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In: Painting of Biographies of Outstanding Women" by Gu Hutou (about 344-405AD) from Yu Renzhong's edition in Song, Tree Shaoyao was drawn as a cultivated garden plant. Gu Hutou (or Gu Kaizhi) was a great painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420AD). Thus, pictorial evidence shows that peonies were cultivated at least 100 years earlier.


extract from the book :

Wang Lianying 1998, Chinese Tree Peony - The Peony Association Of China - 213 pages · 400 color photos · english edition of Pictorial Record of Chinese Tree Peony Varieties