What festivals were there in the Song Dynasty?

Traditional folk festivals in Song Dynasty include New Year, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba and New Year's Eve. Song people pay more attention to communication in these festivals, generally do not stay at home together, and often travel to the countryside and the capital, especially the whole city. Especially in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival, relatives and friends often take food as gifts to enhance friendship.

In the Song Dynasty, there were some non-traditional festivals, such as the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, which was a hot summer day. People in Lin 'an all went to the West Lake on this day, "enjoying the cool and summer, lingering in willow shadows, ... or singing and drinking, or playing chess or fishing, and the significance of traveling is endless." There are even many people who stay in the middle of the lake until the moon.

The food on this day mainly includes litchi, waxberry, lotus root, melon, Zi Ling, pink and kumquat. Yang Wanli, a great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "Send Lin Wan". "After all, the scenery of the West Lake is different from that at four o'clock in June. The next day, the lotus leaf is infinitely blue, and the lotus color is different. " I wrote this.