What is the "safflower" on the "Honghuagang" of Guangzhou Uprising?

As a Guangzhou native, I want to explain a problem. Many places in Guangzhou used to be called Honghuagang, and the famous martyrs cemetery is Honghuagang located in Zhongshan Third Road. Of course, the location of the tomb of the seventy-two martyrs in Huanghuagang is also called Honghuagang.

One of the eight scenic spots in Old Yangcheng is the "Red Mausoleum Rising Sun" in Martyrs Cemetery. This "red" refers to the red flowers everywhere, and the red flowers refer to the flowers and kapok in Guangzhou (kapok is a tree that only blooms at this time). At the same time, it also refers to the common azaleas in Guangzhou. Many hills have azaleas.

The following is a report from Guangzhou Daily in 2005:

Martyrs Cemetery: Rhododendrons make tourists linger.

A cemetery built to commemorate the martyrs who died heroically in the Guangzhou Uprising led by China producers in 1927. Located on the red granite on the north side of Zhongshan Third Road, covering an area of 260,000 square meters.

Recently, thousands of azaleas in Songshan Park of Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery are competing to open, showing a flowery landscape. Starting today, the park will hold various forms of patriotic education activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Songshan Garden is a garden covering an area of about 30,000 square meters around the tomb of Guangzhou Commune. More than 65,438+0,000 azalea and Mao Dujuan were planted on the grassland. Garden experts explained that this year, due to the cold weather, spring came late, and the azaleas in Songshan Garden also bloomed late, but they were more brilliant than in previous years. The reporter saw at the scene that the whole Songshan Garden was full of faint flowers, and many tourists lingered among the orange-red and purple-red azaleas.