Dawan News In March, flower viewing is favored. Dawan News reporter learned from the tourism department of Chaohu City that the much-watched 28 Chaohu Yinping Peony Viewing Festival is about to kick off, known as the "world's first strange flower" Yinping Mountain millennium peony, has been budding, waiting to bloom.

The thousand-year-old white peony has budded.

"At present, a lot of buds have been played", Xie Hua, director of Yinping Mountain Scenic Area in Chaohu City, introduced that the number of peony flowers has attracted much attention every year, and as one of the activities of this year's peony viewing festival, the "millennium peony, how many flowers" quiz activity has also begun.

Yinping Mountain Scenic Area is located in the southern suburbs of Chaohu City, with Yinping Mountain Xianren Cave as the core, integrating strange flowers - thousand-year-old white peony, karst cave - Yinping Mountain Xianren Cave, and strange stone - Chaohu Stone. Known as the "world's first strange flower", this wild white peony of Yinping Mountain grows in the stone crevices on the cliff and is said to have a history of thousands of years. Every year during the Qingming Festival and the Valley Rain, the silver screen peony Turui blooms, which is praised as "a unique in China". When the flowers bloom, it attracts tourists from all over the world. In the CCTV documentary "Peony", it was said that the silver screen peony is the oldest wild Yangshan white peony in China that can be found so far, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

In addition, this wild white peony of Yinping Mountain, known as the "first strange flower in the world", is known as the "meteorological flower" among the people, which refers to the number of flowers and the length of the flowering period each year, which can predict the harvest of the year to a certain extent. "One disaster and two droughts, three and four are safe, five are abundant, and six and six animals are prosperous. ”

Of course, through the comparative analysis of a large number of data, the number of flowers and flowering period of Yinping peony every year are discrete with the actual drought and flood disasters, and there is no inevitable relationship between the two.

Dawan News reporter Jin Xueyong