What folk customs were there in Song Dynasty?

History is fascinating and desirable because of its vague appearance. Song Dynasty is a dynasty with very developed economy and culture. People living in the Song Dynasty had a lot of free time because of the rich means of production, and it is unimaginable for the people of the Song Dynasty to live an interesting life today.

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"Tokyo Dream": "In spring, the princes and officials give gold and silver, and they give it to the private." Su Zhe's poem "Except Night, Yuan Day, Province, Su Zhi Zhai" said: "At the beginning of this year, the new day was on the third day, and the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was gradually southeast. When I return to China, I will be a silver party, and wormwood at the end of the snow will be full. " The Southern Song Dynasty still followed the Northern Song Dynasty. Dream of Liang Lu: "On the day of beginning of spring, the following vassal States got gold and silver and hung them on hoes to welcome them into the DPRK."

Spring sacrifice

The fifth May Day after beginning of spring is Spring Club Day. In ancient times, villages were used as units to offer sacrifices to the country and pray for a bumper harvest. The god of the sacrificial society first set up a society, built a stone house on the earthen altar without a roof, pasted red paper on it, and sprinkled meat around it to pay homage to crows after the sacrifice. The Chronicle of Jingchu: "On the social day, the neighborhood formed a clan association, slaughtering the animals in prison, offering sacrifices to the gods first, and then enjoying them."

Bean grass

"The club burns money like thunder, and the setting sun helps the drunkards return. Green branches and scattered flowers show that children and grandchildren are fighting for grass. " Fan Chengda's "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Fun" and "Spring Miscellaneous Fun" once described the situation of children mowing grass. "See Painting Poetry": "Cover the south of the Yangtze River in early spring, and spring grass grows. The children wrestled each other with grass. The tough one wins, and the broken one loses. "

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"The ancients picked lotus flowers with drums, and now they are full of flowers. Traveling with the countryside for a day, welcoming the rich is forgetting the worries. " The custom of welcoming the rich on February 2 has a long history. "China is 20 years old" contains: As early as the Youchao era, someone invited a child home to support the elderly on this day, thus making his family rich. On this day, later generations went to the wild to pick leaves instead of children and sacrificed to the door. "Tian Lu Yu Ji" also contains: On this day, the Qin Dynasty took drums to the suburbs to play, and went out at dusk, named Fu Ying. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wei Liaoweng wrote the poem "On February 2, Suining Northland welcomes the rich": "It is the willow that sends the poor day, and the flower welcomes the rich day."

Take the wine to the grave.

"Riding a donkey to drink to the ancestral grave, spring scenery is full of new eyes all the way. The roadside pass is smooth and the pole is easy to blow. " In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli described this in the poem "On March 3, Zhong Xiang's grave line scattered ten quatrains". When going to the grave changed from offering sacrifices to sweeping, it became an activity to take lunch boxes and wine to the suburbs for an outing. And many roadside stalls selling things like powder and crushed children, like raw fruit, use gambling to attract buyers. This kind of gambling is called "turning off the robot".

Sacrifice to the kitchen god

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god speaks to the sky. The distiller's grains painted on the stove were drunk, so the man offered his daughter to avoid it.

The kitchen god worshipped in ancient China was Zhu Rong, the god of fire. In the Book of Rites, the ritual vessels are sparse: "The son of Zhuan Xu is called Li, who is Zhu Rong and worships the kitchen god."

Hanging multicolored thread

"The Story of Jingchu Times": "May 5th is called the Blue Bath Festival. Ai Cai thought he was a man with poison gas hanging on the door. Calling soldiers in the name of colorful silk is not a disease. "At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty," Local Records "said:" The horn is millet, and people take Hsinchu as the tube. The neem leaves with five arms are called long life wisps. Yu Jing, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "Doing Things at Noon": "No one hangs Qu Ping on the river, but when he hears its vulgarity, he will sail lightly. Empty fasting has nothing to do with child's play, and the four divisions and five soldiers. "

There are many folk customs in the Song Dynasty, which is only the most basic, but we can also see how exquisite people's lives are in the Song Dynasty, and no matter which day is full of joy and excitement. This is the attitude that life should have.