{"id":2493,"date":"2016-04-04T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/04\/tulip-blooms-turn-chinese-landscape-into-a-pointillist-painting\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:59:13","slug":"tulip-blooms-turn-chinese-landscape-into-a-pointillist-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/04\/tulip-blooms-turn-chinese-landscape-into-a-pointillist-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulip blooms turn Chinese landscape into a pointillist painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-518512662\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzA0LzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLmFkNzcwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/0c3d2396\/11f\/GettyImages-518512662.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Tulip+blooms+turn+Chinese+landscape+into+a+pointillist+painting&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F03%2Fchinesetulipbloom%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F03%2Fchinesetulipbloom%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Spring has sprung at China\u2019s Chaya Mountain as 10 different types of tulips bloom across a farm creating abstract formations reminiscent of a pointillist painting.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of floral farms in China, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/daxueconsulting.com\/chinese-flower-market\/\">Daxue Consulting<\/a>, are small and consist of family members unlike larger farms like Holland \u2014 known as one of the biggest flower producers in the world. A recent report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/china\/21642219-love-fuels-rose-price-inflation-let-million-flowers-bloom\">Economist<\/a> valued China\u2019s stake in the global flower market at around 4%. Exporting flowers to Europe or America is costly so over two-thirds are sold in Asia<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/23\/death-valley-superbloom-yellow-flowers\/\">Death Valley, the driest place in North America, is now a sea of yellow flowers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/03\/chinesetulipbloom\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/china\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/spring\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Spring<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/photo-stories\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Photo Stories<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/full-width-template\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Full Width Template<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/ZGEj8ZuuGJI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung at China\u2019s Chaya Mountain as 10 different types of tulips bloom across a farm creating abstract formations reminiscent of a pointillist painting. The majority of floral farms in China, according to Daxue Consulting, are small and consist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/04\/tulip-blooms-turn-chinese-landscape-into-a-pointillist-painting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[777,875,1150,1617,732],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-china","tag-full-width-template","tag-photo-stories","tag-spring","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}