What is the June 6 Festival: June 6 is a festival of Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities

June 6 is a traditional festival of the Han and Buyi peoples.

Because of the different areas of residence, the date of the festival is not uniform, the Han and some Buyei areas on the sixth day of June, known as the sixth of June; some Buyei areas on the sixteenth day of June or the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar to celebrate the New Year, known as the June Street or June Bridge.

Every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the Buyi people live in the village, every family has to slaughter cows and pigs, kill chickens and pack rice dumplings to sacrifice to the ancestors. Afterwards, the family drink. Grand celebration of the traditional festival of the Buyei people inherited from generation to generation.

The Han Chinese: hot in three volts. After the summer solstice, coinciding with the small summer heat, the temperature rises, sometimes as high as 40 ℃ or so, has exceeded the body temperature of humans and animals. Liu Xi in the Han Dynasty said: "summer, cooking also, hot as cooking things also." Into the number of volts, centered on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the old Beijing has a lot of folklore: bathing, sunshine, wash the elephant, sunshine scripture, enjoy the lotus, see the valley show and so on. The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is known as the "Festival of Washing and Tanning".

In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is also the legal "wash the elephant day". At that time, the emperor in the court, rituals or patrol, in order to show the majesty, to put out a car by the horse elephant, drums and music streamers and umbrellas composed of a huge honor guard, every grand celebration, the elephant is an indispensable member.

Whenever June 6, if it happens to be a sunny day, the Palace of all the Imperial chariot to be displayed out of the sun, the Imperial history, the Palace of the archives, the actual record, the Imperial collection, etc., should also be set up in the courtyard ventilation drying. When this day is also known as the "drying festival", all over the large and small temples and Taoist temples to be held on this day, "drying will be", the deposit of the scriptures are set out to dry, in order to prevent the scriptures damp, insects and rats bite.

The folk sedan chair store, estimated clothing store, leather goods store, old book store, painting store, pharmacy, and all kinds of stores, all to dry all kinds of goods. City and rural people to dry clothes, bedding. There is a folk proverb that says: "On the sixth day of the sixth month, every family dries red and green", and "red and green" means all kinds of clothes in various colors. Beijing residents in the Qing Dynasty, all in the June 6th day, rummage through the closet, out of clothing, shoes, hats, bedding to dry. Therefore, some places called "sun clothes festival" or "sun伏".

Chengbu Miao Township will be June 6 every year as the "Mountain Song Festival", be sure to hold a mountain song, mountain song contest. Every year on this day, the whole township Miao, Dong, Yao and other ethnic compatriots are dressed in festive costumes, happy to participate in the mountain song will, let go of their voices to sing. Singing in a variety of ways, or solo, or duet, or rounds of singing, or chorus, or their own singing, or please companions to play the wood leaves, blowing the reed-sheng, pull the huqin to accompany the singing, and sometimes combined with the performance of other cultural and artistic programs.