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In Qixia, on the 19th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the "Yanjiu Festival" is held, how did this festival come about?

"This is a festival in honor of Qiu Shiqi." Qixia City, Taixu Palace Management Office staff told reporters.

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Qiu Shiqi, the number of Changchunzi, the founder of the Taoist Quanzhen Longmen School, the famous Taoist, traveler, health scientists and literati, was born in Qixia Binduli Village on the nineteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in 1148 A.D. In 1227, he passed away in the Changchun Palace of Yenching in the Shun Hall.19 years old, in the Bean Mountains under the direction of Wang Chongyang to learn the way, and then read hard to practice. In 1191, he returned to his hometown in the east and built a place for cultivation, and Emperor Zhangzong of Jin Dynasty gave him the plaque "Taixu Guan", which was later known as Taixu Palace. Because it is located in the village of Bin Du Li, Qixia people commonly known as the Bin Du Palace. In 1207 A.D., Yuan Fei worshiped Qiu Shiqi as a teacher, and gifted more than 6,000 volumes of "Taoist Collection", which was sent by post to "Taixuguan" as the treasure of the town. At that time, Taixu Palace had a grand scale and far-reaching influence. According to the "Gan Shui Xian Yuan Records" records, Qiu Shi Ji Ming Chang two years, the east return to Qixia, is a large building Lin Palace, given its name is Taixu. The weather is majestic, for "the crown of the Oriental Taoist forest". Later, due to natural and historical reasons have been destroyed. 1995, Qixia City in the original scale and outline of the restoration of the Palace of Taixu Palace on the basis of the construction, 2003 as a place of religious activity open to the public.

The 19th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Qiu Shiqi, and his disciples made up all kinds of "spiritual signs". Legend has it that soon after his death, some people saw him, clothes and hats to wear with the same before, etc., from which Baiyun Guan will be lively, there is a Yanjiu Festival event. Its original meaning is "feast hill", that is, with a banquet to worship hill, called white into the "Yan nine".

Legend has it that on the night of the 18th day of the first month, Qiu Qi Ji disguised as a scholar, officials, or dressed as a traveler, women, or dressed as a beggar to return to his hometown, who had the luck to encounter the immortal, will be able to get rid of the disease and prolong life. So, the emperor sent people to send sacrificial banquet, come to the palace worship people in an endless stream, Taoist disciples in the pine tree under the construction of nineteen simple round room, sitting cross-legged, to say, everyone hopes to have the honor of encountering the Taoist ancestor of the true master. Some people simply went to the temple and stayed up all night, or hid in the secluded corners of the temple, expecting to meet the immortals. Therefore, the poem "Yan Jiujie Zhiye" written in the Qing Dynasty reads, "Yan Jiujie on the fifteenth day of the first month, the gods are willing to teach the secret of longevity, but now stay in Baiyun Guan, the cold and frosty knots all over the place." The event culminates on the 19th day of the first month.

In Qixia, the Yanjiu Festival was naturally abolished until the village of Xiu Changchunhu was relocated, and it was revived in 2005 as an important festival. Baoxin Guofeng Zhichun