It’s spring again when the flowers bloom and everything grows. ‘Flowers fly racing day, grass sees spring heart’, March is a good time to enjoy spring flowers. The spring is just right. Does Tiantianzhai live up to the gift of nature indoors? It is better to find a good weather weekend, call three or five friends to enjoy the flowers and feel the warmth of spring.
Cherry blossoms
When it comes to cherry blossoms, most of them are thought to be produced in Japan, but in fact the cherry blossoms are native to the Himalayas. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese court royals had planted cherry blossoms. By the Tang Dynasty, Japanese worshippers had brought the cherry blossoms back to Dongying along with buildings, costumes, tea ceremony, and kendo. In Japan, there is a saying that ‘Sakura 7th’, that is, a cherry blossom takes about 7 days from opening to withering, and the whole cherry tree is only about 16 days from blooming to full thanks. The Japanese admire the magnificence of cherry blossoms, which “will fade away after experiencing a short period of splendor”. They regard it as the “sakura spirit” and respect cherry blossoms as the national flower. Cherry blossoms have the characteristics of opening and falling, so the petals of cherry blossoms during the flowering period are flying in the wind, becoming the most beautiful and romantic scene in the minds of many people.
Place to watch: Yuyuantan Park
Flowering: end of March-mid-April
Address: East side of West Third Ring Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Tickets: 10 yuan (during the Cherry Blossom Festival) / 2 yuan (normal)
Beijing Yuyuantan Park has one of the largest cherry blossom gardens in China. There are more than 2,000 cherry trees of more than 14 species planted in the garden. Early cherry blossoms begin to bloom from the end of March to mid-April. You can see the cherry blossoms flying everywhere, which is a great place for romantic dating for lovers.
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Tales of cherry blossom viewing: The flower language of cherry blossoms is warm, pure, and noble. It is a symbol of love and hope. Embracing lovers under the cherry blossom trees with petals flying is the most romantic scene in the eyes of girls.
Pear flower
Since ancient times, pear flower has won the love of many literati and inklers since ancient times with its simple fragrance and elegant floral fragrance. Southern Song poet Lu You once chanted the elegance of pear blossoms with ‘pink fragrance and clearing one’s own family, not allowing peaches and plums to occupy the years’, and Northern Song poet Huang Tingjian praised pear blossoms in his poems: ‘Peach blossoms have different red faces, not as natural as jade.’ The pear blossoms that are as white as jade are sparse or dense, and the shades are compatible. They are as white and elegant as Dong Xue, giving people a trembling and holy beauty. In the pear garden, a piece of broken jade and scattered pearls constitutes a fragrant silver sea of snow. Pear flowers have been cultivated in China for more than 2,000 years, with many varieties and varieties. They have a long history and are cultivated throughout the country.
Viewing location: Lihua Village
Flowering: Early April-End of April
Address: Lihua Village, Panggezhuang, Daxing District, Beijing
Pangezhuang Pear Garden is the oldest pear tree community with the largest planting area, the earliest flowering, and the most varieties in Beijing. It now has 30,000 ancient pear trees that have been preserved for more than 100 years, and it has become a rare plain ancient pear forest community in China. There are more than 40 varieties of pear trees in the village. The 417-year-old Gong Pear tree was named ‘golden yellow’ by the emperor during the Ming Dynasty.
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Flower slogan: Ewha’s flower language is pure love, innocent love, waiting for a lifetime is not separated. Ewha Bingyu’s jade skin and creamy drops have excellent ornamental properties. Choose a fine and sunny day, no matter whether it is an invitation to travel with friends or a family picnic, it is a good choice.
Magnolia
Magnolia is an important flower-viewing tree in early spring. Magnolia has a high ornamental value and is an ideal flower type to beautify the garden. Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuefan’s poem ‘New poems are old and unspeakable, Jiangnan barren hall is separated by autumn clouds. Passionate love does not change year by year, eternal love holds the king.’ This poem means, ‘Fast time passes, it is new poems It soon became unbearable to listen to. There was a tree shadow swaying in a house somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, but Xin Yi did not change its color every year and still swaggered. This long-lasting heart of high cleanliness is a gift for gentlemen. The Xinyi in the description is also known as purple magnolia. This flower is clean and open in the early spring. It is often cited as a symbol of the festival of high winds and bright lights, and has therefore become a kind of flower that literati poets like to sing and sing.
Place to watch: Tanzhe Temple
Flowering: April-May
Address: Tanzhesi Town, Mentougou District, Beijing
Tickets: 55 yuan
The purple magnolia of Tanzhe Temple is 300 years old. It is second to none in North China. In front of the temple, there are two magnolia flowers with strange shapes. They are known by the world as ‘two Qiao’ and are the ‘flower queens’ in the Magnolia family. In recent years, dozens of purple magnolia, red halo magnolia and white magnolia have been added to the temple. Every year, flowers bloom in the flowering season, and the aroma is around the beam.
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Flower-viewing remarks: Magnolia flowers represent grace. The shape of Magnolia is very similar to a lotus flower. The petals are white to lavender. When in full bloom, the petals spread out in all directions, making the garden blue and white and dazzling with white light. The magnolia’s white flowers are blooming in a greenery, and with that scent, you will feel an indescribable temperament.
Lilac flower
Because of its unique fragrance, large lush inflorescence, elegant and harmonious flower color, plump and beautiful posture, lilac flowers have long been famous in ornamental flowers. In the eyes of Chinese literati, in the country of poetry, lilac has become a carrier of emotions and dreams, and a sensitive life full of delicate and rich emotions. When lilac is not open, the buds are densely covered with branches, called lilac knots. Poets often use lilac knots as melancholy thoughts to express the sorrow that is difficult to resolve. For example, Li Shangyin once expressed his sadness in his poems with the words ‘the banana does not show lilac knots, but the same spring sorrows,’ while Li Yu’s ‘blue bird does not pass on the cloud, but the lilacs are in the rain, but the sorrows are in the rain.’
Viewing location: Jietai Temple
Flowering period: mid-April-end of May
Address: In Jietai Temple Park, Mentougou District, Beijing
Ticket Price: 45 yuan
Jietai Temple has more than 20 ancient lilacs with a tree age of more than 200 years. The lilac trees here are diverse and numerous. Whenever lilac is in full bloom, the fragrance is striking, the flowers are colorful and lovely. Each place in this thousand-year-old temple has its own beauty, one pine, one tower, one eaves and one tile, each of which contains deep history and culture.
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Flower-viewing slogan: The lilac flower is ‘brilliant’, and has the reputation of the flower of heaven. When the lilac races to open in April, quit the temple full of fragrance, pour a cup of tea and calm down to feel the pulse of this ancient temple. .
peony
Peony is a unique woody precious flower unique to China. It has thousands of years of natural growth and more than 1500 years of artificial cultivation. The peony is fragrant with jade beads, elegant and elegant, and the peony flowers are large and scented. Therefore, it is also called ‘national color and heavenly fragrance’. In the late Qing Dynasty, peony was once regarded as the national flower of China. Peony flowers are embraced as the king of flowers, and the relevant cultural and painting works are very rich. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, used “flowers bloom and fall for 20 days, and people in a city are mad”. The grace and richness of peony fit well with the wealth and strength of the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of peony poems emerged in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai’s phrase ‘Yun Xiang wants clothes, flowers, and spring breezes and depresses Hua Huanong’ is an eternal song.
Viewing location: Jingshan Park
Flowering period: mid-April-end of May
Address: 44 Jingshan West Street, Xicheng District (opposite the back gate of the Forbidden City)
Tickets: 10 yuan
The cultivation of peony in Jingshan Park has begun since the Yuan Dynasty, and now it has formed the largest peony ornamental garden in Beijing. It has not only the traditional peony products of the Royal Garden, but also the famous Luoyang peony and Heze peony, as well as rare Gansu peony and Jiangsu and Zhejiang peony. , Yan’an peony, Japanese peony, etc., more than 200 varieties basically cover eight major color lines and nine flower types.
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Flower slogan: The peony’s flower language is ‘successful, affectionate, rich, and luxurious.’ Peony flowers are large and layered. The pink petals lined with green are beautiful scenery. It is not only suitable for the whole family to visit, but also a good place for photography and painting.
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