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About the legends of traditional Chinese festivals, urgent urgent urgent ！！！！！ (Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival, Tanabata Festival, Dragon Boat Festival do not) The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the New Year, generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, in folklore, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year Festival from the Lunar New Year's Eve or the Lunar New Year's 23rd or 24th sacrificial stoves, until the 15th day of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar are the culmination. The Spring Festival has a long history, originating from the sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year during the Yin and Shang dynasties. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many of China's ethnic minorities hold a variety of activities to celebrate the event. These activities all focus on worshipping the gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune and praying for a good year. The activities are colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.

Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Danyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, the essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus ` Artemisia absinthium, moxa leaves, lavender Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat races, is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation had the Dragon Boat Festival named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, moxa leaves, fumigate Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to avoid evil spirits. The "Chinese Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List. A large number of poems, lyrics, songs and fugues have been passed down through the ages.

1. Chang'e to the moon

Legend, in ancient times, the sky has ten days at the same time, sunburned crops withered, the people do not want to live, a hero named Houyi, great strength, he sympathized with the suffering people, climbed to the top of the Kunlun Mountains, transported enough power, pull open the bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and strictly ordered the last sun rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people.

One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit friends and seek Taoism, and coincidentally met the Queen Mother who passed by, so he asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that by taking this medicine, one could instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not leave his wife behind, so he temporarily gave the immortality pill to Chang'e to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in the treasure box of the dresser, but was unexpectedly seen by the villain Peng Meng, who wanted to steal the medicine to become immortal himself.

Three days later, Houyi led a group of disciples to go out hunting, and Peng Meng pretended to be sick and stayed behind. Shortly after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the house with a sword in his hand and forced Chang E to hand over the immortality pill. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, and in a moment of crisis, she made a snap decision, turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang'e swallowed the medicine, her body immediately floated away from the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew to the sky. Because Chang'e attached to her husband, they flew down to the closest to the earth on the moon became immortal.

In the evening, Hou Yi returned home, and his maids cried about what happened during the day. Houyi both shocked and angry, drew the sword to kill the villains, Peng Meng early escape, Houyi angry chest thumping, grief, looking up at the night sky calling his wife's name, then he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright, and there is a swaying figure resembles Chang'e. He desperately chased towards the moon, and the moon is the closest to the earth. He desperately chased after the moon, but he chased three steps, the moon back three steps, he retreated three steps, the moon into three steps, no matter how can not catch up with the front.

Hou Yi had no choice but to send someone to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on her favorite fruit and honey, and sacrificed to Chang'e, who was fond of her in the Moon Palace. When the people heard the news of Chang'e's journey to the moon, they all set up incense under the moon and prayed to the kind Chang'e for good luck and peace.

2. Wu Gang folded the laurel

Legend has it that the laurel tree in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon grows luxuriantly, with a height of more than 500 zhang, and there is a man underneath who often cuts it down, but every time he cuts it down, the cut place immediately closes up again. For thousands of years, it was cut down and closed up in this way, and the laurel tree could never be cut down. It is said that the man who chopped down the tree was named Wu Gang, a man from Xihe in Han Dynasty, who had followed the immortals to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace, where he was punished by doing this kind of futile and hard work day after day. Li Bai's poem, "I want to carve the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for the cold".

3. Zhu Yuanzhang and moon cake uprising

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the people of the Central Plains could not bear the cruelty of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bowen, the military advisor, came up with a plan to order his subordinates to hide the note with the words "Rise on August 15" inside a cake, and then sent people to send it to the rebel armies around the world, informing them that they would rise on the night of August 15 to respond to the revolt. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire.

Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital and the uprising was successful. The news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an order, in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, so that all the generals and soldiers with the people to have fun, and will be the year when the army to secretly transmit information "moon cake", as a festival pastry reward for the ministers. Since then, the "moon cake" production more and more fine, more varieties, as large as a disk, become a gift of goodies. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating moon cakes will be spread in folklore.