast field is a peony...... My hometown, Heze, is full of beautiful scenery of peony flowers in full bloom.
For thousands of years, peony and my "home" have formed an indissoluble bond. Tracing back to the Sui Dynasty, flourishing in the Tang and Song dynasties, flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, my "home" is known as the reputation of "Caozhou Peony Jiaxia", Pu Songling has "Caozhou Peony Jiaqilu" in his "Liao Zhai Zhiwei", and wrote the mythical story of the jade version of Ge Jin.
The long-standing relationship has made my "home" peony accumulate a rich cultural heritage. Its content involves botany, horticulture, medicine, geography, literature and opera and many other fields, just in terms of flower names, behind each beautiful name, there is a beautiful and touching story. For example, the "green peony", which enjoys the reputation of the Oiran, is carefully cultivated by the flower farmers in their hometown who were taught by the flower fairy in their dreams, taking the water of the East China Sea and the soil of the Yellow River beach. The unique and rare "black peony" is the peony fairy who dived into the ink pool butterfly to save the little green dragon who gave the grace of water. There are also "Zhuangyuan Red", "Caozhou Red", "Zi Er Qiao" and "Yao Huang...... All have their own stories and legends. These stories and legends fully reflect the careful cultivation and deep affection of the hometown flower farmers for the peony, the position and heritage of the hometown peony in Chinese culture, and the veritability of the hometown Heze to be named "the peony capital of China" by the China Flower Association.
In the peaceful and prosperous era, the development of my "home" peony has embarked on the fast track. Especially in recent years, the planting area has expanded rapidly to hundreds of thousands of acres, and the cultivated varieties are divided into single petals, compound petals, thousand petals and more than ten kinds of lotus type, chrysanthemum type, golden stamen type, etc., covering pink, red, purple, blue, yellow, white, black, green, compound color and other nine major color systems, each color system has deep, light and strong points, and is known for its large flowers, beautiful shape, bright color and fragrant, which can be used for ornamental products.
In the rainy season, you are in the endless sea of peony flowers, giving people an endless beauty and enjoyment. The buds waiting to bloom are slim and elegant, entrusting the longing and hope of tomorrow; the flowers that are in full bloom, like flower plates, like hydrangeas, graceful, colorful, dazzling; the layers of petals and stamens, showing gorgeous and precious, exude a rich fresh floral fragrance, refreshing the heart and lungs, intoxicating, let people really feel the generous gifts and infinite charm of nature.
The relationship between peony and my "home" is not only the sincere love of the people in my hometown for peony, but also the peony's special love for the climate, soil and other geographical environment of my hometown. According to the growth habits of peony, the industrious and enterprising hometown flower farmers have absorbed new scientific and technological means, and the cultivated peony can not only bloom in spring, but also make the peony bloom with the flowers, especially the cold Spring Festival, so that the peony has entered thousands of households, adding grace and luxury to the traditional festival of reunion and harmony.
With the development of social industrialization, the deep processing of peony as raw material has been fully carried out in the hometown, peony tea, peony cake, peony seed oil, peony daily chemicals, peony functional food, peony biomedicine, peony plastic powder and other civil and industrial supplies have come out one after another, and quickly embarked on the market, out of the country, not only greatly improved the livelihood and social value of peony, but also greatly improved people's awareness of peony and my hometown.
Peony is closely integrated with my hometown, and peony has become a symbol of my "home". Peony shape, peony pattern all over the hometown of the railway station, bus station, parks and streets and alleys, the title of "peony airport", for my hometown to plug in the wings of take-off, so that my hometown with the motherland of the take-off and take off, so that the "peony" of the symbol of "home" drifting across the ocean, more and more shiny!
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