The Flower Dynasty Festival, which is a festival about the Wind and Snow Moon, is a traditional festival of beauty. However, few people have heard of it.
The Flower Dynasty Festival, also known as the Flower God Festival, is the birthday of a hundred flowers. And because of the different steps of spring in various places, in the southern region, the scene of a hundred flowers blooming is relatively early, mostly on the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar; and in the north, because the weather warms up relatively late, it is generally in the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar that the flower god is born.
In ancient times, the Flower God Festival enjoyed the same importance as the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth of August. During this period, people meet to go out to enjoy the flowers.
"Spring day trip, apricot blossoms fall all over the head!" It depicts the moving figure of a young girl admiring flowers in the forest, and her head is covered with white apricot blossoms.
At this time, there are also many seasonal flowers, peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and pear blossoms, but the most suitable flowers as hairpin flowers are peonies and peonies. The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law all have flowers and wear flowers, as if they are more beautiful than the flower gods.
Hanfu with the most beautiful hairpin flower, let us regain the ancient women's hairpin flower customs.
During the Flower God Festival, people also have the custom of picking wild vegetables.
In the past, wild vegetables were picked to fill the hunger and fill the stomach. Now, picking wild vegetables is a leisure and pleasant thing, while breathing the fresh air of the mountain fields, enjoying the baptism of spring light, it has become a rare holiday pleasure for people in the city.
Hundred flower cake is a seasonal food for the Flower God Festival.
When it comes to hundreds of flower cakes, I think of flower cakes in Kunming, Yunnan, and osmanthus cakes that I usually eat. The main flower cake is the rose petal, and the osmanthus cake is the main flower petal.
What exactly is a hundred flower cake? Could it be a mixture of various flowers?
Hundred flower cake is also known as peony cake. Therefore, as the name suggests, it is to add the petals of a peony into the cake.
Heze peony cake and Luoyang peony cake are the most famous.
This Saturday is the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, we must not live up to such a beautiful flower viewing season, hairpin flowers, spring travel, pick wild vegetables, eat hundred flower cakes, and feel the charm of this flower god festival together!