What does Guangdong People’s Flower Street mean?

There is a proverb in Guangzhou: "Walking through the Flower Street celebrates the New Year first." Guangzhou is located in the subtropical zone, with long summers and warm winters. The grass and water are evergreen and flowers bloom all year round. It has long been known as the "Flower City". Guangzhou people have a long-standing custom of planting, loving, admiring and giving flowers to flowers. During the Western Han Dynasty, when Lu Jia was on an envoy to Nanyue, he discovered that Lingnan people loved planting, arranging and wearing flowers. The front and back of the house and the halls and rooms were also filled with flowers. people. Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem describing the winter in Guangzhou: "There are sea flowers and wild grasses all the way through the winter, and you are dissatisfied with your garden wherever you go without a home" ("Sending Judge Hou to Guangzhou to Join the Army"). In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou had already formed the "Spring Festival Flower Market", which was the first in China and well-known at home and abroad. A flower market was formed in front of the feudal office in the city center (now in front of the Finance Office of Beijing Road, Guangzhou). The crowds of people are vying for popularity.

The Guangdong flower market has gone through ups and downs over the years, but it still exudes freshness and vitality. What remains unchanged is Guangzhou people’s love for flowers and praise for spring. Every year when the Chinese New Year is approaching, visiting the flower market on Flower Street has become an important part of the lives of many Guangzhou people. There are flower markets of various sizes in the Pearl River Delta, eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong. There are dozens of miles of flower streets, and millions of people visit the flower markets, which is very lively. If there are no potted kumquats and flowers when doing New Year’s shopping at home, it wouldn’t be called the New Year.

"On the evening of the 30th of the New Year, I walked through the Flower Street, and the spring flowers were all over the street. Red flowers were blooming, yellow flowers were blooming, and there were thousands of them. My mother was smiling, and my father was happy. People The flowers are beautiful and joyful..." This Guangzhou nursery rhyme vividly sings about the grand occasion of every household visiting the New Year's Eve flower market in Guangzhou. After the family reunion dinner, the program for mainlanders is probably that the whole family gathers together to watch CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala. Guangzhou people visit the Flower Street with their families. People are immersed in the joyful world of flowers, admiring, tasting, buying flowers, wandering in the flower street, and enjoying the beautiful time with the flowers every year. No wonder many out-of-towners gave up the opportunity to have family gatherings and stayed in Guangzhou to celebrate the New Year; many people traveled thousands of miles to see the beauty of Guangzhou’s Flower Street.

But the flower market, which has always been associated with the Spring Festival and spring, has also experienced winter. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Guangdong flower market became a beautiful place where the "four olds" were destroyed and "the flowers will be better next year" Expectations are buried deep in people's hearts. In 1973, Deng Xiaoping came back and the Guangzhou Flower Market came back to life. On the eve of the Spring Festival of this year, Dong Biwu went south to Guangzhou, where he was moved by the scene and expressed his feelings in a poem: "On New Year's Eve in Yangcheng, there is a grand gathering again. The flowers are blooming all the time, and spring is everywhere. The gongs and drums are noisy in the sky, and the clouds are rising from the seaside. The southern neighbor celebrates the victory and lifts "Wine brings the God of Plague away" ("Yangcheng Flower Market Re-opened during the Spring Festival of 1973")

With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Guangdong's flower market has ushered in new vitality, decorating the land of southern Guangdong even more. Beautiful and charming. There is a district in Guangzhou called "Fangcun" and a street in the district called "Huadi". Fangcun is famous for its flowers and is still a well-known flower production area and a famous flower distribution center in the country. Nowadays, the types of flowers in flower markets all over the country are also increasing, including kumquats with "good luck", daffodils with "blooming wealth", peach blossoms with the meaning of "a peach blossom tree fills the garden with spring", "money tree", "lucky star flower", "lucky star flower", "Good Luck", green peonies, "Blue Enchantress" roses...these are all dazzling to see.