During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called "outing". Girls cut five-color paper and stick it on the branches, which is called "enjoying the red". There are also customs such as "putting lion flowers" and "putting magic lanterns" all over the country to commemorate the birthday of Baihua. Flower Festival has a long history, which was recorded in Tao Zhugong in the Spring and Autumn Period.
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Flower Festival is a very important traditional folk festival in ancient China. The phenomenon of different festivals in different places may be related to the delivery time of letters in different places. There are not many ethnic groups in the world who set up flower festivals like China, which shows that the Chinese nation has a long tradition of loving flowers.
"Baihua birthday is a good season, and the flower dynasty is not half spring; Colorful, or hard to decorate. " This is a portrayal of the folk custom of celebrating birthdays with a hundred flowers in the south of the Yangtze River in the old society. At night, "Lantern" hangs on the top of the flower branch, and the light contrasts with the red flowers and green branches. It is also a good time to show their skills. Flower Festival is to commemorate the birth of a hundred flowers. In ancient times, there was a saying that Kao was in charge of human fertility, so it was also a festival of reproductive worship.
In ancient China, agriculture and fishery were accomplished by manpower. The more people, the stronger the productivity. Therefore, in ancient times, people hoped that their descendants would thrive and have a large population. As for the record of the Flower Festival, Yang Wanli's Poem of Chengzhai in the Southern Song Dynasty called "Tokyo on February 12th as the Flower Festival". Tao Zhugong's book also said: "February 12 is the birthday of Baihua, and Baihua will mature without rain." Its customs are mostly outings and elegant banquets, which is the trend in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Most of the participants were poets, writers, and sometimes relatives and friends, drinking and writing poems while enjoying flowers, laughing and laughing constantly.
Before the Song Dynasty, some refined customs of the Flower Festival were limited to some literati, and were not loved by the people. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, its activities have taken on new contents, including planting flowers, planting trees, picking vegetables (picking wild vegetables) and offering sacrifices to gods, and gradually expanded to all levels of the people.