What are the customs of social day festivals?

Social Day Festival, also known as Land Birthday. Social Day "February 2" in the south still follows the custom of offering sacrifices to the society, such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions; In addition, a new "February 2" custom, similar to the Dragon Head-raising Festival, is formed, focusing on offering sacrifices to the society, such as Hakka areas in eastern Guangxi.

Origin: For a long time in the history of China, its social form was a typical traditional agricultural society. In such a social form, people have extremely deep feelings for the land. To love it is to deify it, so the land has long been the object of sacrifice, called "society"; The key day of sacrifice is "social day".

The word "she" comes from the earth, "the earth" is the land, and "she" means sacrifice, so she is sacrificing the land. The early land god was just a god, and later it gradually became personified, called the country, commonly known as the land god, and had a spouse god (the mother of the country, commonly known as the land woman). Sometimes the land god and the valley god worship together, which is the so-called country in ancient times.

In ancient times, the day to worship the land god was called social day, which was usually one day in spring and autumn, and sometimes it was sacrificed at four o'clock later. Qiu Guangting, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said in Ming Shi Lu: The social day is generally on the fifth day, the fifth day after beginning of spring is the Spring Club, and the fifth day after beginning of autumn is the Autumn Club, usually around the vernal equinox or autumnal equinox. Before the Han Dynasty, there were only Spring Societies, and after the Han Dynasty, there were Spring and Autumn Societies. The Spring and Autumn Society has different functions of offering sacrifices to gods, that is, the so-called spring prayer and autumn newspaper. The Spring Society mainly prayed for the land gods to bless the agricultural harvest, while the Autumn Society thanked the gods for the harvest.