Chrysanthemum season starts in December and ends in February. Therefore, many families often display chrysanthemum pots to play Tet. According to folk beliefs, planting chrysanthemum pots in the house brings stability, happiness, and harmony.
The time when daisies fade is also the time when chrysanthemums begin to bloom. Chrysanthemums have only 1 season.season and bloom the days after New Year.
Chrysanthemums are not unique to Hanoi. But for the people of the capital in general, these flowers have a very unique cultural life. Without having to say it in words, when seeing flower carts on the roads from the suburbs to the city, people silently understand that November brings autumn with daisies, December brings chrysanthemums signaling the coming of spring, as a long-standing familiar thought.
Flower cars - a familiar image on the streets of Hanoi on this occasion, covered with chrysanthemums
In Vietnam, chrysanthemums are classified as one of the four noble flowers (apricot, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo). Chrysanthemums are very durable, and even when withered, the petals do not fall from the flower. The flower also does not leave the branch, like a gentleman who never leaves his ideals throughout his life, as the ancient Confucianists used to say "the leaf does not leave the branch, the flower does not fall to the ground". The national emblem of Japan also has a chrysanthemum image.
The petals are round and arranged in many layers surrounding the pistil. The sun shines more brilliantly on the flower.
Although it is just a rustic, simple flower in the countryside, chrysanthemum still has its own beauty, charm and attraction. Not only that, chrysanthemum is also used to make tea and is a medicinal herb with many uses such as: cooling, reducing fire, detoxifying, nourishing the brain,...
Chrysanthemum, also known as golden chrysanthemum and affectionately called "royal" chrysanthemum by locals, is a variety of the herbal chrysanthemum.
Some famous chrysanthemum gardens are Nhat Tan flower garden, and the chrysanthemum garden in Hung Yen specializes in drying flowers for medicine and tea.
Visiting Nhat Tan village in the early morning, we are astonished as if lost in a chrysanthemum forest. The simple beauty of the pure white color of the flowers makes the space seem to be quiet.
People in Nhat Tan flower village (Tay Ho, Hanoi) take advantage of the opportunity to harvest the first chrysanthemum flowers of the season...
The chrysanthemum season is endlessly beautiful in Nghia Trai village, Tan Giang commune, Van Lam district, Hung Yen.
Only about 20km from the center of Hanoi, follow Highway 5 to Nhu Quynh town, turn right about 500m, you will be able to inhale the fragrance of this lovely little flower.
