What is the June 6 Festival

June 6 is the Tian Kuang Festival.

Tian Kuang Festival is a Taoist name with a late origin. Huai'an folk have the custom of drying red and green on June 6th.

According to legend, the custom of "June 6 sunshine red and green" originated in Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang from the western sky (India) to take the scriptures back to the country, 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, and later this custom.

Expanded:

Holiday customs

1, Returning to one's mother's home

There is a legend. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Secretary of the State of Jin, Hu Yan, was so proud and arrogant that he was angry with his in-laws, Zhao Fai. One year the state of Jin suffered a disaster, lone Yan out of the capital to put food, the son-in-law wanted to take advantage of lone Yan's birthday, to avenge his father, kill lone Yan.

When the daughter found out, she rushed back to her mother's house to report the news, so that her father could be prepared. Lone Yan released grain back to the city, knowing that he had done a bad thing, remorseful. He not only did not blame his son-in-law, but also corrected himself. Afterwards, every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Lone Yan son-in-law, daughter to pick up home, family reunion. Later, it spread to the people, and gradually became a festival for women to go back to their mother's home, also known as Auntie's Day.

2. Dabie Mountain Tian Kuang Cultural Festival

Tian Kuang Festival is a yearly festival that regulates the harmony between man and nature and man and man himself through folk festivals in the Dabie Mountain area in the summer when the farms are idle, hot and humid and the crops are ripe at the beginning.

Since the first Dabie Mountain Tian Kuang Cultural Festival was successfully held in 2010, it has attracted a lot of media attention. In order to y and persistently pass down and carry forward the simple folk culture of Dabie Mountain, Tiantang Zhai Scenic Area decided to hold the festival in Tian Kuang Festival on the sixth day of the sixth month of the Lunar Calendar every year, so as to let the folk culture integrate into the tourism, stick to the public, and give a new vitality to it.

3, please aunt

"June 6, please aunt". In the past, on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the rural custom is to invite back the old and young girls who have been married, and then send them back with a good reception.

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