Flower festival, talk about the beautiful Ma Changhua

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in Yunnan, there is a kind of plant called Ma Changhua. From February to May, Ma Changhua is one of the leading actors-whether in the city garden or on the high mountain, you can see the tree tree red flowers hung all over the branches.


about the origin of the name, there is a legend: in the era of traffic underdevelopment, the Colts pack is one of Yunnan's main logistics methods. Drive horse people beauty, often in the head of the horse is decorated with scarlet Ying Luo, name Yue Delavayi. And the huge flower delavayi cuckoo, is similar to delavayi, therefore, Yunnan people to the Delavayi Cuckoo is called Ma Changhua.


the best of the Azalea


Ma Changhua also has a few unknown alias: Dense tube flower, red camellia, Cangshan cuckoo. In "Yunnan Herbal medicine election", it is called "Malikuang", in "Guizhou Pharmaceutical Directory" she was called "Azalea".


Ma Changhua is a genus of rhododendron and rhododendron. But she is not like the Common Cuckoo, a clump of bushes, but tall and upright in the mountains, growing height can usually reach 3-8 meters. In the mountains, trees Eleven-Two meters tall tree is not uncommon, therefore, some people call her "Big Tree Cuckoo" (different from the Gaoligong Shan of the Tree cuckoo. The tree Rhododendron Gaoligong Shan is generally 20-25 meters tall. Ma Changhua bright red bright, flower big like dish, flower is dense, and florescence is very long. More worthy of praise is that her life is very long, even if it is a century old tree, spring can still be full of flowers trees, paved brocade fold embroidery. These characteristics, so that Ma Changhua not only become a leader in Rhododendron, in the international flower market also enjoys a reputation.


beautiful Ma Changhua, not only is the protagonist of photography enthusiasts lens, in the stamp can also find her figure. The June 25, 1991 issue of the "Rhododendron" stamps, China's more expensive 9 kinds of azaleas painted in the stamps, the first is "Delavayi cuckoo."


in addition to ornamental, Ma Changhua can also be used as medicine, its sexual taste bitter, cool, there are small poison, function of heat-removing, hemostasis, menstruation. At the same time, Ma Changhua wood is reddish, crisp, some people will use it to make wooden bowls.


"Red Sea"
in the Wild Mountain of Yunnan

One of the main producing areas of Ma Changhua is Yunnan. In addition to the famous Dali Cangshan West slope Yangbi of the Ma Changhua, Yunnan Qujing Pearl River source Mashon, Shizong fungus, the central Yunnan Luquan County litter Mountain and Wuding County Ring State Township, western Yunnan Yongping Qiyang, Yuxi Xinping Disc Mountain and many places have a large number of wild Ma Changhua. Bloom, the tall Ma Changhua a tree close to a tree, area vertical and horizontal dozens of, no miscellaneous trees, thick flowers like a rosy-like eyes, very spectacular.


in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Shanxi people Tan-Cui was a Yunnan Luquan County magistrate. He in the "Shanhai Xuanheng zhi" record: "Rhododendron full of Yunnan Mountain, taste the ring Chau Township, wear Lin Dozens of, spend a few Ying Zhang, Red Cloud folder, doubt into the purple, the Japanese side out of the forest." Although Tan did not say what kind of rhododendron he praised, but according to the "flower height of a few ying Zhang, Red Cloud folder," and other descriptions, the tree tall Ma Changhua no doubt more consistent.


Tan also for Yunnan Cuckoo gravamen: "Because think of this flower if moved to the Zhu Ying, cut and tidy, the Pan bend in the June-built Yao Basin, million petals overlapping for Jinshan, always not with the yellow production and win, and the committee abandoned in the Barbarians, for firewood son salary, how unfortunate also. "That is, if the Ma Changhua transplanted to the economically developed Yangzhou, and well cultivated pruning, enough and Anhui Huangshan production of the Azalea a high and low!" Unfortunately, she was a woodcutter's firewood for growing up in the border.


Thankfully, today, Ma Changhua will no longer have the misfortune of being a woodcutter. Know flower love flower of Yunnan people to her favor, annual flowering to the field to watch Ma Changhua, has become a lot of people's fixed itinerary.

The
of flowers and trees in
City Gardens

If you do not have time or inconvenience to the mountains to enjoy the beautiful scenery of wild Ma Changhua, then in Kunming also have a good place to see flowers.


with the progress of society and the continuous improvement of the level of transplanting trees, in the Golden Palace, Kunming World Horticultural Expo Park, as well as black Longtan, and even some of the city's small garden and hotels, restaurants, Ma Changhua have been invited to come in and become the flower of urban garden. Due to the warmth of the climate, the city's Ma Changhua than the mountains in early Bloom 1 months time, is currently flowering.


according to the City Garden Research Institute Yang Zhije Deputy director introduced, about the late 90, Dali Cangshan repair Ropeway, erection project Tower and other facilities in the process, need to clean up the trees along the line, many Delavayi cuckoo was transplanted. At that time, the Rhododendron garden in the Golden Palace has a demand for this species, the transplanted delavayi cuckoo first in the local nursery tube for a period of time, and then introduced into the Golden Palace of Rhododendron garden.


Originally introduced more than 500 strains of delavayi rhododendron species in the Jindian performance is very good, flower big Color yan. However, in the following ten or twenty years, due to scientific research, exchange and other uses, as well as plant death and other reasons, the current Golden Palace Scenic Area of the original introduction plant only about two-thirds, more than 300 strains, mainly distributed in the Golden Temple Rhododendron Park.


In addition, Ma Changhua is more and more widely used in the garden of Kunming City. If you go to the Chenggong City Administrative Center Now, you can see the large size of the delavayi cuckoo is gradually blooming.


This Saturday coincided with the Chuxiong "Flower Festival"


all ethnic groups in Yunnan are very fond of Ma Changhua. Every year when the Ma Changhua Open, Qujing, Chuxiong and other states, the city of many places to hold the traditional "Ma Changhua festival."


throughout the festival, to Chuxiongzhou Dayao County Tan Hua's "flower Festival" is the most famous, and long history. Tan Hua "Flower Arranging Festival" is scheduled to be held in early February of the Lunar New Year. On the day of the festival, the local Yi people dressed in costumes, the Ma Changhua from the mountains inserted in the door, windows and houses around the main road in Yi House, also put up chuppah, filled with flowers. People are also decorated with Ma Changhua on the head, and the cattle to catch up with the mountains, and then together around the Ma Changhua tree singing and dancing, blessing each other.


about the origin of "Flower Arranging festival", there is a moving legend: a long time ago, Shan had a lustful, brutal demon to maim the people. Tan Huashan on a smart beautiful girl, the initiative came to the Devil side said: "According to the rules of Yi family, before marrying you, I want to drink wine with you three cups." She took the jug, plucked the Ma Changhua from the sideburns and put it into the pot. The Devil does not know Ma Changhua poisonous, then with the hand of the side will drink all the wine. The Devil and his men died, and Iru also sacrificed his young life. Her lover learned this, grief, tears in the eyes of blood, blood dripping on the Ma Changhua, white flowers into red flowers. The day of Iru's death is the beginning of the Lunar New Year of February, the Yi people to commemorate her, this day as a "flower festival."