Spring day trip, apricot blossoms blowing all over the head, strangers to whose family is young and footy.
Mr. Feng Zikai said: Spring is the most pleasant season of the year. That's not it! Today is the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, "the birthday of a hundred flowers", commonly known as the "Flower Dynasty Festival" in ancient times, also known as the "Flower God Festival", a hundred flowers compete for glory, and the Flower Dynasty Festival can be called the most beautiful festival.
(2021 Jinan Flower Dynasty Festival.) ）
"Flower God", according to legend, refers to Lady Wei's female disciple Nüyi, who is said to be good at planting flowers and raising flowers, and is revered by posterity as the "Flower God", and the Flower Dynasty Festival is attached to her festival.
The Flower Dynasty Festival corresponds to the Mid-Autumn Festival. If you spread out the time of year, you can see that February 15 and August 15 are exactly symmetrical. Spring flowers and autumn moon, february half flower appreciation, August half moon appreciation, that is, the so-called "flower sunrise and sunset", this is the romance that belongs to the Chinese. It is also said that the date of the Flower Dynasty Festival is the second day of the first month of February, the twelfth of February or the fifteenth of February of the lunar calendar every year.
Flower Dynasty Festival in ancient China is a very important traditional festival, because in ancient times there was "Flower King in charge of human fertility" said, so "Flower Dynasty" also means "blossoming leaves", praying for the prosperity of people, many people will choose to get married on this day, complete important life rituals.
The ancient Chinese people's affection for flowers also rose to the status of worshipping the "twelve flower gods", namely the plum blossom of the first month, the apricot blossom in February, the peach blossom in March, the peony in April, the pomegranate in May, the lotus flower in June, the jade hairpin flower in July, the laurel flower in August, the chrysanthemum in September, the orchid in October, the daffodil in November, and the plum in December.
Interestingly, Tang Taizong, Emperor Wu, and Muzong of the Tang Dynasty were all "flower idiots", not only planting flowers, protecting flowers, and appreciating flowers, but also taking advantage of the flowers to eat some. Every year during the Flower Dynasty Festival, Wu Zetian would make the palace women pick hundreds of flowers, mash them together with rice, steam them into cakes, and feast on the courtiers. The pastries produced in this way combine the richness of flowers with the fragrance of the valley, and soon spread to form a festival.
On the day of the Flower Festival, people also have customs such as enjoying flowers, picking vegetables with butterflies, praying for abundance in the sun, making flower cakes, and cutting flower plugs for women. Due to the approaching spring ploughing, it is also an important task for the soil guards to persuade farmers in the suburbs of the flower dynasty. Officials would reward the people with wine and vegetables during the Flower Festival and encourage them to work diligently in the hope of a better harvest in the new year.
The Flower Festival is not only a celebration of the good days of spring, but also a understanding of the cherishing of beauty, a keen sense of life, and a contemplation of philosophy revealed by it. Although the traditional customs of the flower dynasty and festivals in history cannot be completely preserved, in the contemporary social context and the creativity of modern life, we can still regain the traditional wisdom of the ancestors, speed and slowness, and deeply understand the relationship between man and nature in harmony. If there are flowers in the heart, it will be poetic and full of flowers.
It is the time of blossoming, and if some cities cannot go out to enjoy the flowers because of the epidemic, then temporarily on the line to see the flowers all the way to the land of Qilu.
(Hundred Flowers Park.) Photography: @Photogenic Old King)
(Jinan Quancheng Park.) Photography: @Brilliant 1213)
(Jinan Thousand Buddha Mountain.) Photography: @cy Four-Eyed Dragon)
(Qingdao Zhongshan Park.) ）
The epidemic has come to spring, and I believe that this day is not far away. Wait until the "spring cold" has passed, and then we will go to enjoy the spring.
(Dazhong Daily client reporter Liang Kaiwen intern Gao Xueting finishing report Source: Guangming Daily, Nishan Sacred Land)