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Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Fair

By Daisy Lee

2014-01-08 00:00:00

    Guangzhou, where flowers bloom all the year round, is also known as the Flower City. The glamorous common Bomhax Flower is also known as "the Hero Flower". Therefore, it was selected as the flower of the city to represent Guangzhou.

    Guangzhou is know as the Flower City, and its annual Spring Festival Flower Fair has attracted worldwide attention. Before the Spring Festival, especially three days before the New Year’s Eve of the lunar calender, streets and lanes in Guangzhou are fully decorated with flowers and cumquat bonsais and all the big parks will hold Spring Festival Flower Fair. The theme streets in every district will put up decorated archways and pergolas. Flower growers from various districts will come here and sell flowers and cumquat bonsais. The long streets are flourishing and blooming with flowers. People do not go back home until one o’clock in the morning. This is the flower fair specifically belong to Guangzhou.

    Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Fair is a carnival for people in Guangzhou. So many people can enjoy the flouring flowers and lively atmosphere in the annual flower fair. Cantonese usually arrange some peach blossom branches in the hall. There is a saying that "a blooming peach tree brings the Spring into the yard". The flowers, together with the colored lights, indeed makes people think of spring. Rather than homes, hotels and restaurants also needs a big peach branch to decorate the gateway. Peach bloom is like the "Christmas tree" for the spring in Guangzhou.

    Cumquat is thought to bring good luck. In fact, people love the small yet round shape. A small tress of around 30 to 40 cm can bear so many golden fruits. Together with the green leaves, people do love it and want to have it. Citrus mitis, golden egg fruit, and vermillion orange have the effect. Families generally choose one of them and place it at home. Generation fruit means prosperity. Bergamot is in the shape of palm. It seems like someone is praying. Therefore, devoted men and women love it.

    Daffodil is necessary in spring festival. In the last month of the lunar calender, large amount of daffodil will be sent here from Zhang Zhou, Fujian. When people have bought back the daffodil, they will take good care of it and control the flowering stage by adjusting the water temperature and sunlight. Daffodil seems to be able to understand people. It usually blooms when people are having dinner at New Year’s Eve of the lunar calender or when people are firing firecrackers on the first day after New Year. This brings joy to people. There is saying goes like this “blooming flowers bring wealth”. Therefore, blooming daffodil is a good sign. With the delightful appearance, slim and graceful shape, and good smell, daffodil is necessary for families.

    In recent years, with the development of economy, many flowers and trees the represent wealth and fortune have appeared. For example, the green "Money Tree" (pachira macrocarpa), “Fortune Flower” grafted onto the cactus, and so on. The price also relevant to wealth and fortune. The price of a "Money Tree" is 168, which sounds like "the road to success" in Cantonese. A peach tree is priced at 88, which means "make a fortune". 38 means promoting and making fortune (3 sounds like promoting in Cantonese). The flower language in Guangzhou is part of the folk life.

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