Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Festivals in the Three Kingdoms Period

Festivals in the Three Kingdoms Period

On New Year's Day, drink pepper and cypress wine, Tu Su wine, eat five parsley and plastic tooth bottles; Yuanxiao drinks bean porridge (glutinous rice balls were only available in Song Dynasty), enjoys lanterns and eats snacks; Cold food festival (one month, Cao Cao ordered it to be abolished and changed to three days), eating barley porridge (a kind of cake), dry porridge (a bit like modern instant porridge), boiled eggs, lettuce mixed with salt and vinegar (only cakes in Northern Wei Dynasty); Eat millet (zongzi) and drink calamus wine and realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival; The Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated only after the Tang Dynasty, when it was not celebrated. Chongyang should wear dogwood, eat tent bait (rice cake) and drink chrysanthemum wine.