Chinese New Year's Eve Flowers Go Red in the Chinese New Year Market
2024-02-16
? From "meat and eggs, new clothes, sticky bean buns" to "fitness, tourism, and appreciation of customs", different periods of the Lunar New Year have different main varieties of New Year goods. With the arrival of another Spring Festival, the "new three types" of Chinese New Year's Eve flowers represented by butterfly orchids, hybrid orchids, and alpine azaleas are gradually becoming popular New Year goods for residents in northern China, decorating more and more "ordinary people's homes". Chinese New Year's Eve flowers usually bloom around the Spring Festival each year, gradually becoming an important element in the festive atmosphere due to their ornamental value and beautiful symbolism. However, due to the impact of climate on production and supply, the launch of New Year's Eve flowers coincides with the lowest winter temperatures in the north. For a long time, the warm regions in the south were the main sales market for New Year's Eve flowers. With the upgrading of consumption levels and the promotion of plant cultivation techniques, New Year's Eve flowers represented by butterfly orchids are gradually becoming one of the options for northern residents to decorate their rooms and light up their homes during festivals. In multiple flower planting bases in Lianzhou Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, the warm and diverse butterfly orchids compete for beauty. Flower farmers shuttle through it, changing pots, watering, fertilizing, shaping, and assembling pots, preparing for the export of flowers. The Phalaenopsis Orchid Base in Modeshui Village, Liuwang Town, Huangdao District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province also ushered in the peak production season before the Spring Festival. "From mid November to before the Spring Festival, villagers will be very busy, mainly due to strong market demand. Currently, more than 20 varieties of butterfly orchids from the base are shipped daily with over 2000 branches, mainly sold to Qingdao and surrounding cities." said Han Jiawu, the head of the base. At the Qinling Flower World located in Huoduo Village, Huangliang Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Zhu Ying, a teacher at the Third Junior High School of Xi'an Aerospace City, walks, watches, takes photos, and shares her joy of experiencing the beautiful scenery of Chang'an flowers with her online friends and colleagues. "It's so beautiful! These blooming butterfly orchids are like a group of butterflies dancing their sleeves and gracefully, giving people a beautiful and dynamic painting." She said. People buy New Year's Eve flowers at the Qinling Flower World located in Huoduo Village, Huangliang Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province (photographed on February 6th). According to statistics taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Qiaoqi, around the Spring Festival, the daily flow of visitors to Qinling Flower World for flower selection and purchase has remained above 28000 people. With 130 categories, over 1000 varieties, and hundreds of thousands of flowers, they will be surrounded by bustling crowds to beautify the homes of ordinary people in Xi'an. Yang Kai, the person in charge of the operation of Qinling Flower World, said that relying on Shaanxi's position as the center of China's geographical map and its continuously mature technology in greenhouse flower and field flower research and cultivation, their role in the transfer of flowers from east to west and from south to north is becoming increasingly prominent. Sellers from Gansu, Ningxia, Henan, Hubei and other regions have all regarded this place as an important choice for wholesale of Chinese New Year's Eve flowers. It is expected that the sales volume of Chinese New Year's Eve flowers in the market will exceed 900000 plants during the 2024 Spring Festival period, with a sales revenue of 350 million yuan, an increase of more than 15% year-on-year. Driven by terminal demand, the tropical butterfly orchid has become a business card of Yangling, and characteristic planting has added vitality to rural revitalization. The person in charge of the Qinxin Horticultural Planting Base in Yangling Demonstration Zone emphasized during a meeting that
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