What is the special meaning of peach blossom in traditional Chinese culture

The peach blossom has multiple meanings in ancient China; it symbolizes spring, love, longevity, a good life, and discipleship.

The peach blossom symbolizes spring. Peach blossom, which blooms in early spring, has been a symbol of the coming of spring since ancient times. "Peach blossom looks like jade, surely like the old man's fascination", as a synonym of spring and beauty, peach blossom deserves the people's great love. Wu Rong in the "peach blossom" poem, said "full of trees and delicate red, ten thousand branches of Dan color burning spring Rong".

The peach blossom symbolizes love. The language and meaning of the flower is the captive of love. In ancient China, the peach blossom has always been inseparable from the word love. Ancient people used to say peach blossom luck in divination, which means that peach blossom can bring opportunities for love.

Ancient poets often combine peach blossoms with love, in addition to using "a tree of peach blossoms, a tree of poetry, a thousand trees of flower language for who is obsessed with" such a poem to express the desire for love, but also commonly used in the red face of the lament of the thin life.

The peach blossom symbolizes longevity. The "Tai Qing Fang" said, "March 3 pick peach blossoms, wine soaked service, in addition to the hundred diseases, good color," and the peach blossoms formed by the fruit of the peach, the peach fruit is regarded as longevity of things, which led to a number of such as the Queen Mother's Peach Society and other stories, the fruit of the peach is called "longevity peach".

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The peach blossom is native to central and northern China, with a long history of cultivation, and then gradually spread to the surrounding areas of Asia, from Persia to the West, the Latin name of the peach blossom, Persica, means Persia.

Now China, France, the Mediterranean, Australia and other warm areas are planted. Sun-loving, hardy, drought-resistant, do not tolerate water and moisture, planting is best to choose the air flow place. Nutritional needs for nitrogen fertilizer, the best additional bone meal in the fall. Now it is widely planted all over China.

The more important varieties are: nectarine, peach, peach, peach. Among them, nectarine and peach are cultivated as fruit trees, Shouxing peach and peach are mainly for ornamental purposes, Shouxing peach can also be used as a dwarf rootstock of peach. Tree height 4 to 5 meters.

Annual branches reddish brown. Leaves are lanceolate, leaf margins serrate, petiole base often nectar. There are two types of flowers: rose-type and bell-type. Drupe except peach, mostly round or oblong, fruit surface except nectarine, are covered with velvet.

The flesh is white, yellow or reddish, and a few are red; the flesh is soft, brittle, hard or dense; the surface of the nucleus has different grooves and points, all of which are important for the classification of species and varieties of groups.