The second of February in ancient poetry is the Green Dragon Festival, the Zhonghe Festival, the Spring Ploughing Festival, the Picking Vegetable Festival, the Hairpin Flower Festival, and the Flower Dynasty Festival
The second day of February in the middle of the lunar calendar is a traditional folk festival that originated from the ancient sacrifices of celestial phenomena and spring.
Ancients used the celestial calendar to divide the four seasons and solar terms, and in the spring, the dragon stars began to rise in the eastern night sky, called "dragon heads up".
During the rainy season and the stinging festival, the thunderstorm increases, the earth returns to green, and the trees germinate, just like the recovery of the green dragon.
One, the second of February is the Green Dragon Festival, and the dragon looks up
"The rain washes the spring, and Hirata has seen the dragon."
Sacrifice fish Yingpu Island, return to the geese over the mountain peak.
The clouds are light and heavy, and the scenery is light and thick.
Spring enters February, and the flowers are full of shadows. "Tang Dynasty Yuan Shu "Yong Twenty-Four Qi Poems: Rain in the Middle of the Moon"
Although the Tang Dynasty Yuan Shu wrote a rain festival poem, in this rain festival, the plain sees the dragon, corresponding to the dragon's head-up period.
Many folk festivals and sacrifices in ancient times were centered on solar terms. It can be known that before the Tang Dynasty, the sacrifice of the green dragon was around the rain festival, and there was a difference between the festival and the lunar calendar, and the rain festival sacrifice of the green dragon should be an ancient custom.
The rainy season also tends to span the first month and February, so the long-term evolution is set around the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar.
In the countryside, there will be festivals to welcome the green dragon, the god of the land, and the god of rain.
Because this period of time is also very important for agricultural affairs, it is the beginning of spring ploughing of the year. Although there are activities to beat spring cattle at the beginning of the first month, large-scale spring plowing is often in the second month of the lunar calendar, or after the rain and the stinging of the festival.
Then the folk festival was valued in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, in the tang dezong era, he adopted the suggestion of the chancellor Li Bi to designate the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar as the "Zhonghe Festival", and the actual role was also to make officials at all levels pay attention to this most important period of agriculture.
Hundreds of officials went to the agricultural book to express their emphasis on agriculture and attach importance to agriculture.
Important officials have celebrated rallies on this day, ordinary officials are on holiday, and local officials are thrown into folk customs and emphasize the importance of spring ploughing, so the Green Dragon Festival in various places should be at this time, basically fixed on the day after the Zhonghe Festival, February 2.
Second, february 2 is the Zhonghe Festival and the Qingqing Festival
The official Neutralization Festival holiday day, in fact, from top to bottom, expanded the influence of February 2, February 2 became a good day for the city to walk on the green party.
"On February 2, the new rain was sunny, and the grass sprouts were born for a while.
Light shirt thin horse spring young, cross tsu head line. "Don · Bai Juyi "February 2nd"
In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, February 2 was already a relatively important day, such as young people waiting for this day, even if it rained, it did not affect their interest in traveling, let alone the first sunny day after the rain.
The meadows of Chang'an are already small grasses, and there are fresh spring vegetables and wild vegetables in the vegetable garden, which are lush after the rain.
Bai Juyi specifically talked about CaiJia, although it is his love for Nongsang, but it is very likely that the custom of eating spring vegetables and wild vegetables on February 2 has been deeply rooted in the folk, and in response to the season, everyone is ready to eat the freshest vegetables and wild vegetables of the day.
So what are the young people doing, they are wearing the most beautiful spring clothes, riding high-headed horses, and several people are assembling at the docks, planning to cross the river, go to the countryside for tourism, go to the grass to race horses.
February 2 in the Tang Dynasty is already a day for the people of the city to step on the green. At this time, it is the most beautiful spring, the grass germinates, the sky temperature is moist, the temperature is comfortable, and the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms and plum blossoms near Chang'an, and even plum blossoms, are in full bloom.
"Everyone appreciates the spring colors, and the monarch has mercy on the spring."
How the spring is, the old man knows this taste.
It seems to be surprised by the next year's fast, such as persuading the spring to get drunk.
When the day is the same feast tour, the heart period is February 2. "Don · Excerpt from Bai Juyi's "Seven Rhymes with Early Spring in DreamLod"
The elderly Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi are the same age, living in Luoyang in their later years, when the weather is still cold in early spring, the two people are already old, can not be like young people, endure the cold of early spring.
He wrote to Liu Yuxi, this early spring is not suitable for us, it is too cold. I and I went to the green flowers on the second of February in the middle of spring, at that time, the spring breeze was warm, the spring flowers were drunk, and our two old bones could drink together and enjoy the spring light.
Then it can be seen that Bai Juyi values not the official Zhonghe Festival, but the folk February Second Green Dragon Festival.
It can also be seen that the official Zhonghe Festival at that time actually had a driving effect on the second of February, and people were essentially fond of the traditional February 2nd Green Dragon Festival.
On March 2, The Second of February is the Spring Ploughing Festival
"On February 2, the river went up, and the east wind was warm and blowing.
Flower whiskers and willow eyes are rogue, and purple butterflies and wasps are affectionate.
Wanli recalls returning to Yuan Liangjing and engaging in the Yafu camp for three years.
The new beach is not surprising to tourists, and the sound of rain at night is more styled. Don Li Shangyin,"February 2nd"
This is the second of February that Li Shangyin spent in Sichuan in the late Tang Dynasty. This is the border area of the Tang Dynasty, but February 2 is very lively.
He was walking along the river, and the warm spring breeze blew through, and he heard the sound of music.
This music is the cheerful sound of the folk February 2nd Green Dragon Festival, people walk through the fields on the riverbank, greeting the gods and celebrating, and definitely not the kind of urban people who just enjoy the spring of gaole.
Because it was the river, he saw peach blossoms blooming at the water's edge among the lush fields, filaments of wicker, all kinds of purple butterflies and bees flying. In the background, it is a large area of farmland, or cauliflower blooming on the farmland, which provokes so many butterflies and bees.
The point is that if Li Shangyin saw people in urban scenic spots enjoying flowers, he would not write down the following deep feelings.
He said that I was thousands of miles away and wanted to return to my hometown, cultivate the land like Tao Yuanming, and accompany the countryside. It's just that I have been working in the barracks here for three years and cannot return to my hometown.
Don't be surprised by the homesickness of this babbling water by the river, this sound of water is like spring rain, all hit my heart that longs to go home.
The sound of the wilderness and the music of welcoming the gods on the second of February made him eager to return to his homeland and countryside. By this time he was already ill. But standing on this springy river and field, he was still happy and stretched.
February 2 is the beginning of spring plowing, which is the Spring Ploughing Festival, and it also arouses Li Shangyin's pastoral dream.
Four: February 2 is the Pick-and-Vegetable Festival
"Two days of old passing on the picking of vegetables festival, a bottle of chat to solve the negative salary worries.
There is a good color to the grass and trees, and the Guo Jiangshan is victorious. "Song Dynasty He Zhu "February 2 Seat On the Fu" excerpt
Mid-spring is when wild vegetables are growing, and Chinese vegetables are originally domesticated from the wild, but there are still a considerable number of herbs that are not suitable for domestication, but can be eaten in some seasons, and the medicinal food is homologous.
Famine and war, poor land, disease, all kinds of reasons will make people look for wild vegetables, but February is the most vigorous and nascent period of grass and trees, many edible grass buds thrive, if not picked, may become old or turn into green manure at any time.
There must be a tradition of digging wild vegetables first, and then on the second of February it is called the Picking Festival. At least on the second of February by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, his eyes were fixed on the nascent vegetable seedlings.
In the late Tang Dynasty, it became a tradition to pick wild vegetables home on the second day of February, because the wild vegetables at this time were the first to get the ground, the most delicious, and had the effect of curing diseases and preventing diseases, such as dandelion water, and cabbage to nourish the liver and eyes. These wild vegetables do not dig for food, but also wasted, not to mention manual excavation, as long as it is not excessive, it can loosen the soil, so that the land and seedlings are more fertile.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, on the second of February, there was another folk name, called the Picking Vegetable Festival.
This is the Song Dynasty's He Zhu at the banquet, talking about the customs of February 2.
Everyone went out to find wild vegetables, such activities, light and simple, this is the fun of poverty, and it makes people happy to think about.
How many troubles have been dissolved in this boundless spring color.
You see that the grass is also green, the tree is also green, and the city pool of the jiangshan is close to us and welcomes us in the most beautiful spring color.
I wondered, was he still on the stool of the banquet with a large basket of wild vegetables, so that he was so proud of the glass of wine?
On Friday, February 2 is the Festival of Fortune.
"It was only after the day of the willow sending poverty, and I saw the hairpin flowers to welcome the rich."
Whoever is driven out of poverty is difficult to evict, and is known to be forced to resign for the rich.
Poverty is as easy as people want, and if rich can be asked for me, so can I.
It has been said for a long time that people can watch it as they please. Southern Song Dynasty · Wei Yiweng "The Story of Welcoming Wealth in the Northern Suburbs of Suining on February 2nd"
The custom of wearing flowers on February 2 to welcome wealth originated in the late Tang Dynasty, the first month is the beginning of the year, the annual festival celebrates up to January, this middle, derived from the saying of sending the year to the poor, at the end of the month folded willows, indicating the sending of poverty, and mid-spring February wearing new flowers, indicating the return of spring, the beginning of the year, to welcome the rich.
This custom was strengthened in the Song Dynasty, and when people set foot on the second day of February, they brought flowers full of flowers to indicate auspicious wealth.
This also stimulated the demand for flowers and trees in the Song Dynasty. Because of almost every important festival, men and women of the Song Dynasty had flowers like hills on their heads.
In fact, this poet is also in response to folklore ridicule, and he also focuses on participation.
For example, everyone went to the northern suburbs to see the flowers, and there was a head to welcome the rich.
He joked that if the rich and noble could not drive away like poverty and forced me to be rich, then I would never resign.
Such a legend in the streets and alleys has been a long time, and I am happy to go with everyone to see the flowers and flowers, to greet the rich.
Then you know why the begonia flower is nicknamed "Yutang Spring Rich", this beautiful flower in early February, just in time to bloom, when you step on the green with a head, it is called the head of the rich flower.
June, February 2 is the Flower Dynasty Festival
The actual flower festival, from ancient times to the present, has different customs in various places, including February 2, February 8, and February 15.
"The flower dynasty is just in time for a spring, and the rain and snow are gloomy for two decades.
Looking back on the past years, cheng sighed, and the chief came out to Guo Shao to cultivate the people. "Song Dynasty Yang Gongyuan "Flower Dynasty"
The flower dynasty in this poem is obviously the beginning of February, because the flower dynasty festival comes, and the first month has passed. The early spring of the third spring is over.
It's just that this year's flower dynasty, 20 days are rain and snow haze.
Then he recalled that at this time last year, the weather was good, what a scene, the local governor personally went to the countryside to encourage the farmers of spring ploughing.
Then it can be known that this poem is written in the Flower Dynasty, which is the Spring Ploughing Festival of the Second Green Dragon Festival in February.
In fact, February is really the spring flower season, plum blossoms, peach plum blossoms, apricot blossoms, cauliflower blossoms, begonia blossoms, spring flowers, magnolia blossoms, is a beautiful season for hundreds of flowers to bloom.
The whole month of February is Flower's birthday.
Do you still know what the origin of February 2 is, the name of the palm and other names?
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.