When is the Flower Festival? What are the customs of the Flower Festival?

The second day of February in the lunar calendar is the Flower Festival. Perhaps you haven't heard much about the Flower Festival, but it is indeed a traditional festival in our country. During the Flower Festival, people usually go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers. For example, some cities have botanical gardens, so if you go there that day, you will find many young people and elders enjoying flowers there, which is also an outing.

I. Agricultural services

On the Flower Festival, everyone will plant flowers and trees. It is said that this season coincides with the warm spring in bloom, and next year's harvest will be even better. In addition, Shan Ye's wild vegetables are beginning to mature, so some farmers or people living in the city will dig wild vegetables, and the wild vegetables are also the most tender at this time.

Step 2: Make a cake.

In ancient times, probably during the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, the chefs in the palace would prepare cakes at the Flower Festival, and the ladies-in-waiting would go to the countryside to collect all kinds of flowers and then give them to the chefs to make. Cake made of these flowers is also called. Baihua cake? It is said that it tastes good. Although I don't know much about Baihua cake now, some places will make green balls or green cakes, and the ingredients used are also collected on the day of the Flower Festival.

Step 3: Drink spring vegetable porridge.

Maybe you don't know what spring vegetable porridge is, but most people must have eaten it, which is porridge boiled with fresh cabbage and edamame. This porridge is delicious, with natural aroma, salty and delicious. Some places will add some peppers to porridge. Of course, with the development of the times, spring vegetable porridge has also evolved into various kinds of porridge. For example, some places will add some lean meat to spring vegetable porridge, or use snow vegetables instead of vegetables.

In fact, the Flower Festival is also a festival triggered by ancient people's longing for a better life. On the day when spring returns to the earth, they will go for a spring outing and an outing. Scholars also like to make some flower arrangements at this time, and some peasant women go to the fields to farm.

There are even some young people going out to enjoy flowers together, because a hundred flowers are blooming on this day. Speaking of it, the Flower Festival is somewhat similar to the current Arbor Day, and even the days are similar.