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 ...

A quick post to share an incredible photo of, as my friend Diana Colvin says, "a species hybrid peony doing its reproductive best in the garden." Diana, who worked with me at The Oregonian for a long ...

Heze, the "peony capital of China", is known for its peony-related tourist sites and products, as well as for an art form known as "farmer's painting", which typically focuses on peony blossoms. A ...

Farmers paint peony-themed realistic paintings at a studio in Juye County, Heze City of east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 2, 2023. Juye County is located in Heze, a city known for the cultivation ...