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What is the best match for summer nights? The answer, of course, is crayfish and beer! Make an appointment with three or five friends, order two spicy crayfish, with the cool summer night breeze, it's nice to think about it.

There are many ways to eat crayfish, you have seen braised, dry pot, spicy, garlic. But Paeonia lactiflora is sure you've never seen a crayfish into a bouquet.

Yes, today, Shaoyao would like to introduce a "strange woman" to move the fragrant crayfish from the table to the flowers, causing a large number of people to flow.

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Zhang Shuyang and WaaFlora

Shaoyao has many florist friends, their flower arrangement styles are different, some are full of French romantic amorous feelings, some take the simple and cold route, each flower has different amorous feelings.

But the flower that Paeonia can never forget at a glance comes from a Beijing girl-Zhang Shuyang. Her works are alternative, grotesque and inspired, completely subverting your imagination of floral art.

Shu Yang described his works in this way: if you compare flowers to people, my flowers are not the beauty in everyone's eyes, with long hair, sweet and lovely, but more like a stubborn, rebellious, full of personality girl.

First of all, let's talk about the crayfish bouquet mentioned at the beginning.

I'm afraid no one else in the world can think of it.

Fresh and spicy crayfish can also be used as flowers.

Red crayfish with blooming flowers

The color matching is enthusiastic and public.

I'll tell you what real delicacy is.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Shu Yang sought inspiration from zongzi.

Use zongye as flowers and steamers as flower utensils

Use the perfect chrysanthemum, peony and Phalaenopsis

Create a gorgeous but not vulgar festive atmosphere.

On Qixi Festival, other families are creating a romantic atmosphere.

Shu Yang boldly used black feathers.

In sharp contrast to the blood roses

The mysterious and dark style is unique.

Shu Yang's studio has the same personality as her work.

It is located in an art park converted from an old warehouse.

Green brick, old tree, tin gate

There are several chairs scattered at the door, which still seem to be warm.

The savage temperament is at odds with the imperial capital, which is full of tall buildings.

Walk into the house and you will find another world.

The original rough brick walls were painted with white paint

There is a skylight overhead

The sun shines down to form a wonderful light and shadow.

If it wasn't for the flowers everywhere in the corner,

Paeonia lactiflora may be mistaken for walking into an art exhibition.

The atmosphere here is completely different from that of an ordinary florist.

For example, you will find flowers in a test tube beaker.

Tin boxes from the secondhand market

It's like a vase just dug out of the earth.

There are a few withered flowers.

This unique and alternative space is Zhang Shuyang's studio, the base of WaaFlora. Every corner of the room embodies her painstaking efforts and shows her distinctive personality.

Shu Yang in life is a girl who loves adventure, extreme sports and constantly challenges herself.

She calls herself a "wild child" and likes to fly around the world. She prefers the original Nepal and Xizang to the fashionable New York and Paris.

She said she lacked endurance, so she went to the Czech Republic to finish the marathon; she said she was afraid of water, so she went to the Philippines to learn to dive.

She keeps exploring her limits to keep her life fresh. This is also the fundamental reason why she later quit her stable job and set foot in the flower industry.

At that time, she worked for an advertising agency and worked more than 15 hours a day, dealing with phone calls, Wechat, QQ and email at the same time.

This kind of life plunged her into mental anxiety and broke down. She seems to be farther and farther away from herself, who loves flowers, beauty and longs for freedom.

In 2015, when the tide of Internet entrepreneurship swept through, a company that built a flower supply chain offered an olive branch to Shu Yang.

The girl was moved, and she didn't want to spend her youth in the advertising industry, so she gritted her teeth and resigned from the advertising company to join the flower industry she had never set foot in but longed for.

She doesn't know whether she is qualified for the job, but just like diving, if she doesn't put on her diving suit and jump into the sea, she will never know how beautiful the underwater world is.

She told herself that her fear was inescapable, and I chose to face it.

In the new environment, she works hard with incomprehensible hard work, and some people even talk behind her back. In fact, she just wants to be worthy of her love.

At the same time, her love for flowers did not stop there. With a love of adventure and a desire to try everything, she gradually came up with the idea of starting her own business.

So, she rented this room in the art district as a studio, set up the WaaFlora brand, alone, empty-handed, and began to fight alone.

I thought that with previous experience and contacts, the road to starting a business would not be too difficult, but Shu Yang was still watered with cold water by reality.

At the initial stage of the completion of the studio, the capital investment was very large, but the guests were sparse, and the studio was once trapped in the situation that it was unable to make up for it.

And the funding problem is not the deadliest. After she really entered the flower industry, Shu Yang found that her peers were much better than herself, and the gap between them often frustrated her.

Sometimes she looks at her own flower arrangement and complains mercilessly, "how ugly!" In my heart, I often question whether I have the talent to make flowers.

In the days of confusion and hesitation, she will think of herself who finished running the marathon.

In Prague, Czech Republic, she had a side stitch just a few steps after running the 42-kilometer marathon and ran 7 or 8 kilometers in pain.

Halfway through, she couldn't help crying. She couldn't stop the cramps in her calves and hurt her knees, hips and shoulders, but she clenched her teeth and persisted.

Even if I have endured this kind of pain, what is the difficulty at present?

The experience of marathon, diving, skydiving and other extreme sports taught the girl to be brave.

For her, starting a business, like running a marathon and scuba diving, requires perseverance beyond ordinary people and the courage to face the unknown in order to persevere to the end.

Of course, the entrepreneurial process is not all hard and blood and tears, there are many moving moments, let her feel that she is doing a meaningful thing.

In order to design unique works, every guest who comes to buy flowers, she is willing to listen to the stories behind them and customize unique bouquets for them according to different emotional demands.

One day, a friend came to her and wanted to order a bouquet of flowers for his wife's birthday. Shu Yang asked, is there any special story between you?

The other party meditated for a moment and looked embarrassed. "We are just an ordinary couple, living a plain life, without any vigorous stories."... "

Shu Yang did not give up and continued to ask, what does she like to do? The guest gradually fell into memories, talking about the two people photographing the starry sky together, his wife likes the starry sky, and he likes scuba diving.

According to a friend's story, Shu Yang was inspired to design a bouquet of flowers like this:

The main hue is blue-purple, symbolizing the vast sky and deep ocean, surrounded by sand, shells and corals.

The most ingenious thing is that she specially bought authentic sea pearls, dotted in the sea of flowers, and shining like stars in the night sky, creating a dreamy fairy tale atmosphere.

This bouquet of flowers is not only full of design sense, but also hides a love story that belongs to two people, more attentively than any gift.

What Shu Yang is doing goes far beyond the meaning of a florist. 'in fact, everyone has a moving story, which is diluted by day-to-day life, 'she said.

And she uses flowers to build a bridge that extends to the softest place in everyone's heart, reminding people to jump out of their numb life, rediscover the loveliness of the people around them, and cherish all the hard-won fate.

Rather than making her career bigger and stronger, she hopes that she is doing something valuable, something that makes people feel happy when they think of it.

Shu Yang has a principle in making flowers, refusing to produce replicas and refusing to be stereotyped. Mass-produced bouquets on the assembly line can get the maximum profit, but this is not her original intention to do floral art.

"in this age when everything is replicating quickly, I want to do something different and surprise everyone."

So Shu Yang named her brand "Waa", which is the homonym of the interjection "wow". Her mind is simple and lovely. I hope everyone can say "wow" after seeing her work.

Today's Zhang Shuyang seems to be one step closer to his dream. WaaFlora has won a group of loyal customers and attracted cross-border cooperation from many brands by virtue of its novel ideas, constantly exploring the road of creative flower art.

By chance, WaaFlora cooperated with ofo

Shu Yang tied a lot of branches into the shape of a tornado

It is dotted with colorful florets

A handful of wild flowers are put on the front of the bike.

As if you could feel ofo galloping in the wind.

It also implies the status of small yellow cars sweeping the industry.

The flowers were covered with luminous paint

Let it shine wonderfully at night.

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Marshmallows and daydreaming at the immersive art exhibition

The green plants of the tropical wind hang in the air

Echo with the gorgeous neon lights

Create a dreamy sky garden.

She tried to break through the limitations of space and form.

Constantly exploring new ways to play with flowers.

From resignation to starting a business, from work to life, this adventurous girl never stops. If the love of flowers is the starting point of everything, then the continuous exploration of the unknown and self is the real driving force to support her progress.

Life is an unknown adventure.

You don't know if the road leads to the garden or the thorns.

Will it be sunny or cloudy tomorrow?

But don't be afraid, with a heart of exploration

Move forward bravely.

Even if it's a long way, wind and rain

You'll see a rainbow at the end.

That's the Medal of Honor given to you by fate.

Official Weibo: WaaFlora

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