Due to the relatively warm winter this year, the 14th Chinese Plum Blossom & Wintersweet Exhibition is set to open early on Dec 25, 2013. A total of 55 exhibitors from Yunnan province and nearby ...

If anyone had ever told me as a child growing up in the United States that a flower could flourish in the coldest days of winter, a flower that bloomed straight from the bare branches of a tree, I ...

When Chinese plum trees bloom into clouds of puffy white and red blossoms, we know spring is just around the corner. The flowers are likened to “seonbi,” or a firm and right-minded scholar, in Korea ...

The plum blossom is one of the most famous flowers in China and one of the most popular subjects in Chinese paintings. It is a noble flower that braves the cold. The plum has five petals symbolizing ...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- "There will be no fragrant plum blossoms without freezing cold weather." Chinese President Xi Jinping has quoted this line from a poem of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to ...

will soon be awash in lucky red as preparations are under way for , which starts Friday, Jan. 31 this year. According to the Chinese zodiac, it is the Year of the Horse. Red lanterns already adorn the ...