What is the role of the awn solar term? Ant Farm

Mangzhong solar terms send flowers to the gods.

Sending flowers to God is a thousand-year tradition of China people. Corresponding to the "Birthday of Hundred Flowers" on February 12 of the lunar calendar, Chinese ancestors' humanistic feelings of respecting nature accumulated during the welcoming ceremony. The awn is planted in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and bloom withers, and all the fragrance falls. On this day, people hold a ceremony to send flowers to the flower god to express their concern for the beauty of the world, hoping that the flower god will meet again next spring.

In the Southern Dynasties, Cui Lingsi said in "Three Rites and Righteousness": "In May, mango is a festival, and mango can be planted in the valley, so it is named after mango. A meeting to worship the flower god was held at Mango Festival.

folk-custom activities

There are many kinds of folk activities to welcome the flower god, such as planting flowers, enjoying flowers and enjoying red flowers. During the Flower Dynasty, the literati invited Ya Ji, enjoyed flowers, drank wine, wrote poems and sang songs in the sun. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi had the phrase "flowers in the spring, morning, moonlight and night", and Li Shangyin had the chant of "not picking flowers and facing the snow". Cai Yun's poem "Flower Dynasty" in Qing Dynasty said: "Baihua's birthday is a beautiful day, and the flower dynasty is not half spring. Colorful, colorful, or very hard to decorate the god of flowers. "

In recent years, the cultural value and elegant folk customs of the Flower Festival have been excavated. Guangzhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and other places have resumed the Flower Festival and held a series of cultural activities, such as flower exhibitions, book exhibitions and poetry evenings. , so as to make the age hidden in ancient books elegant and reproduce romance through the vast time and space.