Did you know that Hundred Flowers also has its own birthday? The twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of hundred flowers, and Chinese folk have celebrated the flower dynasty since ancient times, which is called the flower dynasty festival.
The Flower Dynasty Festival is a traditional festival of the Han people, which is to commemorate the birthday of the Hundred Flowers, and is also commonly known as the "Flower God Festival".
In ancient times, it was generally held on the twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. During the festival, there are also many customs, people will go on outings, enjoy the flowers, hold butterfly contests, make flower cakes, etc. Emperor Yuan of Liang of the Southern Song Dynasty had a poem about the Flower Dynasty Festival: "The flower moves the spring heart on the night of the moon, and whoever endures lovesickness does not see each other."
At present, there is also a tradition of holding flower festivals in Jiangnan cities such as Hangzhou and Suzhou. In the legend of the Hundred Flowers, the twelve months of the lunar calendar have their own representative flowers.
The twelve-month order corresponds to the twelve flower gods, and the flower god of February is the apricot blossom. The apricot blossom is one of the oldest ornamental flowers in China, and is planted in the courtyard of the home next to the mountain road.
Lu You's: Xiao Lou listened to the spring rain one night, and the ming dynasty in the deep alley sold apricot blossoms. This shows that in the Song Dynasty, apricot blossoms have been sold as a very common cut flower. The apricot blossoms are beautiful in posture, the color is tender red when the buds are ready to be released, and when the flowers bloom, they gradually turn white, and when they wither, they become snow white.
Apricot blossoms, due to spring and pass away at the end of spring, have both brilliant and splendid infinite scenery and withered and empty sadness. Different people have different associations and feelings about apricot blossoms because of their respective life experiences.
There is the joy of "spring day trip, apricot blossoms blowing all over the head", and there is also the desolation of "long memories of last year's cold food night, apricot blossoms zero rain and lightning". Whether they are together or parting, the apricot blossom has become one of the most beautiful cultural symbols in China after thousands of years, and the apricot blossom rains down, which is the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan that many people dream of.