Yingshanhong, a common species of rhododendron, is named for the red color it reflects all over the mountains when in bloom. In Longlin Jiangxi Province Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, Huichang County, Xijiang, Phoenix Hill, Zhuangkou, Lanshan and other mountainous areas at an altitude of more than 500 meters are distributed. Yingshan red has been known as the "king of woody flowers," the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign writers and writers have made a lot of praise for the beauty of Yingshan red poetry, such as the Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's song, "Why do not you need to see the spring breeze in the Garden, all the way to the mountain flowers do not live up to Nong. Day by day, the Jinjiang River is presented as a kind of brocade, the clear stream reflects the red mountain." It celebrates the simplicity and tenacity of the red mountains.
Climbing up the lush Yantou Mountain, you will see the red-hot red mountain red in the green mountains between the clouds, a cluster of a cluster, open so warm, so gorgeous. Flowers such as red onyx, windy, delicate, petals are dense, stamen by the stamen, petal against the petal, snuggle up to each other after all, attracting countless bees and saucers fluttering. Each flower, are ethereal and subtle, picturesque, beautiful, let people linger.
Azaleas are mostly shrubs and small trees one or two meters high, but also only a few centimeters high, creeping on the rocky ground of the Lent line of azaleas, purple back azalea, but also as high as a few zhang, the flowers of the tree azalea, giant azalea. The top of the rhododendron into an umbrella-shaped flocculent, consisting of several bell-shaped or funnel-shaped flowers, as if there is a full embroidery ball. Leaf blade is mostly leathery. As big as a batch of handles, small like nails, there is a spit tip azalea, leaf blade up to more than 70 centimeters long, wide more than 20 centimeters; fruit for the capsule, seeds as fine as dust, sowing must be carefully managed, can come out of the ground into a seedling.
Azalea in Yunnan grows at an altitude of 800 meters - 4500 meters in the mountains, mountains, low hills and fields, to the western Yunnan alpine species is the most abundant. Especially in the alpine cold and wet zone. A variety of evergreen azaleas such as yellow cup azalea, snow azalea, group flower azalea, wide bell azalea and other colors of rhododendron, often into dense rhododendron thickets and pure forests, there are one twenty kilometers of azalea flower "sea of flowers" of the spectacle. The flowering period of azalea is different according to the climate and all kinds of different, low mountains warm and hot area in February-March open, in the middle of the mountains warm and cool area in April-June open, high mountains cold and cool area in July-August open. Because of its variety, wide distribution, the complexity and diversity of the ecological environment, rhododendron is also a variety of physical style: some of the branches and leaves, some of the dry branches of the hundred dry; some of the lush, handsome and upright, and some of the curved as a gnarled dragon, strong and elegant. Its flower color is more colorful, colorful: red like fire, golden, crystal blue such as treasure, or with spots with points, or with stripes with blocks, pink, magenta, orange-yellow, mauve, yellow with red, red with white, white with green, it is really a thousand variations, there are no surprises. Some of the heavy makeup and colorful clothes, some light onyx, some of the lips and teeth, some fragrant, really have a style, a thousand.
Because of the important value of azaleas in the garden, our rich variety of azalea resources have long been coveted by Western countries. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, they have spared no expense to send people to Yunnan many times to collect specimens, seeds, now the Royal Botanic Gardens boasted in the world of hundreds of species of rhododendrons from Yunnan collection cultivation, has long been a forest, buds in full bloom, the British women, to and from the shuttle, and forget to go back and forth.
In 1919, the British collector Fouriez in Yunnan Tengchong GaoLiGong mountain west slope, accidentally found he had never seen the "cuckoo giant" - big tree azalea. Greed, driving him to hire hard labor, cross hearted, lifting the axe, hard to the plant up to 25 meters high, the diameter of the chest up to 87 centimeters, the age of 280 years of the big tree rhododendron chopped down, fished out a disc-shaped wood specimens to go back to the British Museum in London, is still on display in the British Museum. But after 63 years, in February 1981, scientists again in the original site, found the world's highest known largest rhododendron king. After Tengchong County Forestry Bureau for further investigation, the existing diameter of the chest in more than 1 meter of the large tree azalea there are still 12 plants, the largest one is 25 meters high, its diameter is as thick as 3.07 meters, the age of the tree in more than 500 years. The inflorescence of the large tree azalea is a very beautiful flower cluster, watery red, each inflorescence consists of 20 to 24 bell-shaped flowers of 6 cm - 8 cm in length and 6 cm in caliber, with an inflorescence diameter of 25 cm. This top of the big tree azalea, lush canopy covering the sky, brilliant flowers as beautiful as clouds, it is the pride of Yunnan, it is the pride of the motherland!
Flower Language
Flower language of azalea - always belong to you
Flower language of azalea - represents the joy of love, it is said that the people who like this flower are pure and innocent. The aphorism of the azalea is that when one sees a mountain full of azaleas in bloom, it is the time for the god of love to descend.
Flower language: joy of love, moderation, moderation of desire
Flower color meaning: joy of love
White: joy of being loved
The biggest reason for its flower language of "moderation" is that it only blooms in its own season, even though azaleas are always lively and noisy. The most important reason is that it blooms only in its own season, even though azaleas always give off a lively and boisterous feeling. When it's not in bloom, its dark green foliage is perfect for planting as a low wall or barrier in the garden.
Rumor has it
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Azaleas are very beautiful. The tubular flowers come in a variety of colors such as deep red, light red, rose, purple and white . When the azaleas open in the spring, the mountain is full of bright colors, like colorful clouds around the forest, known as "flowers in the West". The colorful azaleas evoke people's warm and beautiful feelings for life, and it also symbolizes the prosperity of the country and the people's happy life. This is the true meaning of our people love azalea.
Legend has it that the ancient Shu was a peaceful and affluent country. Where the land is fertile, rich in produce, people are well-fed, carefree and live a very happy life.
But the carefree and rich life made the people slowly become lazy. They are drunk all day long, whoring, gambling and indulging in pleasures, sometimes even forgetting the time of sowing seeds.
The emperor of Shu was named Du Yu. He was a very responsible and diligent king, and he loved his people very much. He loved his people very much, and he was very anxious to see the people forgetting their worries. In order not to miss the farming time, every spring time, he went around, urging the people to hurry up and take advantage of the spring time.
But, year after year, he made it a habit for people to stop sowing when Du Yu didn't come.
Finally, Du Yu became sick and said goodbye to his people. But he was still unforgettable to the people. His soul transformed into a small bird, and every spring, he flew around, letting out a loud cry: Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly. He cried so loud that blood came out of his mouth. The red drops of blood spilled over the mountains and turned into a beautiful flower.
The people were so moved that they began to learn from their good ruler Du Yu and became diligent and responsible. They called that little bird the cuckoo bird, and they called the flowers that the blood turned into cuckoo flowers.
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China is the first country in the world to cultivate azaleas, whose history can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, when they were called "mountain pomegranate," "mountain red," "red tramp" and so on. " and so on. It and primrose, gentian flower known as "China's three famous flowers", azalea is also listed in its crown.
China has a lot of legends about azaleas, coupled with generations of writers and artists in poetry and painting rendering, more azaleas add a layer of fascinating colors. The famous poet Bai Juyi wrote: "Looking back at the peach and plum are colorless, reflecting the hibiscus is not a flower", which is a high praise for the azalea.
How did the azalea come about?
Legend has it that a long time ago, in the southern suburbs of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, there is a small village in the Yellow Crane Mountains, in front of the village there is a beautiful river, which can be accessed all the way to the Yangtze River. The people in the village lived by farming and hunting.
There were two families living by the river, and on the east side lived a young man named Liu called Liu Kuan, who carried a special thing with him every time he went out, which was a row of Xiao. When he blew, it attracted many colorful and beautiful birds that hovered above his head. He often caught some bugs to feed the birds, and the birds often brought some exotic flowers and plants to Liu Buan, and they became good friends. They became good friends. These exotic flowers and herbs were all valuable herbs, and Liu Kuan often gave them to the poor people in the village to cure their illnesses.
There was a family named Wang living on the west side of the river, and the mother and daughter were dependent on each other. The mother is blind, life is inconvenient, all rely on the daughter Juanzi spinning, weaving, selling cloth to earn money to support the family. Juanzi smart, clever and beautiful, the most important thing is the hand, weaving out of the cloth both good-looking and wearable, and Juanzi kind-hearted, and often help some of the poorer than their own family. Cuckoo can also sing, singing like a lark as melodious. As long as the cuckoo sings, the Huanghe Mountain under a piece of azalea will bud open, and each full, each colorful. Liu Guan and azalea *** drink a river water, live with the riverbank, two small, childhood sweethearts, love. They often play a Xiao a singing, attracting hundreds of birds flying, attracting azalea blossoms.
The emperor heard that the azalea could sing and weave, and was beautiful, so he couldn't wait to issue a decree, naming the azalea to the palace. So, the county master with a large group of government officials went straight to Huanghe Mountain. One to the Yellow Crane Mountain, everywhere in the language of flowers, the original Liu Guan and azalea is a song and a harmony. The county master explained the intention, Juanzi not from, so ordered a few yamen to crash the door, Liu Kuan anxious to jump down from the place of the Xiao blowing to go to protect Juanzi. At this time there are several government officials rushed up, they grabbed the hands of the hands, grabbed the feet of the feet, the Liu Guan held a tight, Liu Guan can only dry anxious. The poor weak and small azalea, by those like wolves and tigers of the government officials, three or two times and grabbed away. She walked all the way all the way to call: "Liu Guan save me! Save me! ...... "Liu Kuan was so anxious on the sidelines that he could only watch the cuckoo being taken away.
Since the cuckoo was taken away, Liu Buan every day worry, night worry, cuckoo mother cried every day, night cry, eyes will be more blind. Liu Buan thought to himself: even if I have to go through fire, I have to get the cuckoo back, so he helped cuckoo mom settle down, early the next morning with his beloved row of Xiao set off. He went over nine hundred and eighty-one mountains, flowed through nine hundred and eighty-one rivers, and rounded nine hundred and eighty-one bays, and finally arrived at the Imperial City.
Again, after Cuckoo Zi was caught in the palace, the emperor was deadbeat, messing around, moving his hands and feet, Cuckoo Zi hated this emperor's old man, no matter what the emperor said, Cuckoo Zi ignored it. It is he sent people broke into his home, it is he broke up their own and Liu Kuan, think of this she manipulated the stool on the emperor's head to smash. The emperor did not dip on the cheap, but was smashed a head bleeding, scared to hold his head and fled. Cuckoo since then do not eat or drink, gradually thin out of shape, appearance also withered and emaciated. At this time, the emperor did not even look at her, not to mention her death. The Cuckoo is just lying in bed waiting to die.
Liu Kuan came to the front of the palace, he didn't know where Cuckoo Zi was, let alone that she was so sick that she was dying. And everywhere is guarded earth, everywhere is a high wall, there is not the slightest chance that he can go in to find Cuckoo Zi. When he was in a hurry, he suddenly touched his right hand unintentionally to the row of Xiao, now he had an idea. He hurriedly tied a kite and tied the paixiao to the back of the kite, and then he released the kite into the sky. As the kite flew up in the sky, he let the line grow longer and longer, and the phoenix kite flew over the palace, and the sound of the panpipe reached all the way to Cuckoo's place. Cuckoo Zi was lying drowsily on her bed, as soon as she heard the familiar sound of the rows of Xiao, she knew that Liu Guan had come to her, so she struggled to sit up and sang a song from her hometown, a song that Liu Guan was familiar with. Liu Guan heard this mournful and moving song, happy and sad, happy that Cuckoo knows that he came to look for her, sad that he and Cuckoo are separated by the heavy palace wall. He can only watch her suffer and can not save cuckoo out of the sea of suffering, Liu Kuan's heart like a knife hinge as sad.
So Liu Kuan leaned on the palace wall and cried, he did not eat or drink but just stared at the sky, and gradually could not support it, and then turned into a colorful little bird. The bird lifted its wings and leaped over the high palace wall, flew all the way to the cuckoo next to the cuckoo, cuckoo "squeaking", cuckoo reached out to touch the bird, said: "Wu'er, bird, you want to be able to take me to fly out of the how good it is ah! Said the blood spit out, spit out the blood into a beautiful azalea flower, the cuckoo's body also slowly turned into an azalea flower, the bird carried the azalea flower, flew out of the palace, and flew all the way to the bottom of the Yellow Crane Mountain, the azalea flower planted in the cuckoo in front of the house. Since then, a beautiful azalea bloomed there, but the most beautiful one is still azalea into the plant, the flower has five petals, the heart of the flower has a turquoise bead, called "five treasures of the green pearl", it is the azalea in the precious varieties.
After many years, a temple was built here, called the Hulin Temple, the temple has a very beautiful flower platform called Azalea Terrace, Azalea Terrace, planted a lot of azaleas, all kinds of azaleas, the "five treasures of the green pearl" was also transplanted to the azalea Terrace, where it is in the bushes, the flowers bloomed even more colorful and attractive. Whenever early in the morning and dusk, there are always a group of colorful birds flying over the flower platform, one of them always like to circle around the plant "five treasures green pearl", and the crow's call is particularly mournful, like a row of Xiao blowing out of the same, it is said that that is the Liu Guan into the.
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Legend has it that there was an emperor of Shu called Du Yu, and his empress love exceptionally, and then he was killed by traitors, died miserably, the soul was transformed into an azalea bird, daily in the empress's garden, crowing and wailing, and it fell down teardrops is a drop of red blood, stained the empress of the garden of the beautiful flowers, so that later generations will be called it azalea.
The queen heard the cuckoo bird wailing, see the red blood, then understand is the soul of her husband, under the sadness, day and night wailed 'Zi Gui, Zi Gui', finally died, her soul into a red azalea flowers bloom all over the mountains, and the azalea bird with each other, so the azalea flower is also known as the mountain red, this This is the allusion to the azalea crying blood, Zigui wailing. The bird and the flower's lifelong love is an immortal legend in the human world.