Is “cutting flowers and ribbons” a custom during the Beginning of Spring Festival? Are there any legends behind it?
China's traditional culture is profound and has a long history; each solar term has related customs and activities. Is “cutting flowers and ribbons” a custom during the Beginning of Spring Festival? Are there any legends behind it? The various festivals in the first month of the lunar calendar are coming right after the Spring Festival. Following the 2020 first month special topic of Shuimoxiansheng.com, let’s count how many important traditional festivals and customs there are in this month.Is “cutting flowers and ribbons” a custom during the Beginning of Spring Festival?》Cutting colorful swallows is an ancient custom during the Spring Festival . (1) In the Jingchu area, people cut colorful swallows and wear them on their heads on the Spring Festival.(2) According to the Tang Dynasty system, on the Spring Festival, officials above the level of Langguan and Yushi were given "Spring Luo Pansheng", while prime ministers, princes, and close ministers were given "Gold and Silver Bosheng". After entering the palace to pay congratulations, they could take the gifts home. (3) People cut ribbons into spring flowers and wear them on their heads. During the Jinglong period of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, people cut the ribbons on the sunrise of the Spring Equinox; the Spring Equinox fell on the eighth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of the Jinglong period. (4) King Jungjong ordered his courtiers to welcome the spring, and the palace sent out colorful flowers, giving each person one. 》Beginning of Spring: Pasting the word "Spring" <br /> Pasting the word "Yichun" on the door lintel is to foreshadow good fortune in the new year. 》Beginning of Spring: Making Clay Ox <br /> Children make clay oxen to praise the hardworking and strong spring ox. Are there any legends?——Han Dynasty: Images of Flowers and Fruits 《1》Trimming colored paper to make images of flowers and fruits was an art that was already well developed in the Han Dynasty.《2》Wang Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty once ridiculed the expense of flowers and ribbons in his "Qianfu Lun", which shows that ribbon cutting was already popular at that time. ——Jin Dynasty: Flower Cutting <br /> The Xinye clan of the Jin Dynasty made flower cutting their profession. They used dyed silk to make hibiscus flowers, twisted wax into the shape of lotus roots, and cut plum blossoms that looked more like the real thing. Emperor Hui of Jin once ordered palace maids to insert colorful tongcao flowers into their hair as decoration. —— Song Dynasty: Making Spring Sowing and Spring Winners "Youyang Zajie" records: "On the Spring Beginning Day, scholars and officials cut paper into small sowings and hung them on the heads of beautiful women. Or they put them under flowers. They also cut them into spring butterflies, spring coins, and spring winners to play with them." This custom remained unchanged until the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu wrote in a poem: "We are all happy that the swallows have come." Wang Zeng wrote in his Spring Postcard: "Colorful swallows welcome the spring, and the hair on people's temples flutter." On the Spring Beginning Day in Lin'an during the Southern Song Dynasty, women liked to make designs of "Spring Sowing" and "Spring Victory", weaving them with gold threads and interlaced colors. Make it into purple swallows, yellow butterflies, etc. and give it to relatives and friends. ——Poems for the Beginning of Spring Festival; [Yue Opera] Tian Jing Sha·Spring (Yuan Dynasty) Bai Pu <br /> Warm sun and gentle breeze in the spring mountains, railings, pavilions, curtains, and willow swings in the courtyard. Orioles are singing and swallows are dancing; the water under the small bridge is red. |
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