What solar term ants are there around the vernal equinox?

In ancient times, there was an important festival around the vernal equinox, which was the Flower Festival. The first solar term before the vernal equinox is fright, and the next solar term after the vernal equinox is Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi.

The History of Flower Festival

Flower shows can be traced back to the ancient custom of welcoming spring and offering sacrifices to spring gods in lakes. The Book of Tao Zhugong in the Spring and Autumn Period records: "February 12 is the birthday of a hundred flowers, and no two hundred flowers are ripe." The book "Local Conditions and Customs" written by Jin people at the beginning of Zhou Dynasty: "The custom in Zhejiang says that spring is in the middle and bloom is flourishing. There is a saying in the world called bloom sooner or later. "

The prevalence of Flower Festival in China began during the reign of Wu Zetian. The queen loves flowers very much. She is addicted to flowers. Every year on February 15th in the summer calendar, on the Flower Festival, she always asks the ladies-in-waiting to pick flowers, mash them with rice, steam them into flower cakes and give them to the princes. Flower Festival began to be popular from the official to the folk, and it was still often mentioned by scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.