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The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement (Chinese: 百花齐放), the double hundred movement (双百方针) was a period from 1956 to 1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Mao Zedong purposed to "let one hundred flowers bloom in social science and arts and let one hundred of view points be expressed in the ...
The chrysanthemum is one of the "Four Gentlemen" ( 四君子) of China (the others being the plum blossom, the orchid, and bamboo ). The chrysanthemum is said to have been favored by Tao Qian, an influential Chinese poet, and is symbolic of nobility. It is also one of the four symbolic seasonal flowers.
Strobilanthes kunthiana, known as Kurinji or Neelakurinji in Tamil language and Malayalam and Gurige in Kannada, is a shrub of the bear's breeches family ( Acanthaceae) that is found in the shola forests of the Western Ghats in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The purplish blue flower blossoms only once in 12 years, and gave the Nilgiri ...
Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often wider than it is tall when mature, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (1 ft). A 10-year-old tree will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 6–13 cm (2.4–5.1 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) broad, with an apparently entire ...
In gardening, the term free-flowering is used to describe flowering plants that have a long bloom time and may often lack a defined blooming season, whereby producing flowers profusely over an extended period of time, at times all-year round. [2] The terms long-flowering and long-blooming are also used for perennial plants that bloom for much ...
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [ 1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [ 2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen. " Es ist ein Ros entsprungen " ( literally "A rose has sprung up") is a Christmas carol and Marian hymn of German origin. It is most commonly translated into English as " Lo, how a rose e'er blooming " and is also called " A Spotless Rose " and " Behold a Rose of Judah ". The rose in the German text is a symbolic ...
The Flowers of the Four Seasons ( Chinese: 四季名花, Sìjì Mínghuā) are a traditional grouping of flowers found in Chinese culture [ 1] that spread to and influenced other East Asian [ 2] arts. In Chinese art [ 3] and culture, the flowers that represent the four seasons consist of: (春兰) Chūnlán – Spring – orchid. (夏荷 ...