What festival is the third day of the third lunar month: Shangsi Festival?

In China, the third day of the third lunar month is a day full of festive atmosphere. On this day, many ethnic groups have special festivals, such as the Song Fair on March 3rd in Zhuang nationality and the Shangsi Festival on March 3rd in Han nationality. Today's Encyclopedia of Lunar Festival introduces this festival to you.

Shangsi refers to the first day of March in the summer calendar, so it is also called Shi Sanhe and Si Yuan. In the pre-Qin era, Shangsi Festival has become a large-scale folk festival. The main activity is that people bathe together in the water, which is called "Zan", that is, a ceremony to eliminate evil spirits through self-cleaning.

Since then, activities such as qu shui and drinking in water have been added to Shangsi Festival. It turns out that the winding stream is an egg floating by the water, that is, the boiled egg is put in the river and left to Yves, and whoever picks it up will eat it. Later, a meandering river was developed. Everyone sat at the water's edge, put the stream full of wine on the running water and let it flow down. Whoever stopped in front of him drank the wine in the cup and wrote a poem.

Waterfront banquet is also called Qushui Banquet, that is, while Qushui is flowing, mats, tea sets and flowers are arranged at the water's edge, and the participants hold a banquet to recite poems, which is very elegant. Waterfront feasting and dancing with water gradually became literati's entertainment activities after their appearance, especially in the Tang Dynasty, but gradually disappeared after the Song Dynasty.

After Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi Festival was changed to the third day of March, also known as Chongsan or March 3, which was used by later generations. It has become a festival for Han people to drink water by the water and have a spring outing in the suburbs, and it is widely spread in China. It was not until after the Song Dynasty that Neo-Confucianism prevailed and ethics became more and more strict that the custom of Shangsi Festival gradually declined in Chinese culture.

Today, March 3rd is still a grand festival in some minority areas in southwest China. From the Songkran Festival held on March 3rd every year in Dali, Yunnan, we can vaguely see the shadow of ancient festivals. But in most parts of China, few people know about this festival.

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