Flower Dynasty Festival.
Commonly known as the Flower God Festival,
Peanut Day, Flower God's Birthday.
On this day,
People go to the countryside to enjoy the flowers,
Commonly known as "stepping on the green",
The girls cut five-colored paper
Sticking to the branches of the flowers is called "red viewing".
Spring returns to the earth, and all things recover,
Hundreds of flowers or buds or spit or bloom,
It's full of life.
The flower dynasty is the morning of the flowers, that is, the day when the flowers have just bloomed.
The Flower Dynasty Festival has always been a famous traditional festival in the mainland, and it is said that this day is the birthday of the flower god, commonly known as "Flower God Festival", "Hundred Peanut Day", "Flower God Birthday", "Vegetable Picking Festival".
It is very popular in northeast, north China, east China, central and southern China, and the festival period is generally on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the twelfth of February or the fifteenth of February.
During the festival, people will accompany them to the countryside to visit and admire the flowers, and the girls will also cut the shape of the flowers with colored paper in advance and stick them on the branches, which is called "red viewing".
We Chinese especially like the festival, but the name of the Flower Dynasty Festival does not seem to be loud.
The Flower Dynasty Festival has a long history, as early as the Spring and Autumn "Tao Zhu Gongshu" has been recorded: "February 12 is the day of a hundred peanuts, no rain and a hundred flowers ripe." ”
The Tang Dynasty set the Flower Dynasty Festival on February 15, along with the fifteenth day of the first month and the fifteenth of August, as one of the three "half-moon festivals". Therefore, folk often call the Flower Dynasty Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival together, and there is a saying of "flower day and moon".
The spring flowers in the famous poem "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon" by the later lord Li Yu actually refers to the Flower Dynasty Festival. Because the flower letter varies from place to place, over time, the flower festival has diverged between the north and the south.
In the north, February 15 is the flower dynasty, while in the south, February 12 is the flower dynasty, and some places have a flower festival as early as February 2 and late February 25.
The Flower Dynasty Festival has also become one of the most irregular in date in traditional Chinese festivals. There is no specific symbol, and it is no wonder that people gradually forget and snubb it.
Nowadays, many young people who love Chinese culture and love Hanfu will wear Hanfu on the day of the Flower Dynasty Festival and enjoy the flowers and spring.
The peach blossoms on the face of the people are red, and such a beautiful scenery is a visual feast, but also a revival of culture.
The Flower Festival is named after flowers, and various customs and activities related to flowers are naturally indispensable.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Flower Dynasty Festival was still limited to the small circle of upper-class scholars, and literati and rioters gathered together to find a beautiful place and drink and write poetry.
After the Song Dynasty, with the development of the city culture, the Flower Dynasty Festival also gradually spread from the elite class to the entire folk, and many customs were also formed at this time.
Spring flowers
Every morning in the morning of the Flower Festival, the girls will roll the curtains out of the cabinet, swim in the spring wilderness, and hang the five-colored paper notes on the flower branches, which is called "enjoying the red".
"In the spring, the flowers are dyed in the green bushes, and the branches are cut in the east wind." This is the custom that is written.
The Tang people also have a saying that "if shuofeng is intentional, it is easy not to be destroyed", which is full of pity for the flower protectors.
Fluttering butterflies
Flowers are like flowers naturally attract colorful butterflies, and while enjoying the flowers, fluttering butterflies naturally becomes a supporting activity.
During the Qing Jiaqing period, the "Chronicle of Rugao County" recorded: "On the fifteenth day, the flowers were famous for the butterfly festival, and the good deeds set up a wine garden pavilion or frolicked in the suburbs." ”
Can't help but remind people of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in baochao fluttering butterflies, which makes people yearn for it.
Worship the flower god
Cai Yun of the Qing Dynasty has a poem: "The day of a hundred peanuts is a good day, and it is not yet half of the spring of the flower dynasty." Thousands of red and purple embroidery, Shanglao embellished the god of he flowers. ”
Since ancient times, we have had activities to worship the flower god during the Flower Dynasty Festival. Each region spontaneously sets up a shrine for the flower god, and through ritual activities, prays for the new year to blossom and the wind and rain are smooth.
Flower dynasty cuisine
"Eaters, sex also." The Flower Dynasty Festival is naturally indispensable to food. On this day, people also eat hundred flower cake, drink hundred flower porridge, and drink hundred flower wine.
The history of the hundred flower cake is very long, and it is said to be related to Wu Zetian: Wu Zetianhua Asahi organized a garden parade for monarchs and courtiers, so that the palace ladies collected hundred flowers, steamed them into cakes, and rewarded them to the courtiers.
While walking in the wild, dig up some edible wildflowers and wild vegetables to go back, while drinking as an embellishment of diet, so the flower dynasty festival also has the name of "picking vegetables festival" in the folk.
This morning our day,Tomorrow koreka morning
The festival is only suitable for drinking, and the East Pond is suitable for seeing tricks
The green deep willows are heavy and the red begonias are delicate
Laughing at the sideburns of the snow, I refused to disappear for many years
Countless times I have felt that it is only a blossom of nature, but let the ancients set a birthday for her, is it just out of the need for reproduction? Not really!
Whether you wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night, or when you are busy, leisurely and leisurely... The flower is the beauty we can see as soon as we open our eyes, she doesn't need to make people think, the beauty is there.
In ordinary days, we run, we toil, we are tired, the beauty of flowers that touch the eye, but it is the most gentle care for such a day.
Today's flower festival, even if few people know, but when you look up and see the flowers blooming from tree to tree, people will become gentle, because we are convinced that "beauty" will always come with flowers.
Natural beauty is hard to give up.
May you and I, who like flowers,
Can smell the flowers, accompany the four seasons,
All the way, a lifetime of joy,
For the rest of your life, it will be flowering.