Now in China, Mother's Day usually refers to International Mother's Day, which is scheduled for the second Sunday in May, but in fact, our own country also has Mother's Day. So what is the origin of Mother's Day in China?
1, the earliest mother's day in China.
The earliest Mother's Day in China is on March 18th of the lunar calendar. It is said that this day is the birthday of Nu Wa, the ancestor of mankind and the great mother of the Chinese nation. On this day, all the people went to the temple to burn incense and worship. In The Book of Songs, the first work of China's ancient poetry, there is also a record of "How to get grass and talk about the back of the tree", which means where can I get a day lily and plant it in front of my mother's hall to make her forget her troubles? It can be seen that there were festivals to commemorate mothers in ancient China. Just as carnations represent International Mother's Day, Hemerocallis also represent China's mother flowers.
2. Mother's Day in China.
The early Mother's Day, like the worship of the mother of the gods in the west, belongs to the worship of the goddess, and is not a real gratitude and commemoration for the mother. Mother's Day in China is usually celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Magnolia is a transliteration of Sanskrit Ullambana, which means "upside down". The basin belongs to China, and it is a right vessel. The combined "eye bug basin" is a legendary ancestor-turning ceremony and a story about the origin of Mother's Day in China;
According to the "Lanpen Buddhist Scripture", Mulian, a disciple of Sakyamuni, saw her dead mother suffering from hunger on the hungry ghost road, and she was skinny in an upside-down space. As a dutiful son, how could his mother suffer? So he immediately filled a bowl of rice and gave it to his mother with magical power. But when his mother grabbed the rice, it turned into charcoal and could not be eaten. Manglietia asked the Buddha for help. The Buddha asked Manglietia to set up a basin on July 15 and prepare hundreds of kinds of food to support monks in all directions. Finally, Manglietia's mother was turned over.
Later, the Kasahara Festival gradually became a custom, and both the imperial court and the people held activities on July 15, which became a national ceremony and a folk festival of filial piety, in order to cross over the ancestors and repay Zude. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15 can also be called "Mother's Day" in China. Later, the festival gradually changed from filial piety to ghost festival.
3, the establishment of China Mother's Day initiative.
After the nature of Bonihara Festival changed, there was no similar filial piety festival. Until Mother's Day in the United States spread to China, some people proposed to designate the second day of the fourth lunar month as Mother's Day in China, and Meng Mu was one of them. This is because the story of Meng Mu's "Three Movements" is widely known, and Meng Mu's birthday can't be verified, so Mencius' birthday is set on the second day of April as Mother's Day for the first time.
Second, how to celebrate Mother's Day in China
Mother's Day is not a patent for modern people. It was also Mother's Day in ancient times. If you don't want to follow the crowd and send your mother a carnation, you can choose to have a China Mother's Day like the ancients:
1, send day lily
Hemerocallis is also called a girl without sadness. In the past, when the ancients went out for a long trip, they would plant day lilies in the courtyard, hoping to alleviate their yearning for their mother, so Xuantang became their mother's name.
2. Sing a song about visiting Shiro's mother.
"I miss my mother because of heartache; I don't think I can help it. It's rare to see a powerful mother-my mother! " Words hidden in my heart will be sung by passionate melody, and the affection between mother and child whose blood is thicker than water is self-evident.
Step 3 eat a "big meal"
Newly listed flat peaches, chrysanthemum wine beneficial to body and mind, plain noodle soup symbolizing health and longevity, and crucian carp soup symbolizing filial piety for more than one year are all family dinners suitable for Mother's Day.
Of course, the most important thing to celebrate Mother's Day is to go home often and spend more time with my mother. As the saying goes, "a child travels a thousand miles, but his mother is worried." Parents are there, but they don't travel far.