Cherry blossoms are called samurai flowers or death flowers in Japan, which means that even if they die for instant glory, Japanese people will not plant cherry blossoms at home unless they are extreme figures or samurai families, which is unlucky. But you can plant chrysanthemums, which is a symbol of wealth.

Many people mistakenly think it's cherry blossoms, because all the movies and TV series they usually watch are cherry blossoms, and that's because ordinary people are not allowed to use chrysanthemums, and cherry blossoms are the representative of the national spirit advocated by Japan, indicating that they will die for a moment's glory.

There are hundreds of varieties of cherry blossoms in Japan, which are generally divided into Yoshino (red and white), Sakura (red and white), Oshima Sakura (white) and Sakura on the other side of Edo (white or red and purple).

Cherry blossoms (red) and so on. Under the influence of temperature, cherry blossoms open from the southern tip of the warm Japanese archipelago to the north in turn along the latitude, thus forming a "cherry blossom front" that advances from south to north. There is a saying in Japan that "cherry blossoms bloom in seven days", which means that it takes about seven days for a cherry blossom to bloom and half a month for the whole cherry tree to bloom and wither completely. In Japan, cherry blossoms are regarded as auspicious things. In traditional wedding and other festive occasions, it is often necessary to drink a kind of cherry soup soaked in salted cherry petals, which is the auspicious meaning of cherry blossoms. April, when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, is also the season of enrollment and inauguration. This is a major turning point in life, so cherry blossoms represent a bright and hopeful future image. In addition, streets, stations, towns, trademarks, meals, refreshments and soup drinks named after cherry blossoms can be seen everywhere in Japan. Writers write poems about cherry blossoms, painters draw pictures of cherry blossoms, musicians compose songs praising cherry blossoms, banks print banknotes printed with cherry blossoms, workshops make cherry blossom handicrafts, TV stations produce programs with cherry blossoms as the background, and columns are also set up to report the opening dynamics of cherry blossoms ... The charm and influence of cherry blossoms have penetrated into all fields of Japanese social life, so Japan is also called "the country of cherry blossoms". In Japan, during the cherry blossom season, you can see the scene of holding a banquet while enjoying flowers everywhere.