What Kind of Flower You Should Get on Spring Festival?

By ChinaFlower214

2014-01-12 00:00:00

　　Singapore   -   Orchid

The Spring Festival is the liveliest festival in Singapore. Two weeks before the New Year’s Eve, flower shops along the roads will have lights on and sell flowers all night. There are two kinds of flowers sold in Singapore: potted flower and cut-flower. One of the potted flowers is the national flower of Singapore - orchid. People love it because it can bloom under the worst weather which symbolizes their tough, brave and striving spirit. There are other local flowers, such as cockscomb, phoenix-tail fern, pomegranate flower, and so on, that attract people. Other potted flowers are mostly imported, for example the calamondin from China. They are good, reasonably priced, and very popular in Singapore. Some upscale potted flowers such as bromeliad, azalea, Gerbera Jamesonii, and so on are imported from Holland. Singaporean love flowers. Some new kinds of flowers with a long flowering stage and bright colors are enjoyed by people.

Orchid

Singapore Botanic Garden

Taiwan   -   Good Luck Bamboo

Taiwanese love planting as well as buying flowers. Flowers are necessary to the Spring Festival. Phalaenopsis signifies fortune and luck and it is one of the orchid species that is widely and best planted in Taiwan. Besides, Good Luck Bamboo means the turning of the events. People love it. In Cantonese, when people say radish, it sounds like Cai Tao, which means good fortune. And everyone wants it at Spring Festival. What’s more, bromeliad sounds like Wang Lai, which means fortune is coming in Cantonese. In the new year, everyone hopes himself, his family and his career can have a good fortune.

 
Bromeliad, which sounds like Wang Lai in Cantonese, means fortune is coming.

Good Luck Bamboo means the turning of misfortunes.

Radish, which sounds like Cai Tao, means good fortune.

Hong Kong   -   Calamondin

　　Hong Kong people love to buy flowers on Spring Festival as the traditional Chinese customs. Peach bloom, phalaenopsis, daffodil and calamondin are the four most common and popular flowers in Hong Kong. It is said that when the peach trees are blooming, it comes to the season of marriage. Besides, the bright colored phalaenopsis represents luck and prosperity. And daffodil means reunion. What’s more, there are gladiolus which means promotion, white willow which implies the possession of money and home, peony which symbolizes wealth, and dracaena sanderiana which sands for being content with the wealth. The most interesting thing is that there is one kind of flower which has the name being correspond with its meaning-- “Five Generations Together”. It attracts the attention of the old and young of families. Calamondin which symbolizes good fortune and great profits is the most popular plant for it is green and good-looking at the front door. People also love oncidium which smells really good.

"Five Generations Together” whose name corresponds with its meaning sells good

Good Smelling Oncidium

Plumpy Calamondin