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In fact, Mother's Day is an imported holiday, in ancient China, there is no "Mother's Day" this said , but the traditional Chinese culture is very focused on "filial piety", in the Han Dynasty, a person if the "filial piety" can be recommended to the official, which is called the "filial piety", the emperor is to "filial piety" rule the world. "filial piety" can be recommended to become an official, which is called "filial piety", the emperor is to "filial piety" to rule the world, the Han dynasty emperor's posthumous name have a The emperor's posthumous name in the Han Dynasty all have a "filial piety" word, for example, we are familiar with the Han Dynasty Emperor Wu Di, is "Han Xiaowu Di".

Ancient China also has a book that specializes in promoting filial piety, called "Xiao Jing", "Xiao Jing" in ancient China has a great influence, successive dynasties have boasted "filial piety rule the world", Tang Xuanzong had personally for the "Xiao Jing" as a note.

Flowers representing mothers in ancient China

It is well known that carnations are the representative flower of Mother's Day. The use of carnations to represent mother's love was proposed by the modern Mother's Day initiator - Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, USA, who wanted everyone to express their remembrance of their mothers in a simple way with white carnations.

In ancient China, through the analysis of many poems describing mothers, we found that the flower representing mothers in ancient China was the daylily. In the beginning, the daylily was used to alleviate women's worries about their long-distance husbands and children. Gradually, the daylily became associated with women who were homesick.

The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao wrote "The Wanderer's Son": "The daylilies are born on the steps of the hall, and the wanderer's son travels to the end of the world; the loving mother leans on the door of the hall, but does not see the daylily flowers." The poem describes a mother who misses her son and can't even be bothered to take forget-me-nots. This poem also made the world associate mothers and daylilies more closely.

In addition, ancient people also often painted daylilies to give to their mothers. For example, Chen Chun, a painter of the Ming Dynasty, painted a picture of daylilies on a stone, with a poem inscribed on it: "The flowers are leaning against the stone, and the flowers are good and the stone is also beautiful. For the rain and dew deep, the color late over luxuriant. I wish that my mother would be as good as the flower and the stone, and that she would live the same life."

The above content refers to Culture Xinzhi - Mother's Day in Ancient China