Characteristics of moonflowers:

Moonflowers bloom throughout the year;

Moonflowers typically have 5 petals;

Moonflowers are hardy;

Moonflowers have thorns on their branches.

The moonflower has a weak position in traditional Chinese culture, but new archaeological discoveries have shown that the moonflower was the totem plant of the northern lineage of the Chinese ancestors - the equivalent of the legendary Yellow Emperor's tribe. It is one of the ten most famous flowers in China. Moonflower is known as the "Queen of Flowers", but also has a kind of resilience and unyielding spirit, the fragrance of the flowers far away. Native to China, as early as the Han Dynasty has been cultivated, after the Tang and Song Dynasty is planted endlessly, the literati have left a lot of poems praising the moon season. The famous poet Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty had a poem "After the late blooming of spring, it is the only one in the center of the courtyard", and the poet Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty had a poem "Flowers fall and blossom without any interruption, and spring comes and goes without any relation; peony is the most expensive, but it is late in the spring, and peony is only in the beginning of the summer although it is very popular, but this flower does not get tired of blossoming, and it is the one that always occupies the four seasons of spring! "Only this flower never tires of blooming, and it always occupies four times of spring in a year. Han Qi of the Northern Song Dynasty praised it even more: "The peony has a unique and unique style, while the dew chrysanthemum has a sparse style and complains about the evening clumps. Why is this flower so colorful and full of color, and why does it always put on light and deep red in all seasons?"