The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also called the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country. The Spring Festival has a long history. It originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month was called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, etc. in ancient times. It was commonly known as the first day of the new year. During the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was switched to the Gregorian calendar. January 1st of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day. The first day of the lunar calendar was called New Year's Day. The first day of the month is called the Spring Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month: Lantern Festival
(also known as the "Shangyuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is an important traditional festival in our country. In ancient books, this One day is called "Shangyuan", and its night is called "Yuan Night", "Luanxi Festival" or "Yuanxiao". The name of Lantern Festival has been used to this day. Because of the custom of setting up lanterns and watching lanterns, it is also known as "Yuanxiao" among the people. "Lantern Festival". In addition, there are customs such as eating Lantern Festival, walking on stilts, and guessing lantern riddles. Our ancient calendar is closely related to the moon phases. On the fifteenth day of every month, people usher in the first full moon night of the year. This The day is naturally regarded as an auspicious day. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was used as a day to worship the emperor and pray for blessings. Later, the ancients called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month "Shangyuan" and the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month "Zhongyuan". The fifteenth day of the 10th month was called "Xia Yuan". At the latest in the early Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Three Yuan Festival was the day when great ceremonies were held. Later, the celebrations of the Zhong Yuan and Xi Yuan were gradually abolished. And Shangyuan endures for a long time.)
April 5th: Qingming Festival
(Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important festival for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as grave-sweeping, an activity to worship the deceased. According to the old custom, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery to offer food to them. In front of the tomb of a loved one, the paper money is burned, the tomb is covered with new soil, a few green branches are broken and inserted on the tomb, then the head is kowtowed to worship, and finally the family eats wine and goes home. The poem "Qingming" by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and people on the road are dying. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village." It describes the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month: Dragon Boat Festival
p>(The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the "Dragon Boat Festival". The original name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Duanwu", and "Duanwu" means the beginning. "Five" and "Wu" are homophones for each other and are common. It is an ancient festival in my country. Festival. Qu Yuan, the earliest patriotic poet in ancient my country
After being slandered and exiled, he witnessed the increasingly corrupt politics of Chu State, was unable to realize his political ideals, and was unable to save the dying motherland, so he threw himself into the Miluo River to die for his country. After that, in order to prevent the fish and shrimp from eating the corpses, people kneaded glutinous rice and flour into various shapes and threw them into the middle of the river. This became the origin of the custom of eating rice dumplings and fried cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has spread to foreign countries. . )
The 15th day of the eighth lunar month: Mid-Autumn Festival
(The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is in the middle of autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". At night, the moon is full. Cinnamon is regarded by the old people as a symbol of reunion. It is a festival to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. According to legend, in the late Yuan Dynasty, the people wanted to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty. They wrote the date of the uprising on a piece of paper and put it in the stuffing of moon cakes so that they could secretly pass it on to each other, calling on everyone to revolt on August 15th. Finally, on this day, a nationwide peasant uprising was overthrown. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread more widely. )
The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar: Double Ninth Festival
(The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient my country, nine was the yang, and September 9th was the lunar month and yang day, so it was called "Double Ninth Festival". ". According to legend, Huan Ying, a native of Runan during the Eastern Han Dynasty, heard Fei Changfang tell him that there would be a great disaster in Runan on September 9th. He quickly asked his family to sew a small generation, filled it with dogwood, tied it to his arm, and boarded it. On this day, Huan Jing's family climbed mountains and went home at night. Sure enough, all the chickens, dogs and sheep in the family died. From then on, people began to make dogwood substitutes, drink chrysanthemum wine and hold temple fairs on the Double Ninth Festival. , climbing and other customs. Because the sound of "gao" and "cake" are the same, there is also the custom of eating "Double Ninth Cake" on the Double Ninth Festival. The poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th": "Being Alone." "We are strangers in a foreign land, and we miss our loved ones even more during the festive season. I know my brothers are climbing high, and there is only one missing person planted everywhere." This poem records the customs and habits of that time. Because of the sincerity of the poem, it is still popular today.
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