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What festival is Teana?

Taoism calls the first day of the first month of the first lunar month in the summer calendar a heavenly sound, which is a folk festival.

There is a saying of "three yuan and five waxes" in Taoist legends in China, and the first day of the first month is also called "the day of wax". People think that these days are auspicious days of the year, among which nature is more important as the first day of the year. The twelfth lunar month is the day for the five emperors to take an examination of the school, and it is also the day for the five emperors to be blessed.

That day, at five o'clock (four or five o'clock), firecrackers continued. It means to celebrate the New Year, welcome the gods, drive away the demons and ghosts, and drive away the poor (drive away the poor ghosts). With the sound of firecrackers, people began to be busy with the Spring Festival. Housewives cook jiaozi on the first day of New Year's Day, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors first, and then the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders and bows down.

Three yuan and five waxes:

The three festivals are: the business management festival on the 15th of the first month, the middle management festival on the 15th of July, and the water management festival on the 15th of October. The five wax festivals are: the first day of the first month, the fifth day of May, the seventh day of July, the first day of October and the eighth day of December.

In the Qing Dynasty, the belief in "three officials" became more common, and God bless the people with various New Year pictures and figure paintings. The celestial official in the painting is wearing a red official uniform, a dragon robe and a jade belt. With wishful thinking, bearded, kind-hearted face pit, a luxurious temperament. In the past, people posted this kind of New Year pictures every Spring Festival, in order to let the gods in heaven bless people to live longer.