What are the traditional Chinese festivals about women?

1, Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty, the Tang and Song Dynasty has been greatly developed. "Women went out to the streets and lanes and confused men and women since the night up to the day." The Lantern Festival developed into the most lively secular carnival in the Song Dynasty, with everyone participating and enjoying themselves.

Ancient Lantern Festival, due to the opening of the ban, crowded, men and women meet, easy to produce love. Young girls in traditional society were not allowed to go out, but the Lantern Festival lantern viewing gave young girls an excellent opportunity to socialize, they went out in groups, unmarried men and women took the opportunity to enjoy the lanterns can also incidentally find objects for themselves.

2, on the Si Festival

On the Si Festival, is to commemorate the Yellow Emperor's festival, commonly known as the third of March. Traditionally, the Festival in the lunar calendar in March of the first Si Day, is also a day of purification and purification, that is, the spring bath day. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, the water's edge drinking and feasting, the countryside tour of spring as the main activities.

Shang Si Festival is also known as the daughter of the Festival, because the ancient rite of passage for young girls, generally held on this day. In addition, as early as the pre-Qin Festival has been a spring girl looking for true love of the day, also has the meaning of Valentine's Day, to the Tang Dynasty to reach its peak. Since the Song Dynasty, the prevalence of science, etiquette and strict, March 3 Valentine's Day elements gradually disappeared.

3, Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is commonly known as Duanwu, Duanyang, May Festival, Daughter Festival, etc., the name of a variety of content activities, there are: the daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, hang the wormwood, Pei incense sacs, Dragon Boat Race, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children coated with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat zongzi and so on.

The reason why there is a Daughter's Day, because on this day, married daughters to return to their parents' homes, while families to the girl's head to wear pomegranate flowers, and some also knotted with red thread into various shapes, worn on the girls.

4, Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar's Day, began in the Han Dynasty. Legend has it that the weaver's hand, the night of July 7 or July 6 of the lunar calendar every year, women are set up incense, fruits, and threaded to her begging for dexterity, so it is known as "begging for coquettish".

The Tanabata Festival originated from people's worship of nature and the women's needle begging, and then was given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to make it a festival to symbolize love, and is now regarded as "China's Valentine's Day".

5, People's Day Festival

The seventh day of the first month of the first year, legend has it that this day is the birth of mankind, i.e., people's birthday, folk had called this day "people's day", "people's day festival" or "people's victory festival ". Chinese people in this day to wear people win, eat seven treasures soup, eat noodles, climbing high and poetry. Accounts of its origin vary, but the protagonist is Nuwa, the goddess of creation in Chinese legend.

People's Day festival began in the Han Dynasty, Wei Jin began to emphasize. Ancient people day have to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, also known as color win, Huasheng, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut color for the flowers, cut color for the people, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, but also to wear in the hair. After the Tang Dynasty, more emphasis on this festival.

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