Shadow of flowers

Author: Zhou Shoujuan
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The Flower Festival, also known as the Birthday of Flowers, has three dates: Luoyang celebrates it on the second day of the second lunar month as both the Flower Festival and the Vegetable Picking Festival; Tokyo marks it on the twelfth day of the second lunar month for a butterfly-catching event; Chengdu observes it on the fifteenth day of the second lunar month, also with a butterfly-catching event. In summary, the Flower Festival is definitely in February. As Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty wrote in his "Return to the Countryside," "In the mid-summer, the month is pleasant, the air is clear, the plains and valleys are lush, and all grasses thrive." Since all grasses have flourished, the hundred flowers have also begun to sprout, making the Flower Festival the Birthday of Flowers a very appropriate name.