Characteristics of peach blossoms

Peach blossom is characterized by elegant and beautiful flowers, fresh and sweet smell, rich flowers and bright colors, and it is one of the important flower viewing trees in early spring.

Peach blossom, a perennial tree of Prunus in Rosaceae, has gray-brown trunk, elliptic-lanceolate leaves, alternate leaves, serrated edges, solitary flowers, open first leaves, nearly spherical drupe, flowering in March-April and fruiting in June-September. The name of peach blossom comes from the Book of Songs, which says that "peach flies away and burns its glory".

Peach blossom originated in central and northern China and has a long cultivation history. Later, it gradually spread to the surrounding areas of Asia and was planted in warm areas such as France and the Mediterranean. Peach likes light and requires good ventilation; Good drainage and drought resistance; Fear of waterlogging, such as waterlogging for 3 ~ 5 days, light leaves, heavy death. Cold-tolerant, East China and North China can generally overwinter in the open air.

The symbol of peach blossom:

Flower language and its representative meaning are prisoners of love. In ancient China, peach blossom has always been inseparable from the word love. Ancient divination often said that peach blossoms are auspicious, which means that peach blossoms can bring people the opportunity to fall in love. Ancient poets often associated peach blossom with love. Besides "a peach blossom on a tree, a poem on a tree" in Nan's "The meaning of a drunken man is not in wine, but in fragrance", it is also often used to express love yearning and lament the misfortune of a beauty.

In the poem "Peach Blossoms Set each other off in Red", it means that women are associated with peach blossoms, which means that women have a good face. This leads to an idiom-if the face is peach blossom, there are peach blossoms on the face, which are all beautiful explanations. As the fruit formed by peach blossom, peach fruit is regarded as something to prolong life, which leads to many stories such as the flat peach party of the Queen Mother, calling peach fruit "longevity peach" and so on.