When is the fifteenth day of the second lunar month?

The fifteenth day of the second lunar month is the Flower Festival.

Flower Festival is a traditional festival for Han people to commemorate Baihua's birthday, which is called Flower Festival for short, commonly known as Flower Festival, Baihua Birthday, Flower Birthday and Picking Vegetables Festival. Popular in Northeast China, North China, East China and Central South China. During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called an outing. Girls cut out five-color paper and stick it on the branches, which is called enjoying red leaves.

Flower Festival, with a long history, should be the most prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, and people mentioned it more in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli's "Zhai Cheng Shi Hua" recorded: "Tokyo is the flower dynasty on February 12." Tao Zhugong's book also said: "February 12 is the birthday of Baihua, and Baihua will mature without rain." The customs at this time are mostly outings and elegant banquets. People look at the scenery, drink and write poems, which is somewhat elegant.

Flower festival custom

1, Pray for the Temple Fair, the birthday of the Flower God. In many places, many farmers will gather in the Flower Temple to offer sacrifices to pray for the Jubilee of the God. Northeast China also pays attention to offering sacrifices with vegetarian dishes, and people are in an endless stream, thus forming temple fairs. On this night, we will hold various shapes of "lanterns" and cruise around the flower temple to prolong the activities of entertaining the gods, which means that the weather will be good in the coming year.

2. In the ancient Flower Dynasty, literati invited three or five confidants to enjoy flowers, drink and have fun, sing with each other and sing loudly. During the Song Dynasty, the "butterfly-catching meeting" was popular in the flower dynasty around Kaifeng, which was a very interesting folk entertainment at that time.

It is auspicious to sow in the sun. When wheat straw is brewed, all kinds of seeds are sown in every household. It is said that it is necessary to collect its "hundreds of seeds" to pray for a bumper harvest.