What are the festivals of the Manchu people?

Awarding Gold Festival; on the Yuan Festival; walking hundred diseases; February 2; Tim Cang Festival; Dragon Head Raising Day; Bug King Festival and so on.

One of the Gold Award Festival:

October 13th of the lunar calendar, is the day of the Manchu "Gold Award Festival". "Gold Festival" is the most memorable days of the Manchu, because it is the anniversary of the birth of the Manchu, naming anniversary, is the whole tribe of the festival.

Every year on this day, Manchu compatriots all over the country celebrate their own festival in various ways. "Award Gold Festival" has nothing to do with gold and silver treasures, it is the Manchu language "banjin inenggi". It is the Manchu word "banjin inenggi", which translates to "gold-awarding festival". Therefore, "Banjin Festival" that the Manchu "birth day".

Superior Yuan Festival:

Superior Yuan Festival is the 15th day of the first month, the Manchus also have the Lantern hanging lanterns and eat Lanterns custom, and affect the Han Chinese, today the Han Chinese will be the 15th day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

Three, go a hundred diseases:

Go a hundred diseases: Manchu women's festival. Generally on the twentieth day of the first month. That night, the women in groups of three or five, accompanied by the far continent, or walk the sand and ice, or playful, called "walk a hundred diseases".

Four, Tim Cang Festival:

Fill Cang Festival, also known as Tim Cang Festival, is an ancient folk festival of prayers, in the first month of the lunar calendar on the 25th. The Imperial Capital Years and Years Jisheng, "(first month) read the fifth day of the festival for filling the warehouse." On that day, people either eat to show that the warehouse is full, or use ash to surround the shape of the warehouse, in which to put some grain to show that the warehouse is full, or worship the god of the warehouse cage, to pray for a year of abundant grain warehouse full. Fill the warehouse festival divided into large and small, small fill warehouse in the first month of the lunar calendar on the twentieth, in order to pray for the year, also known as the "small days warehouse", "small add warehouse".

Fifth, Dragon Heads Up Day:

February 2: commonly known as "Dragon Heads Up Day". On the morning of that day, the Manchu family to the stove ash scattered in the courtyard, ash road curved like a dragon, so called "lead the dragon". Then held a ceremony in the courtyard, praying for good weather. The whole family also eat "dragon beard noodles" and "dragon scale cake". Women are not allowed to do needlework on this day.

It is also known as the Spring Plowing Festival, the Agricultural Festival and the Spring Dragon Festival, and is a traditional Chinese folk festival. "Dragon" refers to the twenty-eight stars in the East Canglong seven stars, every mid-spring at the beginning of the month of Mao, at dusk, "Longjiaoxing" (i.e., the corner of the constellation of a star and the corner of the constellation of the second star) appeared from the eastern horizon, so it is called "dragon head-raising "

The Dragon's Head.

Dragon head between the hibernation and equinox in the month of dao of the dry calendar, dao" is one of the twelve earthly branches, the first and last intersection of hibernation and equinox, the five elements of the wood, trigrams for the Zhen. "Mao" for the development of the elephant, on behalf of the vitality of the lush hair, such as the "Book of the Law" in the cloud: "Mao of the words of Mao also, that all things are lush also. Marking the first movement of spring thunder, the beginning of spring plowing. Legend has it that the dragon can make rain, eliminate disasters and good fortune, symbolizing auspiciousness.

Sixth, King of Bugs Festival (also known as Tian Kuang Festival):

June days are prone to insect infestation. In the past, the Manchu people living in the area of Xiuyan and Fengcheng in Liaoning province used to go on a pilgrimage to the Temple of the Bug King on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, killing a pig and offering sacrifices to the Bug King to avoid disasters and to ensure a good harvest in the ground. Nowadays do not engage in Bug King Festival ritual sweeping activities, but the family to dry clothes on this day, to prevent insect infestation.

The King of Bugs Festival originated later. Huai'an folk custom of June 6 sunshine red and green. Legend has it that the custom of "June 6 sunshine red and green" originated in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang from the western sky (India) to take the scriptures back to the country, across the sea, the scriptures were soaked in seawater, on the sixth day of June will be taken out of the scriptures to dry, after this day into an auspicious day. At the beginning, the palace in this day for the emperor to dry the dragon robe, and later from the palace to the people, families are in this day in front of the door exposure to the sun clothes, and later this has become a custom.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tian Kuang Festival (Bug King Festival is generally referred to as Tian Kuang Festival)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Carrying Heads (Traditional Chinese Folk Festivals)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tim Cang Festival

Baidu Encyclopedia-Awarding Gold Festival

Baidu Encyclopedia-Manchu Traditional Festivals