What day is social day?

Social Day is February 2nd "Native Festival", also known as "Social Day Festival", which is divided into Spring Club Day and Autumn Club Day. The Spring Festival is the fifth May Day after beginning of spring, and the Autumn Festival is the fifth May Day after beginning of autumn.

In the south of China, people generally worship the land god, which is also called "society", "society god", "land god" and "Fude Shen Zheng", and Hakka people call it "land god". The land god is one of the widely worshipped gods. The custom of "Land Birthday" is to worship the land and gather people to drink and entertain the people by offering sacrifices to and entertaining the gods.

In Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, there are both customs similar to the Dragon Head-raising Festival and the "February 2" custom, which mainly offers sacrifices to the society.

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The god of the sacrificial society must first set up an altar and a temple. What the king set up was called "King Snake" and what the people set up was called "Big Society". The social altar must also have a social master-a social god. The earliest owners were trees, such as pine trees planted on altars in Xia Dynasty, cypress trees planted in Shang Dynasty and chestnut trees planted in Zhou Dynasty. Later, the owner changed to stones,' re and mounds.

For example, the community altar in Zhongshan Park in Beijing is dominated by five-color soil, with blue soil in the east, white soil in the west, red soil in the south, black soil in the north and loess in the middle, which not only represents the earth on earth, but also contains yin and yang and five elements. Just to pray for a bumper harvest in agriculture, the millet god was added to dominate the grain, so it was called the altar of the country. This is the "Wang Society" of the Imperial Sacrifice Society in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Societies established by the people are often called land temples. There are many land temples in urban and rural areas: in towns, residents donate money to build temples; In rural areas, under the big trees outside the village, build a small temple one or two meters square, or use four stone pieces, three as walls, one as a roof and one as a broken piece as a cover.

Such a "wronged" god who dominates the land, is young and strong, and has never heard of complaints and revenge from the land god. Therefore, the land gods created by the people of China are mostly kindly old people with long beards. Later, some people thought that a person was too lonely in a small temple, so they added a wife who was commonly known as Dipo according to human society.

In Fujian, Guangdong and Southwest China, people set up one or two stones in the land temple and covered them with red cloth, which is the land god-this is the legacy of ancient stone-dominated people. Farmers also posted a piece of red paper with the land god on it under the wall of the main wall of the hall, put incense burners on it, and invited the land god to protect the hospital.

The sacrificial ceremony was a grand festival for all the people in ancient times. After the emperor went to the "King Snake" to worship Qi Feng, he also held a banquet for his ministers. People collectively offered sacrifices to the community gods in the village.

From the ancient poems, we can know the scene of the social day at that time: the villagers raised funds to buy pigs and sheep, then beat gongs and drums, carried pigs and sheep, carried hip flask and various offerings, and gathered in front of the social temple to burn incense and worship, praying for a bumper harvest, prosperous population and peace in the village.

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