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The origin of the Spring Festival: There are many legends about the origin of the Spring Festival, which are widely circulated in the folklore, among which the story of Wannian is more popular. I chose this story for in-depth understanding of the story is: a long, long time ago, in the mountains and waters of the Dingyang Mountains, there is a not too large village. On the hillside at the head of the village, there was a small stone house where a young man named Wannian lived. His family was poor and he earned his living by chopping wood and digging medicine. At that time, the season was very chaotic, making it impossible for the farmers to plant their fields. Wannian was a thoughtful young man who wanted to set the seasons right, but he didn't know where to start.　One day, Wannian went up the mountain to cut firewood, sitting under a tree to rest, the movement of the tree shadow inspired him, he made a sundial, measuring the shadow of the sun to calculate the length of the day. However, the sky was cloudy, misty and rainy, which affected the measurement. He wanted to make another timekeeping device, so as to make up for the lack of sundials. That day, he went up the mountain to dig medicine, came to the spring to drink water, the cliffs of the spring water rhythmically ticking ticking, attracted his attention. He looked at the spring out of his mind. After thinking for a while, he returned home, drew, tried, and made a five-layer funnel pot. From then on, he measured the sun and shadow, looked at the leakage, and worked hard. Slowly, he realized that every 360 days or so, the length of the day would repeat itself from the beginning. The shortest day was at the winter solstice. At that time, the son of heaven was called Zu Yi, and the disorder of the festival made him very anxious, so he summoned all the officials to discuss the difficulties of the disorder of the festival. The official of the festival was called Ah Heng, who did not know the laws of the sun and moon, so he said that people were careless in their work and had offended the gods of heaven. Only by kneeling down and offering sacrifices can they be forgiven by the gods. Zuyi then fasted and bathed, and led all the officials to the Temple of Heaven to make sacrifices, and spread the word to the whole country to set up a platform to offer sacrifices to the sky. However, the sacrifices were not effective, and the season was still very chaotic; the people around the world had to serve and donate for the construction of the altar, which was really a pain in the neck with the bile. Wannian couldn't help it, so he brought his sundial and funnel pot to see the son of heaven. Wannian met the Son of Heaven, said the winter solstice, the sun and moon cycle. Zuyi heard, heart great joy, that is to order a large construction, in front of the Temple of Heaven to build the sun and moon pavilion, built on the sundial platform, built on the funnel kettle Pavilion. And allocated twelve children to serve Wannian, Wannian let six children to guard the sundial, six children to guard the funnel pot, carefully recorded, reported on time.　One day, Zu Yi asked Ah Heng to go to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to inquire about the production of the calendar, Wannian pointed to the grass calendar and said: "Sunrise and sunset are three hundred and six, and the cycle starts from the beginning. The grass and trees wither and prosper in four times, and there are twelve rounds in a year." A Heng heard, y feel is reasonable, but the heart is uneasy. He secretly thought: If Wan Nian set the seasonal order correctly, the son of heaven is happy, reuse Wan Nian, who still listen to my Ah Heng? Ah Heng thought about it and thought about it, and he wanted to get rid of Wannian. One day, Ah Heng found out about an assassin who was good at shooting, so he sent someone to invite him to his home, set up a banquet, explained the reason, and promised him a great gift. The assassin promised to assassinate him that night. The day turned two drums, the assassin took advantage of the wine to leave the A Heng, to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to run. However, around the Temple of Heaven, the Sun and the Moon, there are guards, the assassin can not get close to the bow and arrow to the Sun and the Moon Pavilion is watching the stars on the Wannian shot. Who knows that the assassin has drunk too much wine, eyes dim, flying arrow only hit the arm of Wannian. Wannian fell to the ground with a thud, and the children called out for the thief. When the guards heard the shouts, they all went out, caught the assassin and twisted to see the Son of Heaven. Zu Yi asked the truth, ordered the A Heng received prison, and the seal out of the Palace on the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian very touched, pointing to the Shenxing said: "Shenxing caught up with the silkworm hundred stars, the stars recovered, the night crosses the Zi Hour, the old year is over, the time and the beginning of the spring, hope that the son of heaven to set a festival it." Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first year, let's call it Spring Festival. Secretary of love into the cabinet, three years not to go out, draining the liver and guts, to the full moon prevailed in the production of the Taiyin calendar, is really high merit and morality. Now the love of the Secretary by the sycophants assassinated, and follow me to the palace to recuperate." Wannian said, "Although the Taiyin Calendar was created, but it is not very accurate, and there are still a few hours left at the end of the year. If we don't put the end of the year into the end of the time, the sun and the moon like a shuttle, over and over again will be wrong calendar. I am responsible for the hope of all beings, by the grace of the Son of Heaven, I would like to break the heart of the Sun and Moon Pavilion, carefully projected, the draft calendar to set the right."　In this way, Wan Nian in the Sun and Moon Pavilion, carefully observed the glory and blight of grass, wheat and beans, carefully projected, the end of the year into the moon run into the cumulative day. In May of that year, Zu Yi went to the altar of heaven to perform sacrifices, and after sacrificing to the God of Heaven, he climbed up to the Sun and Moon Pavilion and gave Wannian the fresh peaches of May that he had sacrificed to the God of Heaven. Wannian presented the Taiyin Calendar, Zu Yi looked at the day and night work of Wannian, eyebrows also white, beard also white, y moved, the Taiyin Calendar named the Wannian Calendar, also named Wannian as the Sun and Moon Longevity Star. Therefore, later people also called the Spring Festival as a year, every time the New Year when the house hung on the birthday picture, symbolizing the new year to add longevity, but also to the high moral weight of the Wannian send nostalgic feelings love group members AnswerAdoption rate:22.8% 2009-03-13 17:57 Dragon Boat Festival

May 5, is one of the festivals of our Chinese calendar - Dragon Boat Festival.

This festival is the day we wrap rice dumplings. Every year on this day, many people will wrap zongzi, many different flavors of different kinds of zongzi, will be in this season of zongzi incense have emerged.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival has always been a matter of debate. Some people see it as a way to honor the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Some say that this festival was a day to sterilize and avoid epidemics in ancient times.

According to the literature, as well as many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs that have been passed down through the generations, May is regarded as a "poisonous month", "evil month", and the fifth day of the fifth month is the first of the nine poisons, so there are many special customs passed down on this day to drive away evil spirits, disinfect and avoid epidemics. Therefore, many special customs have been passed down on this day, such as inserting bushels of mugwort leaves, drinking xionghuang wine, and sacrificing five plague messengers.

Later, the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival changed. People in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and noble personality, this has been passed down the original meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival to forget, some of the original may not be to commemorate the Qu Yuan rowing the dragon boat and wrapping zongzi and other customs, associated with him.

Now most people only remember the Dragon Boat Festival as being related to Qu Yuan, and some of the new generation of young people don't have much of an impression of Qu Yuan's story. All they know is that it's a festival for eating dumplings, that's all.

On the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat racing, in fact, now is not the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat racing program is also everywhere. From driving away evil spirits and epidemics, to commemorate Qu Yuan, the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival has changed a lot.

The original meaning of the festival has been gradually "eaten away" by social changes year after year.

Today, the festival has become a festival of Chinese food. From the old corn, zongzi production to today's variety of colorful package zongzi. Many places have incorporated their own local culinary specialties into their zongzi.

In fact, the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to race dragon boats. Written records of dragon boat racing began with Wu Jun's "Continuing Qi Harmonious Records" in the Liang Dynasty five hundred years ago. Later, written accounts of dragon boat racing can be found in many records. Among the thousands of existing square records from all over China, there are 227 square records of dragon boat races in ****.

Duanwu rowing dragon boat, dragon boat racing, including the saying that there are "the mass of the boat set off, rushed to the Prime Minister to save Qu Yuan." and "a shouting and drumming. and "a shouting and drumming to scare off the dragon." These are all reminiscent of Qu Yuan. These are all reminiscent of Qu Yuan.

Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese people in the north and south of the Yangtze River as well as in the South China Sea also organize dragon boat races and advocate the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race. Blank. Memory Answer Adoption rate:8.3% 2009-03-14 12:00 The answer is not good, can not see Coffee-colored memories 2009-03-14 20:07 This is the Yellow River side of the birthplace of the Chinese nation of a kind of folklore activities are part of the cultural heritage, but few people understand For the number of words you modify your own more appropriate.

"Carrying ice"

When it comes to "carrying ice", the eyes of these old people who have been through the vicissitudes of life are full of generosity, and their words are endless, as if the bravery of that year has been proved in the narrative.

The so-called "back ice", is the Yellow River man in shorts, bare back, back from the Yellow River to pick up the large ice cube around the street display. Its chest, arms, legs are bare, full of muscle, strong body to feel a kind of invisible power.

"Carrying ice, that is a kind of spirit in our Yellow River people experience"; "That is the gateway to the top ancestor, families have to come out to participate in people, or carrying ice, or carrying the sharpest weapons in the family, such as guillotine knife, machete, etc., in the bone-chilling cold performance of the self, can be mighty it! ...... "The old people open their hearts and speak with great joy.

"Carrying ice" is a delicate process. There is a drummer in the procession who carries the ice on his back and beats the drum to rhythmically direct the marching procession. Before and after the two wings are a few of the same back ice, bring their own gongs, they are attached to the rhythm of the drum beat up and down to hit a regular harmony. The gongs are large, loud and soft. Subsequent procession is an army of one hundred performers, who are also wearing red silk ribbons, shorts, bare backs, slippers, carrying more than ten kilograms of ice, and changing formations in imitation of ancient military operations. The red and green performance lineup will be followed by a performance of driving a donkey to the meeting, carrying a sedan chair and beating the white bone spirit.

The teeth have all fallen out, but still full of energy, glowing old man Xiangbugao 71 years old, he is the oldest of the social activities, but also the back of the ice for decades, he said his strong physique thanks to his years of physical exercise, this time, his more than 30 years of age, his son has also joined the back of the ice in the team. County high school senior, 18-year-old Zheng Weipeng is the youngest one, he came with his father also came to the ranks of the back ice, such a father and son soldiers in this team surprisingly, there are six pairs, they are so serious on the rehearsal field.

The weather was kind to us, and after a whole day of drizzle, the rain finally stopped. In accordance with the requirements of the previous day's rehearsal, the participants in the show all went to the village stage at 3:30 a.m. to put on their makeup, and took a bus to the city at 6 a.m. to attend the show.

On the morning of the Lantern Festival, the bone-chilling wind made the weather close to freezing, standing in the city's main venue and looking out, the top of Wulao Peak, which is 1,980 meters above sea level, was snow-capped, a product of yesterday's snowfall on the mountaintop. The arrival of the ice-carrying hans filled the city with a few minutes of coldness, and at nine forty-five, these hans lit up their clanking bones, carrying the ice just taken from the ice cellar, which was really mighty and heroic. Walking in the forefront of the team's phase uncle shoulder more than a hundred pounds of heavy beams, pole top forked "Changwang village" three words of the flag, leading the team to open step forward, walking in the forefront of the phase step high as the head of the six back guillotine nearly seventy years of age, followed by nearly a hundred people, including the phase of Jianfeng, including the back of the ice team, they stepped to the beat of the drums, Playing the gong, strong and powerful walking in the street, especially notable in the three-wheeled trampoline with a long pole support, in mid-air back and forth flying "back ice Wukong". He was holding a golden rod sometimes sinking, sometimes over the top, a vivid reproduction of the Monkey King.

Yongji's Shundu Avenue, a sea of people, "Yongji City 2007 fitness to pay homage to the Yellow River Hanzi back ice bright fat shin and bone strengthening main venue" in the center is watertight, when the back ice bright fat team through, the audience issued a burst of applause, y impressed by their spirit, and more, holding a bucket of ice water to these people. Buckets of icy water constantly to these Yellow River man splashed on the body, people were surprised, followed by a burst of admiration, only to see these back-ice people drums ringing louder, gongs knocking more uniform, louder, a mighty picture to people to show the power of the show, with the performance of the depth of the crossroads, every time they stopped in the people's shouts, drums, gongs, and vibration of the sky. Magnificent, back ice people!

After more than an hour of crossing, the back ice people finally arrived at the "other side" of the victory, only to see them put the body of the ice together with a heavy fall on the ground, heralding the success of the modern "back ice through the fire wall".

Deep blessings to you, strong body, courageous and tenacious, defying the cold of the Yellow River man.

Yongji County, Shanxi Province, east of Zhongtiao Mountain, west of the Yellow River. It is the seat of "?1?7 \ River Culture", one of the birthplaces of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. Changwang Village, located in the southernmost part of the county along the Yellow River, is under the jurisdiction of Shouyang Town, where the people have a strong and resolute character. There is a local sports activity - "carrying ice to show the fat", which is a yearly event in the first month of the year when people walk along the streets with ice on their bare backs. This activity has a history of more than a hundred years. According to the old people said, the beginning is in the cold days to the neck on an ice ring, in the sound of gongs and drums stood tall. Show the heroism of defying the cold, later development changes for the back side of the knife. To nearly five or six years, and the development of bareback back chunks of ice around the village and traveling. Later it developed into a confrontational competition.

Qing Xianfeng eight years (1858) in the winter, Changwang Township of the civil and military volunteers Xiang Fulu with the Taiping army general Yi Wang Li development to the Yellow River bank of the strategic importance of - Pu Jin Du, ready to attack the Manchu Qing garrison, Manchu Qing garrison general Xia Xin have secretly ordered the demolition of a thousand houses erected a wooden wall, wooden wall coated with oil. The wooden walls were coated with oil. When the Taiping army attacked the city Qing troops on fire, the Taiping army repeatedly attacked unbreakable, Yi Wang Li development of the bitter no plan, the pioneer officer phase Fulu bravely volunteered to lead a hundred warriors carrying ice rushed through the fire array, a breakthrough, the King of Heaven, Hong Xiuquan highly praised the phase of the Fulu is the "Iron Bone Warrior". Since then, the villagers of Changwang Village in order to commemorate the achievements of the phase Fulu and the Taiping Army, held every year back ice bright fat activities, and this activity has been injected into the color of modern physical exercise.

"Back ice bright fat" is the Yellow River Hanzi physical fitness, strength, resistance to cold ability of the severe test. It is said that those who take part in the activity of "carrying ice to show fat" will not get sick throughout the year.

Answer Supplement That's more than four hundred points A slight modification will be able to If someone else writes a good say may not be to your liking /kf Xinfei Answer Adoption rate:25.4% 2009-03-14 21:23 In the northwest of Guangxi, China, there is a picturesque green corridor, the legend says that it is the hometown of the phoenix, where there are living in the ancient descendants of the camel nation of one of the Mulao ethnic group. The Mulao ethnic group has a population of nearly 160,000 people. The Mulao mainly live in the Mulao Autonomous County of Luocheng in Guangxi.　The language of the Mulao belongs to the Zhuang-Dong group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Most of them speak Chinese and Zhuang, but they do not have their own scripts, which are generally used. The religious belief of the Mulao is mainly the worship of many gods. The economic life of the Mulao is mainly based on agriculture, and they are good at growing rice, while coal mining is an important part of the Mulao's production. The Mulao live in a relatively centralized manner, with people of the same clan and surname living in the same village, and within the same village, Mulao people of the same surname but without **** ancestors usually live separately. Clustering is an important feature of the Mulao ethnic group. Most of the Mulao dwellings are low-rise buildings with brick roofs, and the most prominent feature is the use of floor stoves for heating and cooking. The stoves are built on both sides of the main door in the hall or in the kitchen. First, a pit is dug on the ground, and inside the pit, the stove is built with bricks; next to the stove, a big water altar is placed, and except for the door of the stove and the mouth of the altar, the rest of the place is filled with mud. In this way, the stove stayed on all day and night, and there was always hot water in the water jar, which not only made it possible to set up a pot for cooking at any time, but also made the hall look cozy and warm. During Chinese New Year festivals, family members and friends would gather around the stove to eat "hot pots" and have a happy time. Since anthracite coal is abundant in the Mulao mountainous areas, the use of ground stoves is very common. The staple food of the Mulao people is rice, corn and potatoes, and they like hot and sour food and glutinous rice. Ethnic flavors include white buns, water rounds, rice dumplings, ox-tongue poi, and red, yellow and black glutinous rice and duck meat dipping sauce, which are indispensable dishes for Chinese New Year festivals. Mulao people don't like to eat badly cooked food, and they often eat it when it is cooked to eight times of maturity. In the countryside, people often eat tofu, which is rich in nutrients. The Mulao people respect the color of green and often wear green clothes, which are plain and elegant, usually embellished with small embroideries on the sleeves and legs of the pants. During the Qing Dynasty, Mulao women still wore tube skirts, but nowadays they mostly wear big-breasted clothes and long pants, while men's clothes are all short-breasted clothes with lapels. The most distinctive feature of Mulao dress is the women's pointy shoes, which are beautifully embroidered with flower patterns; young men like to wear a hat shaped like a bowl, which is locally known as the "bowl hat". Nowadays, Mulao costumes are similar to those of Han Chinese, and only on special occasions do they wear national costumes. Mulao festivals are rich and colorful, including the Brahmawang Festival (also known as the Flowering Granny Festival) on March 3, the Cow God Festival on April 8, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, and the most distinctive of all, the "Yi Rice Festival", which is a big celebration once in three years, and a small one in one year. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Mulao mountain village was often victimized by a lion, but a white horse girl shot the lion for the Mulao people, took back the grain seeds from the lion's mouth and returned them to the Mulao people, and made yellow oxen and buffaloes out of taro and sweet potatoes for the Mulao people to plough the land, and taught them to practice martial arts and fight against the beasts. Since then, the Mulao people have had good weather and good harvests. In order to commemorate the achievements of the White Horse Girl, on the winter day of leap years, the Mulao people would take turns to pay for and host gatherings in their families, and this has become a customary practice, resulting in the Yi Rice Festival. On this day, the Mulao people set up a colorful door in front of the ancestral hall of Gong***, put up offerings, and perform dances such as the Bowl Dance and the Incense Dance. It expresses the expectation of the Mulao people to pray for favorable weather conditions and peace in the country. Young men and women of the Mulao ethnic group are generally free to fall in love, and the Mulao Festival on the 15th of August is the best opportunity for them to get acquainted and fall in love. During the festival, they dress up and go to the market to look for partners to sing songs with, use songs as a matchmaker, ask and answer questions, and then give each other tokens.