The world in April day, after admiring oriental cherry, begin to admire azalea. In Changjiang Delta a region of rivers and lakes without stannum, enjoy the place with best azalea, inside ancient town of hill of benefit wanting number " Chinese cuckoo garden " , here is having azalea of more than 10000 individual plant not only, still more than 300 breed see enough for you. | | | "Chinese cuckoo garden " , be located at thing foot of a hill or mountain without the stannic Shanxi with famous stannum, it carries pillow benefit hill on the back, adjacent mirrors hill lake east, boreal adjoin the grave of A Bing of folk art home, it is a gardens of the foot of a mountain that gives priority to with viewing and admire azalea, also be cuckoo of domestic head home only kind park. Azalea garden only then build at going up the 70 year end of the century, open at building formally 1981, the gross area of gardens has 20 thousand to make the same score rice more about. Azalea, a lot of people also like to say for " azalea " , it is probably when showing azalea blossoms, it is a red, can mountain forest be contaminated, say it is so " azalea " . Actually azalea has red not just a kind, our country's at present foregone azalea breed amounts to more than 500 kinds, the flower that can open sundry, multicoloured in the spring April comes. Azalea has the branch of arbor and bush, the cuckoo of Changjiang Delta area, give priority to with bush, also be such inside Chinese cuckoo garden. Fruticose azalea is in the majority, arboreal cuckoo is auxiliary only. Azalea grows slow, one person comes tall bush flowers, need grows a 10 the coming year. When the bush that if you see one big individual plant,opens full azalea, know it is to have long time. 1983, the city that do not have stannum undertakes city flower choose, azalea not decline to shoulder a responsibility is chosen to be flower of the city that do not have stannum. The city that there still are a few cities in home is beautiful, also name with azalea. The auspicious that saves like Jiangxi brings city of city, the Jinggang Mountains, the mew lake city of the Anhui province, the Zhenjiang town that Jiangsu visits, the Dali town that Yunnan visits, the city of Za Lan collect of the Nei Monggol Autonomous Region. From Xi Hui a side of the lake that mirror hill of the park enters Chinese cuckoo garden, it is a bush fence that opening azalea head on, one person comes tall, as it happens holds off the line of sight of people. Had turned bush, it is one depression clear pool, chi Bian still builds those who one lies fallow for the tourist to depend on water pavilion, of a high building hind back, can see top benefit mountain mountain range dimly. As if azalea garden can be all-embracing, that continuous benefit Shan Jiufeng, all be inside little azalea garden. Azalea collected the breed of about more than 300 kinds of azalea inside garden, the place of be a comprehensive expression of of breed of azalea of area of Changjiang Delta of it may be said. Enjoy the place of azalea, the drunk red slope that basically is centered within garden area, ooze pond of fragrant gully, ancient bronze mirror, loiter around the place such as corridor. These places, all over establish all sorts of azalea, tourist from cross between the flowers, be just as enter a beautiful sea. Drunk red slope, it is the place that tourist reachs surely. The tourist stands still at Yun Jintang edge, look at the rises with block base build by laying bricks or stones hill slope opposite side, one is leaving red the azalea that waits for color in vain, come from the come down in torrents on the top of the hillside, be just as a huge azalea fall, between the covert that is hanged at green. Beautiful in the center, a tremendous stone is admired quarter have " drunk red slope " 3 words, take from of Han of Yu Wantang's poet " Tuo of drunk slope of one garden Gong Yan " renown sentence. The lifetime of poetic Han stays to about more than 300 poems are made, it is mostly when feeling make, without how old fame, only this " the clean cuckoo that promote a temple one branch is numerous colourful clinking " relatively famous. The one garden brilliant red azalea in the poem, the drunk beauty that compare drunk wine of cause of formation and lies to go up in the hillside, very form is proper. In the southwest corner of azalea garden, draw near on the edge of waterside pavilion, have a few trunk of a tree very precious " Jin Dujuan " , the color that spends every year is shown aureate. Aureate azalea is scarcer, so people often says: See this gold cuckoo, can touch money to carry. Actually this kind of aureate cuckoo is called " ovine hesitate " , it is a kind of azalea variety that contains noxiousness. Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty great poet has written such line: Idle She Yizhi is held in the hand, scrutiny is not the world have. This content is Xi Shi in the flower, lotus peony all Mo is beautiful. In this flower " Xi Shi " , it is to point to azalea. In this world April day when, go to the China of benefit hill ancient town the cuckoo that azalea garden sees very beautiful flowers, protect follow your worthy trip. Author brief introduction: Liu Jianhua photographs (cameraman, traveler, from media person)