Peony Should Be The Leader In The Industrialization Of Famous Flowers

Peony is a Chinese-specific flower, which is considered as rich and honor. It used to be a wilding plant, but became an appreciatory flower by long time artificial raise. It has not only been cherished and canonized by our Chinese, but also adored and cared by the whole world. In our history, peony was considered as "state flower" during the dynasties of Tang, Ming and Qing. From this we can see its highly status in the heart of all the Chinese people. Compared with other famous traditional flowers, such as clubs, orchid, water lily and mum, peony is the latercomer, which surpassed finally. Peony has been adored by people in all generations by its qualities of big petals, flamboyant color, beautiful style and full-bodied smell and its symbolistic meaning of peace, glory, luck and rich. Peony has penetrated into all the aspects of People's life and formed a special peony culture, and also become an important part of Chinese traditional culture.Nowadays, the worldwide speedy economy has created a favorable environment for the flower industry, which has taken on an animating phenomenon, especially from the beginning of the 21st century. As for our domestic situation, after the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, our national economy has developed by leap and bounds while people's living standards have risen remarkably. Therefore, it has as well created a benign social and economic environment for the flower industry. As one of the most famous 10 flowers, peony, which has been called "King of the Flowers" and "State Flower", has a nicer condition to go through industrialization. Moreover, our state-specific peony culture has set a good social atmosphere; The peony's own natural beauty and various kinds has laid the inherent basis; The daily perfect planting and applying skill has laid the skill precondition and guarantee; The expansive home and abroad markets together with the flower's great developing potential have set the outlet.Heze, which is located in the southwest of Shandong province, used to be the famous peony planting center in history. Until now, the planting area has enlarged to more than 80,000 mu. Altogether it has 9 big color systems and 800 varieties. It is the biggest base of peony planting, exporting, doing scientific research and appreciating, which is also the most various one in variety. Heze was named "The Homeland of China's peony" by the State Council in 1997. Under the benign background of current social and economic development, the natives of Heze have expected the fine foreground to develop their flower industry by its own specific features of advantage. They pay great attention to the development of peony tourism, peony seedling and the production of fresh flowers. It has walked out a comprehensive way. However, Heze's peony industrialization is still in its primary stage, it still has some weaknesses and drawbacks, for which this paper will point out and at the same time offer some suggestions.