花是美的象征。我国人民向有爱花的传统,种植花木有悠久的历史。他们在长期的种花养花实践中,不断提高技艺,积累了丰富的经验。历代有关花卉的文献资料,真是琳琅满目,不胜枚举。而清代陈淏子的《花镜》就是一部全面系统记述花卉园艺的专著。陈淏子,一名扶摇,生活于十七世纪明清易代之际。他一生鄙薄功名,未入仕途,明亡后即退隐于杭州,在乡间家居授徒为业, Flower is a symbol of beauty. Our people have a long history of planting flowers and trees with the tradition of love of flowers. In the long-term practice of planting flowers and flowers, they constantly improve their skills and have accumulated rich experience. The ancient literature on the flowers, really dazzling, numerous. The Qing Dynasty Chen Bianzi’s “reading glasses” is a comprehensive and systematic description of flower gardening monographs. Chen Daozi, a helpless, living in the seventeenth century, the Ming and Qing Dynasties generation. His life despicable fame, not into the career path, that is, after the death of the retired in Hangzhou, home apprenticeship in the country,