Plum blossom information or characteristics

The information and characteristics of the plum blossom are as follows:

The plum blossom is the first of the ten most famous flowers in China, and is listed as one of the Four Gentlemen along with the orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and is known as the "Three Friends of the Year" together with the pine and bamboo. In traditional Chinese culture, plum with its noble, strong, modest character, giving people the will to inspire. In the cold, the plum first of a hundred flowers, only the world and spring.

Plum flowers solitary or sometimes two together in a bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, fragrant, before the leaves open; short pedicel, about 1-3 mm long, often glabrous; calyx usually reddish-brown, but some varieties of calyx green or greenish-purple;

Calyx tube broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; sepals ovate or suborbicular, rounded apex; petals obovate, white to pink; stamens shorter or slightly longer than petals; ovary densely pilose, style shorter or slightly longer than stamens.

Expanded information:

Early plum painting:

Early, people's understanding of the plum blossom is mainly confined to the utility of the plum. For example, the Yin Shang document "Book of Books - said life" in "if you do and soup, you but salt plum".

Spring and Autumn period of the "Poetry" appeared in the description of "the mountain there are flowers, waiting for the chestnut waiting for the plum", people call the plum "flowers" has reflected the appreciation of the plum blossom attitude.

In the Qing dynasty's "Plum Blossom Falling," a song of the Qing dynasty, it begins to describe how "the plum blossoms have already fallen, and the willow blossoms are scattered with the wind. Sighing at my spring year, no one wants to call me", lamenting the easy passing of spring. After entering the North and South Dynasties, there was the story of Princess Shouyang's "plum blossom makeup" and Lu Kai's famous line about plum blossoms, "I folded a plum blossom and gave it to my friend to report the love of spring," and "I folded a plum blossom and met a postman, and sent it to a man at the head of a dragon. There is nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, but I would like to send a branch of spring".

Before the Tang Dynasty, the number of poems about plum is not very large, but it can be seen that people have risen from the material utility to the spiritual level of feeling. Tang Five Dynasties period, due to the natural climate and social stability and development of people's livelihood, plum cultivation techniques have been greatly developed.

This period of planting plum plum activities gradually warmed up, from the emperor, ministers, down to the people of the cloth plum works emerged in large numbers. Such as the Tang King Li Shimin's "send the cold after the end of the snow, to welcome the year early plum new" plum stanzas, as well as Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Li Shangyin and a large number of plum poets, with a different mentality and aesthetics, wrote the best lines about plums that have been immortalized for centuries.

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