What is the flying flower order?

Speaking of flying flowers, it was actually an entertainment program invented by many poets in the Tang Dynasty at drinking parties. The theme person said an elegant word, such as "wine", "moon" and "water", and then the other poets said a poem containing this word in turn. Because the word "flower" was used at the beginning of the game, it was named Hua Feiling.

At the beginning, poets were all drinking and having fun, and they paid attention to romance. Therefore, the earliest flying flower orders were written directly by poets, instead of reciting ancient poems like this, and there were many beautiful sentences at once. We can even say that Fei Hualing made great contributions to many kind words in Tang poetry.

However, with the passage of time, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, even at the beginning of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the huge accumulation of poems and songs by predecessors, Feihualing gradually stopped clinging to originality and became an impromptu program to test the reserve of literati's poems. Another reason for this situation is that at that time, words began to slowly replace poetry and became a more popular literary expression for literati. By the middle of the Song Dynasty, there were very few literati who liked to write poems.

Yes, because poetry is gradually replaced by other literary trends, the flying flower order has gradually disappeared in the eyes of these literati who like to drink and have fun. In modern times, for many reasons, flying flowers can only be seen in ancient literature, and we will hardly come into contact with such literary programs that test one's cultural reserves in our daily life.

I still remember that a while ago, CCTV held a very popular program called "Chinese Poetry Conference". Because flying flowers are an interesting part of it, after so many years, it has once again spread all over the homes of ordinary people. So it seems that this program is really good.