Cherry blossom history

Cherry blossoms originated in China. According to the Japanese authoritative book "Sakura Dae", the cherry blossoms are native to the Himalayas. After being artificially cultivated, this species was gradually introduced into the Yangtze River Basin in China, Southwest China, and Taiwan Island. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the royal family of the palace had planted cherry blossoms, and it has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was widely planted in private gardens. In the period of the Tang Dynasty, the country came to the DPRK, and Japan admired the shackles of Chinese culture. The cultivation techniques of horticultural flowers were brought back to the East with the construction, costumes, tea ceremony, and kendo.

According to literature research, cherry blossoms have been cultivated in Chinese palaces during the Qin and Han dynasties more than 2,000 years ago. Cherry blossoms in the Tang Dynasty have generally appeared in private courtyards. Bai Juyi Shiyun: "I also know that the official residence is not my house, and the excavation of the mountain is full of gardens. There are more than five examinations in the past, and the flowers should be seen four times." and "Small garden new red cherry tree, idle flowering branches Bento travel." The poem clearly shows that the poet excavated the wild mountain cherry blossoms from the mountains and planted them in the courtyard. In the poems of Yu Ruojun in the Ming Dynasty, the cherry blossoms were mentioned: "The rain is fine in March, and the cherry blossoms are apricot flowers." Tang Mengzi's Compendium of Materia Medica, the definition of Sakura is: "This is Sakura non-peach, although not a peach, with its shape Xiaotao, so 曰 cherry." The interpretation of the mountain cherry: "This cherry common name Li Tao, the former cherry name cherry is not peach."

In the Song Dynasty, Chengdu County, He Hegeng described the main characteristics of the weeping cherry, which was very real and left valuable evidence for future generations. In his "Bitter Sakura Fu": "Yu Cheng lacks Chengdu County, the official residence is the east of the village, there is a cherry tree 焉: this big real small, its familiar and bright red cute. Its bitterness is not edible, although the bird is also Discard it." Here he describes the size of the real thing, and the bitter and inedible is not a cherry, but must be a cherry blossom.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Shuda had a poem: "The first cherry blossoms are bright, the algae are fragrant, the leaves are not bud, the safflower is already shining." According to the poem, this cherry is a red flower Early flower varieties, young leaves are light yellow and beautiful.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen wrote in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "This small, big, sweet, delicious and delicious" is also cherry. According to the sentence that he said "to get down and help", it can be concluded that this is a branch of early cherry.

Qing Wu Qichen's "Test of Plant Names", records: "Winter sea otters, born in the mountains of Yunnan... The safflower is opened at the beginning of winter, the petals are long and round, and there is a deficiency in the middle, and the green heart is highlighted in the roots. The sea bream and the cherry flowers are not the same. The spring is red and long, the size is like the finger, and the acid is inedible.” This winter sea otter is winter cherry, and there are still many places in Shiping, Jianshui and Yuanjiang in southern Yunnan. People still call it "the winter sea otter." It can be seen from various literatures that in ancient China, there were indeed a variety of cherry blossoms, such as Zhonghua Sakura, Weeping Sakura, Donghai, and Sakura. Japan has planted cherry blossoms for more than a thousand years, more than a thousand years later than China. [1] 

Because Japanese cherry blossoms are too famous, they have cultivated the world's best varieties, so cherry blossoms refer to Japanese cherry blossoms or cherry blossom varieties with Japanese characteristics to some extent. After the horticultural breeding technology was transmitted to Japan, the cherry blossoms continued to increase in variety and became a rich cherry family. After becoming the national flower of Japan, it is more cared for and more cultivated, and there are higher varieties with more ornamental qualities.

However, several cherry blossoms that originated in the Himalayas have been grown in Japan, such as arbor, cherry, and cherry. Yunnan cherry blossoms and Japanese cherry blossoms evolved from the bitter cherryes of the original Tengchong and Longling areas. They are a variety of flowers. The flowers are changed from single petals to heavy petals, and the color is changed from pale pink to deep pink. This color is very similar to the viewing. The difference between the high Japanese cherry blossoms and the Japanese cherry blossoms is mostly pale pink.