Why should mango festival send flowers to God?

What does the flower god mean? Why send flowers at the Flower Festival?

It is an ancient folk custom to send flowers to the gods during the awning season. It is believed that the seeds of awn have passed, the flowers begin to wither and the flower god abdicates. Therefore, people often hold a ceremony to worship the flower god on Mangzi Day, and at the same time express their gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. On that day, people will set up offerings, burn incense and offer sacrifices, and bid farewell to the flower gods. Cao Xueqin wrote in the 27th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Those girls, either weaving sedan-chair horses with petals and willow branches, or folding them into dry buildings with brocade yarn, are all tied with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying in the garden and flowers are in full bloom.

According to the old saying, after the ear planting festival, when the fragrant flower shakes off and the flower god abdicates, the world will solemnly bid her farewell to show its gratitude.

"The next day is April 26th. It turns out that this day is not the last day of the Ear Festival. Ancient custom: On the day of transplanting rice, all kinds of gifts should be arranged to worship the flower god. It is said that once the planting of flowers is over, it will be summer, all the flowers will be unloaded, and the flower god will abdicate and have to say goodbye. However, this custom is popular in boudoir, so people in Grand View Garden get up early. "

How to bid farewell to the flower god?

Modern people are little known, but A Dream of Red Mansions, known as an encyclopedia, provides us with vivid information:

"Those girls, or woven into sedan chairs with petals and willow branches, or folded into thousands of buildings with silk brocade, tied with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying and flowers are in full bloom in the garden. What's more, these people are all out of the wall, jealous of Yingying, and it's not good for a while. " The "dry floor" in this passage needs to be explained: dry, shield; Luo, Jing and Zhuang are all ancient flags. Luo is a flag with a cow's tail at the top of the flagpole. Jing is similar to Luo, but decorated with colorful folded feathers. The building is shaped like an umbrella. It can be seen that a large family is a splendid scene for the flower god to bid farewell at the ear festival.

Lin Daiyu, who is sentimental, can't help feeling sorry for herself in the face of flowers. She also sang a heartbreaking mourning poem: "Flowers are flying all over the sky, and who will pity if the red disappears?" The hair is soft and fragrant, and the hair falls and touches the embroidered curtain. The daughter in the boudoir cherishes the spring dusk, full of melancholy, hoes flowers with both hands to embroider the boudoir, and bears the humiliation of falling flowers. ..... If you don't have a trick, you will hide your love. It is better to lead an honest and clean life than to be trapped in a ditch. I am going to die and be buried, but I don't know when Nong will die. The man who buried the flowers is laughing today, but who did he know when he buried them? Let's see the residual flowers of spring gradually falling, which is the time when beauty dies of old age. There is no sad song for me, I don't know if the flowers fall and people die. "

When the girls in the Grand View Garden bid farewell to the Flower God, they first dressed themselves beautifully, followed by the transportation ("sedan chair") and solemn ceremony ("dry floor") for the Flower God. From this, we can see that the ancients felt close to nature and showed sensitivity and attention to ecology, which is worth pondering by modern people.

Who is the flower god?

Flower God is a flower god in Chinese folk beliefs. According to Huainanzi, it is the flower god who commands flowers, governs the sky and grows flowers. According to the social customs and natural laws of twelve-year-old flowers, the god of flowers is named after flowers every twelve months in December.

Since the Ming Dynasty, Taoism has had the saying of "Hundred Flowers God", but people didn't use it to represent flower names at that time. By the mid-Qing Dynasty, Yangliuqing New Year pictures began to appear "Flower God" group paintings. The name of the flower god was determined by legends and historical figures in the Tang and Song Dynasties, representing the flower god of each month. Unfortunately, this group of New Year pictures has been lost, and only Russia has some "Flower God" New Year pictures. This group of "Flower God" paintings published in this newspaper is a new group of "Flower God" paintings created by the painter Mr. Wang Baoming according to the handed down words.