China News Service, Shanghai, March 12 (Wang Zitao) 110 varieties, more than 14,000 cherry blossoms, and a planting area of more than 1,400 acres... On March 12, the Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival, which was suspended last year due to the epidemic, met with tourists again.
The 2021 Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival with the theme of "Sakura full of branches and flowers contending for beauty" will be held in Shanghai Gucun Park for one month.
Through the adjustment of the proportion of cherry blossom varieties and the optimization of the layout in recent years, the cherry blossom landscape of the Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival is more colorful, has no interruption in the flowering period, and has a longer viewing period.
The "most beautiful cherry blossom avenue" that runs from east to west connects nine major cherry blossom viewing spots, and there are also newly created new landscapes with Chinese traditional cultural characteristics such as Pine Moon Forest, Lanlan Square and Sunshine Forest.
At present, the Zaozakura Daihan Sakura and Caili Sakura in the park are in the stage of "Sakura Rain", and they are blooming and beautiful and romantic.
Early-mid cherry varieties such as Feihan cherry and Higan cherry varieties are currently in their best viewing period.
Hundreds of Sunshine Sakura newly introduced at the end of 2020 have also entered the initial blooming state.
The Nakazakura Somei Yoshino Sakura, which has the largest number in the park, has buds sprouting under the nourishment of the spring rain. It is expected to usher in full bloom in mid-to-late March. At that time, Gucun Park will usher in the "sea of cherry blossoms" covering the sky.
"After more than ten years of brand cultivation and cultural accumulation, the Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival has developed into a weather vane for spring tourism in Shanghai and even the Yangtze River Delta region, leading the fashion trend of citizens' outings and leisure outings." Relevant person in charge of Baoshan District, Shanghai Said.
In addition, on March 20th, Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival will also host a large-scale live broadcast of cherry blossoms in the clouds. The live broadcast locations include Gucun Park, Wuxi (Yuantouzhu Cherry Blossom Forest), Wuhan (Wuhan University, etc.), Tokyo, Japan (Ueno Park), etc. Cherry blossom viewing spot.
The connection section of Tokyo's cherry blossom viewing spots will provide online push notifications on the characteristics of Japanese cherry blossoms, kimono culture, and changes in cherry blossom viewing by Japanese citizens before and after the epidemic.
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