Where is Wisteria's father?

This giant wisteria tree is located next to a street under the jurisdiction of jinniu district's father street in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Purple spikes hang down and flowers are fragrant. In jinniu district, which is regarded as Father Street with the most fireworks, a six-story wisteria has become a proper "top stream" this season, attracting many citizens and photographers to punch in and take pictures.

This wisteria, which can be called a "tree" in size and height, has clung to the wall and stubbornly climbed to the top of an old six-story building. Standing under the blooming flower tree, it is full of its gorgeous and vigorous purple figure, pouring down like a purple waterfall, mixed with fireworks from the old West Gate, bringing endless scenery to this slightly cold spring.

Probably because it opens on time every year, the old residents are not surprised. On the contrary, passers-by and photographers with SLR cameras regard it as a rare sight, taking photos, taking short videos, taking photos and making friends. Thanks to the timely sharing brought by the mobile Internet era, I once again entered everyone's sight and became a well-deserved online celebrity.

plant culture

China has a long history of planting wisteria. Before the Republic of China, many official residences and private gardens in Beijing planted wisteria to beautify their courtyards, and many of them were well known. For example, in front of the "Wuyu Bookstore" of Yu Minzhong, a university student and military minister and calligrapher of Wenhua Temple in Qing Dynasty, wisteria smells fragrant; Liang, a college student in Qingdongge, is in front of the "Qinqin Hall", where wisteria is flourishing and occupies a brilliant position.

Zhu Yizun, a poet and bibliophile in the Qing Dynasty, is fascinated by the vines of Gu Teng Bookstore. In the courtyard of Zhou Qiwei, a famous scholar and poet in the early Qing Dynasty, wisteria was hard and scaly. Many wisteria in Beijing have a history of hundreds of years.

There is a place called wisteria in Shanghai, named after a wisteria planted in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty rested here when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River. In Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, there is also a wisteria tree with a history of more than 600 years.

According to historical records, wisteria originated in the Western Regions, with thick stems and fragrant flowers. Hu people regarded it as a sacred object and tried their best to control it from flowing into China. Qian's mission to the Western Regions lasted for thousands of years in China.