Cherry blossom of Wuhan University

Cherry blossom of Wuhan University

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There are about 1000 cherry blossoms in Wuhan University, mainly including Japanese cherry, Japanese cherry, Japanese cherry, Japanese cherry and red cherry. From twenty-eight flowers of national humiliation to thousands of flowers of humanity, it not only witnessed the changes in the relations between China and Japan, but also carried the historical heritage of Wuda.

In the middle of March every year, cherry blossoms of Wuhan University enter into full bloom.

The cherry blossom of Wuhan University has a long history and complicated historical background. Most people are not very clear about the cherry blossom of Wuhan University. They just stay in the understanding state of Japanese military cultivation. Therefore, although the beautiful cherry blossoms play up the spring color and give people the enjoyment of beauty, they also bring some "troubles". Some people think that cherry blossoms are a symbol of national humiliation. Some say that cherry blossoms should not be complicated. Some say that Wuda is beautiful because of cherry blossoms. Others say that cherry blossoms are charming because of Wuda. In 2015, the famous calligrapher Wu Sheran organized 100 calligraphers to come to Wuda to appreciate cherry blossoms.

In the middle of March 2018, to solve the problems of visitors' identity verification, ticket checking and queuing. That is to say, in this year's Cherry Blossom Festival, alumni of Wuhan University and other friends who are going to visit and watch the flowers can make an online appointment in advance through the official website of Wuhan University or official wechat login. They can quickly enter the park by taking their ID cards and brushing their faces.

On March 14, 2019, Wuhan Tourism Development Commission issued the "forecast of cherry blossom season in Wuhan", saying that the cherry blossom of Wuhan University is expected to bloom in full by the end of this month.

Development history

In 1939, the Japanese army planted more than 20 cherry trees in Wuhan University, mainly on today's Cherry Avenue. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Wuyue returned to Luojia mountain in October 1946;

In March 1947, teachers and students of Biology Department of Wuhan University observed that there were 28 cherry blossom trees in the campus, which were evenly distributed among the three arches of laozhaishe and in front of the four gateways on both sides (7 in front of each gatehouse). With hatred for Japanese militarism, some people suggested cutting down cherry trees, but the troops stationed in Wuhan at that time advocated keeping every plant in wudali. As a result, the first generation of cherry trees in Wuda were preserved.

In 1957, due to the short life cycle of cherry trees, the first generation of Japanese cherry trees almost died;

In 1972, with the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the Japanese Prime Minister visited China and presented Premier Zhou Enlai with 1000 cherry blossoms. As Zhou Enlai once lived in Luojia mountain and engaged in Anti Japanese and national salvation activities, he transferred 50 of them to Wuhan University and planted them in front of banshanlu.

In the 1980s and 1990s, to commemorate the friendship between China and Japan, Japanese friends presented cherry saplings twice.

Today, there are more than 1000 cherry blossoms in Wuhan University, mainly including Japanese cherry, mountain cherry, Chuizhi Daye cherry and Honghua gaopen cherry. Many of them are cultivated by scientific researchers or transplanted from other places in China. They are all over Cherry Avenue and Kunpeng square, humanities Museum, administration building and many other places.

morphological character

Originally, cherry blossoms were only planted in front of Laozhai house. In the 1980s, Wuhan University set up a Greening Committee, including the building, the humanities Museum and the administration building.

In 1988, it transferred 16 rare cherry trees to the then Central South University of Finance and Economics (now Shouyi campus of Central South University of economics and law), and settled down in Siyuan of the University of Finance and economics. In 1991, it transferred more than 200 cherry trees of 3 species and nearly 10 varieties to Yuyuantan Park in Beijing The cherry garden in Beijing.

The Department of landscape architecture of Wuhan University is continuing to take effective technical measures to protect cherry blossoms, and continue to breed and cultivate new cherry varieties, in order to further beautify the campus of Luojia mountain.

In 2011, there are more than 1000 cherry trees on the campus of Wuhan University, including four botanical species and more than ten cultivated varieties or varieties of Japanese Cherry (i.e. Edo cherry), mountain cherry, chuizhidaye cherry and honghuagaopen cherry (often mistakenly called Yunnan cherry).

In addition to cherry garden, there are cherry trees in the fourth teaching building, Kunpeng square, humanities Museum, administration building, School Hospital, main teaching building of Engineering Department, Xinghu of information science department and medical department. The best place to enjoy cherry trees is cherry garden, which is named after cherry trees. Cherry garden is dominated by cherry blossoms in small days. There are 6 kinds of cherry blossoms, including early cherry, late cherry and drooping cherry. More than 10 kinds of cherry blossoms are collected. The flowers are rich and colorful, with different branches and stems and different flowering periods. When the plum blossom withers after the cold winter, the early cherry blossom opens, and then the small cherry blossom, the drooping cherry blossom and the late Cherry Blossom open. In full bloom, the cherry orchard looks like a sea of flowers. Thousands of tourists come here to enjoy the cherry blossom in March, only Wuda. The cherry blossom next to the administration building of Wuhan University is also worth seeing.

Growth environment

In 1972, with the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Japan presented 1000 cherry trees to China. More than 800 of them remained in Beijing and were planted in Yuyuantan, botanical garden, Taoranting and other major parks in the capital. 100 of them were planted in Meiyuan New Village in Nanjing, where Zhou Enlai once lived. The central authorities transferred 50 of them to Wuhan University and the garden department planted them in front of banshanlu. These cherry trees bloomed in 1976.

Blooming period

Cherry blossom season, the weather is fine, the taste of spring pervades every corner of the town. In the East Lake scenic area, many tourists enjoy the flowers. Outside Meiyuan, vehicles waiting to enter the parking lot queue up near Wuhan Botanical Garden, and there are many traffic jams on Huanhu road.

Traffic information

Take bus No. 608, 806, 413 and 564 to Wuhan University.

Cherry Blossom tickets

Relevant regulations

During the cherry blossom opening period, the school's teaching, scientific research, office space, student dormitories and canteens are not open to visitors, and visiting vehicles are not allowed to enter the school; appropriate measures will be taken to control the number of visitors entering the campus.

Free ticket crowd

Alumni of Wuhan University, active servicemen, elderly people over 65 years old and people with disabilities are free with relevant certificates or certificates.

Campus landscape

Ornamental value

Every year, there are some events that can cause great discussion during cherry blossom viewing. "Kimono mother and daughter" in 2009 is a representative event.

"Cherry Blossom beauty" and "national emotion", "sensibility" and "reason" collide fiercely every year when cherry blossom is in full bloom. TV, portal (Forum) and other media, through reprint, special topic, discussion and video, always turn "cherry blossom and patriotism" into the focus of society. As a result, countless "war of words" have been triggered.

Ticket selection

Netizens query

In 2011, cherry blossoms in Wuhan were particularly popular. On the 26th, 200000 people flocked to Wuhan University, which has the most beautiful cherry blossoms. However, some netizens asked: why does the cherry blossom of Wuhan University charge tickets? What do you do with the money? Does Wuda rely on cherry blossoms to make money?

School response

In response, the person in charge of Wuhan University responded. "Although millions of tourists visit Wuda every year, only a few of them buy tickets. The annual ticket revenue of cherry blossom in Wuhan University is not 8 million yuan, but 1 million yuan. This response undoubtedly shows that Wuhan University does not rely on cherry blossoms to make money, and the response also includes the general whereabouts of 1 million yuan of income - most of the income is spent on cherry blossoms, and the rest is used to subsidize poor students. From the perspective of "financial revenue and expenditure", it is basically clear - of course, if we really want to make it clear, we need to publish a more detailed account book - however, this response makes us more confused. This is: why only a small part of the 1 million visitors buy tickets?

Deep reflection

Wuhan University is a university campus, teachers and students live in the campus, inevitably there are scholars visiting, teachers and students visiting relatives and friends, as well as cooperation between schools, so it is impossible to charge tickets to all those who enter the campus. Therefore, it is very normal that some people do not buy tickets, but only a few people buy tickets, which is unreasonable.

To be sure, those who buy tickets must have nothing to do with Wuhan University. They only buy tickets honestly. And who are so many people who don't buy tickets? The admission of cherry blossoms does not limit the flow and maintain the order of the campus. On the contrary, the free and free tickets in the fees increase the popularity of Cherry Blossom tours. This makes the reason why Wuhan university accepts the tickets somewhat untenable.

As a public university, it is unfair to sell tickets to ordinary people, but it is free and free for some people. If a ticket costs 10 yuan, excluding half of the 1 million person times that must be free, the ticket income should be 5 million, and the income is only 1 million, which means that 4 million has been given away. For this, a detailed account should be given.

A cherry blossom ticket is not a big deal, but it makes people confused and tangled. I don't want to worry about whether to charge for watching cherry blossoms. For open schools

Chinese PinYin : Wu Da Ying Hua