Introduction to China’s national flower

1. As of 2020, the People's Republic of China has not officially determined a national flower. Since modern times in China, the national flower has become a national symbol along with the national flag, national anthem, and national emblem. During the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi designated the peony as the national flower in the form of a decree. The national flower of the Republic of China is the plum blossom, but the national flower of the Republic of China has not been determined for a long time.

2. Today, China has not decided whether to use the peony distributed in the Yellow River Basin as the national flower or the plum blossom distributed in the Yangtze River Basin as the national flower.

3. More than 100 countries in the world have established their own national flowers. As early as 1929, the National Government of the Republic of China designated plum blossom as the national flower. Plum blossom is also the only national flower in the world that represents the national spirit. After the founding of New China, the mainland did not clearly establish a national flower.

4. Since the mainland has not clearly established a national flower, at the 2001 APEC meeting, a joke "with China's national flower peony as the background" appeared in news reports; at the 1999 Kunming World Horticultural Exposition, there was no national flower. , and became the regret of the century for the ancient country.