The God of Flowers is the god of hundred flowers in Chinese folk belief. According to the Huainanzi (淮南子), the Flower God who is in charge of the flowers and who is in charge of the sky and the growth of a hundred flowers is called Nüyi (女夷), or Flower Goddess (花姑).
The Ming Feng Yingjing "moon order broad meaning - year order a" cloud: "female Yi for the flower god, is the Wei lady's disciple. The flower nun is also the flower god." Here talked about the Han folk belief in the two flower god, quite a bit of history. Female Yi is the myth of the goddess who dominates the growth of all things in spring and summer, "Huainanzi - astronomy training" cloud: "female Yi drum song, in order to Division of the sky and to grow the hundreds of valleys, animals, grass and trees." Gao Yin note: "female yi, the main spring and summer long nourishment of the god also." In the later generations, female Yi somehow became a disciple of the Taoist female immortal Mrs. Wei, as the goddess of the flowers, and its "main spring and summer long nourishment" of the goddess is still closely related, but the authority has been narrowed down a lot, only for the god of the flowers.
According to the book "Chinese Folk God", the flower aunt was a woman who planted flowers, because of the worship of Mrs. Wei, a leap for the flower god. The moon order broad meaning - spring order" and the cloud: "spring nursery sacrificed to the flower girl. Record of Flowers and Trees: Mrs. Wei's disciple, good at planting flowers, the number of flowers." The Flower Goddess was honored by flower growers as a flower goddess for her achievements in planting flowers. Fifth generation Du Guangting "Jim Yongcheng Jixian Records" said that the flower aunt named Huang Lingwei, Linchuan people, is a female Taoist priest, more than eighty years old, but the appearance is still like a virgin. She had the Wei lady in Fuzhou and the mountain of the quiet room, Linchuan altar Yu these two have been deserted the victory of the renovation, Wei lady heard, dream to her, detailed teaching, flower girl Wei lady professor preaching, will be the Tao of immortality. The Taiping Huan Yu Ji also has a detailed record.
Women Yi, flower aunt two people, a god and a person, are associated with the flowers, and is worshipped as the flower god, as for the two people said that Mrs. Wei's disciples, it is the later generations will say. Flower God is in charge of the world's blossoms and flowers, or the protection of flowers. Tang Dynasty on the story of the flower god, "Taiping Guangji - Immortals - Yin Tianxiang" cited "renewed immortal biography" in the Tang Dynasty, Cuozhou Hulin Temple, there is a ten feet high rhododendron, every year at the end of the spring are full of flowers, rosy as a brocade. This azalea is rumored to have been transplanted from Tiantai Mountain to Hulin Temple by foreign monks one hundred years ago. Temple monks love and care for it, surrounded by railings, and will be locked in the courtyard, often peeping through the door to see three red dresses colorful women playing under the flower tree. Someone occasionally into the courtyard branch picking flowers, will be punished by the three women, the women are rumored to be the God of flowers. Zhou Bao, the Festival Minister, prepared to go to Hulin Temple for the Chung Yeung Festival, and said to Yin Tianxiang, a Taoist priest, "The flower of Hulin is a marvelous one under the heaven. Can the Taoist make it blossom on the Chongyang Festival?" Yin Tianxiang replied that he could, so he stayed in Hulin Temple two days before the Chongyang Festival, and in the middle of the night a woman came knocking on the door and said, "You want the azalea to bloom, don't you?" Yin Tianxiang asked who she was, and the woman said, "I am the God of Flowers sent from heaven to protect this flower. This flower has been on earth for more than a hundred years, and is about to return to the Heavenly Palace Langyuan, now, for your sake, I let the flower bloom once." After saying this, the woman suddenly disappeared. On the coming morning, the azalea tree had bloomed buds, and on the day of the Chung Yeung Festival, the tree was full of flowers as rosy as spring. The news spread, Zhou Bao and the whole city were surprised, have gone to see. A few days later, the flowers disappeared, and there were no flowers on the ground. Ming Feng Menglong, "Waking up to the world - irrigation garden old man evening meet fairy" said "cherish the flowers to the blessing, damage to the flower life", the flower farmers autumn first love flowers as obsessive, and often worship the God of flowers. So when he was bullied by Zhang Wei, the son of a eunuch, the flower god told God that Zhang Wei "harmed people by damaging flowers", and God "took away his reckoning". The first is that the flower god has made him an immortal, and he has become a flower guardian who is in charge of the flowers on earth.
The God of Plum Blossoms ----- is said to be the poet Lin Bu of the Northern Song Dynasty, who lived in seclusion in the West Lake, and remained in the West Lake for the rest of his life. A said to be the Ming Dynasty opera Peony Pavilion Liu Mengmei, in a dream, he met under the plum blossom tree for the love of the death of Du Lianiang, and then Du Lianiang returned to the soul and Liu Meng combination, the achievement of a twisted marriage. February apricot blossom God of flowers ----- is said to be the key man, he taught people to take jujube and apricot fire cooking. It is said to be Yang Yuhuan. After the An Lushan Rebellion was quelled, Emperor Xuanzong wanted to bury his consort, but he saw a forest of apricot blossoms under the Magi Slope, so the descendants took Yang Yuhuan as the god of apricot blossoms. March peach blossom flower god ----- is said to be one of the Northern Song Dynasty Yang family generals Yang Yanzhao, he guarded the border for twenty years, repeatedly breaking the Khitan army. He may have been named the Peach Blossom Flower God because he was able to ward off foreign invaders just as the peach tree is able to expel the evil scourge. It is also said to be Cui Ge, a poet of Tang Dynasty, because he once wrote the famous line "I don't know where the face of a man has gone, but the peach blossom still smiles in the spring breeze". The God of Peony in April ----- is said to be Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty who wrote many poems about peonies. The God of Pomegranate Flower in May ----- is said to be Zhang Chun, who retrieved the pomegranate from the western region. It is also said to be Zhong Kui (钟馗), because when the pomegranate blossoms bloomed at the time of the Dragon Boat Festival (端午), every family put up Zhong Kui (钟馗)to ward off evil spirits. June Lotus Flower God ----- is said to be Xi Shi, who once left a trail of lotus picking in Suzhou's Jin Fan Path. July Jade Hairpin Flower God ----- is said to be Lady Li, who was favored by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, because she usually put a jade hairpin flower on her temples. August Laurel Flower God ----- is said to be Dou Yujun of the Five Dynasties. He taught his sons well, and his five sons were all prominent officials, so they were known as "one old plant of Chun, five branches of Dan Gui". Another story says that she was the favorite wife of Shi Chong, a governor of Jingzhou in the Western Jin Dynasty, who was good at playing the flute and was beautiful. Sun Xiu, a member of Zhao Zheng Sima Lun's party, tried to take Lvzhu as his wife, and Shi Chong was killed by the king of Zhao, and Lvzhu was martyred on a building. People used the scattering of osmanthus flowers as a metaphor for Lvzhu, and named her the God of Osmanthus Flowers. September Chrysanthemum Flower God ----- is said to be Tao Yuanming, an Eastern Jin Dynasty idyllic poet who took chrysanthemums as his friends and wrote many poems about chrysanthemums. It is most appropriate to use this highly refined hermit as a representative of the hermit of flowers. October Orchid God ----- is said to be Qu Yuan, a great poet of Chu during the Warring States period, who used orchids and cymbidium as a metaphor in his Li Sao. He loved his country y, but when he saw that the government was corrupt and his political ideals could not be realized, he threw himself into the Tear Luo River to kill himself. November Daffodil Flower God - said to refer to the goddess Luo. Since the daffodil flower is born at the water's edge, its posture is elegant and graceful, like a fairy in the waves, so people take Luo Shen as the god of daffodil flower. December Plum Flower God - said to be Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty. Because they initiated to rename the yellow plum as wax plum. (II)
The plum blossoms come out of the snow in the first month (Princess Shouyang, the Goddess of Flowers)
"A tree blossoms with the fragrance of ice and snow, who newly wipes the make-up of the yearly cold? The people of the time do not know Heng Yi Qu, believe that the flower goddess is Shouyang."
Snow flurries, the year cold early spring, plum blossom sparse shadow across the world, when it really is like a fairyland. Plum is the first month of the lunar calendar on behalf of the flower, its icy clean, all proud of the world's favorite. The god of the plum blossom is said to be the daughter of Emperor Wu of Song Shouyang Princess, Shouyang Princess was born beautiful, pure and unassuming, loves to enjoy the plum. On the seventh day of the first month of a certain year, Princess Shouyang to the palace plum blossom forest to enjoy the plum, a moment of drowsiness, will be in the eaves of the temple nap, accompanied by a burst of fragrant spring winds, plum blossoms colorful and colorful down, coincidentally, there is a plum blossom gently fell in the center of her forehead, leaving five pieces of reddish traces. Shouyang Princess woke up, the court ladies feel that the original on the beautiful and lovely princess and add a few points of charming style. So have followed suit to plum blossom printed on the forehead, known as "plum blossom makeup". Everyone said that the princess must be the spirit of the plum blossom into, so Princess Shouyang became the flower goddess of the plum blossom.
February apricot blossom show charming (flower goddess Yang Guifei)
"Soft like light clouds at the beginning of the water, as delicate as a pink butterfly pouncing on the flow of Xia. The first from the rain and dew after the grace, tube leading the spring breeze alone this flower. "
Apricot belongs to the woody Rosaceae deciduous trees, flowers are small and lovely, and pieces of apricot forest. The scenery is even more beautiful. Lunar and the month is also known as the apricot month, it is the apricot blossoms at the beginning of the release of the apricot blossoms, each as beautiful as heavenly fairy, soft and charming.
The god of the apricot blossom is rumored to be Yang Guifei. Although Yang Guifei is tied to the Tang Xuanzong's three thousand favorites in one, but in the Anshi Rebellion, the horse mutiny, Xuanzong had to and should be the request of the soldiers killed Yang Guifei. At that time, the crowd hung the body of Yang Guifei on the apricot tree in front of the Buddha Hall. After the peace, Xuanzong sent people to take the bones of the corpse to move the burial, only to see a piece of snow hundreds of apricot blossoms dancing in the wind. After Xuanzong returned to the palace, he ordered Taoist priests to search for the soul of Yang Guifei, who was already on the immortal mountain. The god of the flowers of the apricot blossoms in February is now the god of the flowers.
March Peach Blossom Smile Spring Breeze (Flower Goddess Mrs. Rest)
"Pink face condensed makeup Jade Dai knit, no words have tears can not help spring. The blossom is not yet the day of the death of the rest, but the thin waist is tired of thin life body."
The same woody Rosaceae peach blossom and the lunar calendar in March, generally also known as peach month. Peach blossom beautiful posture, flowers rich, colorful, long known as the beauty, blooming bright as a picture, like a fairyland, is the so-called "paradise".
The earliest peach blossom God is said to be the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Chu, the wife of the rest of the marquis, the rest of the marquis in a coup d'état, was destroyed by the King of Chu. King Wen of Chu coveted the beauty of the rest of the wife, intended to marry, the rest of the wife refused to take the opportunity to sneak out of the palace to find the rest of the Hou, the rest of the Hou committed suicide, the rest of the wife was also martyred. At this time it is the peach blossom March, Chu people remember Mrs. interest in the steadfastness, will be set up to worship, also known as her peach god.
April Peony (Li Bai, the God of Flowers)
"The spring breeze shakes the feathered clothes and opens them up, and I am not willing to plant them in a place in Yaochi. When the flower does not grow when the royal order is deceived, who will take the lead of the hundred flowers to stay or go? "
Peony, which bloomed in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, was known as "King of Flowers" in the Tang Dynasty for its strong fragrance and colorful color and rich and noble branches, and until today, the world still loves its heavenly fragrance.
There are many legends about the flower god of peony, including Diaochan, Lijuan (the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty), but Li Bai is the most famous one. On one occasion, Emperor Tang Xuanzong, together with Yang Guifei, enjoyed peonies at the Sinkiang Pavilion, and on the spur of the moment, he and Li Bai went to the palace to write three chapters of "Qingpingle":
"The clouds want to be clothed and the flowers want to look good, and the spring breeze brushes the threshold with dewy huahuasong. If I hadn't met you at the top of Qunyu Mountain, I would have met you under the moon at Yaotai."
"A branch of red dew condensation fragrance, clouds and rain Wushan in vain broken heart. I ask who in the Han Palace is similar to the poor swallows leaning on the new makeup. "
"The famous flower is so popular that the king often smiles at it. The explanation for the infinite hatred of the spring breeze, the Shenxiang Pavilion north leaning on the appendage."
May pomegranate colorful as burning (flower god Zhong Kui)
"The hot sun burned into a tree of tong, ten thousand flowers save fire lingering. The high bosom is not close to the spring breeze, and when you break your belly, look at the liver and gallbladder red."
Commonly known as the lunar month of May is the month of pomegranate, May blooming pomegranate flowers, bright red like fire, with a fire-like light, so many women like pomegranate flowers to wear on the cloud temples, adding delicate.
The legend of the flower god of the pomegranate flower is Chung Tao, May is the most prevalent season of disease. Therefore, the folklore "ghost king" Chung Tao, has become the main object of people's faith, and Chung Tao, who was very violent and upright in his life, vowed to get rid of all the demons and ghosts in the world after his death. His cynical fire-like character is just like the pomegranate's fierce temperament that emerges from the fire, so people regarded Chung Tao, who can drive away ghosts and evils, as the flower god of pomegranate flowers.
June Lotus Pavilion (Flower Goddess Xishi)
"Lingbo a dance Bi Luo Shu, the falling moon have over the eyes of the virtual. Swaying the soul of the clouds and water, lotus song flew into the five lakes residence. "
The sixth month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the month of the lotus, the lotus flower both lotus. Lotus was born in the blue wave, to "out of the mud without dyeing" is known, and the flower is big leaf Li, fragrance far away, so since ancient times that is loved by the people.
The flower god of the lotus is said to be the ultimate beauty Xishi. Legend. Xi Shi in the help of the Yue Wu before, is the daughter of the family sold firewood, summer lotus bloom, Xi Shi often to the mirror lake picking lotus, perhaps because Xi Shi was a lotus picker in June, her beautiful figure is unparalleled, and then naturally become the lotus flower god.
July Marshmallow Yesterday's Sorrows (Flower Goddess Mrs. Li)
"Since I cherish the city and the country body, the ghostly posture of the independent Han family door. The golden wind is just moving to return, lazy *** cicada weeping dawn and dusk. "
Sichuan anemone, plant slender and erect, open in late summer and early autumn, flowers large and charming, colorful, which, yellow marshmallow also known as okra, in the poem on the meal had mentioned "July Ling Kwai uncle", Kwai refers to the yellow rhododendron. Okra is a kind of flowers that bloom and fall, generally speaking, "yesterday's yellow flowers", is to okra as a reflection.
The god of the flower is said to be Lady Li, the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Mrs. Li's elder brother, Li Yannian, once wrote an extremely moving song for him, namely: "There is a beautiful woman in the north, absolute and independent, one care for people's city, and then care for people's country, and then care for people's country, and pouring the city and pouring the country, the beautiful people are hard to get again." Because Mrs. Li died very early, short and gorgeous life, like the okra, so people took her for the July Marshmallow flower god.
August osmanthus people reunion (flower goddess Xu Hui)
"Fiber clouds shine shadow night flow Dan, no that the wind point corn plate. Since the fragrance can be dark, the moon palace fly away without having to see. "
Dan Gui flowers, also known as wood rhinoceros, Dan Gui, good born between the rock collar, flower family open with the leaf axils, yellow or yellow-white, the aroma is very strong. August osmanthus fragrance, so the lunar month of August is also known as the month of osmanthus.
The flower god of osmanthus is rumored to be Tang Taizong's consort Xu Hui. Xu Hui was born with the Great Wall of Huzhou, since childhood, intelligent, May big can talk, four years old can read the Analects, eight years old can write poetry. Because of his extraordinary talent, he was recruited by Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty into the palace, and was named a talented person. After the death of Emperor Taizong, Xu Hui became sick with grief and was martyred at the age of twenty-four. Later generations named this woman of extraordinary talent as the flower goddess of osmanthus.
September Chrysanthemums (God of Flowers, Tao Yuanming)
"There are no butterflies or bees in my heart, and I have my own frosty, bright moon lapel. Even if the wind is blowing straight and folding, the yellow flowers will not be used as a song of falling flowers."
In the late fall of September on the lunar calendar, it is the time when chrysanthemums bloom the most colorful, so it is also called the month of chrysanthemums.
In this splendid fragrant country of chrysanthemums, some are elegant and generous, some are dragon flying and wind dancing, some are as magnificent as rainbow, and some are as white as frost and snow, which is quite fascinating.
The flower god of chrysanthemum is said to be Tao Yuanming, the chrysanthemum's frosty blossom, cold and proud temperament, in the group of flowers by the "not for the five buckets of rice," Tao Yuanming favorite, more chrysanthemums wrote down "picking chrysanthemums under the East Fence, leisurely to see the South Mountain," the best lines of the ancient times, the chrysanthemums. The god of chrysanthemums is naturally him.
October Hibiscus as drunk as a dream (Flower Goddess Shi Manqing)
"The clear posture of the straight want to pull the spring to return to the three-colored clothes from the flowers. The sorrows are not due to the cold frost and moon, but the world is negatively affected by the flowers. "
Hibiscus, also known as the wood lily, because the flowers "as colorful as the lotus" and named, there is another kind of flower color white and red called drunken hibiscus. Wood hibiscus is a deciduous shrub that blooms after the frost, and in October of the lunar calendar, you can see the river, like a beauty drunken flower, and the elegant and elegant posture.
The flower god of the wood hibiscus is rumored to be Shi Manqing, a university scholar of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. It was rumored that in the Song Dynasty, there was a hibiscus city full of red flowers in the misty fairy land. It is said that after Shi Manqing's death, people still encountered him, and in this out-of-the-blue encounter, Shi Manqing said that he had become the lord of Hibiscus City. Because among the many rumors, the story of Shi Manqing was the most widely circulated, later generations took Shi Manqing as the flower goddess of the October Hibiscus.
The music is played by the sheng, which leads people into the hibiscus fairy land. The beautiful melody of Zhongruan shows the hibiscus blossoming in Hibiscus City, reflecting the light of the flowers in the waves, which is very gorgeous.
November Mountain Tea Fragrance of Ten Thousand Families (Bai Juyi, the God of Flowers)
"Where is the wet green shirt? The rain is drifting and the flowers are sound. Drunken Dongjun call can not afford, a branch of red tears in Jiangnan. "
Camellia open in the cold wind and rain in November of the lunar calendar, the flowers are colorful, there are big red, pink, purple and white, pure white and so on. Hundreds of color wins jade, red as fire burning light red. Ten thousand purples and thousands of red, fragrant spitting, for the cold earth added a few points of pleasant colors.
Camellia flower god legend is Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, highly praised for his poem "Wildfire cannot be eliminated, spring breeze blows again." which is known for its highly praised verse. The rumor does not explain why Bai Juyi is the god of camellia flowers, perhaps it is the poet's temperament that defies power, just like the camellia's defiance of the cold wind and rain.
The music enters the landscape of Yunnan in a bit of cold wind transformed by the pipa. The erhu comes out slowly, like a chilly breeze gently blowing the green leaves of the camellia. The bright tone of the bamboo flute is like a camellia flower spitting out its stamens from the green leaves.
Waxing Moon Dance of Narcissus (Flower Goddess Ehuang Nüying)
"Marigold and silver platform with jasper stems, the white cloud soul of narcissus name. The root of the spirit is originally in the side of Xiaoxiang, dreaming of Cangwu moon color clear. "
Narcissus alias marigold and silver stage. Narcissus bloomed after the wax plum, before the river plum, for the winter season flowers, flowers as its name, green skirt, green belt, pavilion in the clear wave above, plain jasper-like flowers open in the rain, beyond the dust, like a fairy in the water.
Daffodil's flower god is rumored to be E Huang and female Ying. It is said that E Huang and Nu Ying were the daughters of Emperor Yao, and both of them were married to Shun. Sister for the queen, sister for the consort, the three affectionate, and later, Shun in the southern tour of the collapse of the car, E Huang and female that is, both martyred in the Xiangjiang River. God had mercy on their love and affection, and turned their souls into river daffodils, and they became the flower goddesses of the wax moon daffodils.
The music is played by woodwinds with faint chords, like the sparkling waves of the Xiangjiang River. The elegant melody of the guzheng describes the immortal posture of the daffodil as if she were a fairy on the waves. The soft tone of the gaohu draws out the blue leaves of Narcissus like a belt and the fragrant flowers like a cup. The elegant and quiet melody exudes a refreshing fragrance, like the love and affection of Emperor E's daughter Ying, which moves people's hearts.