People shop for Chinese New Year flowers at Qinling Flower World in Huangliang Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, on February 6. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Zhenghao.
From "meat and eggs, new clothes, sticky bean buns" to "fitness, tourism, and folk customs", the Lunar New Year in different periods has different main varieties of New Year's goods. With the advent of another Spring Festival, the "new three" of New Year's flowers represented by phalaenopsis, large-flowered orchid and alpine rhododendron are gradually becoming popular New Year's goods for residents in northern China, decorating more and more "ordinary people's homes".
New Year's flowers generally bloom around the Spring Festival every year, and have gradually become an important element in the festival atmosphere because of their ornamental value and beautiful meaning. However, due to the influence of production and climate, the market time of New Year's flowers coincides with the lowest temperature in the north in winter, and for a long time, the warm areas in the south are the main sales markets for New Year's flowers.
With the upgrading of consumption level and the promotion of plant cultivation technology, New Year's flowers represented by phalaenopsis are gradually becoming one of the options for northern residents to dress up their rooms and light up their homes during festivals.
In a number of flower planting bases in Lianzhou Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, it is warm as spring, and the phalaenopsis with different shapes compete for beauty. Flower farmers shuttle among them, changing pots, watering, fertilizing, shaping, and potting, preparing for the export of flowers.
The phalaenopsis 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 until the Chinese New Year, the villagers will be very busy, mainly because of the strong market demand. At present, more than 20 varieties of phalaenopsis orchids are shipped more than 2,000 branches per day, which are mainly sold to Qingdao and surrounding cities. Han Jiawu, the head of the base, said.
In Qinling Flower World, located in Huangliang Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, Zhu Ying, a teacher from the No. 3 Junior High School of Xi'an Aerospace City, walked, watched, photographed, and posted, passing on the joy of feeling the beautiful scenery of "Chang'an Flower" to friends and colleagues online "in minutes". "It's so beautiful! This continuous blooming phalaenopsis orchid is like a group of butterflies dancing with water sleeves and dancing, giving people the beauty of the painting, smart and intoxicating. She said.
People shop for Chinese New Year flowers at Qinling Flower World in Huangliang Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, on February 6. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Zhenghao.
Statistics show that before and after the Spring Festival, the daily flow of visitors to Qinling Flower World to choose flowers and buy flowers remained at 2More than 80,000 people, 130 categories, more than 1,000 varieties, and hundreds of thousands of flowers will be "surrounded" by the bustling crowd to dress up 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 in the center of China's geographical map and its own mature technology in the research and development and cultivation of greenhouse flowers and field flowers, their transit role in sending flowers to the east and west and transporting flowers from the south to the north has become increasingly prominent. "Sellers from Gansu, Ningxia, Henan, Hubei and other places have taken this place as an important choice for the wholesale of New Year flowers. It is expected that during the Spring Festival in 2024, the sales volume of New Year's flowers in the market will exceed 900,000 plants, with sales of 3500 million yuan, an increase of more than 15% year-on-year. ”
Driven by terminal demand, Phalaenopsis orchid, which is native to the tropics, has become a business card of Yangling, and characteristic planting has added vitality to rural revitalization. Tan Huiqiang, the person in charge of the Qinxin horticultural planting base in Yangling Demonstration Zone, said that relying on breakthroughs in key technologies such as tissue culture, the base has now become the seedling base of Qinling Flower World and other large-scale New Year's flower sales markets.
He said: "The steady increase in demand for New Year's flowers in large and medium-sized cities such as Xi'an, Xianyang, and Baoji has allowed the base to build 10 new buildingsA new 20,000-square-meter composite solar greenhouse is on the agenda, and the number of Phalaenopsis and other New Year's flowers in our base will steadily increase on the basis of 700,000 in the future. ”