Traditional Festivals in Tianjin

The sixth day of the sixth month of June is "Tian Kuang Festival", which is commonly known as "June Sixth Sunshine Valley Show". Families with good taste in books and paintings, clothes and other things were exposed to sunlight on this day, which was said to be free from moths. Tianjin Suzaku also sunshine on this day, called "drying the scriptures will be".

Summer solstice three g into the ambush more in this month. The first day of the first day of ambush, the old days since the morning that is drinking green bean soup, that is not subject to heat. And to green beans

Soup wash young children, young children do not have prickly heat in summer. This day to eat noodles, called into the ambush noodles. If there is rain, or "the first ambush water, the last ambush burn", meaning drought signs; or cloud "the first ambush rain, ambush rain", meaning water signs.

This time has entered the rainy season, thirteen days of the common rumor for the division of the dragon soldiers of the day, that is, the dragon has a hard dragon lazy dragon points. If there is rain on this day, that is, for the diligent dragon duty year, for a long time rain omen; not rain is a lazy dragon duty, for a long time clear omen. Foreign sub-dragon day more than May 20, and Tianjin folklore is different.

Twentieth to twenty-eighth, for the birthday of the gods, often rainy, said the cloudy days. Tianjin or 28th for the "bald tail old Li" birthday, it will rain.

July 7, called "Coincidence Festival". Mythological stories of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden is the night of the meeting in the River in the sky, magpies are saved by the grace of the Milky Way to take the "magpie bridge", or clouds of swallows in the air for the Weaving Maiden to build bridges so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet. On the evening of the 7th, there is the "Begging for coincidence", also known as the "Daughter's Day". Tanabata, set up a fruit festival, the daughter of the moon, or floating flower needle in the water, see its shadow, said "begging for coincidences"; or in the yard under the melon trellis frame under the moon in front of the flowers lead threading needle, can use the line through the eye of the needle, said "begging for coincidences"; or useful lotus leaves and other things for the dew bearing plate, tied to the court, the next day there are spiders on the web. Tomorrow there are spiders on the web, said "begging for coincidence". There are many ways to do this, not all of them are loaded, and all of them are abolished today. A few days before and after Tanabata, various theaters competed to perform "Tianhe Match", and even used real cows on the stage to attract customers. These days, if there is a little rain, it is said that the two old couple to talk about the goodbye tears.

It is the month of Autumn Day. If it rains, it is a sign of autumn flooding, called "autumn sprinkle"; not rain, it is called clear signs, called "autumn hanging". Autumn Day competition to eat melon, because the melon less, so instead of watermelon, called "bite autumn", that can avoid diarrhea.

Fifteen days for the Mid-Yuan Festival, one of the ghost festivals. Nightfall, sacrifices to ancestors, held a "Bon". Yu Lan said, or cloud: woven bamboo or willow branches for the basin, inside the storage of paper money, in order to bear the object, burned, depending on the basin inverted, in order to measure the temperature of the cold. And Yu Lan, the Buddhist language, meaning that the upside down, emergency apparatus also. This is no longer the custom. Tianjin everyone good people more routinely extended to the monks and Taoists, building jiaojiao set up altars, relief of lonely souls; in the South Canal and the Haihe River, burned boat, put lotus lamps, ghosts get lotus lamps (Lotus) can be "off the life of the". The cymbals are noisy and the sandalwood is so rich that it is called "Land and Water Dojo". Inside and outside the city of Tianjin varies, especially near the Haihe River in Hebei Da Bei Yuan and Zi Zhu Lin Liang home for the most. Moonlight wind clear night, incense along the river to put lotus lamp (cut paper for lamps such as lotus, or with paper paste such as lotus-shaped lamps, with watermelon rinds for the bottom bracket), put the river so that floating on the water, burned, so-called "illumination of the netherworld". The meaning is to illuminate the suffering of the netherworld. The new cool is refreshing, and the fragrance of flowers and drums, but also a different flavor.

The first day of August, such as rain, is a sign of drought. Proverb: "August first a burst of drought in the next year, May end." Another cloud for the six gods day, the dew mixing cinnabar, dipped in pinky, pointing the forehead and abdomen of the child, can get rid of all diseases, so-called "moxibustion".

On the third day of the month, the Zaojun birthday, households with incense, wax and vegetarian shy to worship the God of the stove.

Fifteen days for the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the August Festival, for China's big festival. Before the festival, all kinds of mooncakes are available in the pastry stores, which are new and different from each other. On the eve of the festival, people have their own banquet to honor the festival, called the reunion dinner. People often use this night to account for the following year's Lantern Festival. Proverbs: "August 15 clouds cover the moon, the next year's Lantern Festival (January 15) snow hit the lamp." This proverb is quite true. At night, the moon on the top of the willow, than the household bottle flower incense and candles, look at the sky top salute, women worship the moon (Tianjin has a male not full moon, women do not sacrifice the custom of the stove), called the "fasting moon Palace". Tianjin custom, to be the moon on the East Mountain, set up free statue worship (legend has it that the Moon Palace has a white rabbit pounding medicine, so the moon cakes on the surface pattern also has a variety of moon in the toad and rabbit), Chen fruits and fruits, worship the moon in the court, said "full moon". In the past, women went out in full makeup, called "walking the moon", this custom is no longer present. This is the day to the moon cake gifts, night after the moon festival to eat moon cakes, to take the meaning of man and the moon is round.

Twenty-seven is the birthday of Confucius, the old habits of Tianjin officials and cultural and educational circles, gathered in the East Gate of the Temple of Literature Festival, the gift of offering, ceremonial ceremonies. (Tianjin festival of Confucius three times a year, in addition to this day, there are still spring February, autumn early August Ding Day two sacrifices).