Huangmei peach blossom widely spread in Huangmei County, Hubei Province is rumored to have originated when?

Huangmei flower picking originated earlier, rumored to have originated in the Tang and Song dynasties, mature in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. According to "Huangmei County Records" records: as early as the Song Dynasty, Huangmei has a very elaborate pick flower craft. Another in 1957, in Huangmei County, Cai Shan Township, Bao Shan Village excavated in an ancient tomb, "epitaph recorded for the forty-first year of the Ming Dynasty Jia Jing (1561 AD), the tomb of a female corpse with a head of "Fukushou Double Peach" of the floral picks square scarf. According to the analysis of the flower pattern, its kui dragons and kui phoenixes are similar to the patterns on the bronzes, and its regimental pattern is similar to the organization of the Zhu painted regimental pattern on the wooden lacquer ware on the wooden boat unearthed in the south city of Jiangling 3,000 years ago. At the same time, in the excavation of a "Qing dynasty Kangxi twenty-six years (1687) in the tomb, the female body head is also covered with a pick with "the country is the day XingShun, the official clear people from the peace, wife virtuous husband trouble less, the son of filial piety father heart wide" of the dominoes of the flowers of the square scarf". The above tomb excavated pick flower square scarf is enough to prove that the Huangmei pick flower this folk craft as early as in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing has been produced, from now on less than about 500 years of history.

Huangmei pick flower pattern is often used to express emotion is also a deep influence by the regional culture, it is a kind of people's aspirations for a better life, but also decorative aesthetics of a centralized embodiment. Huangmei pick flowers used in the pattern in addition to the commonly used auspicious patterns, the connotation of the pattern is mainly manifested in two aspects: more narrative, rich in metaphors. Huangmei is the birthplace of Huangmei Opera, by the influence of Huangmei Opera, in the local pattern pattern has a class of reflecting the opera class pattern, such as yuanyuanmen beheading son, the scholar parade, the fourth son to visit his mother, Mu Guiying under the cottage, the seven women down to the earth, the seven women to send the son and so on. People will be familiar with these operas after the simplification of the pick on the square scarf, not only convenient to remember but also to folk stories, legends play a kind of oral transmission of the role of dissemination, which is also unique to the ancient society of a didactic approach. At the same time, these operas also have an intangible educational effect on children's education. For example, Regulus said Xiao Yin Zongsheng invasion of the north, swinging the Tianmen formation, Zongbao was Mu Guiying tied to the Mu Bai love at first sight, married, Marshal Yang Lulang angry