What is the 15th day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar

The fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the Flower Dynasty Festival.

Flower Dynasty Festival is to commemorate the birthday of flowers, commonly known as the "Flower God Festival", "Hundred Flowers Birthday", "Flower God Birthday", "Pick Vegetable Festival

During the festival, people go to the countryside in groups to visit and enjoy the flowers, known as "trekking", the girls cut five-color paper glued to the flower branches, known as "red". The Flower Morning Festival corresponds to the Mid-Autumn Festival. The date of the Flower Festival also varies from place to place. To the Qing Dynasty, the general north to February 15 for the Flower Dynasty, while the south to February 12 for the birthday of the hundred flowers. China's northern and southern climatic conditions are different, the south than the north a few days earlier for the festival is reasonable.

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Traditional customs

1, food and drink

Flower Cake: collection of hundreds of flowers, and rice together, mashed, steamed into cakes. But legend has it that it began during the reign of Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian addicted to flowers, every February 15 of the summer calendar, the day of the Flower Dynasty Festival, she always make the courtesans collected flowers, and rice mashed together, steamed into cakes, with flower cakes to reward the ministers. Upward and downward, from the government to the folk on the popular flower festival activities. This is also the origin of eating flower cake.

Eating flowers: Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty in the Flower Festival on this day had personally in the Imperial Garden hosted the "picking vegetables imperial feast".

Spring vegetable porridge: porridge with snow peas (or add beans) and small chili peppers.

2, planting flowers

The folk custom of planting flowers.

3, Ikebana

Folk planting flowers, literati line planting bonsai, Ikebana tribute to wine, incense, elegant things. Ikebana for the painting on the case, in the Tang and Song dynasties or imitation of the Tang and Song dynasties can often be seen on the painting.

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