Spring Festival is the most delicate time for Chimonanthus praecox to blossom. Chimonanthus praecox is small and unremarkable, but it is full of fragrance. This kind of plum blossom usually blooms near the Spring Festival, which can add atmosphere to the festival. It is also the choice of many people to buy a wintersweet home in the New Year. Many flower shops sell cut wintersweet branches, and it's not bad to put them in bottles when you go home. They can be counted as "three-year-old cold friends" with bamboo and pine branches in the south.
The origin of "Chimonanthus praecox"
The "wax" of Chimonanthus praecox is named after its flowering order, which refers to the cold winter. Both Chimonanthus praecox and Plum Blossom have the spirit of being proud of snow and welcoming the spring, which is consistent with people's cognition of ancient Plum Blossom.
Flora, an authoritative botanical book in China, takes Chimonanthus praecox as the standard Chinese scientific name, and holds that Chimonanthus praecox is just an alias and a common name. The ancients also recognized the writing of "wintersweet". The name "Chimonanthus praecox" vividly describes the characteristics of Chimonanthus praecox, because their petals are covered with wax, which can protect delicate flowers from the cold. But after all, times have changed. In modern times, people use more "Chimonanthus praecox", which has always been used like this.