The Horticultural Achievements In The "Qun Fang Pu"

The flowers florilegium, the fruit florilegium, the vegetable florilegium and the grass florilegium are included in the book of Qun Fang Pu, which had recorded a large number of horticultural plants, were abundant in knowledge of Horticulture and Botany, the core content and features of the book. The book related methods of reproduction and cultivation of plant to applied to to each of the florilegium above. Related to horticultural techniques were artificial breeding methods,there were cuttings, grafting, layering, which cuttings, air layering, bowed-branch layering, grafting were main methods of the most common of vegetative propagation. There were also had stem burying, cleft grafting, bud grafting, bulbils propagation, rooting cuttings floating method, division propagation method. Treatment of seeds before planting. For the breeding of plants protection from From natural disasters "plague of insects" to "competition" between different organs of nutrients of the plant's tuberous root, For these problems, "Qun Fang Pu" had corresponding measures and methods, and put the concept of life into the concept of heaven and earth, "all things security of its position". It embodies the harmony "heaven, human, object" in an ecological sense.This article from the angle of horticulture, focus on "Qun Fang Pu" in the "flower florilegium", "grass florilegium", "fruit florilegium", "vegetables florilegium", seriously researched about plant's name, type, character etc, and the knowledge of plant cultivation in Horticulture and Botany. The depth of excavation in horticultural technology and related features of "Qun Fang Pu" on the basis of quoted widely."Qun Fang Pu" had followed Song Chen Jingyi 's "Quan Fang Bei Zu" Compiling style, and were classified for each plant, combined poetry, made the florilegium since the Song Dynasty as text for reproduction. "Qun Fang Pu" can be described as the culmination of the florilegium recorded since the Song Dynasty. "Qun Fang Pu" contained health care, health, cultivation technology in field, sideline processing and other aspects of real life, Highly practical, and combined art and life it's a breakthrough since the Song Dynasty. The Emperor Kangxi ordered Ministers to revise "Guang Qun Fang Pu" on the basis of "Qun Fang Pu" through added, deleted, modified, expanded. Relayed the Literary trends about florilegium since the Song Dynasty. "Guang Qun Fang Pu" had included many plants from "Qun Fang Pu". According to the relationship between those books, This article had compared of "Quan Fang Bei Zu", "Qun Fang Pu", "Guang Qun Fang Pu" in style, recording and collection of plant quantity, To clarify the specific circumstances of each three books included in plant species names.