What is the festival of Tian Kuang

Summary: The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese festival of Tian Kuang, which has traditional customs such as tanning books, tanning clothes, and picking up aunts. In addition, some ethnic minorities also have their own traditional festivals and activities on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, such as the Miao "Catch Song Festival", Yao "half a year", and the Manchu "King of Bugs Festival", etc., which are held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. June 6 of the lunar calendar are held. Here is a look at what are the June 6 festival customs. First, the source of Tian Kuang Festival

Tian Kuang (kuàng) Festival on the sixth day of the sixth month of the Lunar Calendar, also known as "Sunshine Book Festival". During the Song Dynasty, on the sixth day of the sixth month, the heaven gave a heavenly book to Zhao Heng, the Song Zhenzong, who regarded the book as a treasure, and in order to prevent the book from being moldy, every year on the sixth day of the sixth month, the heavenly book was taken out to be exposed to the sun. Later, the readers also in the sixth of June this day, will be hidden books spread in the sun, it is called the sixth of June for the "sunshine book festival".

Another theory, according to legend, "June 6 sunshine red and green" custom originated in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang from the western sky (India) to take the scriptures back home, across the sea, the scriptures were soaked in seawater, in the sixth of June will be taken out of the scriptures to dry, after this day into an auspicious day. At the beginning, the palace in this day for the emperor tanning dragon robe, and later from the palace to the people, every family in this day in front of the door exposure to the sun clothes, and later this has become a custom.

Second, the traditional custom of Tian Kuang Festival

The sunbathing clothes "on June 6, every family sunbathes in red and green", and "red and green" refers to various kinds of clothes in various colors. The second sentence of this proverb, also known as the "family tanning dragon robe", in Yangzhou, there is an explanation, the Emperor Qianlong in Yangzhou on the way to the tour of the rain, wet coat, but not good to borrow the people's clothes to replace them, so they had to wait for the rain cleared up, will be the wet clothes dried and then wear the day happens to be the sixth of June.

Packing dumplings "June 6, dumplings" is also a custom in rural areas. On the sixth day of the sixth month, every family is busy making dumplings and eating them, and it is said that if you eat the dumplings on the sixth day of the sixth month, you won't be resistant to summer, and you won't be affected by disasters.

Hundreds of rope in the rural areas of the old family also has "June 6, hundreds of rope (Dragon Boat Festival for children tied) thrown on the house," said. Legend has it that on the sixth day of the sixth month, the rope was flung up to the house after the magpies to build colorful bridges, in order to let the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet on the seventh day of the seventh month.

Pick up the aunt on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the folk have "June 6, please aunt" custom. On this day, married daughters lead children, together with their husbands, return to their families with great joy, and parents, sisters and brothers reunion; the family will also take out the best food, hospitality.

Religious activities on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and is the folk festival of the King of Bugs. In order to pray for the safety of people and animals, the production of a good harvest, in the June 6 there are many religious activities. For example, Liaoning Gaizhou has eight wax temple fair, is a kind of insect repellent, pray for rain activities. In Beijing, there are counting activities in the Temple of Good Fortune to divine good and bad fortune. Shandong folk in the sixth month of the lunar calendar to sacrifice Dongyue Da Di God, held Dongyue Temple Fair.

The sunshine book about the origin of Tian Kuang Festival is believed to be the Taoist Yuan Shi Tian Zun gave the book to the earth. In folklore, legend has it that Xuan Nü gave Song Jiang a heavenly book, so that he acted on behalf of heaven and helped the poor. Just because there is a lunar June 6 descending book of the legend, but also the legend of the day is the day of the dragon tanning scales, the sky is clear and sunny, and then in the height of summer, rainy and easy to mildew, this rainy days on the books, clothing are very bad, so as long as encountered on a sunny day will be exposed to the sun.

Peace in Linqu, Shandong Province, the sixth day of the sixth month in the sacrifice of the mountain gods, praying for "men walking without fear, women walking without seeing the evil". June 6 of the lunar calendar will be the elephant bath, in addition to washing the elephant, but also wash other livestock. Guangxi Zhuang people take the sixth day of the sixth lunar month as the Cattle Soul Festival, during which they bathe their cows, let them rest and feed them all kinds of good fodder. Another way is to use witchcraft. When the rain is about to fall, such as the weather is more than cloudy, the daughter of the girl, cut paper people hanging on the left side of the door, called "sweeping the clear lady". This is an analogous witchcraft, attempting to use the sweeping bride to dispel the clouds, with a view to ushering in a sunny day.

Three: June 6 festivals of various ethnic groups

Miao "Song Catchers Festival"

The Song Catchers Festival, which takes place on the sixth day of the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar every year, is a traditional festival of the Miao ethnic group in Fenghuang, Hunan, Songtao, Guizhou and other places. At that time, young Miao men and women dressed in festive attire gather at the singing ground to sing and dance to their heart's content.

Yao "half a year"

Half a year is a traditional festival of Yao folklore, held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Every year on the day of the festival, the Yao family will spread lime, set off firecrackers, and post pairs of pairs, in the hope that people and animals will be free of disasters and the grains will be plentiful.

Manchu "Bug King Festival"

Bug King Festival is a traditional festival of the Manchu people, held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. On the day of the festival, each family sends a person to the Bug King Temple to pay homage, people kill pigs and slaughter goats, honoring the Bug King, praying for the Bug King not to have pests, so that the crops have a good harvest; stay at home, rummage through the trunks and cabinets, drying clothes, to prevent insect infestation.

Buyi "June 6"

June 6, also known as "To Pangu", "over the small year", is a grand traditional festival of the Buyei people. Grand traditional festival, Buyei people in the lunar calendar in the sixth, sixteen, twenty-sixth of any day, can be over the "June 6th". Some places June 16 or 26 festival, called "June field" or "June bridge".

Buyi people on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year (Pangu died day) this day, slaughter pigs and cattle, dumplings for ancestors. Every June 6, the Buyi people like to eat glutinous rice and glutinous rice, drink glutinous rice wine, and every family will kill the dog to celebrate.

Yao "Sunshine Festival"

The Sunshine Festival is a traditional festival of the Yao people in the Pan Yao region of Guiping, Guangxi, and is held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

The day of the festival, lively, early in the morning, each family slaughtered chickens and ducks to celebrate the meeting, after the feast, the whole family mobilized in an orderly manner to the quilts, clothes, shoes, boxes and cages, cabinets, and other things to get outside the sun on the lawn in the sun, the sun on the one or two hours to turn the sun again, and then the clothing back to the hall to cool off a little bit, and then back to the original place. When the sun is about to set, the whole village people still have to wave at the sun to show their gratitude to it.

Turkish "Flower Festival"

The Flower Festival is a traditional festival of the Turks, Hui, Dongxiang, Salar and Bao'an ethnic groups in Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai, and is held annually on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar for a period of five days.

During the "Flower Festival", local people of the Tu, Hui, Dongxiang, Salar and Bao'an ethnic groups come to the festival in distinctive ethnic costumes, and also bring tents and cakes with them. The crowds were unending. At the meeting, people competed with each other in songs to communicate their hearts. Many artists came to collect life materials, writing articles, further expanding the influence of the "Flower Club", making it a well-known singing event in China and abroad.