Tracing back to the origin of throwing hydrangea

In some places in ancient times, there was a custom that when a girl reached the age of marriage, it was set on a certain day, usually the fifteenth day of the first month or the fifteenth day of August. Let the suitors gather under the embroidery building, and the girl throws hydrangeas. Whoever gets the hydrangea can become the girl's husband. Of course, girls usually look at the right person and throw hydrangeas at him for him to find. Many places carry the bride's sedan chair and tie a hydrangea on the top of the sedan chair, which means good luck. The custom of throwing hydrangea of Zhuang nationality can be traced back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it was first recorded in Huashan murals painted 2000 years ago. But at that time, the ancient bronze weapon "Feituo" was mostly used for throwing hydrangeas and hunting. Later, people turned the flying heavy objects into embroidered cloth bags and threw them at each other for entertainment. In the Song Dynasty, it gradually evolved into a way for young Zhuang men and women to express their love, and its grand occasion was very fashionable. According to the Song Dynasty poet Zhu Fu's Xi Man Cong Xiao, "the local customs are very old, and men and women in the field are divided into two friends, each with five-colored beans and millet, named' Feituo'. The five-color sac named after the ancient weapon "Feituo" is the later hydrangea. In Song Dynasty, Zhou Qufei's description in A Generation Beyond the Ridge is even more obvious: "If men and women succeed, women love them and men marry them. "Now' throwing hydrangea' is still widely spread in Baise, Liuzhou, Nanning, Hechi and other regions in Guangxi. Among them, Nanzhuang County such as Jingxi is the most famous.