Ancient Chinese elegance and romance, hidden in the Shangsi Festival, what is the origin of this festival?

Shang Si Festival, folk commonly known as the third of March, is China's traditional festival, but nowadays basically forgotten, young people know that this festival is very few people, so the promotion of this traditional festival, calling on people to pay attention to the fine traditional culture is very necessary. As early as the Han Dynasty before the provisions of the first half of March, Si Day, Wei and Jin after the festival was changed to the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, so this festival is also known as "heavy three" or "March 3". This festival is full of ancient elegance and romance, because on this day, the ancients to "orchid soup bath", that is, with orchids to bathe in water, orchids in the very early days before the ancients were regarded as a spirit, it is fragrant, the ancients believe that it has the role of removing the evil spirit.

How did the festival originate? Currently the mainstream of these claims. The first is that the festival originated in the ancient grand witchcraft activities, the role is to drive away the evil, and then gradually evolved into a festival. After the Han Book" recorded: "is the month on the Si, officials and people are clean in the east stream on the water, said wash, purify in addition to the dirt (disease) for the big clean", here mentioned in the Si Festival people are using the stream to wash their bodies, praying to be able to wash away the disaster and bad luck.

The second theory is that the festival originated in the ancient Chinese fertility cult activities. For example, the famous folklorist Tao Siyan pointed out in the "Customs Exploration", the purification activities of the festival was a love affair, women praying for pregnancy faith behavior, holding orchids or using fragrant herbs bath bath, not only can wash away the dust of the winter, but also expresses the women look forward to touching the water to feel the feelings of pregnancy and get a child. This is closely related to the primitive religious beliefs, the most likely to be the real origin of the purification customs on the day of the first six days.

In addition to the above two claims, there is also a view that the origin of the festival is to commemorate the Chinese ancestor Xuanyuan Huangdi. Folk legend has it that the third of March is the birth of Emperor Xuanyuan, in the Central Plains region, "March 3, born Xuanyuan" said. Regardless of the origin is which, the purpose of this festival is to celebrate, pray for happiness and fulfillment, the development of today's tourism industry is beneficial, should be emphasized.