Monogatari:
Maybe one day, the Flower Dynasty Festival will eventually be forgotten.
However, no one can refuse spring, and we will always need this moment of spring ritual.
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Have you ever heard of the Flower Dynasty Festival?
According to legend, it is peanut day, the most beautiful festival of the year. However, many people do not know, and there are doubts:
Do we still have the Flower Festival?
Now we are not like the ancients, "it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet each other", and the days are hurried, and some customs seem to have gradually lost their meaning.
However, that day, I happened to walk into the mountains and passed through a peach blossom forest, only to learn that spring had returned. I saw a tree of cherry blossoms, falling colorfully, and they all fell on their shoulders. Simply brew a cup of tea, don't think about anything, don't ask anything, just under the flower tree, drink tea slowly, and quietly watch the flowers.
Suddenly it became clear that no one could refuse a flower to bloom, no one could refuse spring.
We should poetically inhabit the earth and feel every spring, autumn and winter and summer. Therefore, I photographed the road I walked that day and the flowers I had seen, and sent it to you.
The ancients have always been close to the flowers, and in their eyes, these delicate creatures can accompany, can be watched, and should have their own birthday celebrations. Therefore, the birthday of the flower goddess Nuyi was set as the Flower Dynasty Festival.
But what day is the Flower Dynasty Festival? From ancient times to the present, there are differences.
The "Tao Zhu Gongshu" of the Spring and Autumn Period records: "February 12 is the day of a hundred peanuts, and there is no rain and a hundred flowers ripening." The Flower Dynasty Festival of the Jin Dynasty is the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and the "Xi Dynasty Happy Things" has clouds: "Flowers are on the eve of the moon, the secular constant saying, February and August are half of spring and autumn, so the half of February is the flower dynasty, and the half of August is the moon and the sunset." ”
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The Former Flower Dynasty Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival in August are two of the most romantic days of the year. "Flowers move in the spring heart on the night of the moon, and who can't bear to miss each other and don't see each other."
The flowers are in full bloom, full of spring, invite you to the Flower Festival, but the best reason to see you.
From the song dynasty onwards, the date of the Flower Dynasty Festival was gradually determined. In the north, most of them are the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. In the south, it is mostly the second day of February or the twelfth of February.
Why is this different? Because of the climate, the flower dynasty is different. In fact, it doesn't matter which day it is. The important thing is that on that day, the flowering period is just right, and so many beautiful things are only related to the flowers.
"Red"
In the early morning of the Flower Festival, the girls will roll the curtains out of the cabinet and tie the five-colored paper notes on the flower branches, which is called "enjoying the red". It is said that this can protect the flowers and trees, and do not fear the wind and rain. "If the wind is intentional, it is easy not to destroy." Protecting flowers is also a spring pity.
"Hairpin Flower"
At this time, spring is good, and the ancients will go to the green tour spring. In the Song Dynasty, the Kaifeng area also became popular with the "Fluttering Butterfly Society", at that time, both men and women loved hairpin flowers. The "Peony Of Luoyang" says: "The custom of Luoyang is about good flowers, and in spring, no nobles and lowly people in the city arrange flowers." ”
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"Eat flower cake"
During the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian loved flowers very much, and every year during the Flower Festival, the palace women were ordered to pick flowers, mash them, and steam them into pastries. The girls set up a table under the flower tree, took the flower skirt as a curtain, sat together, drew flower sticks, flew flowers, ate flower cakes... The flowers bloom in front of you, the flowers in your hands, the flowers in your mouth, and the flowers bloom for a while, but it is a pity that it is a moment.
Figure | Materialistics
"The spring breeze is like a distinguished guest, and it will be prosperous as soon as it arrives." Peach blossoms begin to red, pear blossoms are white, cherry blossoms are like clouds, magnolias bloom...
Today is the 12th Flower Festival of the 12th month of the lunar calendar, are you ready for spring?
When the flowers are all right, everything will be fine.
Figure | Mason 1949
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