Women in the Tang Dynasty like picnics and banquets.
The banquet in ancient times was a large-scale banquet to gather literati or dignitaries to taste some famous foods. It has a magnificent style, many characters and rich dishes. During the banquet, it also plays various entertainment games, such as boxing, guessing boxing or ordering food to show rewards and punishments. Some are held on major festivals, some are birthdays or farewell parties. This huge dining banquet, from the palace to the folk, is colorful and colorful every time, showing different national characteristics, such as boating, singing and writing poems, and so on. This story is very interesting. At other times in China's history, men like to hold banquets. For example, at the end of the year, they held a banquet in Hongmen Osaka, which was called "Hongmen Banquet" in history. Liu Xiu hosted a banquet in Bailiangtai to entertain the minister, which was called "Bailiang Banquet". But now, there are banquets for women. Tanchun Banquet and Skirt Banquet are two kinds of picnic activities often held by women from Kaiyuan to Tianbao. Most of the participants in the "Tanchun Banquet" are young women from bureaucrats and rich families. According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy", this banquet was held between the two solar terms of "beginning of spring" and "Rain" after the 15th day of the first lunar month. At this time, everything recovers, and the daughters of powerful people meet as partners. The family used horses to carry tents, tableware, wine containers and food to the countryside for dinner. First of all, take a walk, breathe fresh air, bathe in the warm spring breeze and enjoy the beautiful scenery; Then choose a suitable place, set up a tent, set up tables, and light spring at the same time (in the Tang Dynasty, "spring" has a double meaning: first, it refers to spring in the general sense; The second refers to wine. Therefore, drinking wine is called "drinking spring" and tasting wine is called "tasting spring"), while doing puzzles, telling stories, writing poems and other entertainment activities around the word "spring" and returning at dusk. The women's banquet here is also divided into two steps. One is a "flower fight" and the other is a "skirt banquet". The so-called "flower fight" means that young women compete in the garden to see who wears precious and beautiful flowers. The rich women in Chang 'an spend a lot of money to buy all kinds of precious flowers in order to win the flower fight. At that time, famous flowers were too expensive for ordinary people to buy, just like the poem said, "A cluster of dark flowers brings ten blessings." When visiting the garden, women "scrambled to climb Liu Qian Qian's hand and put thousands of red flowers in between", and swarmed through Qujiang gardens to compete for beauty. When you swim to the right place, you choose the right place, use grass as a mat, insert bamboo poles on all sides, and then connect the skirts and hang them on the bamboo poles. This is the temporary banquet curtain for women to hold banquets. This kind of picnic was called "skirt banquet" by people at that time. Except for the skirt, this feast is very similar to today's picnic in the park.