Huazhao Festival
30 March 2026 · movable holiday — Flowers, ribbons and a spring breeze – happy birthday to the flowers!
Huazhao (花朝節) is an old Chinese folk festival celebrating blossoms and the arrival of spring. It is also called the Flower Birthday. By tradition it falls around the 12th day of the second lunar month, though in some regions it is held on the 2nd or the 15th day. Its date in the Gregorian calendar therefore changes every year and differs by region.
People would go out for spring walks among the blooming trees and admire the flowers. Older accounts also mention tying red paper or silk ribbons to branches as a wish for a fine blossoming. The festival was more widespread in the past and has been revived in recent years, often with garden events and people wearing historical costumes.
It is tied to the lunar calendar: each month begins at the new moon, so the day of the month also tells you the Moon's phase.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure made of luminous dots and thin lines, like a constellation, drifting across the sky: a girl in a flowing traditional robe tying tiny ribbons onto a blossoming branch
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