When is the Flower Festival?

The Flower Festival is on February 2nd.

Flower Festival refers to the birthday of China Baihua, also known as Flower Festival, Baihua Birthday, Flower Birthday and Vegetable Picking Festival. It is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, which is popular in northeast, north, east, central and south China. Generally, it is held on the second day of February, February 12 or February 15 and February 25 of the lunar calendar.

During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called hiking. Girls cut five-color paper and stick it on the branches, which is called enjoying the red. There are also customs such as lion lanterns.

In the past, February 12 of the lunar calendar was the birthday of flowers in Jiangnan area. On this day, every family will make a sacrifice to the flower god. Women in the boudoir cut five-color paper strips, put red ropes on them, and tied the five-color paper strips to the flower trees, which is called red appreciation, and went to the flower temple to burn incense in order to pray for the blessing of the flower god and bless the flowers and trees to flourish. Liu Mengmei is the goddess of flowers in the first month, and Yang Guifei is the goddess of flowers in February.

Other customs of Flower Festival

1, pray for the temple fair, it is said that the flower god is in charge of the growth of plants in spring and summer, so her worship is not limited to flower farmers, but also includes farmers who grow crops and fruits. There are many flower temples in the Yangtze River Delta. In the past, flower farmers in wuyue often offered statues of flower gods. On the second day of February, the flower god was born. In many places, many farmers gathered in the flower temple as offerings to wish the flower god a happy birthday.

2. When sowing and praying for a bumper harvest, flowers are auspicious. When making wine in Fang Fei, every household spreads all kinds of seeds. It is said that hundreds of seeds need to be collected to pray for a bumper harvest. The method of prediction is simple: avoid rain in the sun, and sunny days bring a good sign of richness and maturity for everything.

Planting flowers and arranging flowers is a folk custom. It is a fragrant and elegant thing to plant flowers by the people, plant bonsai by the literati and arrange flowers to make wine. Flower arrangement is common in ancient paintings or imitations of Tang and Song Dynasties.