What is the name of the festival celebrated in some places on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month? What is its origin?

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

In the old society, dragon robes were dried in the palace, and there was a custom of drying books among the people. According to legend, the day when Tang Xuanzang learned the scriptures and fell into the water happened to be the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. Later, Song Zhenzong and Zhao Heng claimed that God gave him a gobbledygook on this day, so they designated June 6th as Grace Day, and the word "grace" meant a godsend.

In the folk, this day is also called book drying festival. According to legend, on the sixth day of June in the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yizun, a great talent, was said to have been lying naked beside the official road and sleeping soundly. I happened to be bumped into by Kangxi traveling incognito and asked why. Zhu Yizun replied that he was basking in his knowledge. Kangxi was very talented, and later recruited him as an official, specializing in "Ming history" in the twenty-four histories.

The custom of the sixth day of June

This legend has become a folk story. So there is a saying that drying clothes, books and belly on the sixth day of June. In the south of the Yangtze River, the dry day is also a "mildew-drying festival". As the saying goes, "On June 6th, every family basks in red and green", and "red and green" refers to colorful clothes.

In the old days, Jiangnan people had just experienced the rainy season, and the clothes hidden at the bottom of the box were prone to mildew, so they would take them out to bask in the long-lost sunshine to avoid mildew. Farmers should also dry all kinds of grain or stored grain in the sun to prevent mildew. Therefore, sunburn is a unique street lifestyle in Jiangnan area.