The springtime ushers in vitality and romance after a long and gloomy winter. It is good time to escape from the city hustles and bustles, pack up and hit on the road to the wonderlands of the country where the flowers are in full blossoming season.

Suzhou, a sea of fragrant snow

If you love plum blossoms, you might want to visit Suzhou. Dengwei Mountain, which is located near Tai Lake in the south of Suzhou, is a spectacular place to see plum blossoms.

Dengwei Mountain is a peninsula, with a warm and moist climate and abundant sunshine, providing a favorable growing environment for plum blossoms.From ancient times, plum blossoms have been a key industry for area residents. There are all kinds of plum blossoms, such as white plums, red plums, green plums, purple plums, black plums, and so on. When the plums blossom, you can see them growing everywhere on the mountains and enjoy their fragrance.Dengwei Mountain is known by the name "a sea of fragrant snow,", which was given to it by Songhun, who was the governor of Jiangsu Province as well as a famous poet, during the Qing Dynasty. The ancients said, "The plum blossoms in Dengwei are the best," and the famous artist Wu Changshuo in modern times also said, "If I haven't been to the sea of fragrant snow for ten years, the blossoms will miss me just as I miss them."

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