Yunnan is really a place that you won't get tired of visiting many times. Especially now this season. You can go to Tengchong to avoid the cold and soak in hot springs, go to Dali to see winter sakuras, or go to Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest to spend the winter with cats. If you want to, you can always find the right way to travel.

Because there are too many interesting places in Yunnan, the provincial capital city of Kunming seems relatively dull, and many people just use it as a transit point to other cities. But in my eyes, Kunming is like a gold mine that can be explored endlessly. At first glance, I will fall in love with its tranquility again. The third time I come, I will be immersed in its literature and art. The fourth time I come, I will envy it for having a treasure like vegetable market... In short, go shopping often and find new things. This time, I plan to visit two well-known flower markets in Kunming.

dounan flower market

Kunming is called the "Flower City" and the "Spring City". The spring-like temperatures all year round give birth to colorful flowers. The flowers here are abundant and cheap. You can buy a good rose for 2-3 yuan, which in other cities is something you can't even imagine. For Kunming people, flowers have always been their most basic consumption, not a luxury.

If you ask Kunming people where to buy flowers, nine times out of ten they will say Dounan Flower Market. Indeed, as the largest fresh cut flower trading market in the country, the name of Dounan Flower Market can be said to be known to everyone. Dounan Village, located on the edge of Dianchi Lake, was originally a vegetable base in Kunming. It has only been 30 years since it started planting fresh cut flowers in the late 1980s and has developed to its present scale. Now it has become the vane of China's flower market.

Dounan Flower Market is divided into three floors in total. The first floor is filled with various flowers and dried flowers, the second floor is filled with popular succulent plants, and the third floor is filled with snacks and handicrafts. The first floor is open until early morning. It mainly faces retail tourists during the day and is dominated by wholesalers at night.

Tourists who know the trade will choose to come at night, because the fresh cut flowers at this time are not only the freshest, but can also be sold by the catty. 8 yuan a kilogram of forget-me-not, 5 yuan a kilogram of stars, 10 yuan a kilogram of sunflower... Buying flowers is like buying vegetables, and you can always get a full harvest.

I also walked around like Grandma Liu did when she visited the Grand View Garden, and everything I saw felt new. The usually delicate roses are piled in piles on the cart, with everything in yellow and pink. There are also fixed green planting areas, where those that can be named and those that cannot be named are arranged in different categories. The green ones exude luster, making people unable to take their eyes off.

There are also stalls outside the flower market, most of which are flowers, plants and fruit branches on the mountains, and they are more "wild". Even Kunming people who often come to buy flowers may not be able to recognize them all. Using them to match flowers adds a lot of charm. The simple flower farmers introduced these ingredients to me one by one. Although their eyes were tired, they had a satisfied smile on their faces. They exchanged each other's joy and happiness through flowers, and wandered through them, making me think I was one of them.

Shangyi Flower

Compared with Dounan Flower Market, Shangyi Flowers is much more low-key, but the older generation of Kunming people will remember that it was the earliest birthplace of flower trade. In the mid-1980s, some villagers would come to Shangyi Street to sell vegetables and sell flowers grown in their fields, but they found that they were very popular. Later, the number of stalls gradually increased, and the Shangyi Flower Market took shape.

By early 1997, the machinery factory on Shangyi Street had moved, and the vacated factory building had become a trading market, where flower farmers in the Chenggong Dounan area would trade. It is said that the market at that time was very popular, no less than Dounan. Flowers such as roses, carnations, and baby stars can be found here. Not only young men and women, but also old people will have a handful of flowers for each person. This street has also become a wonder in Kunming City, and even promoted the entire street's commodity market.

However, in 2008, due to street renovation, Shangyi Flowers and Flowers moved to Lianmeng Road, North City District, Kunming. Although it is much colder and less famous than before, it is still a treasure flower market in the hearts of Kunming people. For tourists, if Dounan Flowers are too far away, the location of Shangyi Flowers is much more convenient, just on the edge of the Second Ring Road in Beishi District.

The price of fresh cut flowers here is similar to that of Dounan Flower Market, and they are also sold wholesale in bundles. Moreover, vendors love to put flowers in plastic buckets. The flowers of various colors are crowded together, which makes people pleasing to the eye and feels down-to-earth. With an average price of around 15 yuan, you can pick up many seasonal fine flowers, such as wintersweet, lilies, tulips, etc., and I really want to take them all home.

In addition to eye-catching flowers, merchants have also ingenuously built their shops like gardens. wreaths, creative dried flowers, bouquets, etc. can be seen everywhere. Tourists coming and going will always stay in shops for a long time, immersed in the colorful time. No matter how cold it is outside, looking at these flowers makes the winter shine brightly.

some pictures come from the internet