Drinking Huanhuan wine and eating Huanhuan eggs are the customs of the Shangsi Festival.
Shangsi Festival is a festival in ancient times when ancestors prayed for children. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was fixed on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. During the Shangsi Festival, people have to hold many activities, such as offering sacrifices to the God of Gaozi, taking baths to eliminate disasters, planting willows and wearing willows, picking shepherd's purse flowers, outing, calling and reviving souls, floating eggs in the meandering water, cups in the meandering water, etc. The most interesting ones are the meandering water-floating egg and meandering water cup, which are very similar to modern conveyor belt sushi and conveyor hot pot.
During the Shangsi Festival, people first boil eggs, duck eggs, etc., paint them with various colors, and then put them in the water and let them flow down the river. People wait by the curved stream, and the eggs Whoever the duck eggs fall to can pick them up and eat them. The custom of floating eggs in Qushui originated from an ancient myth.
It is said that the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty people was named Qi, and Qi’s mother was named Jian Di. When Jian Di was bathing in the water, she saw a swallow-like bird that dropped an egg, which she swallowed. After fertilizing the egg, she became pregnant and gave birth to Qi.
This myth of egg-laying is a reflection of a certain totem concept of the ancients. Because the human embryo is very similar to the egg shell of a bird, with an oval shape, and the appearance of a human being emerging from the womb is very similar to that of a bird breaking out of its shell. Therefore, people regard female pregnancy as the result of swallowing eggs, so the eggs become It is a magical thing, and people believe that whoever gets the egg will be more likely to give birth to a child.
Under the control of this cognition, the custom of floating plain eggs in Qushui came into being. Later, the custom of floating jujubes on Qushui came into being, because "zao" and "zao" are homophonic, reflecting people's desire to have children as soon as possible. Summary:
The meandering water cup is placed in a curved river, with a cup containing wine, so that the wine cup floats on the water and flows along the river. People stay at one place in the curved river. , when the wine glass drifts to his eyes, he takes it out and drinks it.
It is said that the custom of drinking water cups from the winding stream originated from Zhou Gongdan, an important minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty. When Duke Zhou celebrated the founding of Luoyi, the eastern capital of the Zhou Dynasty, he used a meandering water cup to celebrate it. This custom has lasted for thousands of years.
Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, mentioned in the "Preface to the Collection of Orchid Pavilion" that people diverted the clear stream from Orchid Pavilion to serve as a meandering stream. In today's Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and Tanzhe Temple, you can still see buildings used to curve water bottles.