In which dynasty did the Flower Festival originate? What are the legends about the Flower Festival?

In which dynasty did the Flower Festival originate? What are the legends about the Flower Festival?
In which dynasty did the Flower Festival originate? What are the legends about the Flower Festival? The Flower Festival commemorates the birthday of all flowers, abbreviated as Huachao, commonly known as the "Flower God Festival", "Birthday of All Flowers", "Birthday of the Flower God", and "Picking Vegetables Festival". Shuimoxiansheng.com provides you with more content related to the second month of the lunar calendar in 2019. Everyone is welcome to learn about it together!

In which dynasty did the Flower Festival originate?

It is said that the Flower Festival began during the reign of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty. Wu Zetian was a good emperor and she lived an interesting life, being obsessed with flowers. In mid-spring, when the weather is warm and flowers are blooming, going out to enjoy the flowers is one of her hobbies. People would also be ordered to use flowers as ingredients to make cakes and other foods as rewards. Later, this trend spread from the government to the common people, and together with the Lantern Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, it formed another "half-moon" festival in the year. This day was designated as the birthday of the Fairy of Flowers and was called the Flower Festival. From then on, celebrating the Flower Festival and going on spring outings became traditional folk customs that have been passed down to this day.

What are the legends about the Flower Festival?

According to legend, Nuyi, a female disciple of Lady Northern Wei, was good at growing and raising flowers. She was revered as the "Goddess of Flowers" by later generations, and the Flower Festival was attributed to her. During the Jingding period of the Southern Song Dynasty, cotton planting was introduced to Xinzhou. People hoped for a good cotton harvest and used glutinous rice balls to worship the Cotton God during the "Flower Festival" on February 15th every year. There was an old saying among the people that "the bigger the glutinous rice balls, the bigger the cotton balls." During the Flower Festival every year, devout men and women who have eaten glutinous rice balls in the early morning go to the big temple to worship the gods and pray for blessings. The temple is very popular and famous far and wide. Later, with the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the temple was also destroyed in war. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the old street temples were gradually restored and the annual temple fair became popular again.
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