Legend has it that Wu Zetian ascended the throne and claimed to be the Emperor of the Holy Spirit. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Zetian gave a banquet for 10,000 people and enjoyed the snow with ministers in Shanglinyuan. Suddenly, Huang Wu found red plums in the white snow. Some ministers flatter that wintersweet blooms in the cold to celebrate a great week. Wu Zetian said that wintersweet also knows etiquette, so why don't other flowers follow suit? The minister said that you are the son of heaven. As soon as the imperial edict came out, a hundred flowers blossomed. So Wu Zetian borrowed wine and wrote an imperial edict:
In the Ming Dynasty, I swam to the garden and reported to Chunzhi.
Flowers must be placed overnight, don't wait for the breeze to blow.
This is the famous "Lari Xuanzhaoxing Commercial Institute". As soon as the imperial edict came out, other flowers did not dare to resist the imperial edict, and all of them opened overnight. Only peony did not fear the powerful, and the flowers that did not resist did not open. The next day, when Huang Wu saw that all the flowers were in full bloom, only the peony disobeyed orders, so they were very angry. Most of the peonies were burned, and the rest were demoted to Luoyang and renamed as "Luoyang Flower". This is the origin of Luoyang peony. On the way to relegation, a strong-willed Bai Mudan took the opportunity to escape and fled to Guxian. Legend has it that there was a coachman in Shibi Township at that time. On the way, he met a girl in white and four girls in red, so he gave them a ride to the entrance of Sanhe Village. The girl in white praised the beautiful scenery and charming scenery here, so she got off the bus and entered the village temple. But since then, those five people have never appeared again, and the monks in the temple have never seen any woman come. Everyone thinks it's strange. In the spring of the following year, a Bai Mudan suddenly grew in the temple, about six feet high, with a crown more than ten feet high, and four red peonies served around. It turns out that the woman in white ran away from Bai Mudan on the road, and the four girls in red were the maids of the fairies. Since then, Fairy Peony has settled in Sanhe Village. People around us are impressed by Bai Mudan's reputation and care for fairy peony. Fairy peony also wishes good weather every year in Sanhe area.
It is precisely because of Bai Mudan's heroic temperament that he will blossom in the prosperous times, and he can only worship but not play with it. As mentioned above, the villagers who planted two peony trees in their yard, and then their relatives and livestock were constantly killed and injured, and there was no peace every day. Later, after two peonies were sent back, the villager moved back to his hometown in Changzhi and now he is paralyzed in bed.
The red peony around the peony is the embodiment of the legendary four ladies. These four peonies are also amazing. Their positions move clockwise every year, with an average annual moving distance of 18 cm. Peony blooms a little later than peony, and usually opens at the end of May. location