Poems about festival customs

01 "New Year's Day" Ancient poets usually put their feelings into their scenes, so in the atmosphere of special traditional festivals, they were even more "poetic" and wrote a lot of poems that have been passed down through the ages. The challenge of "Reading Poems, Guessing Festivals" officially started! The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to the Tu Su. This poem is taken from "New Year's Day" by the great writer Wang Anshi. I believe some of you may think it is about New Year's Day, but the word "yuan" in the title means "beginning", and "day" means morning, so "yuan day" refers to the first day of the Chinese New Year, i.e., the first day of the first month of the lunar year. The first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Since the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar usually falls around the time of the Spring Festival, the Chinese also call it the Spring Festival.02 The Case of Green Jade - New Year's Eve (青玉案-元夕) This poem is taken from "The Case of Green Jade" by Xin Qiji. "Yuanxi" refers to the traditional festival of "Lantern Festival" in China, in which the main character searches for a woman at the end of the lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival, which is full of lanterns and fireworks. In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was also known as "Shangyuan Festival", "Yuanxi" or "Lantern Festival", and was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The 15th day of the first lunar month is also the first full moon of the year, and according to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the moon is high in the sky, people will light up ten thousand colorful lanterns to celebrate.03 "Qingming" (清明) The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. This poem is taken from the poet Du Mu's Qingming. Qingming is the fifth of the twenty-four solar terms, which falls on one of the twenty-four public days of April 4-6, and is usually considered a day of freshness and clarity. Qingming as a festival began in the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago, but as a festival of remembrance it was formed in the Tang Dynasty, also known as The Tomb Sweeping Day, The Ghost Festival. 04 Duanming (端端). 04 "Giving Clothes on the Dragon Boat Festival" (端午日赐衣) The fine kudzu is soft with wind, and the perfumed roses are light with snow. This poem is taken from "Giving Clothes on the Day of Duanwu" by Du Fu, the Sage of Poetry. Duan" means "beginning" or "initial" in Chinese. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Duan Yang Festival", "Duan Li Festival", "Chong Wu Festival", "Calamus Festival", etc. The time is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. May 5 on the lunar calendar, this festival has a history of more than two thousand years. The Dragon Boat Festival was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council in May 2006, a national legal holiday in 2008, and China's first World Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival in 2009.05 When is the bright moon? This familiar verse is taken from the poem "Song of Songs in Water" by poet Su Shi, and as soon as you hear it, you will know that it is about the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar Calendar. According to the ancient Chinese calendar, the seven, eight and nine months of the lunar calendar are autumn, and August is the middle month of the autumn, and the 15th is the middle day of the month, hence the name "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Folk believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival is the brightest and fullest moon, the moon is the most beautiful, a full moon also symbolizes the reunion of the family, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".