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China's national flowers proposed
www.chinanews.cn 2005-07-22 11:03:05
Sixty-two members from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese
Academy of Engineering have proposed selecting the plum blossom and tree
peony as China's two national flowers. Tree peony has been popular since
the 7th century and represents good fortune, love and prosperity and is
the symbol of material world. (File photo)
The plum blossom is one of the few flowers that blossoms in winter. (File
photo) Sixty-two members from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the
Chinese Academy of Engineering have proposed selecting the plum blossom
and tree peony as China's two national flowers. Plum blossom symbolises
the unyielding Chinese spirit that never bows to coldness and is the
symbol of the spiritual world. (File photo)
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