in p>2, Heze was named "the hometown of peony in China" by China Flower Association. In 26, Heze was named "China Peony City". Shu Tong, honorary chairman of the Chinese Calligraphy Association and a famous calligrapher, once wrote the title "Cao Zhou Peony is the best in the world" for Heze Peony. Mr. Pu Jie once left Mo Bao with the best fragrance in the world for Heze Peony. Heze peony has also been made into TV and movies by the press. The news documentary "Taishan North and South" praised: "Heze peony is the best in the world, and the peony in the world comes out of Heze."
in recent years, Heze has supplied hundreds of thousands of peonies to other places every year, with more than 2 varieties. Besides Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Luoyang, Xi 'an, Hong Kong and Macao, it has also been exported to more than ten countries and regions such as Japan, North Korea, Soviet Union, the United States, Canada and Australia.
Heze was known as Caozhou in ancient times, and was known as "a strong county" and "a metropolis".
Heze City has a long history of peony cultivation, which was famous in Ming Dynasty. In his Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Pu Songling said that "Cao Zhou peony is the best in Qilu", and wrote a fairy tale of Ge Jinyu, and later it was called "Heze peony is the best in the world".
It is difficult to find out when Heze peony cultivation began. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, it was recorded that cultivation had flourished during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it became more prosperous, with a cultivated area of 1, mu. Several peony gardens were built, especially Muli Garden, Ningxiang Garden and Qiyuan Garden. Heze Peony has dominated the development history of peony in China for more than 5 years, and now the cultivated area of Heze Peony has reached more than 5, mu. "Cao Nan Peony Spectrum" contains: "To the Ming Dynasty, Cao Nan Peony was in the sea." In the Qing Dynasty, it was said that Heze peony was the best in the world.
Heze peony has developed on the basis of more than a dozen peony gardens with different styles and sizes since Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as Zhao Garden and Muli Garden in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Mao Garden founded in Ming Dynasty, Tielizhai Garden, Da Chun Garden and Junmen Garden at that time. At that time, the county annals recorded: "Every mid-spring, I went out of the city and went to the east, and I was connected with strangers, and it was gorgeous and steaming."
In the Spring Festival of p>1978, Heze Peony was invited to Macao to exhibit 2, peony plants, with an audience of 4, people, which was called "the first time to see a peony festival in 4 years" by local media. Heze peony was sold to Hong Kong in the Spring Festival of 1979, which caused a sensation in the whole Hong Kong flower market. In March, 1985, Heze Peony Potted Flowers, which were opened one month in advance, were exhibited at Cao Zhou Peony Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, and people from all walks of life in the capital rushed to watch. In April, 1987, at the first national flower Expo, Heze Peony won three scientific and technological progress awards and one high-quality exhibit award for new varieties, ranking first among peony. In March, 1988, Heze Peony won the first prize of "Golden Peony Exhibition Award" at the Hong Kong Flower Exhibition. Heze peony cut flowers won the first prize in the fifth exhibition of flowers, birds, insects and fish in Hong Kong in 1991. In 1992, he won the silver prize at the French International Flower Expo. At the 1997 Shanghai Flower Expo, Heze Peony won the grand prize again.
At the Kunming World Horticultural Exposition in 1999, Heze Peony was the biggest winner of the Expo. In this exhibition, Heze Peony won two world awards and 79 gold, silver and bronze awards in one fell swoop, accounting for 73.2% of the total number of awards. Among the 111 individual peony awards, Heze Peony included 81 items, including three awards, and Heze "Cao Zhou Peony Garden" and "Qiaozihong" Peony each won one; 12 gold medals, and Heze Peony "Black Flower Kui" and "Caozhouhong" won 1; 36 silver awards, Heze Peony "Dahuhong" and "lantian jade" won 26; Of the 6 bronze medals, Heze Peony "Flower Er Qiao" and "Huang Huakui" won 43. Expert judges unanimously praised: "Heze peony flower is large, colorful and full of flowers, which is worthy of being a national beauty." Later, it was confirmed that Heze Peony also ranked first among the award-winning families. This world-renowned Expo has laid the world hegemony of Heze peony in one fell swoop, and "Heze peony is the best in the world" has become an indisputable fact.