What are the stories of traditional festivals in Dasha China? Why is the origin related to women?

Why are traditional festivals in China related to women? Bian Xiao, an easy search school, will introduce the relevant contents in detail.

In history, there are many famous traditional festivals. In fact, every festival has its origin. In the feudal era, when the patriarchal society dominated, many festivals were dominated by men.

Because a person has made some achievements in something, this festival was created to commemorate him.

For example, the famous Lantern Festival originated from the festival in which Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty commemorated the destruction of Lvhou City. It was not Emperor Wendi who became emperor, but the rebellion of emperors, and the Lushi family was liquidated after Lv Hou's death. Lv Hou died on the 15th day of the first month, so he was designated as the Lantern Festival by Emperor Wen.

For example, Tomb-Sweeping Day tells the story of Jin Wengong and his hero meson tui. Because meson tui helped Jin Wengong in trouble, he didn't pursue success. Jin Wengong went up the hill to look for him, but he refused to come down. So someone had a bad idea to let Jin Wengong burn the mountain. The meson push will definitely come down after burning the mountain. As a result, it burned for three days and nights and pushed the meson to death. Jin Wengong is very sad. Every year on this day, he would come to worship Jiexiu, so there was Tomb-Sweeping Day.

But as we all know, there are still many festivals. Is there really a legend of a woman? If you don't pay attention, you really don't know that there are so many origins.

0 1 Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival actually has a story about Cao E.

When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, many people think that the origin is just the story of Qu Yuan throwing himself into the river. Because Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people threw food into the river to prevent fish from eating his body.

Dragon Boat Festival is handed down on the fifth day of May every year. In fact, there is a magical legend on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is the story of Cao E crying her father. Cao E was a woman in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When she was 14, something happened to her father.

It's the fifth day of May, the day to welcome the Great God of Wu Zixu. Cao E's father Cao Xu accidentally fell into Shunjiang on this day, and his body was not found for many days.

Cao E was recorded in Shangyu Xiaojing. What are you looking at, father? You can sing and make wishes for witches. On May 5, the second year of Emperor Han Chengdi, Yu danced to meet God and drowned, leaving no bones. 14 years, she cried by the Yangtze river. She stayed up all day and all night. Seven days later, she drowned in the river. In the first year of Yuanjia, the county magistrate was reburied in Jiangnan roadside to set up a monument. -The History of Women in the Later Han Dynasty

Cao E, who is only 14 years old, cries day and night by the river. After crying 17 days, on May 22nd, Cao E threw herself into the river.

So don't go to the river if you can't swim. Cao E's father and daughter are really miserable. Even so, it is not enough for everyone to set up a festival for them.

The main magical thing happened later. Five days later, Cao E's body really surfaced, holding her father's body in her arms. This is incredible, so through word of mouth, Cao E became a model of filial piety to her parents.

In order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, the county government gave various commendations and rewards, and even named Cao E's township after her. Shunjiang was later renamed Caoejiang. On the fifth day of May, it became the Dragon Boat Festival in memory of Cao E.

The famous Mid-Autumn Festival is in memory of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.

There were ten suns in the sky at that time, and there was no difference between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. No matter which half of the ball is hot, they will die. At this time, there was an excellent archer named Hou Yi on the ground.

Houyi's strength is infinite, and his archery is superb, shooting nine suns in a row. Only one grandson was left begging, and Hou Yi spared him when he remembered that all the clothes at home had to be dried.

When the Queen Mother of the West was processing the elixir of life, _ E secretly ran to the moon, so she felt disappointed and could not continue. -"Huainanzi"

Since then, the name of Hou Yi has spread, and many people have come to learn from the teacher. One or two of them are adulterers.

For example, a little man named Meng Peng, Meng Peng knew that Hou Yi had been to Kunlun Mountain, and the heavenly queen gave him a pack of elixirs. After tak

Where did Hou Yi give up his wife Chang 'e? So instead of taking medicine, he hid at home. On this day, Meng Peng sneaked into Houyi's house while Houyi was away and Chang 'e was at home.

So Meng Peng forced Chang 'e to hand over the medicine, but in desperation, Chang 'e had to take the medicine herself. Thus, Chang 'e landed on the moon in grief and indignation.

When Hou Yi came back, he was furious, but Meng Peng had disappeared. At this time, Hou Yi found a figure dancing on the moon. Hou Yi thought Chang 'e was greeting him, so he placed a tribute in his yard, hoping Chang 'e could eat it.

The feeling of separation between husband and wife is of course uncomfortable, so in order to commemorate their feelings, from then on, August 15 was designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival to express their homesickness.

The beautiful Valentine's Day on Tanabata is mainly created for the Weaver Girl.

The story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is well known. Weaver girl is a fairy girl in the sky. When she was taking a bath on earth, she met her sweetheart Cowherd.

Cowherd didn't learn well, so he had to steal other people's clothes. Weaver went ashore naked, and he was left behind. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have lived a shameless life.

After many years, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, but how can we celebrate such a good thing without the participation of villains? At this time, the Queen Mother was furious when she learned of the marriage of the Weaver Girl, and pushed the Weaver Girl to heaven.

Cowherd tries his best to catch up with Weaver Girl. Cowherd's old cow told Cowherd that when he died, his skin would be made into leather shoes, so that he could fly to the sky to find Weaver Girl.

This may be the earliest leather shoes, so the cowherd flew into the sky in these shoes. When my mother learned that, she gently pulled the golden hairpin on her head and a snow-white galaxy appeared.

Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have been separated forever. Magpie can't see the past, tears are enough. Of course, they must help. So some magpies automatically become a magpie bridge where cowherd and weaver girl meet.

From then on, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will take a basket of children to the Magpie Bridge to meet the Weaver Girl on the seventh day of July every year. Wang's mother had no choice but to agree to this matter and let them meet on the seventh day of July every year. Over time, this day was designated as the ancient Valentine's Day in China.

Northerners celebrate Daitian Festival, which is a festival to commemorate the goddess of mending the sky.

There are some festivals in China, which are relatively small and only exist in some places. This is not only because of the minority of this festival, but also because of the inheritance problem.

Sunday is a relatively small holiday. At present, the custom of wearing Japan Day is still only popular in the north. At that time, there was a hole in the sky, the four seasons were out of order, the climate changed abnormally and disasters were everywhere. Wind, rain, thunder and lightning happen every day.

Only then did Nu Wa know that she had to find a way to fill the hole in the sky so that everyone could live and work in peace and contentment. So Nu Wa cultivated the five-color stone in Kunlun Mountain, filled the hole in the sky with this stone, and everyone lived happily ever after.

In ancient times, the four poles were abolished, Kyushu was cracked, the sky was not covered, and the ground was not loaded; The fire is burning but not extinguished, the water is boundless, and the ocean is boundless; Beasts prey on people, and birds prey on the old and the weak. So Nu Wa refined five-color stones to fill the sky, broke the four poles of Ao Bai, killed the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulated reed ash to stop water. Tianbu, four poles are positive; Water exhaustion, Jizhou Ping; A sly bug died and people's livelihood was ruined; Return to the state and embrace the sky. -Huai Nanzi, Xun

Because the date of mending the sky is not very accurate, generally speaking, it is the tenth or twentieth of the first month, but also the 23rd or 25th. Therefore, wearing festivals during the day is also celebrated in these days, usually on the twentieth day of the first month.

The famous sacrifice festival, Cold Clothes Festival, is actually to commemorate Meng Jiangnv's love for her husband.

We are familiar with the Cold Clothes Festival, because it is a famous sacrificial festival with a very mysterious veil among the people. There are also many explanations for this festival. But what I introduced today is a more traditional and ancient method, that is, the fire roasting method.

During the Qin Dynasty, it was necessary to build the Great Wall. Under the call of Qin Shihuang, meters

Repairing the Great Wall is a hard work. Not only is there no salary, but you may not even get a full meal. At this time, Meng Jiangnu was worried that her husband Fan Qiliang would catch cold in other places, so she came all the way to the Great Wall site to find her husband.

Meng Nv's home is in Songjiang Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, which is too far from the Great Wall. This shows how much she misses her husband. But when Meng Jiangnu arrived at the Great Wall, her husband Fan Qiliang was dead and buried in the wall of the Great Wall.

Meng Nv is very sad and has been crying on this side of the Great Wall. As a result, she accidentally cried the Great Wall down. After the Great Wall fell, Fan Qiliang's body was exposed. At this time, Qin Shihuang naturally had to settle accounts with Meng Jiangnu. After all, his Great Wall is not a bean curd project. How can you say it will fall?

Unexpectedly, Meng Jiangnv is very brave. She picked up her husband's body and jumped into the sea. Since then, in order to commemorate the tragic story of Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall, people celebrated the beginning of October as a cold clothing festival and burned some cold clothes to commemorate their dead relatives.

Summary: Festivals dominated by women are often sad.

The origin of the Cold Clothes Festival is the story that Meng Jiangnu sent her husband cold clothes and cried to the Great Wall. This is very touching, but the ending is very sad. Meng Jiangnv devoted herself to love.

The origin of the Day-Crossing Festival is that Nu Wa found a hole in the sky, because this hole led to people's poverty and abnormal climate. So Nu Wa laid down her life to make up for the sky.

The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is the sad story that Chang 'e ate the elixir that can fly to heaven and live forever, and flew to the Moon Palace to be separated from her husband Hou Yi forever.

The origin of Valentine's Day in China is the story that the Weaver Girl and her husband Cowherd can only meet on the bridge built by magpies on the seventh day of July every year.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the story of Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty. She was so sad that she couldn't find her father who fell into the water, so she jumped into the water to find him. Both of them are dead.

From the above summary, we will find a similar feature, but these festivals originated from women have a certain tragic color. Why is this? Is it true that in the eyes of the ancients, women were born with tragic colors?

I think it's true. No matter which dynasty women were, as long as they were in feudal times, they were more or less tragic.

Men can have three wives and four concubines, but women must respect three obedience and four virtues. Men can cheat, women can only hide in the boudoir before marriage.

Even wearing clothes and shoes, feudal times had various requirements for women. This is indeed a very tragic thing. It is really sad that a monogamous man will immediately become a moral model and an alternative in reality.

These festivals are not so much to commemorate those women who suffered from their own sufferings, but rather a way for feudal dynasties to shout for women. What other traditional festivals for women can you think of?