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What festivals have you seen in the Song Dynasty?

There are many legal festivals in the Song Dynasty, and the state has holidays in these festivals, including Yuanri Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tianqing Festival and Winter solstice. Seven festivals, including Halloween, Summer Solstice Festival, Congenital Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Sanzang Festival and La Ri, have three days off each; Beginning of spring, Renri, Zhonghe Festival, Equinox, Chunshe, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shangsi Festival, Tianqi Festival, Changxia, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianqi Festival, Chufu, Zhongfu, beginning of autumn, Qixi Festival, Final Fu, Qiushe, Equinox, Clothes Giving, Chongyang, beginning of winter 2 1 holiday. January: The first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival. Shangyuan Festival: Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and it is also one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival. Cold Food Festival: also known as "Smoke-free Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five-Day Festival", from summer to the future 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs. Later, because cold food was close to Qingming, people combined cold food with Qingming before crossing Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tianqing Festival: On the third day of the first month of the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), a piece of yellow silk fell from the sky and landed at the south end of Tianmen, Zuocheng in the palace. Such a miraculous thing should not be taken lightly. So the emperor summoned the minister to worship the Yuan Palace and honored it as a "heavenly book", and designated the day when the "heavenly book" came as "Tianqing Festival, with five days off". When the regulations on public holidays were revised in Yuanfeng five-year ancestral temple, the "Tianqing Festival" holiday was extended to seven days. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that it was reduced to three days. Since then, God has paid attention to it one after another, and the "heavenly book" has continued and festivals have continued. Winter solstice: commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Asian New Year". As early as more than 2,500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had observed the sun with the earth and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and the time was between 65438+February 265438+February 0-22 in the Gregorian calendar. Summer solstice: at that time, the temperature rose, crops grew vigorously, and intertillage was urgently needed to weed. There were three days off in ancient times. The fifteenth day after the festival of awn seeds in the lunar calendar is the summer solstice, on which the sunshine is the longest and the days in the northern hemisphere are getting shorter and shorter. The summer solstice is the longest day in the lunar calendar. Nativity Festival and Sanctification Festival: Since the discussion of the gobbledygook, there have been more and more tributes from all directions, and the emperor is very good. Nine days in the afternoon, the minister ordered Shangqing to protect the Buddha and went down to Yan 'en Hall. First, on the eighth day, the emperor told himself that the man of God who dreamed of Jingdezhen passed the jade emperor's order: "shilling your ancestor Zhao to give you a gobbledygook, and he will make it up again, just like the Tang Dynasty paid tribute to Emperor Xuanyuan." On the wings of the sun, the dreamer preaches the word of God: "I will sit on the west side, and I will recline six seats." That is, set up a Dojo in Yan' entang. On this day, the five drums are even better. First of all, I smelled a strange smell. Later, yellow light came from the southeast, covering the lights and candles. The emperor bowed again when I saw the gods guarding heaven. There is yellow fog in Russia, and it will disperse soon. The Buddha and six people are seated, and the attendants are in the east order. The emperor was promoted to the west. Goodbye. He also wanted to worship six people, but the Buddha ordered him not to. He ordered the emperor to sit on the couch and drink jasper soup, which is as sweet as milk. Buddha said, "One of our nine emperors was also the ancestor of Zhao, and later Xuanyuan the Great. The well-known son of Little Canon is different. My mother was born in Shouqiu. At the end of the Tang dynasty, the sun set on July 1, and under the general rule, the main Zhao family had a history of one hundred years. The emperor is good at raising the people and has no ambition! " In other words, leave and go by cloud. Shu called the assistant minister to the temple and told him where he was going down the mountain. He also called Li Zongqi, Liu Chengxuan and Lan Jizong, the envoys of Xiu Yuqing House, and they also said the same thing. Xin Wei, bow to Room 6 of the ancestral temple. Imperial edict: "The name of the Holy Father is Xuan, and the name of the Holy Father is Lang. It is forbidden to reprimand offenders. July 1 day is congenital festival, and1October 24th is Halloween. Mid-Autumn Festival: Shigu is commonly known as Ghost Festival, and on July 30th, Buddhism called Bonihara Festival. New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival are traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, as well as traditional cultural festivals popular in various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots. Xiayuan Festival: October 15th of the lunar calendar, also known as "Xiayuan Festival" and "Xia Yuan". The origin of the next Yuan Festival is related to Taoism. There are three kinds of Taoist officials: heavenly officials, local officials, water officials and God bless the people. Local officials forgive sins and water conservancy officials relieve Eritrea. The dates of birth of these three officials are the 15th day of the first month, the 15th day of July and the 15th day of October of the lunar calendar, which are called Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival. The next Yuan Festival is a day when officials of the Ministry of Water Affairs and the Emperor Urgu solve problems, commonly known as the Festival.