In the spring of March, hundreds of flowers bloom. The Empress invited various unmarried young girls to participate in the Hundred Flowers Banquet. Wen Qing was among them.
It was called the Hundred Flowers Banquet, but in reality, it was a blind date banquet. Nowadays, they didn't value women much, so the selection of talented people* had also been stopped for a few years. Each family's unmarried men and women could marry freely. Although the separation between men and women in this era was not very strict, they still paid attention to letting men and women sit separately after 7 years old**. These young masters and young misses usually did not see each other on weekdays. They did not want to be married blindly by their parents, naturally, they wanted to choose the one they loved. Therefore, the Hundred Flowers Banquet held by the Empress gave them an opportunity.
*T/N: It is more or less the imperial examination.