Laizhou Rose Festival, the hometown of roses.

On April 7th, the first naming meeting of 1995 "Hometown of China's Top 100 Specialty Products" was held in the Great Hall of the People. Laizhou City was named "China Rose Flower Capital", and May 25th was designated as "China Rose Flower Exhibition and Laizhou Rose Flower Festival". Since then, the beautiful and rich Laizhou City, the pearl of the Bohai Sea, has become even more dazzling.

Rose is a famous flower, which is deeply loved by people all over the world. Under natural cultivation conditions, the flowering period spans three seasons and lasts for seven or eight months every year, showing people its unique charm and providing rich floral fragrance. It can be said that "only if it lasts for ten days, this flower is not a spring breeze every day" and it is known as the "queen of flowers". According to the research of natural scientists and medical experts, the fragrance of Chinese rose can kill many viruses harmful to human body; Its beautiful and huge flowers are also a kind of nutritious flower food. Petal cells contain protein, fat and various amino acids that meat food can't match. In addition, Chinese rose, as a medicine, can clear away heat, reduce swelling and treat sores and carbuncle. China is the origin of Chinese rose. Laizhou, which is surrounded by mountains and seas, has a mild climate and fertile soil. It is an ideal place for the growth and development of Chinese rose, and also the main producing area of Chinese rose in China. Laizhou people have a long history of planting Chinese rose. It is the working people who slowly cultivated the rose from the wild rose, and after careful cultivation from generation to generation, it is today's colorful. On the land of Laizhou, whether it is the cliff beside the house or the gap in the barren valley, there are wild roses everywhere; Among the people, there are many beautiful legends related to the rose. According to historical records, as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the commodity Chinese rose produced in Laizhou was sold to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the south by water and land, and transported to Tianjin, Changchun, Harbin and Jiamusi in the north. At the same time, as a tribute, Laizhou Chinese rose was also transported to Beijing and planted in the royal garden in the palace.

Laizhou rose has many varieties, high grades, rich colors and complete plant types. Most of the world's more precious Chinese rose flowers are planted in Laizhou, but many different Chinese rose flowers cultivated by Laizhou flower farmers are the only ones in the world's big gardens. As far as color is concerned, apart from dozens of white rose varieties, it is easy to arrange a complete pedigree from latosolic red to crimson purple. This is beyond the reach of any country or region or any kind of flower.

Since the 1980s, with the gradual improvement of the overall living standards of urban and rural residents, people's awareness of greening and beautifying the environment has been continuously enhanced, and more and more people are planting flowers and plants in leisure activities. Chinese rose flower has good flowers, leaves, shape and fragrance, and has strong adaptability, so it has become the first choice for landscaping. Therefore, the production and cultivation of Chinese rose flower in Laizhou City have developed rapidly. In Laizhou City, the planting area of Chinese rose has gradually developed from a few statistical villages to nearly 100 villages in more than 10 towns, and a large number of professional flower growers have emerged. There are more than 300 varieties of rose in Laizhou, and the planting area exceeds 1000 mu. Every winter and spring, more than 2 million high-quality rose seedlings are transported to the inside and outside of the Great Wall and the north and south of the river.

Roses are messengers, bringing news of spring to China and icing on the cake to the beautiful city.

Laizhou Municipal Government attaches great importance to the production and development of rose, and has invested more than one million yuan to establish Laizhou Rose Garden in the urban area for people to visit and enjoy and professional workers to conduct scientific research. Laizhou has become the largest rose production base in China.

May is the prime time of the year in Jiaodong Peninsula. Laizhou is controlled by the maritime climate, and it is not hot in summer. Walking into Laizhou in May means walking into the sea of Chinese rose flowers: in parks, flower beds, offices, campuses, roadside houses, and rooms of urban and rural residents, Chinese rose flowers can be seen everywhere, in droves, in different forms, and what's more, the refreshing flowers rush out from front to back, which is refreshing! This is the crystallization of the rose culture watered by Laizhou people with painstaking efforts and sweat for thousands of years!

People in Laizhou love flowers and grow them. People of all nationalities and colors in the world also love and appreciate flowers, which is probably a common custom. Being in the world of Chinese rose can't help but remind people that Chinese rose, as a medium of national cultural exchange, used to be a messenger of peace.

/kloc-In the middle of the 8th century, Chinese rose flowers from China were introduced to European countries one after another. 1792, a batch of Chinese rose flowers, such as China cinnabar of Stone, were transported to Europe via India, which coincided with the Anglo-French war. In order to make China's Chinese rose safely pass through the war zone, the warring parties reached an agreement to temporarily cease fire. The British Navy sent ships to escort the Chinese rose across the English Channel and gave it to Queen Josephine, the wife of French emperor Napoleon, and planted it in Mei Sen's Chinese rose garden-Uette.

Since the end of 18, flower lovers and horticulturists from all over Europe have crossed Chinese rose with local Chinese rose, and cultivated a number of new high-quality Chinese rose varieties such as "Jin Guo" and "Huang Heping", which are big in flowers, bright in color and strong in plants, and have worked hard to cultivate today's large family of Chinese rose varieties. Over the past 200 years, new products of Chinese rose have emerged one after another, and their brilliance was jointly created by Chinese rose farmers in China and gardeners all over the world.

Rose was once the messenger of China people's foreign cultural exchange. Chinese rose is a popular flower and a symbol of Laizhou people. From 65438 to 0990, the Laizhou Municipal People's Government made a decision according to the wishes of the citizens, and designated the rose as the flower of Laizhou City, and determined May 25th as the monthly season. Starting from 199 1, Laizhou will hold a large-scale celebration of China Flower Festival every year. The organs, factories, mines, commercial enterprises and all citizens in the city regard the moon season as a great event. During the Flower Festival, Laizhou cultural system should organize large-scale cultural and artistic activities. Performances and exhibitions of song and dance, traditional Chinese opera, movies, yangko, calligraphy, fine arts and photography complement the colorful Chinese rose flowers all over the streets. Guests and friends from home and abroad visited the hometown of Rose, strolled in the ocean of Rose, bathed in its fragrance, and found an ideal place for trade and cooperation. The action of "flower festival combination" in Laizhou has brought great benefits to Laizhou's economic take-off, and paved a broader road for the development of Laizhou rose, a natural art. "Flowers bloom continuously, and spring has nothing to do with it." Rose is famous for its beautiful flower posture, gorgeous colors and rich fragrance. Laizhou City, Shandong Province is "the hometown of Chinese rose in China". Whenever the spring breeze warms up and the Chinese rose is in full bloom, it is full of flowers and beautiful.

Strolling through the city of roses, you will find Chinese rose flowers everywhere, on streets, roadsides, in front of doors, in courtyards, on the balconies of residents, in shop windows and on the dining tables of hotels. No matter where you are, you will see the beautiful image of Chinese rose: red as fire, white as snow and yellow as gold. Especially in Laizhou Chinese Rose Festival every year, 654.38+ 10,000 pots of Chinese rose flowers are placed in three dimensions, such as Qiongshan Xiange. There is a Danxia here, and countless jade feathers are inserted here. It is really colorful and fragrant.

China, the hometown of Chinese rose, has a long history of cultivation. It is said that there were wild Chinese rose flowers planted at home in Shennong era, and they were planted in court gardens in Han dynasty, which was more common in Tang dynasty. Yang Wanli, a poet in the Song Dynasty, praised in a poem: "There is only one flower, and if it doesn't bloom for ten days, it will never spring." The rose planting in Laizhou can be traced back to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty more than 600 years ago. According to legend, a young couple fled from Sichuan to northern Laizhou to grow Chinese rose flowers for a living. Later generations called the place where they settled garden village, which became popular and gradually multiplied, and the surrounding villages also planted flowers. Almost every household in Laizhou, with a population of nearly 900,000, grows Chinese roses, with an annual output exceeding150,000. It provides millions of roses to the whole country, western Europe and Southeast Asia every year, and is the largest rose production base in China.

There are many varieties of roses in Laizhou, with more than 600 varieties widely planted, and the flowering period can last for more than 200 days, lasting until mid-June 165438+ 10. "Chinese rose flowers are rewarded every day, and seasonal flowers are spent in Ji Chun." Under the cultivation of Laizhou people, Chinese rose flowers bloom all year round and become more and more colorful.

People's Daily Overseas Edition (8th Edition, June 8, 2000)