The content of the handbook about the third of March

The contents of the handbook about March 3 are as follows:

"March 3" is a major folk festival in China. Not only Han Chinese, but also many other ethnic minorities celebrate this day as a major festival. Many people may feel curious, March 3 is so many ethnic festivals, then, the origin of March 3 is those ways?

The March 3 can be pushed back to memorialize Fuxi Clan. Fuxi and his sister Nuwa Tuan earth to create people, reproduction of offspring, the Yu Dong area honored Fuxi as "human ancestor", in Huaiyang (Fuxi built the capital) built Tai Hao mausoleum ancient temple, by the lunar calendar from February 2 to March 3 for the Tai Hao mausoleum temple fair, the good men and women, the south boat north horse, all gathered in the mausoleum area, pilgrimage to worship the ancestor of the people.

Huangdi hometown ancestor worship ceremony is since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period of China's children in the yellow emperor's hometown of Xuanyuan hill (now Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of the city of Xinzheng) to pay homage to the ancestor of the yellow emperor ceremony. After the Tang Dynasty, it was upgraded to an official ceremony. Xuanyuan Huangdi is the humanities ancestor of the Chinese nation, Chinese and yellow children of the *** with the ancestors. According to the "I Ching", "Historical Records" / & lt; Classic of Mountains and Seas" and other records,

Xuan Yuan Huangdi hometown in today's Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of the city of Xinzheng. Spring and Autumn period of history in the books on the third of March in Xinzheng with Zishan (commonly known as the "ancestor of the mountain") pilgrimage to pay homage to the Yellow Emperor's records, after the Tang Dynasty gradually into the system, the official worship by the Lord in the heyday of the chaotic times by the civil self-organized, has been extended to the present.

The Huangdi Hometown Ancestor Worship Ceremony carries forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, remembers the merits of the first ancestor, highlights the theme of the Chinese nation's roots and ancestor worship, and symbolizes that the Yellow Emperor and the descendants of the bloodline, the flame is passed down from one generation to the next.

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is also the day of the legendary Queen Mother's Peach Festival. In the late Qing Dynasty, there is a poem in seven lines in the "Du Men Miscellaneous Rhymes" that describes the temple fair of the year's grandeur: "the third day of March spring is long, the Peach Palace to see the burning incense; along the river along the wind is slightly rising, ten feet of red dust ramp raised." Legend has it that the Queen Mother of the West was originally a primitive tribe in the west of China's protective deity.

She has two magic treasures: one is to eat the immortal pills that can live forever, and the second is to eat the immortal peaches that can prolong life - coiled peaches. The mythical Chang'e flew to the Moon Palace after she stole the elixir of Xiwangmu, which her husband Hou Yi had gotten. Since then, in some novels, the Queen Mother of the West is said to be the god of longevity.