What is the ancient name of pear flower?

Cold Food Flowers and Qingming Flowers.

Since winter solstice, spring has returned and plum blossoms have continued. During the Qingming Cold Food, many early spring flowers have already bloomed, but when people go out for an outing to worship their ancestors, they can see pear blossoms, or blooming, or falling in bloom, and a white atmosphere is dotted between the landscape horizons.

This is the clarity and beauty of the late spring vision. Moreover, pear flowers are beautiful but not demon. For those who have seen the lively flowers such as peach blossom, pink and apricot powder, there is a refreshing vision and mood. For people with a sad heart, it is also an excellent bloom to pay homage to the scene. Whiteness represents the purity of the soul and can communicate the soul between heaven and earth.

So when it comes to Qingming cold food, people have a special perception of pear flowers both visually and psychologically. Although the first flowering of pear flower is in the vernal equinox, as an economic crop, pear flower has been widely planted in mountainous areas since the Tang Dynasty, and just around Tomb-Sweeping Day, so pear flower is also called "the flower of cold food" and "the flower of Tomb-Sweeping Day". To put it bluntly, it is to deal with the cultural connotation of cold food.

Related verses:

"Cold food bloom thousand trees and snow, Qingming sunrise smoke." The Tang Dynasty is the expression of the relationship between Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi and pear blossoms in the Cold Food Festival. At the Cold Food Festival, there are thousands of pears. Of course, cold food is forbidden on the day, and cooking can only be done the next day. Pear blossoms are particularly solemn and clear in this silent cold food festival.

"In the dead of night, there is a tree in the empty courtyard." Li Shangyin stopped at the post office on his way back to his hometown during the Cold Food Festival. He happened to be opposite the boundary mountain. The pear blossoms in the mountain and the moon in the middle of the night made him feel no cold sense of sacrifice.

"Spring outing is vast, and every year is the pear blossom cold food season. White brocade is fragrant, and Yushu Qionghua is piled with snow. " Qiu Chuji, worthy of being a Taoist master, directly raised the pear flower of the Cold Food Festival to the realm of a white fairy, shining heaven and earth with the whitest and holiest snow. Although the popularity is insufficient, if the fairy is compared to a pear flower, there is nothing better.

"Pear blossoms reflect poplars, and ancient tombs are covered with green grass." Bai Juyi saw the scenery at a cold food festival. He is worthy of being a realistic poet. In a word, "it's all about death and separation." Although shocking and sad, only those who are extremely sad can know the comfort given by pear flowers and poplars at this time.