Posted ByauthorLuoyang Peony, ranunculaceae, peony genus, Luoyang City, Henan province specialty, China national geographical indication products
“Luoyang flower is the most suitable, peony is especially strange in the world.” Luoyang is the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, and has the reputation of “thousand years imperial capital, Peony flower city”. Its cultivation began in Sui Dynasty and flourished in Tang Dynasty. Peonies are graceful, elegant and magnificent, meaning auspiciousness, prosperity, and a symbol of prosperity and happiness of the Chinese nation. Luoyang peony flowers are huge, a wide variety, fantastic colors, red, white, pink, yellow, purple, blue, green, black and compound color 9 major color system, 10 kinds of flower types, more than 1400 varieties. Blossom season, Luoyang City flower sea crowds, competing to see peony Qianzi Fangrong. Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi “flowers blossom and fall 20 days, a city of people are crazy” and Liu Yuxi “only the true national color of peony, flowering season to move the city” the poem is the vivid portrayal of the eastern capital of Luoyang peony appreciation custom.
