Qingming Festival, to become another "Valentine's Day"?

Customs are customs and traditions are traditions

Either inherit them or discard them

For example, nowadays, all we know about Mid-Autumn Festival is to eat

Do you know about the moon festival?

Since there are outdoor activities such as trekking, picnicking and swinging at Ching Ming Festival

The two are irrelevant

The more we try to streamline, the more we try to discard the cultural connotations

In our minds, the festival is synonymous with paying tribute to one's ancestors. But recently, Chongqing expert Prof. Xiong Dudu but blustered, "this understanding is too narrow, according to the "Rites of Passage", during the Qingming Festival, it is the promotion of men and women to talk about love a good time!" To restore the public Qingming "original face". (April 1, Chongqing Times)

What is the "original face" of Qingming Festival? Prof. Xiong Dudu gave an answer - it is the festival of love and romance

. Can not say that this is nonsense, because the book of rituals - the order of the month "recorded:" the month of mid-spring, the order will be men and women, runners are not prohibited ". And before and after the Qingming, ancient men and women will go to the water to rest, rowing boat tour, in the field to talk about love.

However, the crux of the matter is: Qingming Festival is necessary to restore its love "original face"? Ancient people's etiquette management is more strict, male and female young people to fall in love is not easy, they need to release their feelings in the Qingming Festival, and modern people are very free to interact, want to fall in love, when you can, do not have to choose in the Qingming Festival. What's more, we have no shortage of festivals for love, such as the Chinese "Tanabata Festival" and the Western "Valentine's Day". If more to more Qingming Festival to "love", that love is really too much.

With the interpretation of history, Qingming Festival has been given a specific meaning, that is, it has become a day to remember loved ones and martyrs. Qingming Festival is not only a social need, but also a personal emotional need. The living need to communicate with the dead on a specific day, and this communication is also to live better. The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the history of the world.

In fact, it is unrealistic to restore Qingming Festival as a Happy Day or Valentine's Day. You think, the festival has been agreed, has become a holiday to send condolences, and then to become a Valentine's Day or Happy Day, that is not a mess? People are used to communicating with the dead during the Qingming Festival, so why should Prof. Xiong Dudu force the restoration of the "original face" of the Qingming Festival? Zhongchun is not Qingming, so the meeting is not love This straight talk is Posted: 2008-04-02 16:42 Guangming Network - Guangming Observatory Seeing several central official media have published a reprint of a message. In order to avoid quoting out of context, the relevant text is reproduced as follows:

Professor Xiong Dudu, a renowned scholar and expert on ancient Chinese rhymes, has called for the public to restore the "original face" of Qingming. The festival has become synonymous with paying homage to ancestors in most people's minds. "This understanding is too narrow, according to the book of rites, the Qingming Festival, is to promote men and women to talk about love a good time!" Yesterday, the city's famous scholars, ancient Chinese rhyming expert Professor Xiong Dudu, to restore the public Qingming "original face".　Bear Duke said, in accordance with the "Rituals - Order of the Month" records: "the month of mid-spring, the order will be men and women, runners are not prohibited", "the month of mid-spring" is the different tribes of men and women talk about love season, "runners are not prohibited! "The month of mid-spring was the season for men and women of different tribes to talk about love. "The month of mid-spring happens to be the Qingming season, in ancient times, originally insisted that men and women are not close, but only during this period, but advocate men and women to interact!" Xiong Dudu claimed that before and after Qingming, men and women in ancient times would go to the water's edge to rest, rowing boats to play, and even talk about love in the wild.

Boy! The whole thing got it wrong! The source is wrong, and the understanding is even more wrong. First of all, "the month of mid-spring, so that men and women, runners are not prohibited" is not from the "Book of Rites - Monthly Orders", but from the "Zhouli", the relevant text is as follows:

"Zhouli" - the earth official Sistu the second - the matchmaker "Matchmaker in charge of the judgment of the people. All men and women who have been named since they were first born are given the names of the year, the month and the day. The male is married at thirty and the female at twenty. Anyone who marries a convicted wife and gets a son will be written in the book. In the month of mid-spring, the order was issued for men and women to meet, and at that time, those who ran were not forbidden to do so. Those who did not use the order for no reason were penalized. Division of men and women who do not have a husband's family and will be, where the marriage of a son to marry a wife, into the coin of pure silk no more than five taels. It was forbidden to move the burials and the marriages of those who had died, and the lawsuits of men and women were heard in the society of Shengguo. The person who is attached to the punishment is attributed to the scholar."

That is very strict wedding rules, do not comply with is to be punished, no freedom to speak. The relevant meaning is: the general order that the male 30 and female 20 must be married. In mid-spring and February, men and women of marriageable age were ordered to complete the marriage ceremony; at this time, those who did not have the conditions to do the full "Ben" ceremony and organized the wedding, were not prohibited. Those who do not comply with this rule for no reason are punished. The so-called "Ben" rituals, is the Nacai, ask the name, Naji, Naji, please period, the wedding of the six procedures (Qian Xuan and other explanations).

It can be seen, "the month of mid-spring, so that men and women, runners are not prohibited", not at all that men and women talk about love without restrictions on the meaning of the wedding must be completed in accordance with the provisions of men and women of marriageable age, which can be given in the "run" ceremony of the six procedures This reflects the population policy of the time. This reflects the population policy of the time, which was to force men and women to fulfill their responsibility to bear and raise children. The first is that it is not a matter of time before the end of the year, and the second is that it is a matter of time before the end of the year.

Secondly, the mid-spring is not Qingming, "mid-spring" is the second month of the lunar calendar, a period of about 30 days. In the traditional Chinese calendar, the word "Meng" is used to denote the first month of a season, "Zhong" to denote the second month, and "Ji" to denote the third month, e.g.

Mengchun: first month; Mengxia: fourth month; Mengxia: first month; Mengsha: fourth month: First month; Monsummer: April; Monsummer: July; Monsummer: October;

Midsummer: February; Midsummer: May; Midsummer: August; Midsummer: November;

Quarterly spring: March; Quarterly summer: June; Quarterly autumn: September; Quarterly winter: December.

Attached is the original text. Please take a look, where are the shadows of talking about love and trekking and traveling?

And "Qingming" belongs to the solar calendar, is a point in time in the twenty-four seasons, the location of the expression is not the "month" or "day", but the circumference of the "degree". The location is not expressed in terms of "month" or "day", but in terms of "degree", "minute" and "quarter" of the circumference of the circle, e.g. the point of the Qingming moment is 15 degrees.

Due to the different orbit of the lunar and solar calendar, one is the moon like orbit, one is the sun like orbit, so, Qingming that point of time and the correspondence of the date of the lunar calendar is not fixed. For example, this year's Qingming fell in February 28 and 29 of the intersection, and last year's Qingming fell in February 13, are falling in the "mid-month" time period; however, in 1993 AD Qingming fell in March 7, 1995 AD Qingming fell in March 3, 1998 AD Qingming fell in March 6, 2012, the Qingming will fall in the first six months of March, and the first six months of March, the Qingming will fall in the first six months of 2012, the Qingming will fall in the first six months of March, the Qingming will fall in the first six months of March, the Qingming will fall in the first six months of March. In 2012, the Qingming will fall in March 13, and so on, Qingming moment are not in the "middle of the month".

And roughly speaking, the correspondence of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar made by the traditional Chinese calendar is:

First month: spring, rain; February: hibernation, spring equinox; March: Qingming, rain;

April: summer, small full; May: Mangzao, summer solstice; June: heat, heat;

July: Autumn, heat; August: white dew, the autumnal equinox; September: cold dew, frost;

October: winter, light snow; November: snow, winter solstice; December: small cold, big cold.

The above February is the "mid-spring month", and March is the "quarter-spring month". That is to say, Qingming corresponds not to the "mid-spring month", but to the "seasonal month".

In addition to the wrong lunar and solar calendars and all the wrong Qingming and Qingming Festival, there are experts to Qingming Festival is said to be "on the Si Festival". The festival is the first half of the lunar calendar in March Si day, Zhou Qin Han on the popularity of that custom has stepped on the youth bath, so it is also called "on the spring bath". To date, the Yunnan-Guizhou national festivals have retained its basic original meaning, such as "March 3" and the Water Festival. Simply put, the lunar calendar "on the Si Festival" and the Qingming or Qingming Festival are eight poles do not hit. However, just because this date and the Qingming time point is very close, so, today, some experts on the meaning and imagination, the "on the Si Festival" said that the Qingming Festival to engage in trekking.

Before this, there were also experts in the "July fire" said to be the summer heat; some experts say that the Spring Festival is spring; there are also experts in the seven or August 15 said to be "Valentine's Day", and so on. Errors are different, but all because they do not understand the traditional Chinese calendar - originally a farmer and street children know the basic knowledge, now the big experts actually do not know and make a joke.

The history of Chinese culture is strung together by the traditional Chinese calendar; the end of the disintegration of the traditional Chinese calendar means the end of the disintegration of Chinese cultural history. Such a thing is happening in front of your eyes and mine - five hundred years ago, Western missionaries went to China and tried to overthrow the traditional Chinese calendar, and failed after four hundred years. And today, the Chinese themselves are destroying their own traditional calendar, and as a result, not even 50 years later, even the experts don't know what the traditional calendar is anymore.

Attachment: The Sixth Book of Rituals - The Monthly Orders on "Mid-Spring" and "Quarterly Spring":

In the month of Mid-Spring, the sun was in the kuai, and in the arc of the evening, and in the star of the day. ...... This is also the month, the cultivator less house, is to repair the whole fan, bed and temple ready. The first thing you need to do is not to make a big event that will interfere with the farming. It is also the month, do not exhaust the river, do not liquefy the reservoir, do not burn the mountains and forests. The son of heaven is fresh lamb open ice, the first recommended temple. On the ding, ordered music is practicing dance, release dishes. The son of heaven is handsome three dukes, nine ministers, vassals, the doctor personally to see. Zhongding, and ordered the music is into the study dance. It is also the month, the sacrifice is not used, the use of kuibi, more leather coins.

The month of spring, the day in the stomach, dim seven stars, Dan Altair. ...... It is also the month, the order of the wild Yu did not cut mulberry and cudgel. Turtle Dove flicked its feathers, Dai Sheng descended in the mulberry, with Qu planted superbus baskets, after the Consort Qi precepts, pro Dongxiang bow mulberry, forbidding women not to watch, the provincial women to make, in order to persuade sericulture. Silkworm affairs both boarding, sub-cocoon called silk effect work to **** the service of the suburban temple, no dare inertia. Is also the month, the order of the master craftsman, make a hundred workers, review the amount of five libraries, gold, iron, leather, leather, tendons, horns, teeth, feathers, arrows, dry, grease, glue, Dan, paint, no or bad. Hundreds of workers Xianli, supervisor of the day number, do not go against the time, or as obscene trick, to swing on the heart. It is the end of the month, choose an auspicious day big music, the son of heaven is the rate of the three dukes, nine ministers, vassals, the great doctor to see it in person. It is also the month, is a combination of tired cattle and horses, swimming female in the pasture. Sacrifice colts and calves, citing the number of books. Order the national disaster, nine doors tearing off limbs, to Bi spring gas.

Attachment: About "on the Si Festival":

"Customs": according to the Zhou rituals, the witch in charge of the year to purify the disease, Purification of cleanliness is also, so in the water to wash and clean the also, Si the well-being is also, the evil has gone, pray for the well-being of the also.　　Han Poetry: March peach blossom water time, Zheng State's custom, March on the Si, in the river and river above the two waters, the executive orchid soul renewal, whisking away the ominous.　　Continuation of the Han Book of Etiquette: March on Si, officials and people are clean on the East Stream, since the wash, purify the dirt, for too clean. </SPAN>