The tree peony was grown for its flowers in the 6th and 7th centuries. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, it had a prominent ...

This enraged the empress, who ordered the peony degraded and moved to Luoyang. Since then, the plant flourished here. Locate twelve kilometers south of Luoyang, the Longmen Grottoes are among the ...

A visitor dressed in traditional hanfu poses among peonies at a park in Luoyang, Henan province. ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY Only the peony truly displays the colors of the nation, When it blooms ...

[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn] During the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, the peonies in various peony viewing gardens gradually bloomed in Luoyang, Central China's Henan ...