安陽桂花產(chǎn)于安陽郊區(qū)龍泉花卉之鄉(xiāng)。該鄉(xiāng)山清水秀，風(fēng)景絢麗，尤其金線河兩岸土壤肥沃，適宜栽種花木。魏晉時(shí)已開始種植花木，距今有1800年歷史。龍泉的桂花為全國之冠。它的特點(diǎn)是葉小而尖、節(jié)短、葉稠、坐花穩(wěn)、開花多、花朵大、香味濃郁、凌寒不凋。安桂分金桂、銀桂、月桂、丹桂4個(gè)品種，安桂是用小葉冬青和流芳做砧木嫁接而成。當(dāng)年嫁接，當(dāng)年開花，棵體矮而秀麗，風(fēng)姿獨(dú)特。若把一盆安桂置于室內(nèi)，其香味四溢，沁人肺腑，令人賞心悅目。據(jù)傳，清乾隆四十四年(1779)，龍泉花師趙日貞在北京賣花時(shí)，花香飄數(shù)里，飛鳥棲枝，行人駐足。乾隆皇帝將趙日貞召入宮中，盛贊龍泉桂花的風(fēng)姿和郁香，隨即選中一株，封為"安桂"，并賜銀50兩。從此，龍泉桂花聲譽(yù)大振，聞名國內(nèi)外。


 

 Longquan Sweet Olives

       
    Anyang sweet olive is produced in Longquan, Anyang city, which is the hometown of flowers. Longquan village has fertile land along the Jinxian River which is suitable for planting flowers. 1800 years ago, in as early as Wei and Jin Era, this place began to plant flowers and trees.
     
    Sweet olives in Longquan are the best in China, whose characteristics are small and sharp leaves, short branches, thick leaves, plentiful and big flowers, fragrant smell as well as uneasily withered in cold weather. They can be divided into four kinds: gold osmanthus, silver osmanthus, laurel osmanthus, orange osmanthus. Sweet olive tree is grafted from holly and Liufang. A whole house will be filled with fragrant smell if put an Angui tree in it. It's said that in Qianlong's 44th year of Qing Dynasty, a gardener Zhao Rizhen came from Longquan to the capital, where he was called into the Imperial Palace with osmanthus trees. The Emperor was deeply attracted by Osmanthus's charming appearance and fragrant smell and endowed it a name of Angui. From then on, Longquan sweet olives earned a good reputation all around the world.