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What are the 12-month gods of flowers in China

Skyler White
2020-08-13 15:46:55
The 12-month gods of flowers in China are plum blossom in the first month, apricot flower in February, peach flower in March, peony flower in April, pomegranate flower in May, lotus flower in June, Hosta flower in July, osmanthus flower in August, chrysanthemum flower in September, orchid flower in October, narcissus flower in November and wintersweet flower in December.

The first moon

As a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, the flower god of plum blossom lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of the West Lake and never became an official. One is Liu Mengmei in the Peony Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty opera. In his dream, he met Du Liniang who died of love under the plum blossom tree. Later, Du Liniang combined with Liu Meng to return her soul and achieve a tortuous marriage.

Flower God of the first lunar month

February flower god

Apricot Flower God is a key person, he taught people to take the fire of dates and apricots to cook. One said that it was Yang Yuhuan. After the rebellion of Anlu mountain subsided, Xuanzong wanted to bury the imperial concubine, but saw a forest of apricot flowers under the horse ghost slope, so later generations took Yang Yuhuan as the Apricot Flower God.

Flower God of the first lunar month

In March

Taohua Huashen was said to be Yang yanzhao, one of the generals of Yang family in the Northern Song Dynasty. He guarded the border for 20 years and repeatedly broke the Qidan army. It may be that he is just like a peach tree that can drive out evil, so he was named the peach blossom God. Cui Ge, a poet of Tang Dynasty, once wrote a famous sentence: "people don't know where to go, peach blossom is still smiling."

Flower God of the first lunar month

April flower

It is said that the Peony Flower God was Li Bai, the poet of Tang Dynasty who wrote many peony poems.

Flower God of the first lunar month

Mayflower

Pomegranate flower god is said to be Zhang Chun who took pomegranate back from the western regions. Zhongkui, because pomegranate flowers are blooming in the Dragon Boat Festival, each family pasted Zhongkui to ward off evil, so pomegranate flowers and Zhongkui pulled on the relationship.

Flower God of the first lunar month

June Flower

Lotus flower god is said to have left the lotus picking trail in Suzhou.

Flower God of the first lunar month

July Flower God

It is said that the jade hairpin Flower God is lady Li, who is favored by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, because she often inserts a jade hairpin flower beside her temples.

Flower God of the first lunar month

August Flower God

The goddess of Osmanthus is Dou Yujun of Five Dynasties. He taught his son well, and his five sons were all officials and ministers. To let them go was known as "Ling Chun, an old tree, and Dan GUI, five branches and Fang". On the other hand, it is Lu Zhu, Shi Chong's beloved wife in Jingzhou of the Western Jin Dynasty. She is good at playing flute and beautiful. Sun Xiu, one of Zhao zhengsimalun's colleagues, once wanted to take Lvzhu as his wife, so that Shichong was killed by Zhao Wang, and Lvzhu fell into the building and died. People use the scattered osmanthus as a metaphor for the green pearl, and call her the God of Osmanthus

Flower God of the first lunar month

September Flower God

The chrysanthemum God is said to be Tao Yuanming. With chrysanthemum as his friend, the pastoral poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once wrote many poems about chrysanthemum. It is most appropriate to take the hermit of Gaojie as the representative of the hermit of flowers

Flower God of the first lunar month

October Flower God

The God of orchid and flower is said to be Qu Yuan, the great poet of Chu state in the Warring States period. He used to describe himself as LAN Hui in Lisao. He loves his country deeply, but when he saw that the government was corrupt and his political ideal could not be realized, he cried and killed himself.

first month Flower God

November flower

Narcissus is said to refer to Luoshen. Because Narcissus is born by the water, its posture is elegant and elegant, like Lingbo fairy, so people regard Luoshen as narcissus.

first month Flower God

December Flower God

It is said that the goddess of wintersweet is Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian in Song Dynasty. Because they proposed to change Huangmei into Lamei

December Flower God

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