Moonflower belongs to the Rosaceae family of plants, known as the queen of flowers, also known as "moon red". It is an evergreen, semi-evergreen low shrub that blooms in all seasons. The color is generally red, pink, white and yellow. As an ornamental plant, but also as a medicinal plant, also known as the moon season. There are many varieties of moonflower, nearly 10,000 species in the world, and more than 1,000 species in China. China is one of the origin of the moon season. Fifty-two cities in China have chosen him as their city flower.

: There are three natural varieties of moonflower, modern moonflower flower type is diverse, with single and heavy petals, and high heart curled edge and other beautiful flower type; its color is bright, rich, not only red, pink yellow, white and other monochrome, as well as mixed colors, silver edges and other varieties; most of the varieties have fragrance. The moon season is native to China, there are more than two thousand years of cultivation history, according to legend, the Shennong era, some people will be wild moon season dug home to plant, the Han Dynasty, the court garden has been cultivated in large quantities, the Tang Dynasty is more common. Due to China's Yangtze River Basin climate conditions suitable for the growth of rose, so most of the ancient Chinese moon season cultivation is concentrated in the Yangtze River Basin area.