Guangzhou is also known as the Flower City. People in Guangzhou love flowers, and they can't grow up without them. Rich people will buy several pots of imported flowers of several thousand yuan each. No matter how poor the family is, it is necessary to provide Qing with a pot of kumquat and a few daffodils. On New Year's Eve, an old man and a small flower street is a tradition, and it is also the highlight of Guangzhou citizens. Flower Street is also a visit to the Winter jasmine market, which started three or four days ago and ended with the climax of New Year's Eve. The city government makes great efforts to decorate it every year. After the opening of the flower market, when the lights were just turned on (traffic control was implemented), people walking on the flower street came one after another. At eight or nine o'clock, children and grandchildren were like a tide, bustling and lively. The flower street is noisy and crowded, and it is inevitable to bump into each other, but people are polite, especially modest and tolerant, with smiles and joy on their faces. Generally speaking, most of them were mainlanders a few days ago, because most mainlanders want to watch the CCTV annual party. Cantonese seldom watch CCTV. After visiting the flower market on the 30th, I often go sighing and drinking tea at night. The flowers in the flower market are colorful and varied. Imported products include lavender in Europe, rich brown in Thailand, tulips in the Netherlands, roses in northern Europe, five generations living under one roof in South America, rhododendrons in Belgium and so on. Domestic varieties include Daphne odora in Phnom Penh, Jiangxi, Clivia in Jilin, Peony in Luoyang and Narcissus in Zhangzhou. As the name implies, Flower Street is mainly for sightseeing and appreciation. If you buy it, you must buy a little, but you can have more or less to show good luck. Therefore, when couples visit the flower market together, they will buy at most one or two roses, silver willows and lilies; Families choose local traditional kumquat, rich bamboo, peach blossom, rich tree, good luck and so on. People in Guangzhou think that exotic flowers and plants are beautiful, but most of them have no special symbolic significance, which can't satisfy the wishes of "peace" and "wealth" in the New Year. The purpose of Flower Street is to touch some flowers, drive away bad luck, and have a good weather, happiness and peace in the coming year, that's all.
"The world of Yangcheng is a flower, and it is also a time to buy flowers." To appreciate the characteristics of Huacheng, you should first go to the Tianguang Market of Flower Market at 5 am in Fangcun. Then go to Zengnan Road and see dozens of horticultural gardens and flower exposition parks along the road; Visit Yuntai Garden, Xiyuan Pottery Garden, Orchid Garden and flower shows in various parks in Baiyun Mountain. Every spring, when kapok is in bloom, the river is green, the kapok on both sides is red, the kapok is ten feet brilliant, and the coral is red all over the sky. It is amazing to see the world of flowers and the Red Sea. The Winter jasmine market held every Spring Festival is unique to Huacheng, so you must go and see it. The chrysanthemum exhibition in autumn and the float parade on New Year's Day are also quite distinctive.