Uncover the Song Dynasty people traditional festivals entertainment What are the holidays of the ancients?

What is the entertainment life of the Song Dynasty people, which is a lot of readers are more concerned about the issue, the next readers and your readers to understand, to give you a reference.

Song people's spiritual life is very full, perhaps due to the development of the commodity economy, the dramatic increase in social and material wealth, so that people have a lot of time and material resources to enrich the spiritual life, so the Song Dynasty festival entertainment renovation surprising, even if it is a traditional festival, in the Song Dynasty, the joy of the scenario is intoxicating. In addition to the traditional festivals, do you know that the Song Dynasty, there are some more festivals, the main festival, that is, the Song Dynasty emperors and empresses of the birthdays and named for a festival; all the festival, that is, with the Taoist religion, the book of the sky related festivals; all the gods, etc., and today we analyze the Song Dynasty, the main big festivals are what.

First of all, let's talk about the Song dynasty people traditional festival entertainment.

The traditional festivals of the Song Dynasty are mostly based on the Tang Dynasty, with the New Year's Day, the New Year's Day, the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Beggar's Nest, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chung Yeung Festival, the Winter Solstice and so on, the Song Dynasty festivals and recreational practices basically laid the foundation for the later generations of the scale and content of the festival, so it is the later generations of the festival customs have a great impact. Having said that, let's get to the point, I've probably found the main festivals for you.

(a) New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve is the beginning of the New Year, it is the most solemn festival of the year, so the festival customs are colorful, New Year's Eve, Song people generally paste the door god, in the night of New Year's Eve, the Song Dynasty, generally popular rituals, the palace let the guards to wear masks, drums and blowing away the evil spirits, and the folk have jumped Zaoshen, playing the night of the Hu, etc., in particular, some of the literati and elegant men by the New Year's Eve to express their personal sighs, I remember that the most happy when I was a child is New Year's Eve, the family sat together in the kitchen, and the family was very happy. The most happy is New Year's Eve, the family sat together in front of the TV to see the TV, nagging family life, full of laughter.

(2) Yuan and, after three more, five more to come, the New Year came, the Song people called the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the Yuan and or Yuan Day, in a flash, the source of the bamboo rattling through the sky, not only the "forbidden firecrackers in the mountain calls, heard outside", the Palace of Yuan Dynasty dynasty congratulations began, the scene of the grand for the generations not as much as the first day of the New Year, we will give our family elders to pay tribute to their parents, the first day of the New Year! We will give the family elders to pay tribute to the New Year, children can also get a lot of money! In fact, in the Song Dynasty is the same, the Song Dynasty New Year's Eve is to worship the clan honored elders, the second is a visit to the relatives, and the third is a visit to colleagues and friends. Peer friends visit is quite interesting, began to gift selected name prick, that is, because they can not go, send a person to ride to each friend's home, even shouted several times to leave a name prick that is said to come to this New Year's visit.

(C) on the Yuan Festival, the 15th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, the Song people also known as the Festival of Yuan Xi. The Song Dynasty Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty on the basis of the development of a step forward, the festival is very lively scene, not only everywhere on the colorful shed, dancing with a hundred plays, and the emperor and the people with the same music, together with the lanterns, so the Song Dynasty Lantern Festival is very unprecedented, in fact, I believe that many people have experienced these as a child, with the times, it is really hard to see the dance with a hundred plays now.

(D) Cold Food, Qingming, 105 days after the winter solstice known as the cold food, because the cold food ban on fire for three days, before the festival to prepare food, so also known as the Cold Food Festival Cold Food Festival, this day, the people and officials, regardless of the size of the family, there are children who are not counted in the crown, are in the head of the day on the third day of the Cold Food Festival that is the Qingming Festival. This day Song people's customs have three main features: one is to take the new fire, because the cold food break fire for three days, the second is to sweep the tomb, generally new graves are swept on the same day, the old graves sweeping is generally in the cold food day for the most abundant, the Palace sent cars and horses to the Song mausoleum worship, the third is the spring tour, Qingming Festival is at the time of the revival of everything, because people have to go out of the city, in addition, as a festival of recreational activities, the Song Dynasty is generally popular batting, cu ju, swings, cockfighting, and so on.

(5) Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, who threw himself into the Tear Luo River. In the process of its development, the fifth of May to commemorate Qu Yuan is one of its contents, but to the Song Dynasty as a holiday custom of its main content is to drive away the evil plague, May Dragon Boat Festival entertainment activities are mainly in the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing's drums and fans of the hundred Suo City and Jiangnan dragon boat race, etc., as a specific festival, the main food and drink in the fragrance of the candy, rice dumplings, white dumplings, and so on, it seems that the Dragon Boat Festival has been along without too much change.

(F) Begging for coincidence festival, July 7 for the "Tanabata Festival", because the folk girls or *** have begged for coincidence activities, so also called "Begging for coincidence festival", because the main participants in this activity is female, also known as the "daughter festival" or "daughter festival". Daughter's Day" or "Maiden's Day", July 7 is the day of the legendary meeting of the cow weaver, people out of the beautiful yearning for love, so reflected in the customs of many new content. The content of the Beggar's Nest in the Song Dynasty was very rich, mainly begging for money and offerings such as mojo-ro, the festival customs, whether it is Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty or Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, is more or less the same.

(7) Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15 for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Song people's Mid-Autumn Festival entertainment activities are greatly enriched, the festival activities are mainly enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, osmanthus, tide, etc., enjoying the moon is one of the main contents of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in the appreciation of the moon at the time of the Song people are popular in the custom of worshiping the moon, if the Mid-Autumn Festival to see the sea tide is just a Hangzhou a custom, then the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat mooncakes for the North and South is the same, the Moon Festival in the Song Dynasty, the mooncake varieties, lotus leaf, golden flower, and so on, the mooncakes are the same. There are many varieties of mooncakes in the Song Dynasty, such as lotus leaf, golden flower, hibiscus, and so on.

(H) Chung Yeung Festival, September 9 is the Chung Yeung Festival, is a great day of feasting, so the Song people pay special attention to the Chung Yeung, the festival activities are also colorful, roughly, chrysanthemum delivery chrysanthemum cake, climbing up to play.

In addition to the traditional festivals mentioned above, the Song people also have different seasons and the establishment of festivals, such as the spring rituals, the Lantern Festival in the city to visit the spring, February 1, the Festival of the Middle Kingdom, the Spring Society, the Autumn Society, the 15th of July in the New Year's Day, the Autumn Festival, the 11th day of the tomb of the City of Weifen, the winter solstice, winter solstice, the eighth of December, "Lahai," and so on, have their own folkloric content and also have their own folklore. The festival has its own folklore content and also has colorful entertainment programs.

How! After seeing is not very surprised, the original Song Dynasty festivals are much richer than our modern!