First of all, because the movie is adapted from the novel "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", it should be called this name.
Secondly, the entire novel or movie tells the story of the heroine Jingqiu when she went to the countryside to teach. She came to the countryside from the city ignorantly, and the first scene she saw was Hawthorn tree, there are many stories related to that hawthorn tree in the story. In the end, Jingqiu’s beloved third child promised her to accompany her to see the hawthorn tree when it bloomed. This became a belief in their hearts. My love is placed on the hawthorn tree, so it is called the love of the hawthorn tree! Zhang Yimou said that the hawthorn tree is just a symbol and a promise. A kind of agreement. The protagonist met under the hawthorn tree in order to keep the promise between lovers. 1. Adapted from Amy's novel "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" 2. In the movie, Jingqiu, who is in high school, is selected by the school to participate in the editing of new textbooks. She has to go to a place called Xiping Village. On the way there, the village chief asks Jingqiu introduced a hawthorn tree with red flowers. He said that this tree originally had white flowers, but during the Anti-Japanese War, countless anti-Japanese heroes were killed under the tree, and their blood flowed into the ground, so the tree bloomed with red flowers.
3. For some reason, Jingqiu always had an illusion in her mind. She vaguely saw a handsome young man in a white shirt standing under the hawthorn tree, waiting for the arrival of his beloved girl.
4. The third child once bought Jingqiu a washbasin with hawthorn fruit printed on it.
5. At the end of the movie, the third child died of leukemia, and his parents buried his ashes under the hawthorn tree according to his last wish.
In short, the story mentions the hawthorn tree many times. It can be said that the hawthorn tree is the witness of the love between Jingqiu and Laosan, so it is called the love of the hawthorn tree! --from Baidu Know