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China's colder festivals

China has a long history, there are many household names of traditional festivals, there are also many unknown cold festivals. These festivals with the passage of time. Is with our life gradually far away, there are even some festivals, people simply have not heard of. So next, I will talk about the major disappearing festivals in China! Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language, please take it!

The Shangsi Festival is still a relatively cold festival, as it is a bit far from our history. Every year on the third day of the third month, the Shangsi Festival is held, which is also called the "Purification of Purification" or the "Spring Mu Festival". This festival is also called the "Spring Baptism Festival", which means that spring has come, and it is time to take a bath to welcome the new year. But because the wars of that period were too frequent, the Chinese culture suffered a serious blow, the festival also with the demise of the Jin Dynasty and gradually far away, until the Tang and Song dynasties, it is almost completely forgotten by the people.

The Cold Clothes Festival is a festival of cold clothes, and we can probably think of the Cold Food Festival. That's right, this festival is actually a little bit similar to the Qingming Festival, because he is to worship the emergence of a festival. People in the south may not know, especially in the north, this festival is still more popular, and even now, some regions have not forgotten this festival. By the first day of October every year, the weather is gradually cold, we have to wear more clothes, the deceased ancestors at the same time also have to wear more clothes, this festival is to the winter to the deceased ancestors to sweep the tomb, to send the cold clothing festival.

Guanyin Festival is a festival of lotus flower viewing, as you can hear from its name. Because of our country's ancient people are very fond of lotus, and countless literati also for the poems, so a large number of Chinese literati, somehow slowly rise to this festival. Gradually not only in the circle of literati spread, but also into the people's homes, June 24 every year will be held this festival, people will wear relatively clean clothes, canoeing on the lotus pond, watching the lotus, especially at night will be released lotus lamps, streaming colorful beauty.

Flower Dynasty FestivalFlower Dynasty Festival is a festival related to flowers. Chinese people have a romantic element in their bones, so the history of this festival is very long. Throughout history, have never heard of any person will hate the flowers, as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, where people have raised a kind of flower god festival, and later to the Tang Dynasty, people on the flowers of the favorite and on a higher level. So the Flower Dynasty Festival has emerged, this festival is mainly to commemorate the birth of the God of Flowers festival. Even every year to the flower festival will cut colorful paper hanging on the tree. It is now long gone.

The Tailgate Festival is a festival that you may not have heard of, what is the tailgate? It is also the end of the year. So that every year at the end of the year, that is, the sixteenth day of the waxing moon there are a lot of people to participate in this festival, after participating in this festival, it means that you can happily go home to spend the New Year. On this day in order to seek the protection of his land eunuch, to the land eunuch to burn gold and silver jewelry, but also to the land eunuch to worship some meat, but also look forward to make the next year a better life.