What are the traditional festivals in the Northern Song Dynasty?

There are many traditional folk festivals in Song Dynasty, among which New Year's Day, Cold Food Festival and Winter Solstice are the three most important festivals.

The Cold Food Festival has formed rich customs:

1, No Smoking and Cold Food: Cold Food Festival was also called "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Every family is forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food.

2. ancestor worship: the cold food festival sweeps the grave to worship the ancestors.

When people go to the grave, a family or a clan go to the ancestral grave together to offer sacrifices, add soil and hang paper money. Then spread swallows and snakes and rabbits on the top of the grave, roll them down, put them on with willow branches or needles, and put them in the high place of the room to show their virtue.

3, cold food diet: cold food includes cold porridge, cold noodles, cold food pulp, green rice, glutinous rice; Cold food offerings include noodles, snakes and rabbits, jujube cakes, refined rye, immortals, etc. There are dozens of drinks, such as spring wine, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water.

4. Cold food willow: the symbol of vitamin cold food festival, originally intended to miss Jie Zhitui's pursuit of political clarity.

Cold food outing: also known as spring outing, Sheng Xing in Tang and Song Dynasties.

6. Cold food swing: The swing was originally a palace women's amusement project of the ancient cold food festival.

7, cold food Cuju: popular in the Tang Dynasty

8. Poems of Cold Food Festival: During the Cold Food Festival, the literati homesick for their relatives, or made love through the scenery, with many feelings, sudden inspiration, great poetry and many chanters.

In addition, during the Cold Food Festival, there are many activities, such as banquets, flower viewing, cockfighting, egg carving, tug-of-war, drilling wood for fire, flying kites, shooting herbs, throwing pottery and so on, which greatly enriched the social life in ancient China.