Windmill’s hometown in the Netherlands did not’re wrong!

But in fact the origin of tulips in China, Oh!

Tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands, the Netherlands, also known as “Tulip’s country.” But you do not think the tulip is a native-born in the Netherlands, in fact, it’s hometown in China, originating in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. More than 2000 years ago, the tulip spread to Central Asia area, to the 16th century, when an ambassador stationed in Turkey, only then it is back to Austria Vienna, Austria, in a Dutch court gardener took it back to the Netherlands.

Mesmerizing beauty of the tulip to the Dutch in the country formed a “tulip fever.” Anyone who has a tulip, a number of noble status immediately. Invite a friend to enjoy each other tulips, and soon became fashionable. At that time, planted tulips were still scarce, a flower of the price of gold more expensive than the same weight. In accordance with the prevailing prices, three tulips, they can exchange for a beautiful villa. Who cultivate a new species, it means a tremendous wealth.

World War II, when Dutch famine there, some people were starved to death, but some of the tulip from the ground Paochu roots, using it to serve as food, many people and save their lives.

At present, more than 2,000 varieties of tulips, the color red, blue, white, black, orange, yellow, purple and so on, in which the most valuable black, known as “Night Queen.”