Hello, my friends.
These are the tree peonies of my garden, I spent 10 days to record their growth this year. Please enjoy their beauty and meanwhile, please allow me to talk about the Tree Peony (Mudang) again.
"Nymph of the Luo River" by Gu Kaizhi of Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420AD) is one of the Top 10 Ancient Chinese Painting. The painting collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing is a copy of the original made during the Song Dynasty (960-1279AD). In this painting, we could find the tree peony. This is the first appearance of the tree peony in the existing painting.
Since the Sui Dynasty(581-618AD), people have grown tree peonies in their courtyards. The Emperor Suiyang built an Imperial Garden Xiyuan, 20 boxes of ornamental tree peonies arrived here as tributes. At this moment, ornamental tree peonies were cultivated only in imperial gardens.
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I sometimes feel how similar people's pursuit of beauty is, no matter it was in ancient time, 1500 years ago or now, no matter in China or in any other country, people have the same heart for pursuing truth, goodness and beauty.
