Do you know about the Flower Dynasty Festival?
Every year on the twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar,
When the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, and the peach and plum are competing,
It is the day to celebrate the birthday of the hundred flowers.
Flower Dynasty Festival,
In ancient times, it was also called the Flower God Festival.
"The day of the hundred peanuts is a good day, and it is not yet half of the spring in the flower dynasty.
Thousands of red and purple embroidery, Shanglao embellished the god of he flowers. ”
Qing Dynasty poet Cai Yun this poem,
It is the flower asahi grandeur.
In the old days, people believed
All things have animism, and the grass and trees contain affection,
If you treat each other solemnly,
When the flowers bloom, the beauty will also go with it.
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Although not many people know about the Flower Dynasty Festival,
But the heart of cherishing spring and loving flowers has long been deeply rooted in the bones and blood.
Spring is just right, the wind is warm, the flowers are bright,
Take advantage of the spring light, do not bear the present dynasty.
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Flower Festival, cherish flowers
Shuo wind is like a solution, easy to destroy
Chinese is really romantic,
Worship the nature of heaven and earth, flowers and insects,
Always pregnant with a childlike innocence,
The mountains have gods, the waters have spirits, and the winds are clear,
All things in heaven and earth are worth cherishing.
Spring flowers bloom,
Like a brocade, colorful,
People love this flower that accompanies them day and night,
Treat them as wordless friends, and treat them as friends,
He chose a birthday and celebrated it.
The ancients also called it together with the Mid-Autumn Festival,
It means flowers rising and falling,
The "Happy Affairs of the Xi Dynasty" written by the Ming Dynasty Tian Rucheng records:
"Hanacho, Moon and Evening,Secular Pereary,
February and August are the half of spring and autumn,
Therefore, February and a half is the flower dynasty, and August is the half of the moon. ”
Hanasasatsuki Evening, One Autumn, One Flower January,
All are the most beautiful in the world, fleeting,
It is more necessary to cherish it with heart and live up to the encounter.
Figure | Shen Fu 'Flower God Diagram》
As you can see, depending on the region,
The Flower Dynasty Festival also has different days,
Some people have February 12, some people have February 15,
There are also places after the first two days of February,
But without exception, they are concentrated in February, when the flowers are at their strongest.
The ancients loved flowers into obsession,
Every morning on the day of the Flower Festival,
The girls will put red paper, multicolored thread or ribbon,
Sticking to the branches of flowers is called "appreciating red", which is actually a flower protection,
There is a poem that says, "Spring flowers are dyed in the green bushes, and the branches are cut in the east wind." ”
Tang Dynasty Cui Daorong's
"If the wind is intentional, it is easy not to destroy",
It is also the pity of the flower protectors.
Flower Festival, born of flowers,
Flowers bloom sometimes, flowers fall sometimes,
Love flowers, do not wait for the wind to blow flowers and branches,
Advise the king to drink for the flowers and live up to the flowering period.
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Flower Festival, Cherish Spring
Leave the wine together in the spring, and Mo teaches the flowers to laugh at people
Flower Festival, cherish the flowers,
Even more cherish the spring.
More than three hundred years ago,
One year, the Flower Dynasty Festival coincided with the spring equinox,
The poet Gu Zhenguan went out to enjoy the flowers in spring,
Only to see the first exhibition of plantains, willows green,
Cherry blossoms are fresh, a good spring,
He couldn't help but write with a stroke of his pen
"Whoever divides the spring light in half is most sorry for this dynasty."
But the thought of flowers blossoming and falling is not up to people,
It was inevitable that he would regret it in his heart, so he said:
"Take advantage of the spring light, and leave half of it, and don't bear the burden of this dynasty."
Spring comes and goes, flowers blossom and thank you,
Just like the sunrise and sunset, towards the twilight,
The brilliance of the present is cherished by all hopes.
One joy and one sorrow, gathered together,
In Japanese culture, the creature mourns,
But Chinese is the opposite,
Although there are regrets, more is living in the present,
Enjoy the beauty of spring and the swaying of spring flowers.
People come together,
Food offerings to be made to wish the Jubilee of the Gods;
Regardless of age, flowers go to play;
Literati and gentlemen, in addition to enjoying flowers, drinking and chanting;
Girls swim in the spring butterfly, "light laughter and self-twisting, fluttering butterfly Mandarin Duck Trail";
There are also planting flowers and picking vegetables, drying seeds and praying for abundance;
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Flower festival, spring is just right,
Peach and plum before the wind more feminine, willow more gentle,
And do not worry about idleness, it is advisable to summon the song of the song,
Don't live up to the good spring light.
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Flower Festival, pity people
Looking at the mountains and rivers far away, take pity on the people in front of you
The most beautiful day of spring,
Suitable for missing, more suitable for meeting.
That year, King Qian of Wuyue,
See the spring is getting stronger, a hundred flowers competing for beauty,
I miss my wife who lives in my mother's house more and more,
So he wrote her a letter with a pen:
"Strange flowers bloom, but slowly return."
Nine words, plain and warm,
The emotion is deep and very moving,
The flowers have bloomed and I miss you!
Zhuang people in some parts of Guangxi,
And the flower festival is called "Hundred Flowers Fairy Festival",
Every year on the second day of the first lunar month,
Young men and women dressed up and gathered from all directions
Where there are tall ceiba trees.
Everybody sang a mountain song,
In the song there is praise for the hundred flower fairies,
There is also joy in the lover,
Sing to the deep sense of love and drunkenness, with flowers as the medium, give flowers to make love,
The girl throws the elaborate embroidered hydrangea ball to her sweetheart,
When the two are separated at sunset, hang the hydrangea on the kapok tree,
May love be forever knotted and white.
A hundred flowers are beautiful, bees are fighting for butterflies,
Spring is as strong as wine, on this beautiful day,
May you live up to your good days and live up to your good people.
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The Flower Dynasty Festival will never be forgotten
Some people worry that the Flower Dynasty Festival will be forgotten,
I don't think so
As long as Chinese love flowers and cherish spring hearts do not perish,
The Flower Dynasty Festival will never be forgotten.
The Flower Dynasty Festival will only change with the times,
When people like, rejuvenate.
For example, in the past two years, the revival of traditional culture,
The combination of the Flower Dynasty Festival and Hanfu,
It is liked by more and more young people.
Wearing a spring shirt and enjoying the spring flowers,
Because of prudence, solemnity,
There is the beauty of the ritual.
Another year of flower festival,
It's the most beautiful time of year,
It is also the most cherished day.
May you look up and meet tenderness,
Do not live up to the blossoming, do not live up to the spring light,
Live up to the good day, live up to the good people,
For the rest of your life, it will be flowering!