Is the peony a unique species native to China?

Peony has been highly respected since ancient times, it is dignified and graceful, and it deserves to be elected as the national flower!

Peony, peony, Paeoniaceae, Paeoniae, perennial deciduous shrub, one of the ten famous flowers in China, known as the "King of Flowers", is also China's "National Flower", due to the large flowers, colorful flowers, flowers, fragrance of the rich and different and "National Color and Fragrance It is also the "national flower" of China. Peony was originally born in the area of Qinling Mountain and Daba Mountain in the west of China, and has a history of several thousand years of wild and more than 1,500 years of artificial cultivation. Due to its valuable character, it has been loved by people all over the world, and has long been planted all over the world across the ocean.

Peony History. Dozens of medical simplices were found in the early Eastern Han Dynasty tombs excavated in Wuwei County, Gansu Province, in which there were records of peony treating blood stasis. Since people discovered the medicinal and ornamental value of peony, peony was gradually transplanted to domestication, and it has been more than 1,500 years since it began to be cultivated on a large scale in the North and South Dynasties. During the Sui Dynasty, the number and scope of peony cultivation gradually expanded, and peonies were widely planted in royal gardens and the gardens of dignitaries. In the Tang Dynasty, professional peony cultivators appeared and experiments of "fumigation" were started, which led to the development of the economic value of peonies, and peony cultivation became very common in palaces and temples, in the homes of the rich and powerful, and in the private sector. During the Song Dynasty, the peony cultivation center was shifted from Chang'an to Luoyang, and the cultivation technology became more systematic and perfect. Peonies began to be used as the object of research with great results, and a number of theoretical monographs came out, such as Ouyang Xiu's Luoyang Peony Memoirs, Zhou Shihou's Luoyang Peony Memoirs, Luoyang Flower and Tree Memoirs and Zhang Ruizhi's Luoyang Flower Spectrum, etc. The scale of peony cultivation was expanded unprecedentedly. The scale of peony cultivation was expanded unprecedentedly, and grafting and hybridization to cultivate excellent varieties were widely spread. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the cultivation of peony was expanded to Bozhou in Anhui, Caozhou in Shandong, Beijing, Si'en in Guangxi, and Hezhou in Heilongjiang. Xue Fengxiang wrote "Table of Peony in Bozhou" and "Eight Books of Peony", which scientifically summarized eight aspects of peony, including seeding, planting, dividing, connecting, watering, raising, medical treatment, and contraindication. During the Qing Dynasty, the popularity of smoked flowers was already very high, and the technology of promoting flowers also reached a high level. After the founding of New China, peony cultivation was developed again, the number of cultivation was increasing, the cultivation technology was improved year by year, and a large number of monographs with high academic value were produced, such as Liu Shumin's Peony, Yu Heng's Peony Flower, Wei Zepu's Peony of Luoyang, etc., which made a large number of theoretical explorations on the basis of the predecessors.

Peony is abroad. None of the foreign peony varieties came from China. In 724 A.D., the monk Kung Hai brought Chinese peony to Japan, and in 1330, France introduced Chinese peony and bred it. In 1656, the East India Company introduced Chinese peony to Holland, and in 1789, Chinese peony entered Britain, thus spreading to the whole Europe. It was only in 1820 that the United States introduced Chinese peony varieties and wild species from China and bred black peony varieties. Peonies are also cultivated in more than twenty countries such as Italy, Australia, Singapore, Korea, Holland, Germany and Canada.

Peony Culture. Peony first appeared in the Classic of Poetry, more than 3,000 years ago. Since Qin and Han Dynasty, peony has been included in "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" as a medicine, and has been scattered in various ancient books through the ages, forming a peony culture including botany, horticulture, pharmacy, geography, literature, art, folklore and other disciplines, and becoming an integral part of the culture and folklore of the Chinese nation. Peony paintings by Yang Zihua of Northern and Southern Dynasties and Northern Qi formally brought peony into the field of art. Emperor Yang built the West Garden in Luoyang and cultivated peonies in large quantities, since then, peonies entered horticulture. In the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of poetry and culture made peonies shine. For a while, Liu Yuxi's "Only peony is the true color of the country" and Li Bai's "The clouds want to dress up and the flowers want to look like flowers; the spring breeze brushes the threshold and the dew is thick" were popular and became the best songs of the ancient times, and peonies have become an important object of literature and art since then. Since then, peony has become an important object of literature and art. Since the Song Dynasty, a large number of monographs on peonies have appeared, such as Lu You's Tian Peng Peony Genealogy, Qiu Jun's Peony Rong Shi Zhi, and Zhang Bang Ji's Chen Zhou Peony Records, etc. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was Yao Sui's Preface to Peonies; in the Ming Dynasty, there was Gao Lian's Peony Genealogy, Wang Xiang Jin's Qun Fang Genealogy, and Xue Fengxiang's History of Bozhou Peonies; and in the Qing Dynasty, there was Wang Hao's Guang Qun Fang Genealogy, Su Yumei's Peony Genealogy of Caonan, and Yu Peng's Peony Genealogy of Cao Zhou. There are also peony legends and stories in folklore, as well as peony culture in sculpture, carving, painting, music, drama, dress, living, food and so on. Peony is known as the richest of flowers in China, and it is the city flower of Luoyang, Heze, Tongling, Ningguo City and Mudanjiang City.

Appreciation of Two Poems on Peony

Peony Appreciation

Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty

The peony in front of the court has no style, and the lotus flower on the pond has little love.

The peony is the only true color of the country, and it moves the capital when it blooms.

Three Songs of Peony in Qingping Tune

Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty

The clouds want to dress up and the flowers want to look beautiful, and the spring breeze brushes the threshold and the dew is thick.

If I hadn't seen it at the top of the jade mountain, I would have met it under the moon at Yao Tai.

The reddish color of a branch of the dew condenses the fragrance, and the clouds and rain make the Wushan broken hearted in vain.

If you want to ask the Han Palace who is like that, you should ask the poor swallows to lean on the new makeup.

The famous flower of the country, the two sides of the joy, grow the king with a smile to see.

Explaining the infinite hatred of the spring breeze, the Sinking Scent Pavilion leans on the threshold pole in the north.

The Legend of Peony

A long, long time ago, a hard-working and kind couple at the foot of Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang, in the year of forty, they gave birth to a child named Ying.

Ying's father died early, and his mother was very sick. In order to save his mother's life, he searched for medicine, and under the guidance of the Nanki Immortal Weng, he went through a lot of trouble to steal the Queen Mother's elixir, and because he was being chased down, he scattered the elixir, and the elixir that was scattered was transformed into an immortal flower, and he took the skin of its root and made a decoction to cure his mother's illness.

The descendants will be this Queen Mother's elixir into flowers, called "mother Dan". Because of the elixir, the flower is exceptionally beautiful and fragrant, and became a valuable flower, the world called it "heavenly fragrance and national color".

Later, people found that the flower is divided into female and male, the female is called "female", and the male is called "peony".

The female slowly evolved into the peony

The male was renamed "peony"

The peony is the only true color of the country, which is supposed to be unique to China, and also found in foreign countries, but it is a Chinese species that has made its home in China.

Peony is a unique woody flower in China and has been cultivated for about a thousand years. It has been cultivated artificially for about a thousand years. The most large-scale cultivation sites are Luoyang in Henan Province and Heze in Shandong Province. There are also four major subdivisions according to geographic classification: the Northwest Population, the Southwest Population, the Central Plains Population, and the Jiangnan Population. Among them, the Central Plains Population, on the basis of retaining the original traditional varieties, has cross-bred many excellent varieties and introduced hybrid varieties from Japan and Europe and the United States, which is a magnificent sight. You may refer to the Atlas of Peonies of Luoyang and the Atlas of Fine Peonies of Heze. The native populations of the peony are mainly in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia in the northwest, Pengzhou peony in Sichuan in the southwest, and Tongling Fengdan in Anhui in the south of the Yangtze River are better, and its root bark is a good medicine for gynecology. It is an authentic real estate famous medicinal herb. Recently, it has been rumored that peony is the first flower in the selection of national flower, which can be said to be well deserved!

It is a local specialty of China.

China is the birthplace of the world peony and the world peony kingdom. It is an intrinsic specialty of China, with thousands of years of natural growth and more than 2,000 years of artificial cultivation.

The origin of peony culture is about 3,000 years old from the time when peony entered into poetry in the Classic of Poetry. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, peony was recorded as a medicinal plant in Shennong Ben Cao Jing (Classic of the Materia Medica of Shennong), and peony has entered into pharmacology.

According to Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica, "Peony is pungent and cold in flavor, a deer leek, a rat's nest, and is found in valleys".

Peony is a valuable woody flower unique to China, with thousands of years of natural growth and more than 1,500 years of artificial cultivation. It is widely cultivated in China and has long been introduced around the world.

Modern flowers actually contain two parts, one is germplasm resources and the other is biotechnology. Native peony varieties originated in China, and the germplasm resources are undoubtedly ours, but after they were introduced to Japan, the Japanese cultivated better horticultural varieties through biotechnology.

In fact, not only peony, but also many flowers. For example, we all know that the flowers in Holland are the most developed, but the land of Holland is so small, there are not many germplasm resources, and the symbol of Holland, tulip, and the hyacinth, lily, gerbera daisy and other flowers produced by her are actually not from Holland in the country of origin. But people are strong in biotechnology, so they cultivate the common flowers of the origin into the famous flowers of Holland

China is the birthplace of the world peony and the world peony kingdom. It is an inherent specialty of China, with thousands of years of natural growth and more than 2,000 years of artificial cultivation.　　The origin of peony culture is about 3,000 years old, counting from the entry of peony into poetry in the Classic of Poetry. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, peony was recorded as a medicinal plant in the Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica, and peony had already entered pharmacology.　　

According to Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica, "Peony is pungent and cold in flavor, a deer leek, a rat's nest, and is found in valleys".