Hua Chao Festival customs of Flower Goddess Festival

Customs of the Flower Festival:

Zhushen Meeting

It is said that the Flower God is responsible for the growth and maintenance of plants in spring and summer. Therefore, not only those who worship her It is limited to flower farmers, but also includes farmers who cultivate crops, fruits and vegetables. There are many flower temples in the Yangtze River Delta. In the old days, Wuyue flower farmers often enshrined statues of the flower gods. On the second day of February, the Flower God's birthday, in many places, many farmers gather in flower temples to make offerings to wish the God a happy jubilee. In the Northeast, vegetarian dishes are also used as offerings. In some places, performances are performed to entertain the gods, usually with twelve actors playing the stories of the flower gods of each month in December each year.

Flying Butterflies in Spring

In ancient times, during the Flower Dynasty, literati and scholars invited close friends to drink and have fun while admiring the flowers. They sang to each other and sang loudly to the sun. Looking at the traditional festivals in February and March, we will find that there will be a series of spring outing festivals during this period - the Spring Festival kicks off the prelude to welcoming the spring, and the Hua Chao Festival constitutes the climax of the spring outing. During the Song Dynasty, the "Butterfly Fighting Party" was popular in the Hua Dynasty in Kaifeng, which was an interesting folk entertainment activity at that time.

Plant flowers and pick vegetables

On this day, there is still the custom of planting flowers and trees in various places, which is a bit like today’s Arbor Day; picking vegetables means digging wild vegetables-white artemisia and shepherd’s purse. It's the time when it's fresh and tender.

Drying seeds to pray for a good harvest

On an auspicious day for flowers, when flowers are blooming, every family spreads out all kinds of seeds. It is said that they want to collect "hundreds of seeds" to pray for a good harvest. . The method of divination is very simple: if it is a sunny day, it will not rain, and if it is sunny, it will bring good luck to everything.

Making flower cakes

The festival culture and food culture of the Tang Dynasty were very developed. It is said that Wu Zetian was fond of flowers. On the Flower Festival on the 15th day of the second lunar month, she always ordered her palace maids to collect flowers, pound them with rice, steam them into cakes, and use the flower cakes to reward the ministers. This kind of cake has the fragrance of petals and grains. It quickly became popular and became extremely popular in the palace.

Introduction to the Flower Chao Festival:

The Hua Chao Festival commemorates the birthday of hundreds of flowers, referred to as Hua Chao, commonly known as "Flower Festival", "Hundred Flowers Birthday" and "Flower God's Birthday" , "Vegetable Picking Festival" is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, popular in Northeast, North China, East China, Central and South China and other places. It is usually held on the second, twelfth or fifteenth day of the second lunar month. During the festival, people go out together to enjoy the flowers in the countryside, which is called "outing". Girls cut out five-colored paper and stick it on the flower branches, which is called "appreciating red".