Every April 15th is the Peony Festival
But as Heze citizens, we all like to call it the Peony Festival.
On April 15th every year There will be many tourists coming to see this "king of flowers with national beauty, elegance and splendor" every day. Generally speaking, cultural and artistic programs are held in the Peony Stadium in Xiguan, Heze, and many celebrities will be invited to support the show. When we are in school, we always pick up the radio and listen to the program secretly when there is a cultural program (we still have to go to class, and the teacher won’t let us listen, haha)
The location for flower viewing is usually in "Caozhou" Peony Garden, Ancient and Modern Garden and Hundred Gardens are all near Zhao Tower.
There is also some other knowledge about peonies
Peonies grown in Heze are all grown in open fields. The existing cultivation area is more than 50,000 acres and there are more than 600 varieties. The annual Heze Peony Fair has been held for many times. In 1992, with the approval of the State Council, Heze held the first International Peony Fair, inviting experts, scholars and flower merchants from more than ten countries including North Korea, Japan, the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and France to participate. At the same time, a large-scale peony ordering fair was held to promote Chinese peonies to the world. Tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign guests watched the Heze peonies with their own eyes and discussed economic and trade cooperation. It has been successfully held for 18 years. At present, Heze Peony has accounted for 85% of the domestic sales share, and Heze Peony has entered the international market.
The Heze International Peony Fair usually opens in mid-April every year, followed by various cultural activities such as large-scale theatrical performances, peony art exhibitions, peony ambassador selections, human hair festivals, and exhibitions of famous calligraphy and painting works. Expand it to fully demonstrate the Chinese Peony City, calligraphy and painting. The main event locations are Peony District Gymnasium, Forest Exhibition Hall, Municipal Museum, Heze Grand Theater, Caozhou Peony Garden, etc. At present, 1,156 varieties of Heze peonies in nine major colors including black, red, and yellow have obtained the registration and certification of origin mark from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Holding the International Peony Fair has broadened the horizons of Heze people and allowed them to develop the flower industry, which is dominated by peonies, as a pillar industry. We invited experts and professors to re-plan and design the peony garden according to the principle of combining trees, shrubs and grasses and integrating the construction style of the external garden. With the Peony Office as the center, a 35-square-kilometer area is planned as a peony industrial zone. Peonies are planted on a large scale in more than 10 towns and villages, with an annual growth rate of 10,000 acres. Peony resource nurseries and peony gene banks were also quickly established. At the same time, we cooperate with universities and scientific research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Beijing Forestry University to increase the scientific research and development of peonies. Major breakthroughs have been made in scientific research topics such as peony flowering, fresh cut flowers, variety selection, soilless cultivation, and tissue culture. Peonies blooming in all seasons have become a reality, and the technology of rapid propagation through bud grafting has been popularized. The high-tech Heze peony won two world awards and 79 gold, silver and bronze awards at the 99 Kunming World Horticultural Exposition in China. The number of awards won accounted for 73.2 of the total number of awards, thus establishing Heze peony's world dominance. The flower industry, mainly peonies, has become an economic growth factor that promotes Heze's wealth and vitality.
Caozhou Peony Garden
Caozhou Peony Garden is located in the Peony Office of Mudan District, Heze City, Shandong Province, close to National Highway 220 and three kilometers away from the urban area. It was built in 1982 and has a total area of ??73hm2 , is the main peony viewing area in Heze. There are more than 1 million peonies of more than 800 varieties in the garden, interspersed with hundreds of flowers and trees such as peonies, peaches, summer lotuses, autumn chrysanthemums, wintersweets, roses, roses, etc., all competing for beauty. Every year from mid-April to early May, millions of peonies are in bloom, colorful and varied. There is an endless stream of domestic and foreign tourists, creating a spectacular scene of "flowers everywhere and crowds of people". The Caozhou Peony Garden enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. The peonies in the garden have been transported to the Beijing Botanical Garden, Zhongnanhai, the Forbidden City, Shanghai, Nanjing, Luoyang and other scenic spots for planting many times. It is also exported to more than 30 countries and regions including Japan, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Thailand, and a "Chinese Peony Garden" was established for Shimane Prefecture, Japan. There are many scenic spots in Caozhou Peony Garden.
The two colorful archway gates in the north and south are more than ten meters high, with raised eaves and carved beams and painted columns. They are simple, elegant and resplendent. Under the color atlas of "Phoenix Playing Peonies" in the middle of the square gate, there is a gilt horizontal plaque with the inscription "Caozhou Peony Garden" written by Shu Tong, then chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. The garden adopts a layout that combines production and appreciation. There are pavilions and pavilions connected by stone roads to facilitate visitors to enjoy and rest. "Guanhua Tower" and "Tianxiang Pavilion" are the main buildings in the garden. They are novel and unique, simple and elegant. You can have a panoramic view of the garden when you climb up to the tower. The Guanhua Building is a building imitating the Ming Dynasty. It is located in the south viewing area of ??Caozhou Peony Garden. There is a peony exhibition room in the building for visitors to learn more about the history of peony cultivation and peony culture. In front of the building, there are Pujie's handwritten words "The best fragrance in the world" and "Shu". A stone tablet with the same handwriting as "Caozhou Peony is the Best in the World". There are statues of two flower fairies, Gejin and Yuban, characters written by Pu Songling, as well as small buildings such as the Stele Garden composed of natural strange stones. There is also a large woody tree with curved branches. When the flowers are in bloom, the fragrance is fragrant, adding to the elegance. Tianxiang Pavilion is located in the northern viewing area of ??Caozhou Peony Garden. The building is antique, with carved beams and painted columns, simple and elegant. 16 large mahogany pillars hold up a majestic three-story attic. The red bricks, glazed tiles and white marble railings look like gauze skirts. There are birds and animals flying on the eaves of the surrounding building, with different expressions. Modern lighting and sound are used indoors to create a happy and warm atmosphere, and famous calligraphy and paintings are masterpieces for admiring and chanting peonies. With the music playing, you can climb up the stairs to get a bird's eye view of the peonies, and you can have a panoramic view of the sea of ??flowers and the crowds of people. To the south of Tianxiang Pavilion, dozens of peonies that are more than a hundred years old have grown into peony trees with thick stems and lush roots. The flowers are as large as a ruler, pink and red, and fragrant. There is also the Dragon Cypress Corridor, known as the first cypress corridor in the north of the Yangtze River. Hundreds of dragon cypresses are more than two feet high and each one is verdant. The magnolia flowers and woody incense on both sides of Tianxiang Pavilion have their own characteristics, and the jade waves are integrated into one, exuding a strong garden aroma. The site of the Battle of Guiling is located in the east area of ??the Caozhou Peony Garden. There is the Guiling Monument Pavilion and the thousand-year-old Guiling Ancient Well, which reminds visitors that the military strategist Sun Bin set a glorious example here of "encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao". The garden has been engaged in the breeding of new peony varieties for many years, and has bred famous varieties such as 'Fen Zhong Guan', 'Guan Shi Mo Yu', 'Ziyaotai', Zhao Fen, etc. In addition to peonies, the garden is also planted with peonies and various flowering shrubs, making visitors forget to leave. Peony is the city flower of Heze. Whenever the flowers are in bloom, the streets are lined with colorful flowers, which are so colorful that it is dizzying to see. Every year April 18th to May 5th is designated as the "Heze International Peony Fair", with millions of domestic and foreign tourists coming to enjoy the flowers.
Overview of the Peony Flower Festival
Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, flower appreciation activities in the city or the countryside have gradually formed a centralized form of viewing - the Peony Flower Festival.
Places such as Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty; Luoyang in the Northern Song Dynasty; Tianpeng, Yuhang, and Chengdu in the Southern Song Dynasty; Bozhou and Caozhou in the Ming Dynasty; and Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, were successively the cultivation centers of Chinese peonies. At one time, the "Peony Fair" or "Flower Show" became famous all over the world.
Today, there are three large-scale peony fairs in China: the first is the Heze International Peony Fair, the second is the Pengzhou Peony Fair, and the third is the Luoyang Peony Fair.
Secondly, the scale is not too large, but it still has a certain influence, such as Taiyuan City People’s Park Peony Flower Fair, Yan’an City Wanhuashan Peony Flower Fair, Linxia City Hongyuan Peony Flower Fair, various parks and parks in Beijing and The peony flower exhibition in the Botanical Garden, the peony flower exhibition in Hangzhou Huagang Guanyu Peony Garden, the peony flower exhibition in Shanghai Botanical Garden, the peony flower exhibition (convention) in Tongling Tianjing Lake Park, etc.
In addition, folk flower viewing activities are also very active: annual flower viewing activities at the "Withered Branch Peony Garden" in Biancang Town, Yancheng, Jiangsu; garden flower viewing activities in Longxi and Lintao, Gansu, and Anhui Viewing activities in Anji Township, Ningguo, mountain tours and flower viewing activities in Dali, Yunnan, flower worship activities at Pingshan, Chaohu, Anhui, "real peony" viewing activities in Yichuan, Luoyang, Henan, etc.
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