User:Flowersmart HK/sandbox

As known, flowers or so called a bloomsom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The main function of a flower is to effect reproduction by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Many flowers facilitate outcrossing or allow selfing which is fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower, some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization, flowers give rise to fruit and seeds. Besides, flowers also have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food. On the other hand, mart denotes country markets, market fairs, or open markets, which one of the functions is to help fixing rural fair price. Flowersmart have long taken up this fixing rural fair price in the rural bazaars of flowers.

Flowersmart, flowermarket, or Chinese New Year Fair is for a longer time a type of annually held for a few days before Chinese New Year in markets, that the history can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty of ancient China. The southern land from the Pearl River's Flower Peacents or farmers started selling flowers and a market was formed. The flowermart turned to the modern mode since 1860s which was held during the Chinese New Year's Eve. The flowersmart has later been held in various locations in Hong Kong after 1949 when lots of Cantonese immigrated to Hong Kong. There have been gathered hundreds of stalls for various goods notably in Victoria Park and FaHui Park. Half of the area has been for selling auspicious flowering plants like peach, narcissus, peony, chrysanthemum, and other fruit plants, another half is for selling dry stuffs. Lots of people have been drawn to visit, and becomes a part of custom, and entitled to " walk the year night " ( 行年宵 ), or " walk the flowersmart " (行花市), the crowd peaks at a few hours before and after midnight of the New Year's Day.

The stall tenders of the flowersmart would try to sell all their stocks in these few hours before the fair closes. Flower stall tenders would not take the flowers back when the fair closes but destroy it or leave it to charity organisation. The market fairs, or open markets' functions of fixing rural fair price in these bazaars have so far been smoothly carried out.