The symbolism of peacock and peony in Chinese paintings

The peacock and peony in Chinese painting represents auspiciousness and prosperity.

In the traditional Chinese cultural system, peacock is often used as a symbol of good luck, beauty and wealth, and it is y loved by literati and elegant people, often appearing in poems and paintings.

Peony is a unique and valuable flower in China, which is graceful, elegant, dignified and fragrant, known as the "National Color and Fragrance", and is known as the symbol of wealth, auspiciousness and prosperity.

When the peony is in bloom, it is full of flowers and splendid, and its beautiful flower posture makes people fall in love with it, and its graceful and elegant image of wealth and peace represents the beautiful longing and beautiful vision of the whole nation for tomorrow.

It implies that the country is prosperous and flourishing; people's love for peony has also made peony flower a symbol of the spirit and excellent character of the Chinese nation, and it has also become the embodiment of beauty, with the symbolism of purity and love.

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Peony allusions

1. Emperor Yang and peony

In 604 A.D., Yang Guang, the Emperor of Sui succeeded to the throne, and opened the Western Garden in Luoyang, the capital of the east. Emperor Yang was curious about the flowers and peonies, and he had traveled to Jiangnan three times to search for them. And he sent people to plant peonies collected from all over the world in the West Garden.

According to the records of Tang people, "Emperor Yang opened up 200 miles of land for the Western Garden and ordered the world to import flowers. Yizhou imported twenty peonies, including Feilai red, Yuanjia red. Drunken Face Red, Cloud Red, Tianwai Red, Yifu Yellow, Yan'an Yellow, Xianchun Red, Shivering Wind Jiao and other famous varieties."

2. Yang Guifei and Peony

During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the court began to attach importance to peony and planted several kinds of peonies in front of the Sinkiang Pavilion in Xingqing East and in the Lishan Palace, such as red, purple, light red and white peonies. When the flowers first bloomed, Yang Guifei was intoxicated by the flowers as she brought all the court ladies to enjoy them.

Wang Renyu of the Fifth Generation wrote: "When Yang Guozhong was first favored by Yang Guifei, he was given several peonies to be planted in his house." According to the record, because of the exclusive favor of Guifei and her love for peony, Emperor Minghuang of Tang also gave peony to her brother as a favorite.

3. Ouyang Xiu and Peonies

Ouyang Xiu, known as Yongshu, was called Drunken Weng, and later Liuyi Jushi, a native of Ling (present-day Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province). When Ouyang Xiu was a magistrate in Luoyang, he found that "the custom of Luoyang was generally good for flowers, and in spring, all the nobles in the city would put in flowers. When the flowers bloomed, the common people would travel to Luoyang." It was reported that the city of Luoyang at that time was full of peonies, no matter in the houses of the people or in the official courtyard.

Ouyang Xiu visited the people and made an exhaustive study of the history, cultivation, varieties and customs of peonies in Luoyang, and then wrote the first Chinese monograph on peonies, <>.

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Painting Peony

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People's Daily Online - Sexual Spirit and Floating Ease An Appreciation of Yuan Xiaozen's Peacock

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Peony