Bringing Good Fortune – Spring Flower Festival Guangzhou

Spring is the time that Guangzhou is at its best. The flower festival in the province, the largest show of fresh flowers in Asia, usually takes place three days prior to the annual Spring Festival holidays in February. The extension of the 2013 flower festival to 18 days well after the Spring Festival is an indication of its popularity. As the holiday spirit is in the air this is the time that everyone takes to the streets to have fun and enjoy a fabulous collection of flowers and plants in all sorts of arrangements. Red lanterns festoon city streets, flower fairs proliferate all over the province and a carnival like atmosphere prevails everywhere. People throng the flower shows to enjoy the electric atmosphere, innovative flower and plant presentations and to purchase flowers and plants to bring good luck and prosperity in the New Year.

Welcoming spring with a festival of flowers dates back to the Ming Dynasty and is linked to starting off the New Year well as blooming plants signify rebirth. Some of the most popular flowers and plants on show at the fairs every year are oval kumquats, peach blossoms, potted orange trees, butterfly orchids in a range of colours and daffodils. Kumquats are considered auspicious and to have a potted kumquat plant decorated with coloured lights and tinsel in a home is said to invite prosperity and happiness. Peach blossoms denote success and romance and daffodils stand for wealth and good luck while potted orange and tangerine plants with their golden fruit symbolizes good fortune. However the exhibits are not limited to these flowers although great stretches of them are found in pots and bunches everywhere. Crepe myrtle, chrysanthemums, peonies, various types of ginger plants with red and pink blooms are some of the other popular plants and blossoms on show. As most of the flowers and plants come in pots they will last for a couple of weeks hopefully prolonging the luck and prosperity they are supposed to bring. Street parades with people in fancy dress, some holding up large colourful plastic flowers and temple and craft fairs are other events that take place alongside the flower fairs.

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Thanuja Silva is a travel writer who writes under the pen name Auburn Silver. She has a passion for fashion and a deep interest in admiring new and exotic attractions around the world. Google+