What is the festival on June 6? Festival analysis

In the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the heat is soaring, and it is the hottest summer. But people still will not forget the traditional festival "June 6th" of the Han and Buyi people. So what kind of festival is June 6th? Next, let’s take a look at the specific festival of June 6th with the old almanac!

What is the festival of June 6th?

"June 6th" is a traditional festival for the Han and Buyi people. Due to different living areas, the date of the festival varies. There is no uniformity. The Han people and some Buyi areas celebrate the festival on the sixth day of June, which is called June Six; some Buyi areas celebrate the New Year on June 16 or the 26th of June in the lunar calendar, which is called June Street or June Bridge. Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, in the villages where the Buyi people live, every household slaughters cattle, pigs, and chickens to make rice dumplings to worship their ancestors. Afterwards, the whole family had a drink. Grandly celebrate the traditional festivals inherited by the Buyi people from generation to generation.

Legend

Once upon a time, there was a young Buyi named Daoshi, who was smart, capable, cheerful and optimistic, and had a beautiful singing voice. He often sang loudly during breaks in farm work. His singing and character moved one of the Jade Emperor's daughters. She came down to earth and became friends with him for hundreds of years, and the couple loved each other in every possible way. Who knows the good times will not last long. Soon, the Jade Emperor learned about the fairy's descent to earth. He did not allow his daughter to marry a mortal, so he sent the gods to the earth to break up the loving couple.

When leaving, the fairy gave the arriving master a treasure gourd with tears in her eyes and told him that she would meet him from afar at Nantianmen on the sixth day of June every year. The master obeyed his instructions not to remarry, and every June 6th he would go to the riverside to look at his wife in heaven until the end of his life. Later, in order to praise their steadfast love and express their gratitude to the fairy for gifting the treasure gourd, the Buyi people held grand celebrations and commemorations on the sixth day of June every year.