What is the city flower of Baoding and what is its significance?

The city flower of Baoding is chrysanthemum. In Chinese traditional culture, chrysanthemum has been endowed with the spirit of perseverance, solitude and icy clarity since Tao Yuanming, so chrysanthemum has the reputation of being one of the Four Gentlemen of Flowers, in addition, the nine ninths of the year and the chrysanthemum blooming in September overlap with each other, and it has the meaning of good luck and longevity.

Baoding city flower introduction

Baoding city flower is chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum in plant taxonomy is a perennial rooted herbaceous plant in the family of Asteraceae, genus Chrysanthemum, according to the form of cultivation is divided into multiple chrysanthemums, unique chrysanthemums, dalia chrysanthemums, cliff chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums, and other cultivation types, chrysanthemums in the different types of named a variety of varieties of the name.

Why chrysanthemum was named Baoding City Flower

On October 7, 1988, the City Tree and Flower Evaluation Committee discussed and recommended chrysanthemum as the city flower, and the 14th Mayor's Office Meeting of the Municipal Government was held on November 5 of the same year, and the chrysanthemum was approved by the Eighth Sixth Municipal Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress at its meeting held on December 27, 1988, which officially approved the chrysanthemum as the city flower.

Baoding chrysanthemum symbolism

In traditional Chinese culture, since Tao Yuanming began to give the chrysanthemum perseverance, loneliness and ice-clear temperament, so the chrysanthemum has one of the four gentlemen of the flower's reputation, in addition to the nine suns and chrysanthemums bloomed in September overlap with the symbol of good luck and high life expectancy.

Baoding city tree is what tree

Baoding City is located in central Hebei Province, the east foot of the Taihang Mountains, the west of the Jizhong Plain, north of Beijing and Zhangjiakou, east of Langfang and Cangzhou City, the south and Hengshui City connected to the west of Shanxi Province, the center of the city 140 kilometers north of Beijing, 145 kilometers east of Tianjin.

Baoding belongs to the warm temperate continental monsoon climate zone, the main climate characteristics are: four distinct seasons, dry and windy in the spring, hot and rainy in the summer, rain and heat in the same season, high skies in the fall, and cold and dry in the winter.

The city tree of Baoding is acacia, a tall tree with pinnately compound leaves similar to those of acacia, and yellowish flowers, which can be cooked and eaten, and can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine or dyes, and the unopened acacia flowers, commonly known as acacia rice, is a traditional Chinese medicine, and the leaves and root bark have a purging and detoxification effect, which can treat sores and poisons.