Time, origin, connotation, poems and couplets of 10 traditional Chinese festivals!

Chinese New Year. That is, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as New Year's Eve, generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, in folklore, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival refers to from the wax festival on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar or the sacrifice of the stove on the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar calendar, until the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month are the climax. The Spring Festival has a long history, originating from the sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year during the Yin and Shang dynasties. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held to celebrate. These activities are mainly to worship gods and Buddhas, pay homage to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome joy and good fortune, and pray for a good year. The activities are colorful, with strong national characteristics. New Year's Day is also a day of worship and prayer. Ancient people said that a ripe grain for a "year", the harvest for the "great year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual celebration of the harvest. Later, praying to heaven became one of the main contents of the New Year's custom. Moreover, gods such as the God of the Stove, the God of the Door, the God of Wealth, the God of Happiness, the God of the Well, etc., all enjoyed the incense on earth during the New Year's festivals. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their past care and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunions and ancestor worship. New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the "New Year's dinner", the elders to the children to distribute "New Year's money", the family sat down "to observe the New Year". At the time of the New Year's Eve, firecrackers went off, and the activities of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year reached a climax. Each family burns incense to pay homage to heaven and earth, sacrifices to the ancestors, and then pays New Year's greetings to their elders, followed by congratulations from relatives and friends of the same clan. After the New Year's Day, they begin to visit friends and relatives and give each other gifts to celebrate the New Year. The New Year's Day is also a festival of popular entertainment and revelry. After the New Year's Day, a variety of colorful recreational activities competing: playing lion, dragon dance, twisting rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, juggling plays, etc., for the New Year's Day added a rich and festive atmosphere. At this time, just before and after the "spring", the ancient times to hold a grand ceremony to welcome the spring, whip the bull to welcome the spring, praying for wind and rain, a good harvest. A variety of social fire activities to the first month of the fifteenth, again forming a climax.

A poem is carved on the stone wall:

The sun rises and sets three hundred and six times, and the cycle starts all over again.

The grass and trees wither and flourish in four seasons, and there are twelve rounds in a year.

The God of Heaven and Earth, "Heaven's grace is as deep as the sea,

Posted Spring Festival Couplets (20 pictures); the God of Land, "Jade is born from the earth, gold comes out of the earth"; the God of Wealth, "Lord of wealth in the sky, God of fortune on earth"; and the God of Wells, "The God of wealth in the sky, the God of fortune on earth". The God of Wealth is the God of Fortune in the sky and the God of Fortune on earth; the God of Wells is the God of Wells and the God of Fortune is the God of Fortune in the world. Face grain silos, corrals and other places in the Spring Festival couplets, are expressed warmly celebrate and hope, such as "grain harvest, six animals prosper"; "rice and noodles as thick as a mountain, oil and salt as deep as the sea"; "cattle like a tiger in the South Mountain, the horse as the North Sea Dragon "; "sheep year after year, lamb month after month," and so on. In addition, there are some single couplets, such as each indoor sticker "head up to see joy", the door across the sticker "out of the door to see joy", the fire on the sticker "Wang Qi Chong Tian", the yard sticker "Full of gold in the yard", "deep roots" on the tree, "White Tiger" on the stone mill, and so on. Couplets on the door, is the face of a family, pay special attention to, or lyrical, or write the scene, rich in content, wonderful words.

Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as "the Lantern Festival" (the Lantern Festival), Spring Lantern Festival, is a traditional Han folk festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night for "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China's vast territory, a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same everywhere, including eating Lantern Festival, lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. is the Lantern Festival several important folk customs.

The Tang Dynasty poet Su flavor of the first month of the fifteenth night of the poem cloud users "fire tree silver flowers together, star bridge iron locks open. Dark dust with the horse to go, the moon comes by people." Depicts the lights and moon, tourists, lively scene. Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Yue also used poems to praise the name of the site, "Calyx building door dew new, Chang'an city peace people. Dragons in the fire tree thousands of lights flame, the chicken stepped on the lotus flower long live the spring." The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival scene described to the fullest. Li Shangyin, on the other hand, used the poem "the moonlight and light filled the Imperial City, the fragrant carriage overflowed through the streets" to depict the grand scale of the lanterns at that time.

February 2, the traditional folk festival. Popular in various ethnic areas. This festival has more customary activities, but also has a flower dynasty festival, the festival, the festival of picking the Lei, the spring dragon festival, the festival of the green dragon, the dragon head day called. Because of the time in the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, so called. At that time and after the folk to knife ruler, hundred grain, melon seeds, welcome the rich and noble fruits and so on to ask the legacy, and there are picking vegetables, trekking, welcome the rich and other activities. Yuan Fei Zhuo "age Hua Jili spectrum": after the Ming, February 2 and many customs on the dragon head, such as ash lead dragon, support the dragon, smoked insects to avoid scorpions, shaving the dragon head, taboo needle piercing dragon eyes and other festivals and customs, so it is called the dragon head day. This custom has been recorded in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi "February 2nd" poem: "February 2nd new rain dark, grass teeth and vegetables a moment. Light shirt, fine horse youth less, cross Zintou a word line." At that time and after the folk to knife ruler, a hundred grains, melon seeds, welcome the rich and noble fruit, etc., and ask the legacy, and pick vegetables, trekking, and welcome the rich and other activities. Yuan Fei Zhi "age Hua Ji Li spectrum": "February 2 Treading Green Festival, tough county people traveling to enjoy the scattered suburbs. ......", and Wang Hao "Guang Qunfang spectrum? Timeless spectrum" cited "Hanmo record": "Luoyang custom, February 2 for the flower Lang Festival, the public and the people play, and for the picking festival." After the Ming Dynasty, February 2 and many customs on the dragon's head, such as scattering ash to attract the dragon, supporting the dragon, smoked insects to avoid scorpions, shaving the dragon's head, avoiding needles piercing the dragon's eyes and other customs, so called the dragon's head day. Qing Xianfeng "Wuding Fu Zhi": "...... to (February) 2nd for the Spring Dragon Festival, take the stove ash around the house as a dragon snake-like, called the attraction of money dragon, inviting the blessing of Xiang also." In addition, there are still on the work, test plows, fried scorpion beans, wear poncho, sacrifices to the Dragon King, respect for the land, visit the heir sacrifices, marrying a woman to live in the spring, children open the pen and other festivals and activities. Buyei February 2 to carry out three days, to sacrifice the land god.

Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 108 days after the winter solstice. Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. Almanac: "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, Doo refers to Ding, for Qingming, when everything is clean and clear, cover when the air is clear and the scenery is bright, everything is obvious, hence the name." Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is a "Qingming before and after, planting melon point beans" said. Qingming Festival is a festival of ancestor worship, the traditional activities for the tomb sweeping. 2006 May 20, the folk festival was approved for inclusion in the first intangible cultural heritage list.

Famous Verses of Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival (Tang) Du Mu

The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy is pointing to the apricot blossom village.

"Cold Food on the Way" (Tang) Song Zhiwen

It is cold food on the way, and it is twilight spring on the way.

The poor man is looking at the river, but he doesn't see the people of Luoqiao.

The North Pole is full of people who want to know the Lord of the North, and the South Sea is full of people who want to go to the South.

The old garden is a broken place, and the willows are new every day and night.

"Cold Eclipse" (Tang)

There is no place where flowers do not fly in the spring city, and the east wind of the cold eclipse makes the willows slant.

The candles were passed to the Han Palace at the end of the day, and the smoke was dispersed into the houses of the five vassals.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, etc.; Duanwu Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate the Qu Yuan, but also to eat zongzi, dragon boat races, hanging calamus, Artemisia annua, Ai Ye, lavender, Angelica dahurica, and drink Xionghuang wine custom. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the legal holidays and is included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival in English) The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), meeting in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), decided on September 30th, 2009 that the Dragon Boat Festival has been successfully inscribed on the Representative List of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival in English), also known as the Duan Yang Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth lunar month every year in Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and is divided into the Big Dragon Boat Festival and the Small Dragon Boat Festival. The small Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the big Dragon Boat Festival is the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year.

To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is a very prevalent and grand festival. Great importance is attached to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the folklore was approved for inclusion in the first intangible cultural heritage list.

The 5th day of the 5th month (Song - Mei Yaochen)

Qu has sunk to his death, and the people of Chu mourn him.

What can be done to stop the slander and slander?

The first time I saw you, I was so happy to see you, and I was so happy to see you.

The water in the blue pools of Yuan and Hunan should shine on a thousand peaks.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Tang - Wen Xiu)

Who said that the festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival, but it has been rumored to be Qu Yuan for thousands of years

I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, and I can't wash away the injustice of the upright ministers.

The Tanabata Festival is a traditional festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Because the main participants in the activities of this day is a young girl, and the content of the festival activities are mainly to beg, so people call this day for the "Begging for coincidence" or "Maiden Festival", "Daughter's Day". The Tanabata Festival is one of the most romantic of the traditional festivals, and it was also the most important day for girls in the past. In the evening of this day, women threaded needles and begged for coquettish tricks, prayed for blessings and longevity, worshipped the Seven Sisters, the ceremony was pious and grand, and the display of flowers and fruits, women's red, and all kinds of furniture and utensils were exquisite and small, and attracted people's love.On May 20, 2006, the Tanabata Festival was included in the list of the first batch of intangible cultural heritages. It is now also recognized as "Valentine's Day".

A Long Way to the Altair Star (Liang) Xiao Tong

A Long Way to the Altair Star, a Bright River Lady.

The hand is slender and delicate, and the loom is a loom.

The day is over, and the tears are falling like rain.

The river is clear and shallow.

The water is so clear and shallow that you can't speak a word about it.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. August is the second month of autumn, known as mid-autumn in ancient times, because it is in the middle of autumn and August, so the folk called Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Autumn Festival, August Festival, half of the eighth month, the moon, the Moon Festival, but also because of the day the moon is full, symbolizing reunion, also known as the reunion festival.

The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first used in the Zhou Li. According to the ancient calendar, there are four seasons in a year, three months in each season, respectively, known as the Meng month, the mid-month, the seasonal month of three parts, so the second month of the fall is called the mid-autumn, and because the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, in the middle of the month of August, so it is called "mid-autumn". In the early Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a regular festival. The New Tang Dynasty - Volume 15 Zhi Fifth - Rituals and Music V "in which the spring, mid-autumn release of the King Xuan, King Wucheng," and "the 19th year of the Kaiyuan era, began to set up the temple of Taigong Shangfu, with the Marquis of Liou Zhangliang with. In the spring, mid-autumn on the e sacrifice, livestock, music system such as the text. According to historical records, the ancient emperors sacrificed the moon festival for the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which coincides with the half of the three autumns, so the name of the "Mid-Autumn Festival"; and because this festival in the fall in August, it is also known as the "Autumn Festival", "August Festival ", "August will", "Mid-Autumn Festival"; and pray for reunion beliefs and related customary activities, so also known as "reunion festival", "Daughter's Day". Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are centered around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival", "Moon Festival", "Moon Chasing Festival "In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as the "Duanzheng Moon". In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as the "Duanzheng Moon". The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major festivals along with New Year's Day. About the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are roughly three kinds: the origin of the ancient worship of the moon, the custom of singing and dancing under the moon to look for puppets, and the ancient custom of worshiping the god of the land in the autumn report.

The Moon on the Fifteenth Night (Tang) Wang Jian

The white trees in the middle of the garden are full of crows, and the cold dew is silent and wet.

Tonight, the moon is bright, and I don't know whose home the thoughts of autumn have fallen on.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tang Dynasty)

The mirror rises up in the sky, and there is no sound in the clouds

All the colors are equally divided into a full round, and the cloudy streets are a thousand miles bright

The cunning rabbit falls from the outside of the strings, and the demonic toad does not come to life in front of me

The Crews are going to join together and wait for the Milky Way to be thoroughly cleared.

The Double Ninth Festival (The Double Ninth Festival) September 9 of the lunar calendar, for the traditional Chongyang Festival, also known as the "Festival of the Elderly". Because the "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of Yin, the "nine" as the number of Yang, September 9, the sun and the moon and Yang, the two nine heavy, so it is called Chung Yeung, also known as Chung Kau. Chongyang Festival has been formed as early as the Warring States period, to the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival, and since then it has been inherited by successive dynasties. Chongyang, also known as "Treading Autumn" and March 3 "Treading Spring" are all the family pouring out of the room, Chongyang this day all the relatives have to climb together to "avoid disaster", insert cornelian cherry, chrysanthemums. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere of the Chongyang Festival has become increasingly rich, and has been one of the several traditional festivals that have been recited by writers and writers throughout the ages. Chrysanthemum Festival, together with the three festivals, namely, the Festival of Excesses, Qing and Yu, is also one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship.

The origin of Chongyang can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals in the "Jiuqiu Ji": "(September) ordered the family Zai, agricultural preparations for the harvest, the importance of the five species. Hidden in the god warehouse of the emperor's book, respect and order." "This is also the day, the great feast to the emperor, tasted the sacrifice, told the preparation in the son of heaven." It can be seen that at that time there were in the fall and September when the crops were harvested to sacrifice to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor, ancestor benevolence of the activities.　In the Han Dynasty, "Xijing Miscellany" recorded that Jia Peilan, a courtesan in the Western Han Dynasty, said, "On the ninth day of the ninth month, wear cornelian cherry, eat pong bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, and the cloud makes people live longer." Legend has it that since then, there has been the custom of seeking longevity on the Chongyang Festival. This is influenced by the ancient sorcerers (later Taoist priests) in pursuit of longevity, the collection of drugs to take. At the same time there are large-scale drinking activities, is the development of the feast from the pre-Qin time to celebrate the harvest. The Jing Chu chronicle: "September 9, the four people and the wild drinking feast." Sui Du Gongzhan note cloud: "September 9 banquet, unknown from what generation, but since the station to Song has not changed." Seeking longevity and feasting formed the basis of the Chongyang Festival. The poem "Banquet with the Elderly in Yang Fu Shan Tu Village" reads: "The lunch banquet in Jiang Village on the ninth day of the ninth month is opened, and I offer a goblet to wish longevity with chrysanthemum spirits. Next year is even more healthy than this year, **** the youth back to save." The old people's festival banquet, drinking chrysanthemum wine, wishing healthy and other activities.

Autumn climbed the orchid mountain to send Zhang five (Meng Haoran)

The northern mountain white clouds, the hermit from the pleasure. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

I feel sad because of the twilight, and I feel excited because of the fall.

The first thing you need to do is to get the best of the best.

The trees in the sky are like chestnuts, and the river is like the moon. The first thing you need to do is to get drunk at the Festival of the New Year.

The old man has chicken and millet, and invited me to his home. The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and I was very happy to see it.

This is the first time I've been to a house where I've had a chance to meet a friend of mine, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it again. The first thing I want to do is to get the best out of it.