“A year’s plan lies in spring”!
If there is a ritual for spring, it must be - "go see the flowers"!
In just one or two months, countless flowers bloomed one after another:
Plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, magnolias
Lilacs, crabapples, Sophora flower, pear flower
Peony, apricot flower, kapok, apricot flower
Camellia, bougainvillea, bauhinia, campanula
Rapeseed flower, February orchid , plum blossoms, tulips
... ...
Various places soon become the most gorgeous flower world of the year:
Such spring, in Where can I see it?
Plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, pear blossoms, plum blossoms... What should I do if I am face blind?
What are the characteristics of these flowers?
I have collected the time and place of flowers blooming in various places, collected famous paintings by Song Huizong Zhao Ji, Wen Zhengming, Qi Baishi, Chen Hongshou and other famous figures, and "taught" you to recognize flowers.
Early spring, suddenly warm and cold!
From January to March, plants such as plum blossoms, camellias, and magnolias are not afraid of low temperatures.
Especially plum blossoms, which show their beauty before other plants.
A small deciduous tree native to southern China.
Yes, you read that right, plum blossoms can be said to be the representative of spring in Jiangnan.
In winter, "Ling Han blooms alone" mostly refers to wintersweet. Wintersweet and plum blossoms are two different plants in botany.
"There is nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, so I want to give you a branch of spring" (from "Poetry to Fan Ye" written by Lu Kai in the Southern and Northern Dynasties)
"The sparse shadows are slanting across the clear water, and the faint fragrance is floating in the moonlight at dusk." (From "Two Poems on Little Plum Blossoms in the Mountain Garden" by Lin Bu (bū) of the Song Dynasty)
Plum blossoms are a flower that Chinese people have loved since ancient times.
The ancients used objects to describe people, praising the character of plum blossoms and chanting the integrity of plum blossoms.
After 3,000 years of artificial cultivation, plum trees have now been planted all over the country. The Yangtze River Delta region represented by Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai is the most prominent.
To identify plum blossoms, generally look at whether the petals are round and whether there are leaves and receptacles.
Plum blossoms grow directly on the branches and have a rich aroma. A single flower blooms, and leaves appear only after the flowers fall.
In ancient times, Song Huizong Zhao Ji and Ming Dynasty painter Chen Hongshou all painted plum blossoms. Although they were not realistic, they revealed the bold and unrestrained nature of plum blossoms.
Another flower that is not afraid of the cold.
Magnolia is mostly a garden tree species and is often planted in courtyards and terraces.
"Every piece of neon dress is wearing new makeup in the evening, and the jade palace is graceful and graceful in spring." The ancients described the magnolia:
Magnolia flowers are easy to identify.
Large, fragrant. It looks very much like a lotus. When it is in full bloom, its petals spread out in all directions, and the whole thing looks like a cup.
Absolutely stand in the C position for garden viewing. It is the city flower of Shanghai.
Magnolia was very popular among literati in ancient times. The magnolia flowers are in bloom in Tianjin Museum’s "Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons".
Sakura’s expansion in China is full of twists and turns.
Wild cherry plants are native to southwestern China, and later spread north and east and entered Japan.
Although the wild cherry plant originated in China, ancient people apparently cared more about its fruits than its flowers.
In the late 1930s, a small number of cherry blossom cultivars were introduced from Japan in East and Central China.
In the 1970s, China and Japan normalized diplomatic relations, and Japan successively donated several batches of cherry seedlings to China.
Cherry blossom cultivation for the purpose of flower viewing has only spread over a large area in China.
Sakura, pink! Girly heart! The most obvious feature is that there is a gap in the petals.
Sakura is also the only flower with notched petals. Several flowers bloom in clusters, and the trunk is dark gray with circles of horizontal stripes.
Few ancient people painted cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossoms are one of the few ancient paintings in the "Golden Zhi Tu of Longevity" collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Peach blossoms are the dazzling stars of spring in the north.
In order to obtain the fruit, the ancestors of the Yellow River Basin during the Shang and Zhou dynasties had domesticated wild peaches and expanded their cultivation throughout the country.
The peach blossoms are in full bloom, which is the message that spring is coming.
In ancient times, people used peach blossoms to refer to beautiful things - when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, it means: "the peach blossoms complement each other red"; when the peach blossoms fall, it means: "who will pity the red when the fragrance disappears".
Peach blossoms are most easily confused with plum blossoms and cherry blossoms.
Note that peach blossoms do not have receptacles and grow directly on the branches, but they have leaves and they are pointed!
Its flowers are not as round as plum blossoms. They bloom one by one, while cherry blossoms bloom in clusters.
The ancients painted peach blossom leaves very carefully.
Deciduous trees or shrubs with white flowers, fresh and elegant.
"Chang'e in the sky is unknown to people, so the material should be as elegant as pear blossoms"
Characteristics of pear blossoms: white! Pure white! The leaves are big! Easily confused with Li Hua.
However, pear flowers are in clusters of 2-3, with matching large leaves, strong fragrance, thick bark on the trunk, and a little red stamens.
The ancients were also very fond of the snow-white color of pear blossoms. Qian Xuan, a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, once painted eight kinds of flowers, including crabapples, pear blossoms, apricot blossoms, daffodils, peach blossoms, and peonies, in one picture, "Eight Flowers."
Apricot blossom is a species native to my country.
Apricot trees are highly adaptable and resistant to drought. They are cultivated in many places. In addition to being ornamental, they can also be used as farmland shelterbelts.
"Spring plowing in February is full of apricots, and hundreds of flowers are vying to come out first":
Characteristics of apricot flowers: out of the wall!
Can you tell the difference between apricot blossoms, plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, and peach blossoms?
The calyx of apricot flowers is recurved, and the most special thing about apricot flowers is that they change color throughout the flowering period!
It is dark red when it first blooms, pink when it blooms, and white when it fades.
In our country, Ili, Kashgar, and Turpan in the west and Tianjin, Xuzhou, Macheng and other places in the east are places to enjoy apricot flowers.
There are many famous paintings about apricot blossoms in ancient and modern times:
However, the one I like the most is probably this one by Van Gogh:
The begonia flowers are graceful and unrestrained, The flowers are blooming like a brocade. In ancient my country, there was a saying of the so-called "Four Begonias".
Since ancient times, Begonia has been known as "the fairy among flowers" and "the noble concubine of flowers", as well as the reputation of "the beauty of the country".
Among them, Begonia xifu and Begonia weeping are plants of the genus Malus, and Begonia truncatula and Begonia papaya are plants of the genus Papaya.
"The east wind blows every day, and the crabapples are red one after another":
The leaves of crabapples are oval with fine teeth on the edges, and the flowers are umbrella-shaped, with 4-6 flowers in a cluster. There are leaves to match.
In addition to the one in the picture, there is also a "stick-stem Begonia" with red flowers and short stems, which is the Begonia in "Green, Fat, Red and Thin".
The ancients vividly expressed the "umbrella-shaped" characteristics of Begonia in their paintings.
Rapeseed flowers, when in bloom, cover the mountains and plains with golden color.
Rapeseed fields have become a great place for outings everywhere.
Rapeseed flowers are a crop with both important economic value and high ornamental value. When farmers scatter a handful of seeds in the field, they will grow vigorously and look very lively.
It’s so exciting that I don’t need to mention its features.
It is too difficult to search for ancient paintings. There are quite a few poems about rape flowers, such as the famous sentence: Children rush to chase yellow butterflies, flying into the rape flowers and nowhere to be found. ——"Xugong Store, Suxin City" Yang Wanli.
In ancient poetry, lilac, like banana, is synonymous with "melancholy".
Therefore, the lilac in Dai Wangshu's "Rain Alley" is a little melancholy.
Lilacs mostly have 4 petals, with gray or grayish brown bark, large flowers, many flower clusters, and fragrant smell. Lilac flowers come in white, purple, blue, yellow, and lavender.
There were not many paintings of lilacs in ancient times. In Jiang Tingxi’s "Lilacs" of the Qing Dynasty, the flowers bloomed just right and were very beautiful.