Yurui Pavilion

Yurui Pavilion was built because of Yurui flowers. During the Tang Dynasty, there were three famous flowers in China, namely Luoyang Peony, Yangzhou Qionghua, and Zhenjiang Yurui. Jade stamen flower belongs to the woody genus and is a herbaceous vine flower of the genus Passionfruit. Its scientific name is Passionfruit. Yuruihua has a long cultivation history in China and is often confused with Qionghua. Yurui was regarded as a national treasure in the Tang Dynasty, and was only allowed to be planted in the imperial garden and Hanlin Academy. Yurui's hometown is in Zhenjiang, and Yurui flower originated from Zhaoyin Mountain. She has many touching legends, which are recorded in ancient books such as "Taiping Huanyu Ji" and "Yunyu Yangqiu". When Princess Tang Chang, the daughter of Emperor Tang Minghuang, came to Runzhou (now Zhenjiang), she heard many legends about the magnolia flowers. Especially when she saw that the magnolia flowers bloomed like jade trees in the Yao forest, they were not of equal quality. She went to Zhaoyin Mountain and transplanted two magnolia trees to the backyard of the Chang'an Imperial Palace. But when the flowers from the south moved to the north, the climate, water quality, and soil were vastly different. The magnolia quickly withered and even became extinct by the end of the Tang Dynasty, leaving no existence in the world. As a result, myths and legends such as fairy tours emerged.