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The Historical Origin of Songmingyan Flower Fair
The Songming Rock Flower Festival originated on April 8th every year (in fact, it refers to April 28th of the lunar calendar and lasts from April 26th to 29th of the lunar calendar). So it is also called "April 8th Flower Festival" and "Longhua Song Festival".

In the Ming Dynasty, "Hezhou Zhi" wrote: "Songming Rock is full of gas, and the state is hundreds of miles south. Flowers and plants are fragrant, and there are spiritual springs. If you do it, you must pray for rain. " The temple building in Songmingyan is quite magnificent, and the local old people have seen the stone tablets during the Hongwu period. "Hezheng County Records" records: "It was built in 1465- 1487 (during the Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty), and there are Jade Emperor Pavilion, Bodhisattva Hall, Notre Dame Hall, West Roof and Wutai in the south, all on the rocks, with slopes in the north, and the Governor's Temple in Yan ... every April 26th. Zhang He, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote "Turquoise Diecui" as follows: "The peaks and hills are unclear,/the pines and cypresses are luxuriantly locked,/the shadows of trees in the forest occasionally appear on the balcony,/the sound of trees is heard when it rains,/the Qiang flute plays in the distance,/the snowy mountains are cold and the clouds are horizontal,/the sun should light up when climbing, and/the wind is whistling in the setting sun in the middle ridge." Song Yan Ming's heroic posture was recited, in which the sentence "Qiangdi spread frontier songs far away" not only pointed out the situation of people playing "Mimi", but also revealed the long history of flowers and Qiangdi. Qi, an itch student in Qing Dynasty, recorded the scene of "singing peony" for the first time in the poem "You Song": "The beautiful scenery of Song and Ming Dynasty was dusted,/I once climbed the fast place,/I suspected that the stone was on the cloud,/The overpass was muddy in the painting,/The tiger and leopard were hidden in the forest in the mountain,/The road met Qiang Rong,/I also traveled to Longhua,/Peony listened alone. He wrote in "Song Yan Ming Gu Feng": "The old monk held a new bathing Buddha meeting, and 8,000 women sang peony." Poetry. It can be seen that at that time, Songmingyan Dragon Flower Show and Flower Show were grand, which was also an early record of the flower show appearing in literature and figures.