CCTV News: In the list of goods purchased for the New Year, New Year's Eve flowers are also an indispensable variety.
At present, the New Year's Eve flower market in various places has ushered in the peak consumption season.
As the Spring Festival is approaching, in the flower market in Luzhou, Sichuan, various stalls prepared flowers for the New Year's Eve early and placed them in conspicuous places for citizens to choose and purchase.
There are all kinds of colorful and auspicious New Year flowers and oranges, including Phalaenopsis, Cymbidium, Kumquat, Primrose, and Lucky Bamboo.
Merchants have ingeniously given them names such as "good luck", "fortune kumquat" and "blooming flowers".
Chen Hongyan, a citizen of Luzhou, Sichuan: I came here today to choose some begonias, lucky bamboos, succulents, and fortune trees. I just want to buy them back and decorate the house.
Mr. Guo, the owner of a flower market in Luzhou, Sichuan: It's almost the Spring Festival, and the Chinese people like to buy Cymbidium, Lucky Dangtou and Cyclamen.
The reporter found that rhododendrons in the market are 35-60 yuan a pot, kumquats 160 yuan a pot, and cyclamens 20-30 yuan a pot.
Merchants said that with the approaching of the New Year, the price of flowers will also increase slightly.
In the flower city of Guangzhou, buying New Year flowers is an indispensable traditional custom, among which the most popular is peach blossoms.
With less than a month before the Chinese New Year, the Shima peach blossoms in Baiyun District, Guangzhou are just ready to go on sale, and the flower farmers are even busier.
Li Shaorong, a grower of Shima peach blossoms in Baiyun District, Guangzhou: My (peach blossoms) are mainly sent to Shanghai, and the ones you just saw are sent to Hainan Province and Hubei Province.
This year, Baiyun District, Guangzhou moved the flower market online again. Consumers can buy peach blossoms, phalaenopsis, and tangerine oranges at the "Cloud Flower Market", and "go to the flower market" without leaving home.