唐朝大诗人刘禹锡一句“唯有牡丹真国色,花开时节动京城”,加上牡丹确也色泽艳丽、繁华似锦,清末慈禧还曾钦定其为国花,以至于现在还被好多人误认为是国花。但新中国成立以来,我们国家一直没有确定过国花。一些行业协会、学者、地方仍是想把牡丹作为国花。但我们认为,最能代表（中国）国色的花不是牡丹,而是稻花。文章论说了“唯有稻花最国色,谷熟时节香全球”。中国色乃“和”,稻花果色最抚国人心,我国祖先早在一万多年前开始驯化水稻,水稻与粟麦一起孕育繁荣中华文明,现在则是奠定中华文明基石,中国水稻现在大江南北年种植3 000多万hm²,总产2亿多t,是世界水稻绿色革命源头,杂交水稻发明地,超级稻最先实际应用地,精耕细作,在中国乃至世界粮食安全中有着重要地位,今后还将起着基石作用。国花表征的是一个国家民族的文化和精神,反映该国人民对祖国的热爱和浓郁的民族感情,并可增强民族凝聚力。我国国花也最该为稻花,稻花代表着中国人的性格和追求,代表着中国精神,代表着自立自强与开放融合。

The “Only the peony is really a national beauty with its bloom shocking the capital”, an verse of LIU Yuxi of Important poem in Tang Dynasty, with Gorgeous in color and colorful in flowers by peony and designated as the national flower by Dowager Cixi in late Qing Dynasty, peony is still deemed as national beauty by some people, but there is no national flower decided by government of People's Republic of China. Some Association, local government,scholars have still thinking peony as national flower. We think rice flower is really and mostly a national beauty, with very much reason. The paper discussed “the Chinese color is gentle”, Chinese nature and seek, the color of rice flowers and fruits is the most pleasing to Chinese people, rice breeds prosperous China together with millet and wheat,rice now lay the cornerstone of Chinese civilization, rice plants more than 30 million hectares, produces more than 200 million tons in China, China is souce of world rice green revelution, invent place of hybrid rice, the earliest application of super rice, China rice is intense and meticulous farming, have the important status in China and World in the past, the present, and the future. Rice flower represents Chinese nature and seek, represents China spirit.Some selected poems throughout history attached behind to the thesis.