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Known as the city of peonies, Heze, Shandong province, offers fantastic scenery of this magnificent flower every year in April. Check out these pictures of peonies in Heze.

The caption is a quote from Li Qingzhao (1084-1155), a great female poet born in Shandong during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), while the English translation of it was completed by Ronald Egan, a Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology at Stanford University.