When is the Flower Festival? What are the specific customs?

Flower Festival is from February 13 to February 17 of the lunar calendar every year.

Custom:

1. Good luck with the temple fair. There are many flower beds in the Yangtze River Delta. In the past, flower farmers in wuyue often offered statues of flower gods. On the second day of February, when the flower god was born, in many places, many farmers gathered in the flower temple to offer sacrifices to wish the flower god a happy birthday, and the northeast region also paid attention to offering sacrifices with vegetarian dishes.

2. In ancient times, during the Flower Dynasty, literati invited three or five confidants to enjoy flowers, drink and have fun, sing with each other and sing in the sun.

3. Planting flowers and picking vegetables. On the day of the Flower Festival, there are customs of planting flowers and trees everywhere; Picking vegetables is digging wild vegetables-Artemisia annua and shepherd's purse are just fresh and tender.

4. Sow seeds to pray for a bumper harvest, and spend the morning sun. Just as Fang Fei makes wine, every household sows all kinds of seeds, and it is said that it is necessary to gather its "hundred kinds of seeds" to pray for a bumper harvest.

5, making flower cakes, according to legend, Wu Zetian likes flowers. Every year on February 15th in the summer calendar, on the Flower Festival, she always asks the ladies-in-waiting to pick flowers, mash them with rice, steam them into cakes and reward them with flower cakes. Soon, it became popular in the palace, making flower cakes every flower festival.

6. During the Spring Festival, the Bai people at the foot of Dali Mountain will hold the "Spring Festival" on February 14 of the lunar calendar. By then, potted flowers will be placed in front of every household, forming a "flower mountain" and a "flower street" for arranging flowers.

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