What are the traditional activities on the third day of March

1. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the She people celebrate the "Wu Rice Festival", every family does Wu rice, the whole family **** meal, gifts to friends and relatives. At the same time, they also gather together to sing and dance in honor of the festival. Lianjiang County, Xiaocang National Autonomous Township, She people also have Wu Rice Festival, this day the village is bustling with activity. Wu Rice is a wild plant called Wu Nim Tree, which is used by the She people in the mountains. The leaves are taken and boiled in the soup, then the glutinous rice is soaked in the soup for several hours, picked up and put in a wooden cauldron to be steamed and made. The color of this kind of rice is blue-green and black with oil, and it is soft and delicious in the mouth. Because of its antiseptic and spleen-opening properties, the rice is packed in a ramie bag and hung in a cool, ventilated place where it will not become rancid for several days. If it is fried with lard, it is even more flavorful and delicious. This is why it is said that "one family steams it and ten families smell good. 2. Every year in April, people have the opportunity to come to southern Fujian and Taiwan, they will find this refreshing phenomenon: there are many places do not sweep the tomb on the day of "Ching Ming", but fixed on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar (this year it is the eleventh day of the fourth month) to sweep the tomb. What is the reason for this? Originally, since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, every third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Minnan, Taiwan folk have the old custom of honoring ancestors, called "Three Days Festival. Speaking of this ancestral worship festival, there is a cross-strait relationship between the origin of the legend and records. Zheng Chenggong, in order to realize his desire to "fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty" and to recover Taiwan, led his troops to defend the coastal areas of southern Fujian, such as Xiamen and Kinmen, and the generals and soldiers were united in their determination to fight against the same enemy. Zheng Chenggong even heard the word "Ching" and found it offensive to his ears. One day, a soldier brought tea and said, "Please drink Ching tea", Zheng Chenggong was so annoyed that he immediately corrected himself and said, "From now on, you are not allowed to say the word 'Ching'! Especially for the "Qingming Festival", the "Qing" word over the "Ming" word, more annoyed him, so he ordered the location of the people do not sweep the tomb on the "Qingming Festival", but instead on the "March 3" to honor their ancestors. 3. "March 3" Wuxi Temple Fair 4. 353 A.D. on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Eastern Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xizhi invited friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 42 people gathered at the Lanting, goblets of wine, drinking and poetry, Wang Xizhi collection of poems compiled into a collection, and wrote a preface, which is known as "the world's first line of calligraphy" "Lanting Collection Preface". Lanting Preface". The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year will also become a festival for literati and artists to gather at the Lanting to write poems and dedications in praise of the sages. 5. "The weather is new on the third day of March, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an." Du Fu's "Lilien Xing" has been recited for a long time, but nowadays not many people know that the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the traditional "Daughter's Day". In order to recall the traditional memory, the protection of intangible cultural heritage, Shanghai Normal University Women's College of Culture announced yesterday, will be the fifth anniversary of the College and the April 11 "March 3 Daughter's Day" integration of a series of celebrations, and will be every year on the third of March as the College's regular anniversary.