Yangcheng, the so-called Yangcheng, is related to an old legend that five sheep are blessed. Guangzhou Yuexiu Park has a statue of Wuyang, which also describes this legend. Guangzhou, also known as "Yangcheng"
Jiang Cheng, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, was playing in Wuhan, drinking with Shi Langzhong on the Yellow Crane Tower, and having fun while drinking. When he was in a good mood, Li Bai was so excited that he wrote the poem "Drinking with Shi Langzhong and Listening to Flute on the Yellow Crane Tower". The poem is written like this: "First, I moved to Changsha, but I didn't see my home in Chang 'an in the west. The Jade Emperor blows the Yellow Crane Tower, and plum blossoms fall into the river in May. Wuhan people like the name Jiangcheng very much, so they call themselves Jiangcheng people.
So Wuhan is also called Jiangcheng.
Guangzhou is called "Flower City".
Hua Cheng
Guangzhou is located in the subtropical zone, with long summer and warm winter. Grass and water are evergreen all year round and flowers bloom frequently. It has always enjoyed the reputation of Flower City. Guangzhou people have a long history of planting, loving, appreciating and sending flowers. During the Western Han Dynasty, Lu Jia went to South Vietnam and found that Lingnan people loved to plant flowers, arrange flowers and wear flowers. Before and after the house, the halls and rooms were filled with flowers, and he praised the people here as "colorful flowers". Guangzhou in the Han Dynasty, with the rise of the maritime Silk Road trade, introduced a variety of overseas flowers. By the Tang Dynasty, the flowers in Guangzhou had become famous all over the country. The famous poet Meng Jiao once described the wonder of flowers and plants everywhere in Guangzhou in winter: "In winter, there are no homes and gardens everywhere." During this period, the cultivation of foreign flowers such as jasmine, henna and jasmine was very common overseas, and the flower market began to appear. At that time, the flower girl in Guangzhou wore all kinds of flowers with colored ropes for sale, which attracted Chinese and foreign tourists. In the mid-Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou had become the first "Winter jasmine market" in China, which was famous at home and abroad. Three days before New Year's Eve every year, a flower market is formed in Si Qian (now in front of Beijing Road Finance Department) in downtown Guangzhou. There are miles of streets here, crowded with people, and Guangzhou's reputation as a "flower city" is worthy of its name. Among domestic cities, this nickname and reputation is unique to Guangzhou. The flower market has lasted for more than 200 years. In recent years, the Winter jasmine market in Guangzhou has grown bigger and bigger, being held in eight municipal districts respectively, forming a spectacular flower street with a total length of dozens of miles and millions of people traveling together. "On New Year's Eve, the streets are full of flowers, and the streets are full of spring flowers. Red flowers are fresh, yellow flowers are big, and thousands of flowers are ugly. Grandma laughs, Dad is happy, and people are happy ... "This Guangzhou children's ballad" Flower Street "vividly sings the grand occasion of every household in Guangzhou visiting the Spring Festival flower market.
After the reunion dinner, I am afraid that the programs of mainlanders are basically the whole family getting together to watch CCTV's Spring Festival Evening. Guangzhou people visit Flower Street with their families, where people are in a happy world of flowers, enjoying, tasting and buying flowers, wandering in Flower Street, and enjoying the wonderful time with Fang Group once a year. No wonder many foreigners gave up the opportunity of family reunion and stayed in Guangzhou for the New Year. Many people come from afar to see the beauty of Guangzhou Flower Street.
There is a poem that describes Guangzhou Flower Street in this way: "Xiang Street is ten miles and one city is spring, and laughter enters the colorful door. It is suspected that if you collect honey at different levels, there will be millions of people watching flowers. "
There is a district in Guangzhou called Fangcun, and there is a street in the district called Huadi. Fangcun is famous for its flowers and is known as "the first flower town in Lingnan". Today, Fangcun is still a famous flower producing area and a famous flower distribution center in China.
Guangzhou people love, cultivate, appreciate and send flowers. Directly promoted the flower industry in Guangzhou. At present, the planting area of flowers in Guangzhou is nearly 65.438+10,000 mu, and there are more than 2,000 varieties of flowers. The annual output value of flowers is more than 2 billion yuan, accounting for more than 65.438+05% of the whole country, all exceeding Shanghai, Kunming, Beijing and other countries. Guangzhou is the largest flower producing area in China, the production and supply center of potted ornamental plants in China, the main distribution center of flowers in China and the dispatching center of flowers entering Japan. Guangzhou's flower trade ranks first in the country. The price of flowers in Guangzhou affects the national price. Fangcun Flower Expo Center and Huadu South Flower Trading Towel Heart are the most famous flower markets in China.
"The world of Yangcheng is a flower, and it is also a time to buy flowers." To appreciate the characteristics of Huacheng, you should first go to the Tianguang Market of Flower Market at 5 am in Fangcun. Then go to Zengnan Road and see dozens of horticultural gardens and flower exposition parks along the road; Visit Yuntai Garden, Xiyuan Pottery Garden, Orchid Garden and flower shows in various parks in Baiyun Mountain. Every spring, when kapok blooms, one river is green, both sides are kapok red, ten feet kapok is brilliant, and coral is red all over the sky. It is amazing to see the world of flowers and the Red Sea. The Winter jasmine market held every Spring Festival is unique to Huacheng, so you must go and see it. The chrysanthemum exhibition in autumn and the float parade on New Year's Day are also quite distinctive.
Many cities in the world, including China, have their own city flowers. The city flower of Guangzhou is kapok, which can be said to be the highest and largest city flower in the world. Kapok tree is a kind of tree, very tall, most of which are seven or eight stories high. What is particularly amazing and spectacular is that when spring blossoms, you can't see a green leaf. When all the red cotton flowers fall, its bare branches begin to sprout green buds. Imagine that a tree with seven or eight floors is full of red flowers, just like a red cloud. What an imposing manner this is! How spectacular! It is no exaggeration to describe a piece of red sea. Some people say that Guangzhou is a city of heroes, and the blood of heroes has dyed cotton red. Therefore, Guangzhou is also known as the hero flower and the hero tree, so Guangzhou, the birthplace of modern revolution, is naturally called the hero city.