From April to May every year, in the most colorful season of peony flowers, Luoyang City, with a long history and culture, will hold the "China Luoyang Peony Culture Festival", formerly known as Luoyang Peony Flower Festival, which began in the Sui Dynasty and has a history of 1600 years. In 2008, it was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.
The sentence "Luoyang peony is the best in the world" is the deepest impression of Luoyang peony by Chinese people. Ouyang Xiu specially wrote The Story of Luoyang Peony in Song Dynasty, which showed us the grand occasion of the Peony Fair in Song Dynasty and the rare peony varieties that had appeared at that time (Wei Zi Peony and Yao Huang Peony had already appeared at that time).
Last year, Luoyang Peony Fair cultivated a new variety "Douqing Peony". Peony can be seen not only in the Peony Garden in Luoyang Park, but also in the road green belt. Many roads in Luoyang are named after peony varieties (such as Erqiao Road, Guohua Road, Weizi Road and Zhao Fen Road). Welcome to Luoyang to feel the charm of the ancient capital!