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What is the third day of March on the lunar calendar

Every year is different, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar in 2019 is April 7th.

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March 3, the traditional festival of the Han people and several ethnic minorities, when in the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.? Anciently known as Shangsi Festival. According to legend, the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Xuanyuan". After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront banquets, countryside tour of the spring festival. It is the ancient people out of the day, also known as the Treading Green Festival.

"March 3" is the grandest festival of the Li people. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar counties, towns, townships and villages to hold a grand celebration. The venue is generally located in the open rubber forest, the head of the green leaves in the sky, under the feet of the "leaf carpet" paved the ground, deep, cool, quiet. It is no wonder that "March 3" has become a free choice of spouses and locals called "love plot".