Phalaenopsis and kumquat rank C among Hainan's annual flowers

Orchids. Photo by Zhang Mao, all media reporter of Hainan Daily.

With the pace of the Spring Festival of the Year of the snake getting closer and closer, Haikou flower market, customers in an endless stream, as a New Year atmosphere to play the New Year flowers began to sell.

Bright red bromeliad flowers, noble and elegant phalaenopsis, gorgeous and warm anthurium, gorgeous and colorful azaleas, "symbol of auspicious" kumquat. In various flower markets, different kinds of New Year flowers are clustered and competing for beauty. In a piece of colorful, in the fragrance, people are smiling and welcoming the arrival of the New Year.

New Year flowers sell well in Haikou flower market

According to Zhou Wuzhong, a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, in his book The History of Chinese Flower Culture, Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, dating back to the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty. At this time of renewal, the use of flowers and floral decorations to decorate the hall has become a traditional custom. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the most popular flower decoration for the Spring Festival was "Suichao Qinggong".

"Vase with red plum, plain plate to raise narcissus", this is the ancient Spring Festival "Suichao Qinggong". Today, people still keep the custom of using flowers to decorate the room during the Spring Festival, and these flowers have a more New Year's name - New Year flowers.

When people walk into the Hainan flower world located in Haikou, bursts of fragrance come, blossoming flowers delicate and charming. Many citizens came together to choose their favorite New Year flowers.

Looking at the door of each shop, kumquat , Chinese rose, poinsettias and other sunhappy plants are stacked neatly and orderly, as if telling their expectations for the New Year; Go inside, under the pergola, phalaenopsis, clivitis, violets and other shade happy flowers compete to open, showing another lively.

"If you like red, you can choose bromeliads, anthurium and poinsettias, which are all very popular." To see customers come, Yuxinyuan garden shop boss Ding Xiaoxia warmly introduced.

"Chinese New Year, we must be prosperous." Customer Ms. Wang spent 200 yuan to buy a large and small two pots of anthurium. She said that every New Year, she would go to the flower market to pick potted flowers to add some festive atmosphere to the home.

Hongshengyuan Garden store also attracted many customers to come. From the color point of view, red New Year flowers are often the most attractive customers, in addition to red, rose, pink, orange, purple and other red everything. In addition, blue, white, yellow and other colors of flowers dazzling, from time to time to attract some customers to come to inquire and choose.

From the variety point of view, the New Year flower to rhododendrons, lucky, orchids, anthurium, lily, daisies, geranium and other herbs, there are also kumquat, bangle plum, rose and other woody plants.

Phalaenopsis and kumquat ranked "C"

It is understood that after the development of recent years, New Year flowers have gradually formed a stable market for traditional flowers and introduced flowers. Traditional flowers include peony, plum, cuckoo, camellia, daffodil, silver willow and so on. The introduced flowers mainly include all kinds of marine orchid, such as phalaenopsis, cymbidium, and anthurium, cyclamen, colorful calla lily, bromeliad, tulip and so on.

Hou Lijun, vice president of Hainan Flower Association, introduced that phalaenopsis, cymbidium, national orchid and anthurium are known as the "Four major flowers" of New Year flowers. "Four major flowers" are bright colors, large flowers, under the decoration of green leaves, festive warm and dignified atmosphere, the thick atmosphere of the New Year is well set off.

"New Year flowers have rich connotations, mainly symbolizing luck, happiness and prosperity." Hou Lijun introduced that different New Year flowers have different meanings, for example, anthurium symbolizes great ambitions; Lily means family happiness, a hundred years of good union; Bromeliad flower means good luck; Phalaenopsis says "Happiness is flying to you".

The Hainan Daily all media reporter visited and learned that among the "four major flowers", Phalaenaenia still occupies the "C" position in the Hainan New Year flower market. As a leader in orchid flowers, phalaenopsis flowers are like nature's carefully carved works of art, and its flowers are like dancing butterflies, so it gets its name. Phalaenopsis color is bright and moving, from pure white to elegant pink, to mysterious purple and passionate red, everything, let people too dizzying. This flower is not only elegant and elegant in appearance, fresh and refined, but also becomes a common flower for family New Year flowers and festival celebrations because of its strong adaptability and easy maintenance. "Phalaenopsis has a long flowering period and can be opened until around the Dragon Boat Festival." Ding Xiaoxia introduced that in addition to the classic varieties such as big chili pepper and green bear, the new varieties of Santa Claus and Starry sky in the past two years are also popular.

In addition to phalaenopsis, in the hearts of Hainan people, kumquat definitely occupies a place in the New Year flower. "The supply of exotic flowers such as butterflies and orchids is sufficient, and the price of this year has dropped slightly compared with the same period last year; Affected by Typhoon "Capricorn", local kumquat and poinsettia production decreased, and prices increased slightly." Liu Hongbing said that this still can not stop everyone's enthusiasm for purchasing, especially the sales of kumquat are still high.

"Every New Year, there are always two kumquat trees at the door, meaning good luck. We also like to wrap lanterns around the trees, hang red envelopes and small lanterns to give them the flavor of the year." Mr. Fu, who lives in the city of Haikou, carefully selected the annual orange at the scene and planned to buy two pots home again this year.

As the sun rises, under the sunlight, the blossoming flowers are more and more beautiful. In the flower shop, the crowd is crowded, and the people who choose the New Year's eve flowers are flowing continuously, and the New Year flavor is rising with the fiery fireworks. (Reporter Huang Ting)