What is the meaning of the word "festival" in the phrase "I miss my family twice as much as I do at festivals"?

Jiajie: Explanation: A beautiful festival. Pinyin: jiā jié

In this poem, Jiajie refers to the 9th day of the 9th lunar month. I know where my brothers climbed to the top, but I have to put a cornelian cherry on the top of my head.

This is one of Wang Wei's masterpieces of homesickness and nostalgia. In these two lines, he writes that he is alone in the distant countryside, thinking of his hometown and relatives day and night, and that the feeling of loneliness is even more profound when the festivals come, and the feeling of homesickness and nostalgia will be doubly engraved in his heart. The "festival" here refers to the 9th day of the 9th month (i.e. "Chung Yeung Festival"), which is now generally referred to as a beautiful festival in general.

Traditional Chinese festivals:

New Year's Eve: Chinese traditional festivals - New Year's Eve on the last day of the year in the lunar calendar, that is, the 30th of December, December of that year is marked by the major traditional festivals. In the smaller months, it is on the twenty-ninth day of the month, and on the thirtieth day of the month when it is a big month. The night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year is called New Year's Eve. "In addition to", the original meaning is "go", derived from "easy"; the original meaning of the word "eve" is The original meaning of the word "eve" is "sunset", which is derived from "night". Therefore, the night of New Year's Eve contains the meaning of "getting rid of the old year, and changing the new year tomorrow", i.e. "getting rid of the old and bringing in the new".

Origin:New Year's Eve, the earliest from the pre-Qin period of the "by the removal". According to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals - Winter Records", the ancient people in the day before the New Year, to beat the drums to drive away the "plague of ghosts", so that the next year will be free of disease and disaster. "New Year's Eve" in ancient times, there are "in addition to the night, in addition to, in addition to the year, in addition to the big, the big end, the end of the year" and other aliases. Called more, but always no more than send the old to welcome the new, to get rid of disease and eliminate the meaning of disaster. Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve". Refers to China and other areas of the Han cultural circle of the lunar calendar, January 1, the night before. It is usually a day for people to eat, drink, play and have fun.

The Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is celebrated from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is the first day of the first year of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "Big Year", or the first day of the first year of the Lunar New Year.

Origin:The origin of the Spring Festival has a history of more than four thousand years in China. It is one of the most lively and grandest traditional festivals in Chinese folklore. Ancient Spring Festival, refers to the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, "spring" season, after the North and South Dynasties will be the Spring Festival at the end of the year, and refers to the entire spring, when the earth back to the spring, everything is renewed, people will take it as the beginning of a new year. In the early years of the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, the first day of the first month of the year was designated as the Spring Festival after the lunar calendar was changed to the Gregorian [solar] calendar. It was not until September 27, 1949 that the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month of the New Year as the Spring Festival, and thus many people still call the Spring Festival the New Year. The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese people, but the Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountain, Herzhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other dozens of ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival is more of their own national characteristics, more flavorful.

Lunar New Year's Eve:Time: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. It is an important traditional festival in China. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of a new year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the new year, so it is also known as the "Festival of the New Year", that is, the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. In ancient books, this day is called "on the Yuan", the night called "Yuan night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now.

Duanwu Festival: time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the "Dragon Boat Festival", is an ancient traditional Chinese festival. "Dragon Boat" is called "Duanwu", end is the beginning of the meaning. Because people think "May" is a bad month, "the fifth" is a bad day, so avoid "five", changed to "Duanwu Duanwu". The Dragon Boat Festival was recorded as early as the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was not established to honor Qu Yuan, but some of the customs after the Dragon Boat Festival were influenced by Qu Yuan.

Mid-Autumn Festival:Mid-Autumn Festival time: 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, this day is in the middle of the fall, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the moon is full and cinnamon, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the people wrote the date of the riot on a slip of paper and put it in the mooncake filling, so as to pass it to each other secretly, calling for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on that day, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes in mid-autumn has been more widely spread.