宋维扬名花考述

Textual Research on Ancient Weiyang’s Famous Flowers

扬州,古称维扬、广陵、江都、吴州等。在唐代和清代,扬州经济繁荣富庶甲于天下。扬州也是一座著名的花城。适宜的气候,文化的氛围,历史的原因,造就了花城扬州。宋时,扬州的琼花和芍药誉满天下。东南都会特有的经济氛围令扬州的花卉种植在装点城市与生活之外有了经济的因子。花卉成为了古维扬商品经济繁荣、市井文化生活兴盛的重要表现。

Yangzhou also was named Weiyang, Guangling and Wuzhou. The economy of Yangzhou was rich and populous in the Tang and Qing Dynasties. Yangzhou also was a flower city. Suitable climate, special culture atmosphere and historical reason madeYangzhou a flower city. The names of Yangzhou’s viburnum and herbaceous peony spread throughout the world in the Song Dynasty. Yangzhou’s flower planting dressed the city life, and besides this, the economical element in the southeast China made it also have an economical factor. The flowers proved to be the performance on prosperity of commercial economy and the prosperity of pop culture life.