Where is a silkworm flower festival in Nanxun District?

Huzhou, located in Hangjiahu Plain in northern Zhejiang, is known as the Silk House and a famous silkworm town in China. Silk fragments unearthed in Qianshanyang, the southern suburb of Huzhou City in 1958, which were 4,7 years ago, are the earliest silk products ever discovered in China. Since ancient times, mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling and silk weaving have always been an important part of Huzhou people's production and life. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the output and product quality of raw silk and silk products have reached the peak, and their reputation has spread far and wide all over the world. At the same time, the sericulture customs produced by these production activities are also extremely colorful, such as offering sacrifices to the silkworm god, Qingming outing, rolling silkworm flowers, racing clippers, boxing boats and so on. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which has been going for a walk in the mountains and rolling silkworms for thousands of years, is one of the most vivid, spectacular and influential folk activities of sericulture in Huzhou urban and rural areas. Hanshan Town is located in the southeast of Huzhou City and belongs to Nanxun District of Huzhou City. It merged with Shanlian Town in 1999, connecting Hangzhou in Nantong, Deqing in the west and Tongxiang in the east, with convenient land and water transportation. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through Hanshan Town, and there is a mountain on the side of the canal, which is not more than 1 meters high, but "it is independent of the four fields and the flat waves, and Fiona Fang is a hundred miles away." As the saying goes, "the mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous." Around this Hanshan Mountain is the birthplace of Chinese silk culture. Every year on Qingming Festival, tens of thousands of silkworm farmers in the villages around Hanshan carry their own silkworm eggs, and flock to Hanshan to worship the silkworm queen and pray for 24 points for silkworm flowers (meaning double good harvest). Then go home happily with the "silkworm flower" in the silkworm flower temple. Year after year, Hanshan's unique folk cultural activity-Qingming "rolling silkworm flowers" has been formed. According to textual research, it is about that Xi Shi passed Hanshan from Yue State to Wu State, and Xi Shi sent silkworms to this day. There is a story in folklore: On the Qingming Day, the Silkworm Flower Empress came to Hanshan Mountain and saw the silkworm farmers praying for Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless them to get 24 points of silkworm flowers. The Silkworm Flower Empress disguised as a village girl and passed on the silkworm gas to the silkworm farmers, so that the silkworm flowers of silkworm farmers could get a good harvest. Since then, the custom of selling silkworm flowers has been passed down. There is a Hanshan Tower on the top of Hanshan Mountain, also known as Pen Tower. In the Qing Dynasty, there is a poem in Shen Guozhi's Yun Xiang Lu Shi Chao: the shadow of the tower is thinner than the needle, and the mountain is pale and green, learning eyebrow fiber. Nong's family lives far away from Hanshan, and the pro-silver dye wins the tip. Ancient books such as Huzhou Fuzhi and Lianxi Literature also recorded: "Huzhou writes a pen, works all over the world, and the pen makers are all Lakers. Its place name is Shanlian Village, and the village has mountains and hills, and its paintings are outstanding." It also said: "There are towers in the mountains, so I wrote a pen. They all went out of Shanlian Village and went ten miles west of the mountain. " According to legend, Meng Tian, a general of Qin Dynasty, made a pen in Shanlian. This pen tower was built to commemorate Meng Tian's historical achievement in making lake pens. Hanshan Tower was built in the Yuan You period of Song Dynasty (186~194), and Yao Mingding, a new citizen of Deqing County, built it on the top of the mountain. It was rebuilt in the orthodox Xin You year of Ming Dynasty (AD 1441) and restored in the 27th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty (AD 191). The tower is 38 meters high and 6 meters in diameter, with 7 floors up and down. The tower seat is sumeru, with brick and wood structure. Each floor has arches; Staggered. The tower is octagonal, with iron bells hanging on each corner. There is also a legend among the people that Hanshan Pagoda was repaired by Wu Guotai, the mother of Sun Quan of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. The legendary repair time of the pen tower is more than 7 years earlier than the construction date recorded in history. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression time, the Japanese invaders built carved castles and artillery towers beside the Hanshan Pagoda, and the Hanshan Pagoda was severely damaged by the Japanese aggressors. During the Cultural Revolution, the pagoda was once again devastated, and most of the stairs and floors were demolished, so that visitors could only climb to the second floor, and it was impossible to climb the tower above the third floor. In August 1984, Huzhou Municipal People's Government listed Hanshan Tower as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. From October, 1993 to March, 1994, funds were allocated for reconstruction again. Re-built the Silkworm Flower Hall and Guanyin Hall, and built the Silk Museum. Hanshan Tower is shaped like a giant pen, and it goes straight into the blue sky and white clouds. There is a silkworm flower temple at the top of Hanshan Mountain, which is a place for offering sacrifices to the silkworm god. Offering sacrifices to the silkworm god is one of the main activities of Hanshan silkworm flower festival, which has a long history. Generally, there are three procedures: collecting silkworm eggs, offering sacrifices to the silkworm queen and performing in the pavilion. In the early days, silkworm farmers raised silkworms by raising moths and laying eggs themselves. Silkworm farmers hang gauze sterilized by sunlight on their own walls or gates, so that moths can lay eggs. Anyone who can climb on the gauze to lay eggs is a healthy moth, which is a high-quality variety. Silkworm farmers who live in this land, after the Spring Festival every year, wrap their silkworm eggs with a thin layer of silk cotton, put them on women's chests, and use women's body temperature to urge them to become ants. In the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the silkworm farmers ran up Hanshan Mountain to meet the Silkworm Flower Empress, to bless the silkworm eggs to grow well and neatly, and at the same time to make a wish by lighting candles in front of the Silkworm Flower Temple, which is called "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". Silkworm God is a girl and a white horse, also known as the King Bodhisattva of A?vagho?a, in the main hall of the Silkworm Flower Hall. Sacrificial offerings are also relatively simple, including cocoons (made into round dumplings with rice flour), brown seeds, malt cakes, rice wine and so on. Generally, the silkworm eggs package and the sacrifice of the silkworm flower empress are run by the main laborers or housekeepers of silkworm farmers, but also by the whole family, and some large families carry the whole chicken and duck for ostentation and extravagance.