People pose for a group photo with a peony painting at the 2023 UN Chinese Language Day event in Vienna, Austria, on May 2, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of Juye Painting and Calligraphy Institute The peony ...

Farmers paint peonies in the Luxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute in Juye, Shandong province, on Sunday. [Photo by Zhao Ruixue/China Daily] Known as the "Peony Capital of China", Heze in Shandong ...

Known as the "Peony Capital of China", Heze in Shandong province has been cultivating the delicate flower for over 1,400 years, and thanks to this local specialty another industry has bloomed into ...