Have you heard of The Peach Blossom(桃花) Is Red, Prunus Armeniaca(杏花) Is White? It is a very famous folk song in Zuoquan. The spring of 2024 is coming! We can see them again. The peach blosso m usually blooms in March and April. If you want to see peach blossoms, you can go to Hefei, Fuyang and Huaian in Anhui. Under the blue sky, there are many pink, red and white peach blossoms.
Chinese people love peach blossoms. Many people often write poems about this kind of flowers.Peach blossoms bloom means that spring is coming. Here is a very famous poem with peach blossoms.
River Scenes on a Spring Evening(惠崇春江晚景)
By Su Shi
Beyond bamboos a few twigs of peach blossoms blow, (竹外桃花三两枝)
When spring has warmed the stream, ducks are the first to know.(春江水暖鸭先知)
By water side short reeds bud and wild flowers teem, (篓蒿满地芦芽短)
It is just time for the globefish to swim upstream.(正是河豚欲上时)
From the Classic of Poetry to the many poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties, people usually compare the peach blossom to beautiful young women or men.
Chinese people also say"to have peach blosso m luck". It means being lucky in love. Some people's eyes are in the shape of peach petals(花瓣). We call these eyes"taohuayan(桃花眼)". These people may have"peach blossom luck".
