Reasons for the popularity of traditional Chinese festivals

Catalogue of traditional Chinese festivals[hide]

New Year's Eve

Spring Festival

Metal Lantern Festival

Fighting Spring

Cold Snack Festival

Ching Ming Festival

Duanwu Festival

Tsubo Festival

Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon

Chrysanthemum Festival

Mid-Yuan Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Winter Solstice

La Ba Festival

Table of Festivals

Appendix Chinese Traditional Festivals in English and Chinese

Chinese Common Traditional Events in English and Chinese

China's New Year's Day Highlights

New Year's Eve

Spring Festival

Metal Festival

The Fighting Spring Festival

Handicapping Festival

Chinese Cold Food Festival

The Ching Ming Festival<

Duanwu Festival

The Tanabata Festival

Chongyang Festival (重阳节) Mid-Yuan Festival (中元节) Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) Winter Solstice (冬至腊八节) Holiday Table Appendix

Chinese Traditional Festivals in English and Chinese Chinese Common Traditional Activities in English and Chinese New Year's Day in Chinese

[Edit] New Year's Eve (除夕节)

Time: Lunar December, New Year's Eve (十二十二月大年三十) < / p >

English: New Year's Eve (新年's Eve)<

Interpretation

The night of the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year is called New Year's Eve. The original meaning of the word "除" is "去", which is derived from "易"(交替); the original meaning of the word "夕" is "日暮", which means "sunset". The original meaning of the character "夕" is "sunset", which is derived from "night". Therefore, the night of New Year's Eve contains the meaning of "the old year will be removed here, and the new year will be replaced tomorrow". The name "除" means to get rid of the old and bring in the new.

Origins

New Year's Eve originated in the pre-Qin period. According to Lüshi Chunqiu - Jidong Ji, ancient people used to beat drums on the day before the New Year to get rid of "epidemics and plague ghosts", so that the coming year would be free of diseases and disasters. This is the origin of the "New Year's Eve" festival.

Alias

"New Year's Eve" in ancient times, there is New Year's Eve, in addition to the year, in addition to the big, big in addition to the end of the alias. Although there are many names, they always mean to send the old to welcome the new, and to get rid of illnesses and disasters.

[Edit Paragraph]Spring Festival

Time: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

English: Spring Festival

Interpretation

The Spring Festival is the first of the year of the Chinese lunar calendar, commonly known as the "big year".

Origin

The Spring Festival has a history of more than four thousand years in China. It is one of the most lively and grandest traditional festivals in China. In ancient times, the Spring Festival referred to the "Spring Festival" in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it was only after the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the Spring Festival was changed to the end of the year and referred to the entire spring, when the earth springs back to life and everything is renewed, so people took it as the beginning of a new year. In the early years of the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, the first day of the first month of the year was designated as the Spring Festival after the lunar calendar was changed to the Gregorian [solar] calendar. Until September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on the first day of the first month of the New Year was officially designated as the "Spring Festival", and therefore there are still many people will be the Spring Festival called the New Year.

Related Legends

New Year: People often refer to the Spring Festival as "New Year", but the original meaning of "New Year" is not the same as today's. It is said that in the very ancient times, people used to say "New Year" to celebrate the Spring Festival. It is said that in ancient times, there was the most vicious beast in the world called "Nian". It grew bigger than a camel. It ran faster than the wind and roared louder than thunder. When it came out, it ate people and hurt animals, and people's lives were seriously threatened. In order to punish the "year", the gods locked it into the mountains, only allowed it to come out once a year. People in the long-term practice, found that the "year" has "three fears" - afraid of red color, afraid of loud noise, afraid of fire. So, one year, on the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people put red paper on the door, and constantly beat the gongs and drums, firecrackers, and light up the house all night long. "Year" came at night to see, bright lights in every house; listen, everywhere the sound of firecrackers, scared it did not dare to enter the village. During the day, it sneaked down the mountain, see still red on the door of every house, everywhere thud, scared it scared, turned around and ran back. Since then, the "year" has not dared to come back, it is said to starve to death in the mountains and old forests. Later on, people turned the prevention of "Nian" and "Nianxuan" into a peaceful and stable New Year. There is no more "Nian", but the custom of celebrating the New Year still remains. Bright red spring couplets, brilliant lights, crisp firecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.

Applicable areas

The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese, but Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other dozens of ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has more of its own national characteristics, more flavorful.

Customs

Staying up for the New Year

Evolution

The concept of Spring Festival and New Year's Day, the original meaning from the agricultural, the ancient people of the growth cycle of the grain known as the "year", "Shuowen. The year is the year when the grain is ripe," he said. In the Xia and Shang dynasties produced the summer calendar, the cycle of the moon for the month, a year divided into twelve months, each month to not see the moon for the day for the first day of the first month of the first day of the month of the son of the time is called the head of the year, that is, the beginning of the year, also known as the year, the year's name is from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Western Han Dynasty to formally fixed, and has been continued to the present day. But the first day of the first month in ancient times was called "New Year's Day", until China's modern Xinhai Revolution victory, the Nanjing Provisional Government in order to comply with the farming season and facilitate the statistics, the provisions of the civil use of the summer calendar, government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations to implement the calendar, the first day of the new year for the New Year's Day to the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival.

The relationship between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival

September 27, 1949, the founding of the new China, in the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, adopted the use of the world's common calendar calendar, the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year; the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is usually in the first day of the Spring Festival before or after the start of the first month of the lunar calendar, and therefore the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar as the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the lunar year.

Traditionally, the Spring Festival is celebrated from the Lunar New Year's Day festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, or the Zaos Festival on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, which culminates in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar year. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities in China hold a variety of celebratory activities, most of which are mainly devoted to the worship of gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming joy and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year. The activities are colorful and have strong ethnic characteristics.

[Edit Paragraph]Lantern Festival

Time: Lunar New Year's Day

English: Lantern Festival

Interpretation

It is also known as the "Festival of the New Year", that is, the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. It is an important traditional festival in China. In ancient books, this day is called "on the Yuan", and its night is called "Yuan night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now.

Customs

Because the Lantern Festival has the custom of opening and watching the lanterns, it is also known as the "Festival of Lights". In addition, there are eating Lantern Festival, stilt walking, riddles and other customs.

Evolution

China's ancient calendar and the moon phase has a close relationship with the fifteenth day of the month, people ushered in the first full-moon night of the year, this day is rightly regarded as an auspicious day. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month has been used as a day to worship the emperor and pray for blessings. Later, the ancients called the 15th day of the first month "Shangyuan", the 15th day of the 7th month "Zhongyuan", and the 15th day of the 10th month "Xiayuan". At the latest, in the early North and South Dynasties, Sanyuan was already a day to hold a grand ceremony. Among the three elements, the first element was the most important. Later, the celebrations of the Middle and Lower Yuan were gradually abolished, while the Upper Yuan has endured.

[Edit Paragraph]Playing Spring

Interpretation

The first solar term of each year is "Lichun", which is usually called "Playing Spring".

Source

Why is it called that? China's history has such a custom, every year on the day of spring, people dressed in festive costumes, carrying a large papier-maché plow ox, singing and dancing on the street parade. After the parade, the papier-maché plowing ox carried to the county office of the public hall, by the magistrate personally whip three, meaning: the earth back to spring, hurry to plow. Therefore, people called the spring "spring".

Customs

Shanxi folk song popular spring word: "spring spring wind, spring river spring water flow. Spring people drink spring wine, spring officials whip spring cattle." Speaking of the spring bull playing spectacle.

[edit]Cold Food Festival

Time: one day before Qingming Festival

A festival in the old custom, one day before Qingming Festival (one says two days before Qingming).

Source

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Chong Er of Jin, who had been dead for many years, returned to his throne [i.e., Duke Wen of Jin], and rewarded the ministers who had died with him, except for Jie Zi Tui, who was left out. Jie Zi Tui then took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain [now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province]. Duke Wen of Jin learned that he wanted to increase the reward, searching to Mianshan, could not find him, so he wanted to burn the mountain to force him out. But Jie Zi Tui insisted not to come out, and both mother and son were burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin then stipulated that every year on this day, people were forbidden to start fires to burn rice, to express their condolences with cold food. Later, the custom of eating cold food and sweeping graves on the day of cold food was formed.)

[Edit Paragraph]Qingming Festival

Time: The eighth day of the third month of the Lunar Calendar (the day of "Qingming" in the twenty-four solar terms of the Lunar Calendar, around April 5, Gregorian Calendar)

Interpretation

The Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the most important festival of sacrifices, it is the day of ancestor worship and sweeping the graves. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most of the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Festival.

Customs

According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of their loved ones' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few young green branches and stick them on the graves, then bow and worship, and finally eat the wine and food and go home. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Qingming": "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." It writes about the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the time of spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit green, it is also the good time for people to spring tour [called trekking in ancient times], so the ancients have Qingming trekking, and a series of sports activities of the custom.

The origin of Qingming Festival and legend:

The traditional Qingming Festival in China began in the Zhou Dynasty, which has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important festival in the beginning, Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Tree planting, not over the Qingming" proverbs. Later, due to the Qingming and cold food days close, and cold food is the folk ban on fire sweeping days, gradually, cold food and Qingming on the merger of one, and cold food has become a Qingming alias, but also become a custom for the Qingming festival, Qingming day does not move fireworks, only eat cold food.

[Edit Paragraph]Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

English: Dragon Boat Festival

Interpretation

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month for the "Dragon Boat Festival" is an ancient traditional festival in China. It is an ancient traditional festival in China. The original name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Duanwu", which means the beginning. Because people think "May" is a bad month, "the fifth" is a bad day, and thus avoid "five", changed to "Dragon Boat Festival ".

Source

According to the Records of the Grand Historian (《史记》), Qu Yuan was a minister of King Huai of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period, who advocated the promotion of the virtuous and the capable, the rich and the strong, and advocated the unification of Qi and the anti-Qin forces, which met with strong opposition from the aristocrats such as Zi Lan, Qu Yuan was gluttonously dismissed from his post, and driven out of the capital city, exiled to the Yuan and Xiang valleys. During his exile, he wrote such immortal poems as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Questions" and "Nine Songs", which are unique and far-reaching (thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Poets' Festival). In 278 B.C., the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, and his heart was cut to pieces, but he could not bear to give up his motherland, and on the 5th of May, after writing his final work "Huai Sha", he threw himself into Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent piece of patriotism with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu grieved and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon to eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped around the colorful silk, the development of brown.

Note: South Korea's application is the Dragon Boat Festival, which has nothing to do with the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in the Gangneung region of South Korea.

Customs

Hanging Zhong Kui statue: Zhong Kui to catch ghosts is a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Jianghuai area, every family hangs the Zhong Kui statue to suppress the house and drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan lecture martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, through the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

Hanging Ai leaves, calamus and banyan branches: in the Dragon Boat Festival, families are to calamus, Ai leaves, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flowers, banyan branches, made of humanoid known as Ai people. Ai leaves hanging in the hall, cut for the tiger or cut color for the tiger, stick to the ai leaves, women scrambling to wear to seclude the evil and drive away miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, there is to drive away demons and ghosts of the divine effect.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, the people of Chu could not bear the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there were many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when the trail, is the origin of the dragon boat race, after the May 5 every year to commemorate the dragon boat. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat the body of Qu Yuan. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan began to have dragon boat races, and at that time, Taiwan's governor, Mr. Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of the Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year. Hong Kong has a race, and recently the British have followed the example of our people, organizing the Ghostbusters team, the competition.

Eat zongzi: Jing Chu people, on May 5, cook glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cake into the river, to worship Qu Yuan, fear that the fish ate, so the bamboo tube loaded with glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use zongzi leaves instead of bamboo tube.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Basin region of the family is very prevalent.

Swimming for a hundred diseases: this custom, prevalent in Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pei Xiangbao: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant: and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite and eye-catching.

Related Poems

The 5th of May (Mei Yaochen)

Qu has sunk to his death.

I have never been able to resist slander and slander, but I want to be a dragon in the sky.

The first time I saw him was when he was a young man, and he was a young man who had no idea what he was doing.

The water in the blue pools of Yuan and Hunan should be able to illuminate a thousand peaks.

And the Dragon Boat Festival (Zhang Lei)

The ferry race has been a source of grief for thousands of years, and the loyal souls are gone for a long time.

The country is dead, the body has perished, and there is nothing left in the world but a riot.

Duanwu in the Year of the Dragon Boat (Bei Qiong)

The wind and rain of Duanyang are in the darkness, and there is nowhere in Miluo to hang the spirit of the heroes.

The durian blossom should smile at each other, and Yuanming is awake alone without wine.

The afternoon watch ferry (Bian Gong)

*** Hacked the dragon water upstream, I do not know that the original is Mulan boat.

The clouds and flags are hunting and turning over the green man, the thunder drums are noisy and the blue stream is flowing.

The soul of Qu Zi is in the past, and the custom of the Chuxiang township still remains.

The river pavilion can be a meeting place on a free day, drunkenly satirizing the sorrows.

The afternoon of the state ban on ferry racing (Tang Xianzu)

I wrote a cup of calamus and bamboo leaves, and the grass of Pengcheng stepped on the first return.

I know that not to the Oujiang River to die, oars why hang Qu Lai .

Five days - choose one (Chen Zilong)

Wu Tian May water is long, the eyes of the smoke and clouds are not collected.

The water is so long in the month of May in Wu Tian, and I can't stop looking at the clouds and smoke.

The curtains are made of woven grass mat, and the paddles are made of zither and kite.

The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid.

The Five Silks (Tang - Chu Chaoyang)

The Vietnamese have passed on the customs of the Chu, and the bamboo is haunted by the silk.

Underwater deep rest also, in the middle of the day also congratulated.

Zhang Shi Wen Sheng quality, the beauty of the list than Ji.

The newest part of the story is like the new embroidery, and the oldest part of the story is like the lamb's bed.

But the Dragon Boat Festival, who recommended the Qu Yuan Shrine.

When we drink wine, we will pay tribute, but Miluo is empty and far away.

The clothes given on the Dragon Boat Festival (Tang Du Fu)

The palace clothes are also famous, and the Dragon Boat Festival is honored by grace. The fine kudzu is soft with wind, and the perfumed roses are light with snow.

Since the day of the question at the wet, when the summer to come clear. The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and the second time I saw it, it was a very good one, and it was a very good one.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Tang - Li Longji)

The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the middle of summer, and the days are long and clear.

The salt and plums are already on the tripod, and the quartz is passed on to the goblets.

The ancient people have left traces of their lives, and the years are deep and the wisps are long.

When the Hibiscus is in full bloom, the water is fragrant with the fragrance of the reed.

The first is a new one, a new one, a new one, a new one, a new one.

The first is the "Loyalty" of the Chinese people, and the second is the "Loyalty" of the Chinese people.

The drums are carried by the thunder, and the animal head is in the snow.

The first time I saw this was when I was a young boy, and the second time I saw it was when I was a young man.

I thought the dragon was just a little bit more than that, but I was able to win the tournament.

The poem of the 5th day of the 5th lunar month Lu You (Southern Song Dynasty)

The 5th day of the 5th lunar month is good in the mountain village, and the pomegranate blossoms are already in full bloom.

The dumplings are wrapped in two buns, and the moxa buns are tied around the crown.

The old custom is to store medicine, and the body also points to Dan.

The sun is setting and I have finished my work, so I am smiling at the cup and saucer.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Lao She)

The Dragon Boat Festival coincides with the stormy weather, and the village children are still in their old clothes.

We are invited to bring our straw raincoats, and we dare to love the Cao Tang for the depth of the mud.

We have the guests who are of one heart and one flesh, and we don't have the money to buy the wine and sell the articles.

The fish in this meeting was three feet long in the past, and the smell of the beans was not as fragrant as it is today.

Wunxi Sha (Song - Su Shi)

Light sweat slightly through the blue dude. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the color of the water and the color of the water.

The fragrance of the river is full of grease, and the colorful threads are lightly wrapped around the red jade arms. The colorful threads are lightly wrapped around the red jade arm,

the small symbols are hung diagonally on the green cloud maid. The first time I saw you was a thousand years ago.

Bodhisattva Barbarian (Song - Chen and Yi)

The bag of fragrant millet is divided into corners. The colorful silk is cut to make a velvet rope. The bottle is filled with calamus. The first day of May every year. The master's favor is heavy. I've been to the scene and I'm happy to be there. When will I play in the mountains? I'm not going to be able to do that.

Fisherman's Pride (Song - Ouyang Xiu)

The pomegranate blossom in May is so colorful. The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and the second time I saw it, it was a very good one. The new silk is wrapped around the corner of the rice dumplings in five colors. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of it. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services. Iris wine is beautiful and clear. The most important thing to remember is that it's a good idea to have a good time. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Wenxiu)

The festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival since who said? The first is a story of a man who was born on the same day as the first man in the world.

I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash away the injustice of the straight ministers.

[edit]Tanabata Festival

Time: the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Source

The evening of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called "Tanabata". China's folklore is that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet on this night at the Bridge of Magpies in the River of Heaven. The so-called begging, that is, in the moonlight to the Vega star with colored thread through the needle, such as through the seven different sizes of the eye of the needle, even if it is very "tricky". Farmer's proverbs say "the seventh day of the seventh month is clear and bright, grinding sickle cut good rice." This is the time to grind the sickle and prepare for the early rice harvest.

Customs

Women on the night of the eve of the Weaving Maiden needle begging for coquettish customs

[Edit Paragraph]Chongyang Festival

Interpretation

Chongyang Festival, also known as the Double Nine Festival, the ancient nine for the sun, six for the yin, the double-nine is the sun, solid known as the Chongyang Festival.

Evolution

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chongyang Festival in China. It is also the Chinese Festival of Respect for the Elderly. In 1989, China designated the ninth day of the ninth month of the year as the Elderly Day, which is a clever combination of tradition and modernity, and has become a festival of respect for the elderly, honoring the elderly, loving the elderly, and helping the elderly.

Customs

When it comes to Chung Yeung, people will think of what Wang Wei wrote: "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice as much at festivals. The brothers are known to climb up high, and there are fewer dogwoods." This poem. Since ancient times, the Chung Yeung Festival has been a day for people to honor and love the elderly, miss their parents and long for reunion. Specific customs are listed below:

①, climbing

In ancient times, folk in the Chongyang custom of climbing, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of climbing". According to legend, this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many poems written by literati, most of which were about the customs of the Chongyang Festival; Du Fu's seven rhymes, "Ascending to the Heights," is a famous piece about ascending to the heights of the Chongyang Festival. There is no standardized rule on the place of ascending to the heights, but it is generally to climb high mountains and towers. There is also the custom of eating "Chongyang cake".

②, eat Chung Yeung cake

According to historical records, Chung Yeung cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random. September 9 when the sky is bright, to piece of cake on the forehead of the children, the mouth read the words, wishing the children all high, is the ancient people in September for the cake's original intention. The delicate Chongyang cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some also inserted a small red paper flag on the cake, and light candles. This is probably the "light", "eat cake" instead of "high" meaning, with a small red paper flag instead of cornelian cherry. Today's Chongyang cake, there is still no fixed varieties, all over the Chongyang Festival to eat the fluffy cakes are called Chongyang cake.

③, chrysanthemum and drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum Festival is the year of the golden autumn, chrysanthemums in full bloom, according to legend, chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum wine, originated in the Jin Dynasty great poet Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming was famous for his seclusion, his poetry, his wine, and his love of chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums at the Chrysanthemum Festival began. In the old days, the literati and scholars also combined chrysanthemum-appreciation with banquets and drinks, in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In Kaifeng, the capital of Northern Song Dynasty, the chrysanthemum-appreciation style was prevalent, and there were many varieties of chrysanthemums with a variety of colors. Folk also called the ninth month of the lunar calendar "the month of chrysanthemums", and in the Chrysanthemum Festival where chrysanthemums blossomed in the frost, chrysanthemum-viewing became an important part of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation is especially prosperous, and is not limited to the ninth day of the ninth month, but is still the most prosperous before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival.

④, insert cornelian cherry and hairpin chrysanthemum

Chongyang Festival insert cornelian cherry custom, in the Tang Dynasty has been very common. Ancient people believed that in the Chongyang Festival this day insert cornelian cherry can take refuge from disasters; or wear in the arm, or as incense bag to put the cornelian cherry inside the belt, there are inserted in the head. Mostly women, children wear, some places, men also wear. Chrysanthemum Festival to wear cornelian cherry, in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong "Western Scripture Miscellany" has been recorded. In addition to wearing cornelian cherry, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty and has been practiced throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Chongyang Festival in Beijing was to put chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "lift the evils and attract good luck". This is a variation of the head hairpin chrysanthemum. Song Dynasty, there will be colorful silk cut into cornelian cherry, chrysanthemum to give each other to wear.

⑤, drink Chrysanthemum wine

"Chrysanthemum wine," that is, with high-quality glutinous rice brewed sweet wine, in the Chrysanthemum Festival into the small ceramic altar sealed preservation. Probably because the temperature and humidity are more suitable, so the wine brewed is particularly mellow, is the top quality of rice wine, sweet and pure, suitable for both men and women, young and old, originated in the Northwest ethnic minorities.

"Chrysanthemum wine" means "chrysanthemum wine". Every year at the time of Chrysanthemum Festival, the earliest chrysanthemum blossom has grown into a flower, and when it wants to blossom, it is the best material for making "Chrysanthemum Wine"!

Note: Historically, there is also the 13th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar to honor the elderly. But in 1989, it was modified.

Time: September 9 on the lunar calendar.

[edit]Zhongyuan Festival

Time: July 15

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The first month of the fifteenth Han Chinese called on the first yuan festival, is the celebration of the Lantern Festival, the ancient;

July 15 Han Chinese called in the first yuan festival, the ancestors of the festival;

October 15 Han Han called the next yuan festival, is the food of the cold, in memory of the sage.

It is a traditional Han folk custom to release river lanterns on the 15th day of the 7th month in the old calendar, and the 15th day of the 1st month in the new year, and the 15th day of the 10th month in the new year, are the same as the ancient traditional festivals.

Customs

Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist festival. According to Taoism, "Sanyuan" is an alias for "Three Officials". The festival is also known as the "Upper Yuan Heavenly Officials Festival", which is the birthday of Zi Wei Da Di, the Heavenly Official who gives blessings to the upper Yuan; the Middle Yuan Festival is also known as the "Middle Yuan Earthly Officials Festival", which is the birthday of Qing Xu Da Di, the Earthly Official who forgives sins in the middle Yuan; and the Lower Yuan Festival is also known as the "Lower Yuan Water Officials Festival", which is the birthday of Dong Yin Da Di, the lower member of the Water Official who solves the problems of the lower Yuan. The Taoist "Three Officials Sutra" says: "The Heavenly Officials give blessings, the Earthly Officials forgive sins, and the Water Officials solve problems", and "all living beings are under the control of the Heavenly, Earthly, and Water Officials". In the Mid-Yuan Festival, Taoist temples such as Di'anmen Fire Temple, Xibianmen Baiyun Guan in order to pray for "good weather, the country's prosperity and people's peace" routinely organized "pray for luck and good luck dojo.

Buddhists on this day to hold a grand bon, also known as the bon fast, bon offerings. Bon has been prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty, Beijing has more than 840 temples, the conditions, such as Guangji Temple, Fayuan Temple, Fenghua Temple, Guanghua Temple, Jiaxing Temple, Changchun Temple, etc. are held in different scales of the Bon and the yuan will be. Since the Republic of China, Beihai Park, Zhongshan Park Concert Hall and other places have held "memorial service for fallen soldiers" at this time of the year. With Fan (Lama), Dao (Taoist), Zen (monk) three tablets of scripture, for a "naval, air and land forces of the fallen generals" of the tablets, for public worship.

During the Mid-Yuan Festival, the old Beijing also held the production of law ship, put lotus lamps, lotus lamps, ancestor worship, singing "Yingjing opera" and other activities.

[edit]Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

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(The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the day is in the middle of autumn, so it is known as "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the people wrote the date of the riot on a note and put it in the mooncake filling, so as to pass it to each other secretly, calling for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on that day, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes at mid-autumn has been more widely spread.

Customs

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people would prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food to enjoy the moon in the courtyard.

Related Poems

[Tang] Du Fu, "The Moon on the Fifteenth Night of the August Moon"

The full moon flies in the mirror, and the returning heart breaks the big knife.

The full moon flies in a bright mirror.

The waterway is full of snow and frost, and the forest is full of feathers.

The white rabbit is now looking forward to counting the autumn hairs.

[Tang] Liu Yuxi, "Playing with the moon on the 15th night of the 8th month"

The moon is a free thing to see in the dust, not to mention that it's a fairy house in the fall.

The condensed light of the cold dew fall, this time standing in the highest mountain.

The wind does not blow in the cloudless blue sky, and the water under the long pines on the mountain.

The group is moving in a leisurely glance, the sky is high and the ground is flat for ten million miles.

The young ruler guided me to the jade altar, and invited the real immortal officials.

The clouds want the stars to move, and the music of the sky chills the bones.

The golden haze is moving to the east, and I am still looking at it.

It's hard to see how the perfect scene will ever come together again, and I'm sure I'll be disappointed on this day in another year.

[Tang] Bai Juyi, "Looking at the Moon at Pen Pavilion on the Fifteenth Night of the August Moon"

On the fifteenth night of the August Moon in the past, I was at the Apricot Garden by the Qujiang Pond.

This year, on the 15th night of the 8th month, in front of the water pavilion at the head of Penpu Shatou.

The first night of August 15 was in front of the water pavilion in Shatou, Penpu.

Yesterday, the wind blew no one would, tonight the light is like the past years.

[Tang] Pi Rixiu, "The Night of August 15 at Tianzhu Temple"

Jade balls are under the moon wheel, in front of the temple to pick up the dew new.

I don't know what happened in the sky, but it was Chang'e who threw it to the people.

[Song] Su Shi, "Mid-Autumn Moon and Ziyou"

The moon is not yet high in the mountains, and its light is a thousand feet high.

The cup of wine is not yet finished, and the clouds are as bad as the waves.

Who washes the eyes of the God of Heaven?

The first thing I did was to look at the people in the world and see if they could help me.

The star of the Southwest is like a ball, and the dragon's tail is in the corner.

This night, I can't see it with my eyes, so I'll let the fireflies fight it out.

The first time I saw this was when I was a kid in a boat, and the second time I saw it was when I was a kid in a boat.

The first time I saw a boat in the city was when I was in the middle of the night, and the second time I saw a boat in the city was when I was in the middle of the night.

The first time I saw the movie, I saw the movie, but I didn't know what to expect.

The bright moon is easy to be low, but it is easy to be separated.

The color of the moon in front of the hall is more and more clear, and the sound of the dew grass is cold.

The curtains are rolled up and the door is silent, and under the window there is only the old man.

The first time I saw this movie, I was in the middle of a poem, and the second time I saw it, I was in the middle of a poem, and the third time I was in the middle of a poem.

The people of tomorrow will follow the sunrise, and it will be a dream of Yao Tai's guests.

[Song] Mi Fu, "Mid-Autumn Moonrise"

The eye is as full as silver in the Huaihai Sea, and the rainbow light of ten thousand channels is a clam.

If there is no repair of the moon in the sky, the osmanthus branch is damaged to the west wheel

[Edit Paragraph]Winter Solstice

Time: the seventh day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar

In ancient China, the winter solstice is attached great importance to the winter solstice is regarded as a larger festival, there was a "solstice is as big as the year," the saying, and there is a winter solstice to celebrate the custom. Customs. The book of Han said: "winter solstice yang qi start, the king road long, so congratulations." People think: after the winter solstice, the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rise, is the beginning of a cycle of festivals, is also an auspicious day, should be celebrated. The Book of Jin" on the record "Wei Jin winter solstice day by all the countries and bureaucrats to congratulate ...... its instrument subdivided into the first day." This shows the importance of the winter solstice in ancient times.

Customs

In northern China, there is the winter solstice slaughter sheep, eat dumplings, eat wontons custom, the southern region in this day there is to eat the winter solstice rice balls, the winter solstice long noodle habit. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice in all regions.

[Edit Paragraph]Lapa Festival

Time: the eighth day of the lunar month

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In ancient times, the December sacrifice to the "gods" is called Lapa, so the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is called Lapa. On the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar calendar, the old custom is to drink Laha congee. Legend has it that Siddhartha Gautama attained Buddhahood on this day, so monasteries cook congee for Buddha every day, and then folk custom until today.