Are there any legends about folk festivals?

Cold food Tomb-Sweeping Day the day before.

(A festival in old customs, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day [two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day]. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, who had been exiled for many years, returned to China and acceded to the throne [that is, Jin Wengong], and all the courtiers who died with him were treated as honorifics, except mesons. Jie Zitui then lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province). When Jin Wengong learned about it, he wanted to raise the bonus. He found Mianshan, but he couldn't find it, so he wanted to burn the mountain and force him out. But meson push couldn't hold on, and as a result, both mother and son were burned to death. Therefore, Jin Wengong stipulates that people are forbidden to cook on the fire and express their condolences with cold food on this day every year. Later, the custom of eating cold food to sweep the grave at the Cold Food Festival was formed. )

The eighth day of the third lunar month is Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking. The poem Qingming written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write about the special atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing, so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities. )

Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. The real name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Dragon Boat Festival", which means the beginning. "Five" and "noon" are homophonic and universal. This is an ancient festival in China. After being exiled by slanderers, Qu Yuan, the earliest patriotic poet in ancient China, witnessed the increasingly corrupt politics of Chu State and was unable to realize his political ideal and save the endangered motherland, so he threw himself into the river. Since then, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating their bodies, people have kneaded glutinous rice and flour into cakes of various shapes and put them in the heart of the river, which has become the source of eating zongzi and fried cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has spread abroad.

-the breeze laughs with pride.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month

(The night on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called "Qixi". According to China folklore, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge in Tianhe tonight. Later, some women asked Vega for help on this night and other customs. The so-called cleverness is to thread a needle through Vega with colored thread in the moonlight. It would be a "coincidence" if you could pass through seven pinholes of different sizes. The agricultural proverb goes: "On the seventh day of July, it is clear, and the sickle is used to cut rice." It's time to sharpen the sickle and get ready to harvest the early rice. )

[Edit this paragraph] Respect for the Elderly Day

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in China. It is also a festival to respect the elderly in China. 1989, China designated September 9th as the festival for the elderly, which skillfully combined tradition with modernity and became a festival to respect, love and help the elderly.

Every time I go to Chongyang, people will think of Wang Wei's "Being in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season." I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. "This poem. Since ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival has been a day when people respect the old and love the young, miss their parents and long for reunion.

There is also a saying in history that the thirteenth day of the seventh lunar month is a day to respect the elderly, but it was revised in 1989.

[Edit this paragraph] Mid-Autumn Festival

the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month

(The 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which falls in the middle of autumn, is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the evening, the full moon in Gui Xiang is regarded as a symbol of happy reunion by the old customs. This is a festival to prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food to enjoy the moon. Eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Legend has it that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the broad masses of the people wrote the date of the uprising on a piece of paper, put it in the stuffing of moon cakes, and secretly passed it on to each other, calling on everyone to revolt on August 15. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on this day and overthrew the decadent Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has spread more widely. )

Edit this paragraph] Double Ninth Festival

September of the lunar calendar

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival is also called the Double Ninth Festival and the Festival for the Elderly, because in the Book of Changes in ancient times, six was defined as the number of yin and nine as the number of yang. On September 9, the sun and the moon meet, and the two are in the same phase, so it is called the Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Double Ninth Festival. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate and started this festival from a very young age. The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, which generally include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high into the distance, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating the Double Ninth Festival cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "long", and nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season of harvest in a year, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching influence. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate the Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums.

According to legend, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Runan people went to the cinema. Fei Changfang told him that there would be a disaster in Runan on September 9, so he quickly asked his family to sew a small bag, put Cornus officinalis in it, tied it to his arm, and climbed the mountain to drink chrysanthemum wine to take refuge. On this day, the whole family climbed the mountain and went home at night. Sure enough, all the chickens, dogs and sheep in the family are dead. Since then, people make dogwood bags, drink chrysanthemum wine, hold temple fairs, climb mountains and other customs on the Double Ninth Festival. Because "Gao" and "Gao" are homonyms, there is a custom of eating "Chongyang cake" on the Double Ninth Festival. Wang Weiyou, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Thinking of Shandong Brothers in the Mountain Festival": "When people are in a foreign land, they miss their relatives more than ever. I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. " Recorded the customs at that time. Because of sincere feelings, this poem has become a household name.

[Edit this paragraph] Solstice in winter

Lunar calendar 1 1 22nd.

In ancient China, people attached great importance to the winter solstice and thought it was a grand festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. "Han Shu" said: "The sun shines on the winter solstice, and you are long, so congratulations." People think that after the winter solstice, the days become longer and longer and the sun rises. This is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day, which should be celebrated. The Book of Jin records: "On the winter solstice of Wei and Jin Dynasties, people from all over the world celebrated ... its appearance was not as good as that of Zheng Dan." Explain the ancient emphasis on the winter solstice.

Now, some places still celebrate the winter solstice as a festival. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles from winter solstice on this day. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in winter solstice in various regions. )

[Edit this paragraph] Laba Festival

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month

In ancient times, the sacrifice to "gods" in December was called the twelfth lunar month, so the twelfth lunar month was called the twelfth lunar month. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the old custom is to drink Laba porridge. Legend has it that Sakyamuni became a Buddha on this day. In order to celebrate the merits of Sakyamuni, a grand Buddhist ceremony will be held in the temple to commemorate it, burning incense and ringing bells and drums together to cook porridge for the Buddha. Laba Festival is the coldest day in the north. People cook Laba porridge with whole grains and dried fruits and eat it in the morning of the festival. There are at least eight raw materials for cooking Laba porridge. Materials vary from place to place, generally including rice, millet, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, coix seed, red bean, mung bean, kidney bean, lotus seed, ginkgo, peanut kernel, longan, almond, melon seeds, raisins, red dates, chestnuts and preserved fruits. In addition, there are a variety of raw materials such as salty Laba porridge and meat Laba porridge. On this day, people in the north not only drink Laba porridge, but also offer sacrifices to their ancestors, hoping for a bumper harvest next year. During the Laba Festival, in order to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival, people began to prepare New Year's food, such as Laba vinegar, pickled Laba garlic, preserved meat, preserved duck, preserved fish and so on. Since then, people have followed suit, until today.

[Edit this paragraph] New Year's Eve

Kitchen Festival, Kitchen Day, commonly known as "off-year", also known as off-year, off-year, off-year festival and so on.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people call it "off-year", which means that the year is coming to an end.

In the past, there were "three officials, three people, four places and five monks", that is to say, anyone with a reputation of being a scholar or above had a lunar new year of 23, ordinary people had a lunar new year of 24, and Taoists and monks had a lunar new year of 25. Now most areas in the north spend their off-year holidays on the 23rd.

The main folk activity in off-year is "giving stoves", that is, "king of people". The Kitchen God is also called "Kitchen King", and the folks call it "Kitchen King".

[Edit this paragraph] Traditional Festival Table

Unless otherwise specified, the following festivals are calculated according to the lunar calendar (also known as summer calendar and lunar calendar):

1, Spring Festival on the first day of the first month, there were more than 30 names in ancient times, such as Yuanri, New Year's Day, Jacky, Chen Yuan, Yuanshuo, Sanyuan, Sanzheng, Zheng Dan and Zhengshuo.

2, the fifth day of the first month, Shen Lu's birthday.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival)

4. The Spring Dragon Festival on February 2nd is also called Dragon Head Raising and Qinglong Festival.

May and February 15 Flower Festival

6. Tomb-Sweeping Day Cold Food Festival the day before.

On the third day of March, the legendary Queen Mother held a flat peach party.

8. Tomb-Sweeping Day on the 15th after the vernal equinox (now April 5th in Gregorian calendar).

9. On the eighth day of April, Buddha's birthday, it is also called the festival of the ox. After that, the cows will go to the fields.

10, Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May

1 1, summer solstice festival

12, June 6 Sun Fu Festival "June 6, sun red and green." "Auntie's Day" and "June 6th, Please Auntie" are another festivals in ancient times, called Tiangong Festival, and June 6th is also a festival of Buddhist temples, called Fan Jing Festival.

13, July 7th, commonly known as Qixi Festival, July 7th, Begging for Cleverness Festival.

14, Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th, also known as Ghost Festival and Arahara Festival.

15 and July 30th Dizang Festival

16, August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival

17, Double Ninth Festival on September 9.

18, the first day of October and the October dynasty, also known as ancestor worship festival.

19, 10 15 Lunar New Year.

1 1 22nd, the solstice in winter.

2 1,1February 8th Laba Festival

22. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves is commonly known as "off-year", also known as off-year, off-year and off-year festivals.

23. The last day of the twelfth lunar month is called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, anniversary Festival, etc. People call it New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.

There are several sages' birthdays:

Guandi's birthday: June 24th.

Birthday of Confucius, the most holy teacher: August 27th.

Master Saint was born: March 28th.

Lu Ban's Birthday: June 13 (the seventh day of May)

Fuxi's birthday: May 13 (the legendary dragon's birthday)

Yandi Shennong's birthday: April 26th.

Huangdi's birthday: the second day of February.

Zhu Gekongming's birthday: July 23rd.

Mencius' birthday: the second day of April.

Yue Fei's birthday: February 15.

Laozi's birthday: February 15.

Sakyamuni's birthday: the eighth day of April.

Qu Yuan's birthday: the 21st day of the first month.

Sixth ancestor Huineng's birthday: the eighth day of February

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Twenty-three/twenty-four sacrificial stoves in twelfth lunar month

Take a bath on the 27th/28th of the twelfth lunar month.

Lunar New Year's Eve on the 29th.

Sacrifice to the god of wealth on the second day of the first month

On the third day of the first month, the door god paper/millet birthday/off-year dynasty was burned.

The fifth day of the first month, commonly known as the folk custom of breaking five.

On the seventh day of the first month, people are also called "People's Victory Day", "People's Celebration Day", "Population Day" and "People's Seventh Day".

On the eighth day of the first month, the lower bound of the stars along the line is also called "offering stars" and "receiving stars"

On the tenth day of the first month, the stone's birthday "the stone does not move" and "ten does not move" mice marry women.

Attachment 2: Other festivals:

"Semiannual Festival" has the names of June 15, June 14, June 6, June 5, June 1 day!

Guanyin Birthday: February 19, June 19, September 19,1month 19. The belief of Guanyin Bodhisattva has gone beyond the scope of Buddhism. This is a culture and a wish!

March 23rd of the lunar calendar is Mazu's birthday every year!

The first day of July, commonly known as the interest gate.

Bunker Festival: A traditional festival of sacrifice for the Han nationality in China, which falls on the 25th day of the first lunar month. Also known as Tiancang Festival and Tiancang Festival, it is a festival to worship the God of Heaven.

[Edit this paragraph] Chinese and English traditional festivals in China.

1. Spring Festival (lunar calendar 1 month 1 day); Chinese New Year

2. Lantern Festival (lunar calendar 1 month 15)

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (April 5) Tom B- Tomb-Sweeping Day

4. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month)

5. Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar)

6. Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month)

7. New Year's Eve (December 30th)

The Origin of China New Year

China's New Year's Day is said to have started in Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors and five emperors, with a history of more than 5,000 years. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "It is actually the spring of New Year's Day when the emperor was transferred to the first month." During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a literary historian in the Southern Dynasties, also recorded "New Year's Day in four seasons, long life and early spring" in his poem "Jieya". Wu's Dream into the First Month in the Song Dynasty: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, commonly known as the first day of the New Year's Day. This is the first one. " ; Cui Yuan of Han Dynasty called it "Jacky" in San Zi Ming. In the Jin Dynasty, Yang Du Fu called it ""; The Northern Qi Dynasty called it "Yuan Chun" in Huangxia Ci of Hui Yuan Ge Xiang. Tang Dezong Shili called it "Yuan Shuo" in the poem "Yuan Ri retired from the DPRK to watch the war and return to camp"

During the cultural relics excavation in Dawenkou, China found a picture of the sun rising from the top of the mountain with clouds in the middle. According to textual research, this is the oldest writing method of the word "Dan" in China. Later, simplified hieroglyphics of "Dan" appeared on bronze inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The word "Dan" is represented by a round sun. The word "one" under "Sun" indicates the horizon, which means that the sun rises from the horizon in Ran Ran.

New Year's Day in China always refers to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar and lunar calendar). Yuan means "early" and "beginning", but it means "day". New Year's Day is collectively called "the first day", that is, the first day of the year. There are different names in Chinese dialects, some are called "New Year's Day", some are called "Big Day", and some are called "New Year's Day", generally called "the first day of the first month".

The date of the first day of the first month was also very different before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day of the past dynasties is not consistent. Meng Xiyue (1 month) is the first month of the Xia calendar, the twelfth month of the Shang lunar calendar (1February) and the winter month of the week calendar (1 1 month). After Qin Shihuang unified China, Yangchun month (October) was the first month, that is, the first day of October was New Year's Day. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it has been stipulated that Meng Xiyue (January) is the first month, and Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first month in the summer calendar) is called New Year's Day, which has been used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But this is the summer calendar, that is, the lunar calendar or lunar calendar, and it is not what we call New Year's Day today.

In A.D. 19 1 1, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 day "New Year's Day". But it has not been officially announced and named. In order to "follow the agricultural season, so follow the western calendar, so do statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (actually used as 19 12), and stipulated that Gregorian calendar 1 was called "New Year's Day", but not "New Year's Day".

Today's "New Year's Day" is September 27th, 1949, the eve of the founding of New China. When the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the Republic of China, it also decided to adopt the world calendar, which is what we call the solar calendar.

In modern times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year. In order to distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, and in view of the fact that the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar is just around the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed as the Spring Festival, and the Gregorian calendar 1 day was designated as the first day of the New Year's Day, which became a legal holiday and became a happy festival for the people of the whole country.