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1, Qushui, is a game that originated in China and later spread to Japan and the Korean Peninsula. In March of the Gregorian calendar, after people hold a ceremony, everyone sits on both sides of the canal, puts their glasses on the upstream and goes down the river. Whoever stops in front of them will have a drink. This game is very old. There is a saying in the escape poem: "Feathers drift with the tide".

2. "Running water meanders" originated from the ancient custom of Shangsi Festival. Shangsi refers to the first day of March in the summer calendar. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a custom of bathing on the seashore, which meant a ritual of cleaning the body to get rid of fierce diseases. The court appointed a full-time witch to take charge of this matter. The Book of Songs Zheng Yan records that Zheng's spring is in March. In the Han Dynasty, the third day of March was designated as a festival.

3. The Book of Rites says: "On the third day of March, the officials and the people all drowned in the east running water, washing away the dirt, which was a great purity." After Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi was changed to the third day of March, which became an important festival. The custom of washing body gradually evolved into a banquet by the water and a spring outing in the suburbs.

4. On the third day of March in the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), 42 people, including Wang Xizhi, Xie An and Sun Chuo, gathered in Lanting, Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) in Huiji, and held a running game after the ceremony. Forty-two people drank wine and wrote poems, and their poems formed Preface to Lanting Collection. Since then, it has spread for thousands of years, such as running water, poetry and paper, and drinking to enjoy the scenery.

This custom was introduced to Japan in Nara era, which was first popular in the court, then spread to the people, and then evolved into a floating baby.