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One of the traditional festivals in China-New Year's Eve: December 30th of the lunar calendar.

English: New Year's Eve

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New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve. In addition, the original meaning is "go" and extended to "change" (alternate); The original meaning of the word "evening" is "sunset" and it is extended to "night". Therefore, New Year's Eve means "get rid of the old year here and get a new year tomorrow". "Except" means to get rid of the old cloth and make a new one.

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New Year's Eve originated from the "expulsion" in the pre-Qin period. According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals and Dong Jiji, on the day before the New Year, the ancients used drums to drive away the "ghost of plague" so that there would be no disease or disaster in the coming year. This is the origin of "New Year's Eve" Festival.

Another name

In ancient times, "New Year's Eve" had other names, such as "except night", "except night", "except year" and "except night". Although there are many names, they always mean to send the old to welcome the new and eliminate disasters and diseases. One of the traditional festivals in China-Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month.

English: Spring Festival

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

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The origin of the Spring Festival has a history of about 4000 years in China. This is the most lively and grand traditional festival in China. The ancient Spring Festival refers to the "beginning of spring" season in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar. It was not until the Southern and Northern Dynasties that the Spring Festival was changed to the end of the year, generally referring to the whole spring. At this time, spring returns to the earth and everything is renewed. People regard it as the beginning of a new year. In the early years of the Republic of China after the Revolution of 1911, after the lunar calendar was changed to the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the first month was designated as the Spring Festival. It was not until1September 27th, 949 that the China People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the New Year on the first day of the first month as the "Spring Festival", so many people still call it the Spring Festival.

Related legends

People often call celebrating the Spring Festival "Chinese New Year", but the original meaning of "Year" is fundamentally different from today. It is said that in ancient times, there was one of the fiercest beasts in the world called Nian. It is bigger than a camel. Run faster than the wind and roar louder than thunder. Once out, people eat people, animals are injured, and people's lives are seriously threatened. In order to punish Nian, the gods locked it in the mountains and allowed it to come out only once a year. In the long-term practice, people find that Nian has three fears-fear of red, fear of noise and fear of fire. So, one year on the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, everyone posted red paper at the door, kept beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers, and lit lights all night in the house at night. Take a look at the evening of "Nian", and every family is brightly lit; Hearing this, the sound of shooting was everywhere, scaring it into the village. During the day, it sneaked down the mountain again, only to find that the doors of every household were still red and drums were everywhere, which scared it to turn around and run back. From then on, Nian never came again. It is said that he starved to death in the deep forest. Later, people turned the prevention of "Year" and "Drive Year" into a safe and steady New Year. "Nian" is gone, but the custom of Chinese New Year is still there. Bright red Spring Festival couplets, brilliant lights, crisp firecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.

Applicable area

The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han nationality, but more than a dozen ethnic minorities, such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, have also had the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has its own national characteristics and is more meaningful.

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Stick to the end of this year.

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The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of the valley "year". Hebe: "in the year, the grain is ripe." . During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, the Xia calendar came into being, with the full and short moon as the month, and a year was divided into twelve months. Every month, the day when the moon can't be seen is the new moon, and the first day of the first month is called the beginning of a year, also known as the year. The title of the year began in the Zhou Dynasty and was officially set in the Western Han Dynasty, which continues to this day. However, in ancient times, the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day". Until the victory of the Revolution of 1911 in modern China, in order to conform to the farming season and facilitate statistics, the Nanjing Provisional Government stipulated that the people would use the summer calendar, and institutions, factories, mines, schools and organizations would adopt the solar calendar, with the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day as New Year's Day and the first lunar month 1 day as the Spring Festival.

Relationship between New Year's Day and Spring Festival

1949 On September 27th, New China was founded. At the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, the international use of the Gregorian calendar era was adopted, and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as New Year's Day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar year. The first day of the first lunar month is usually around beginning of spring, so the first day of the first lunar month is designated as the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Lunar New Year.

In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival refers to the La Worship sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. The Spring Festival is a traditional festival, and the Han nationality and most ethnic minorities in China will hold various celebrations, most of which are mainly to offer sacrifices to the gods and buddhas, to worship ancestors, to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and to pray for a bumper harvest. The forms of activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China: the 15th day of the first lunar month.

English: Lantern Festival

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Also known as "Shangyuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is an important traditional festival in China. In ancient books, this day is called Shangyuan, and its night is called Yuanye, Yuanxi or Yuanxiao. The name Yuanxiao has been used ever since.

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Because Lantern Festival has the custom of hanging lanterns and watching lanterns, it is also called Lantern Festival among the people. In addition, there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, walking on stilts and riddles.

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The ancient calendars in China were closely related to the phases of the moon. On the fifteenth day of each month, people will welcome the first full moon night of the year, which is naturally considered as an auspicious day. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month has been regarded as a day of offering sacrifices to gods and praying for blessings. Later, the ancients called the fifteenth day of the first month Shangyuan, the fifteenth day of July Zhongyuan and the fifteenth day of October Xia Yuan. At the latest, in the early Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sanyuan was the day when grand ceremonies were held. Of the three elements, Shangyuan is the most valued. Later, the celebrations in the Central Plains and Xia Yuan were gradually abolished, but Shangyuan was enduring. One of the Traditional Festivals in China —— An Interpretation of Da Chun

The first solar term every year is "beginning of spring", which is usually called "Da Chun".

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Why do you call it that? There is a custom in Chinese history. On this day in early spring every year, people will put on holiday clothes, carry a big paper cow and parade in the street singing and dancing. After the parade, the cows wrapped in paper were carried to the court of the county government, and the county officials personally whipped them three times, which means: spring back to the earth and hurry up farming. Therefore, people call beginning of spring "Da Chun".

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A popular folk song "Spring" in Shanxi: "Spring breeze moves in spring, and spring water flows along the river. Spring people drink spring wine and spring officials whip spring cattle. " It's about the grand occasion of shooting spring cattle. One of the traditional festivals in China-Cold Food Festival: the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

A festival in the old customs, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day (two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day).

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During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, who had been exiled for many years, returned to China and acceded to the throne [that is, Jin Wengong], and all the courtiers who died with him were treated as honorifics, except mesons. Jie Zitui then lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province). When Jin Wengong learned about it, he wanted to raise the bonus. He found Mianshan, but he couldn't find it, so he wanted to burn the mountain and force him out. But meson push couldn't hold on, and as a result, both mother and son were burned to death. Therefore, Jin Wengong stipulates that people are forbidden to cook on the fire and express their condolences with cold food on this day every year. Later, the custom of eating cold food to sweep the grave at the Cold Food Festival was formed. One of the traditional festivals in China-Tomb-Sweeping Day time: the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar (Qingming Day in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar).

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Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking. The poem Qingming written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write about the special atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing, so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

The origin and legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming". Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food. One of the traditional festivals in China-Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

English: Dragon Boat Festival

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The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. The real name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Dragon Boat Festival", which means the beginning. "Five" and "noon" are homophonic and universal. This is an ancient festival in China.

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After being exiled by slanderers, Qu Yuan, the earliest patriotic poet in ancient China, witnessed the increasingly corrupt politics of Chu State and was unable to realize his political ideal and save the endangered motherland, so he threw himself into the river. Since then, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating their bodies, people have kneaded glutinous rice and flour into cakes of various shapes and put them in the heart of the river, which has become the source of eating zongzi and fried cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has spread abroad.

Note: On June 24th, 2005, the Gangneung Ono Festival declared by South Korea was officially recognized by UNESCO as "Human Legends and Intangible Heritage Works". The once heated dispute between China and South China's Dragon Boat Festival "Application for World Heritage" ended in South Korea's victory, leaving people with a series of reflections. However, the people of China and the world must remember that the Dragon Boat Festival belongs to us in China. While sympathizing with the pitiful lack of cultural resources in Korea, we should also reflect: how many excellent cultural traditions should we discard and how many should be left to others to grab? I call on the people and the government to take action to protect China's cultural traditions!

Related poems

May 5 (May)

Qu Shi has sunk to death, and the Chu people can't bear it.

Why not slander, but want to be a dragon?

Hate before death, not after death.

Yuan Xiang Bi Tan Shui wants to see the striker.

Dragon Boat Festival (Zhang Lei)

The race has been deeply saddened for thousands of years, and the loyal soul can return after it has gone.

The country died today, leaving only Li Sao in the world.

This is the Dragon Boat Festival (Beiqiong)

There is always sunshine in the end, and Miluo has nowhere to hang her soul.

Liu Hua should laugh at each other and wake up alone without wine.

Watch the game in the afternoon (Bian Gong)

* * * Horrible dragons are rushing upstream, and I don't know if it is a Mulan boat.

Yun Qi hunted Han Qing, thunder and drums were loud, and Yin Biliu.

Qu Zi's ghost died in ancient times, and the legacy of Chu Township has survived to this day.

In his spare time, Jiang Ting talked loudly, got drunk and was cynical.

Race is forbidden in Chuzhou in the afternoon (Tang Xianzu)

I just got back from a spring outing in Liancheng. I only bought calamus, bamboo leaves and realgar wine. I think I can spend the Dragon Boat Festival.

I know Qu Yuan doesn't like Oujiang River, so why should the people pay tribute to Qu Yuan on such a luxurious Dragon Boat Festival?

Choose one (Chen Zilong) on the 5th, the water will be long in May, and the clouds will remain.

It's hard to find money, some people are gorgeous, and there are several astro boys traveling.

Pearl curtain pillow, lotus pond, harpsichord, kite, boat.

I plan to peek at the foot of the temple in Longjia and pity the head of Haixi in Jiangbei.

Five silk (Tang Chu Chaoyang) spread Chu customs, cut down bamboo and argued with silk.

Deep underwater rest, congratulations to Japan and China.

The quality is excellent, and Ma Biji is beautiful.

Splendid new paragraph, lamb sleeps old poem.

But who recommended Quyuan Temple for the Dragon Boat Festival?

When wine arrives, Miluo is far away.

Giving clothes at the end of the day (Tang Du Fu) Palace clothes are also known as Dragon Boat Festival glory. The fragrant silk is spun into fine kudzu vine, and the soft wind blows as white as new snow.

From the sky, rain and dew are mixed, but in the heat, it is very cool to wear it. The length of the clothes in the palace is all combined with the mind, and I will bear the hospitality of the emperor all my life.

Dragon Boat Festival (Tang) Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer. When the weather is fine, it will become longer.

Salt plum has been used as a tripod and has been sung ever since.

The ancients left traces of things, and the years were long.

When Xuan knows that there are many flowers and flowers, he has a faint scent of water.

Living together for trillions of years, the princes are immortal.

Loyalty, if not replaced, will make Fang Kun come from behind.

Poetry of Crossing the River (Don Zhao Lu)

Xi Shi looked at the engine in front of the inn and thought about the Dragon Boat Festival for a long time.

When encouraged, the thunder is weak and the snow is smaller than the animal's head.

The rushing waves highlight people's attention, and the jumping waves compete for the birds to fly back.

Kong Lung didn't believe me, so he won the championship.

Lu You in Mao Yi's Five Poems (Southern Song Dynasty)

Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the red pomegranate flowers are full of mountain villages.

The poet ate two dumplings, and the executive was on the mugwort.

I'm still busy taking medicine and prescriptions, trying to get sick safely this year.

After this, it was time for the sun to set, and the family was ready to eat and drink. He drank the wine happily.

Qilv Dragon Boat Festival (Laoshe)

The Dragon Boat Festival is full of storms, and the children in the village are still wearing old clothes;

Invited to bring a hat, dare to love the thatched cottage for the mud;

Guests who are related by flesh and blood and have no money to buy wine for sale;

At that time, the fish was three feet, not as delicious as the beans today.

Huanxisha (Su Songshi)

The faint sweat slightly penetrated the million. Bathing vanilla at Dragon Boat Festival in Ming Dynasty.

Qingchuan is full of fragrance. Colored threads are gently wrapped around the red jade arm,

Fu Xiao hung Lv Yun Huan obliquely. Beautiful women meet for a thousand years.

Bodhisattva Man (Yu Yi of Song Chen)

The corn in the bag is divided into four corners. Cut the colored silk and thread it through the velvet rope. Acorus calamus is red at the beginning of May every year. The master is kind and upright. I like this scene. When are you going to play in Shanjia? Artemisia annua has three or four flowers.

Fisherman Ao (Song Ouyang Xiu) is enchanting in May. The green poplars drooped because of the rain. Five-color new silk package jiaozi. Gold plate delivery. Give birth to a model, give birth to a twin phoenix. It's time to bathe the orchids. Acorus calamus wine is beautiful and clear Huang Li in the leaves occasionally gets it. Yusong was too careless and broke the dream of the screen window.

Dragon Boat Festival (Wen Xiu)

Who speaks for the Dragon Boat Festival? It was rumored a long time ago that Qu Yuan.

I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight. One of the traditional festivals in China-Tanabata time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

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The evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called "Qixi". China folk legend Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet at Tianhe Bridge tonight. The so-called cleverness is to thread a needle through Vega with colored thread in the moonlight. It would be a "coincidence" if you could pass through seven pinholes of different sizes. The agricultural proverb goes: "On the seventh day of July, it is clear, and the sickle is used to cut rice." It's time to sharpen the sickle and get ready to harvest the early rice.

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Women wear needles and weave girls on Tanabata night. Interpretation of Double Ninth Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China

Double Ninth Festival is also called Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, nine were Yang and six were Yin. Double Ninth Festival is called Double Ninth Festival.

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The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in China. It is also a festival to respect the elderly in China. 1989, China designated September 9th as the festival for the elderly, which skillfully combined tradition with modernity and became a festival to respect, love and help the elderly.

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Every time I go to Chongyang, people will think of Wang Wei's "Being in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season." I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. "This poem. Since ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival has been a day when people respect the old and love the young, miss their parents and long for reunion.

Note: There is also a saying in history that the 13th day of the seventh lunar month is the Day of Respect for the Elderly. But it was modified in 1989. One of the traditional festivals in China-Mid-Autumn Festival: July 15.

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On the fifteenth day of the first month, Han people call it Shangyuan Festival to celebrate Yuanxiao, which has existed since ancient times.

On July 15, the Han people called the Mid-Autumn Festival a festival to worship ancestors.

1October15th, the Han people call it the next yuan festival, which is a cold food to commemorate the sages.

It is a traditional folk custom of the Han nationality to light river lanterns and pray for blessings by Taoist priests in the Mid-Autumn Festival. July 15th in the old calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, just like Shangyuan Festival on the 15th of the first month and Xiayuan Festival on October 15th.

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Mid-Autumn Festival is a Taoist festival. Taoism believes that "Sanyuan" is another name for "Three Officials". Shangyuan Festival, also known as Shangyuan Tianguan Festival, is the birthday of Emperor Wei Zi blessed by Shangyuan. The Mid-Yuan Festival, also known as the Mid-Yuan Festival, is the birthday of Qing Xu, an official who pardoned evil in the mid-Yuan Dynasty. The next Yuan Festival, also known as "Xia Yuanshui's joint", is the birthday of Emperor Xia Yuanshui's Guandong Yin. The Taoist Sutra of Three Officials in Taishang says: "Heaven protects the people, local officials forgive sins, and water officials relieve Eritrea", and "all beings are under the control of heaven and earth water officials". On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Taoist temples, such as the Fire Temple in Di 'anmen and the Baiyun Temple outside Xibianmen, routinely hold "Dojo for Good Luck" to pray for "good weather, peace and prosperity".

Buddhists will hold grand bonsai on this day, also called bonsai, bonsai. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were more than 840 temples in Beijing, such as Guangji Temple, Fayuan Temple, Nianhua Temple, Guanghua Temple, Jiaxing Temple and Changchun Temple. Where conditions permit, Yulan Club and Zhongyuan Law Club of different scales are held. Since the Republic of China, Beihai Park, Zhongshan Park Concert Hall and other places have held "memorial ceremonies for fallen soldiers" at this time over the years. Fan (Lama), Tao (Taoist) and Zen (monk) are used to worship the memorial tablet of "soldiers killed in the land, sea and air" for public sacrifice.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, old Beijing will hold activities such as building boats, setting off lotus lanterns, playing lotus lanterns, worshipping ancestors and singing "Yingjing Jing". One of the traditional festivals in China-Mid-Autumn Festival: the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.

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The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is in the middle of autumn, is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the evening, the full moon in Gui Xiang is regarded as a symbol of happy reunion by the old customs. This is a festival to prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food to enjoy the moon. Eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Legend has it that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the broad masses of the people wrote the date of the uprising on a piece of paper, put it in the stuffing of moon cakes, and secretly passed it on to each other, calling on everyone to revolt on August 15. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on this day and overthrew the decadent Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has spread more widely.

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

Related poems

[Tang] Du Fu's "jathyapple August 15th"

The full moon flies in the mirror and returns to the heart to fold the sword.

Turn the tent and travel far, climb the laurel and ascend to heaven.

The waterway is suspected of frost and snow, and the forest is covered with feathers.

At this time, I look forward to the white rabbit, and I want to count the autumnal equinox.

[Tang] Liu Yuxi's "Playing the Moon in Taoyuan on August 15th"

Seeing the moon in the dust is also idle, and love is between the fairy houses in the clear autumn.

Long and cold, standing on the highest mountain at this time.

Blue is nothing but Feng Yun, and Songshan grows in the water.

A group of people are moving leisurely, and Gogoing is thousands of miles away.

Shao Jun led me to the jade altar and invited the real fairy officer to come from afar.

Clouds want to move under the starry sky, and the sky is cold with joy.

Jin Xin gradually moved eastward, and the shadow of the wheel still rose.

It is difficult to get back together when it is absolutely beautiful, and he should be disappointed on this day.

[Tang] Bai Juyi's "Looking at the Moon in the Pavilion on the 15th of August"

On the evening of August 15 last year, next to the apricot garden by Qujiang Pool.

On the night of August 15 this year, in front of Songpu Shatou Water Hall.

Where is the hometown in the northwest and the full moon in the southeast.

Yesterday, the wind blew and no one would meet. Tonight, the light is as clear as usual.

[Tang] Pi Rixiu's "The Devil on August 15th in Tianzhu Temple"

Yu Xing got off the moon wheel and picked up the dew in front of the temple.

So far, the sky doesn't exist, but Chang 'e should be thrown to people.

[Song] Su Shi's Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation and Ziyou'

The bright moon is not higher than the mountain, and the red light is thousands of feet.

A cup of silver is not full, and the clouds are scattered.

Those who wash God's eyes should welcome the water from Fermin River.

Then I will be indifferent to people in the world, just like I am sorry for Zhan Ran.

Mars in the southwest is like a projectile. Its horns and tail are bright and pale.

Not tonight, but even fireflies are fighting for the cold.

Who was rowing yesterday? This is a thousand days and nights.

The twists and turns have no intention of chasing the waves, and they bow their heads to sacrifice with the song board.

Will the waves and wind regain their strength before the green fluorescence disappears and turns to the mountains?

The bright moon is easy to fall and disperse, and it is even more important to see it when you come back.

The clearer the moonlight in front of the hall, the better, and the grass dew in the cold throat.

Shutters push doors silently, while windows are silent and old.

Du Nan is engaged in shame and poverty, and there are several people who write moon poems.

In the Ming dynasty, the personnel were in the same position as the morning glow, and suddenly I dreamed of Yao and Taiwan.

[Song] Mi Fei Mid-Autumn Moon, whose eyes are poor, Huaihai is full of silver, and everything is full of treasures.

If there is no labor in the sky, the osmanthus tree will grow long and break the moon. One of the traditional festivals in China-the winter solstice: the seventh day of November in the lunar calendar.

In ancient China, people attached great importance to the winter solstice and thought it was a grand festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. "Han Shu" said: "The sun shines on the winter solstice, and you are long, so congratulations." People think that after the winter solstice, the days become longer and longer and the sun rises. This is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day, which should be celebrated. The Book of Jin records: "On the winter solstice of Wei and Jin Dynasties, people from all over the world celebrated ... its appearance was not as good as that of Zheng Dan." Explain the ancient emphasis on the winter solstice.

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In the north of China, there is a custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton on the winter solstice, while in the south, there is a custom of eating dumplings and long noodles on the winter solstice. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in winter solstice in various regions. One of the traditional festivals in China-Laba Festival: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

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In ancient times, the sacrifice to "gods" in December was called the twelfth lunar month, so the twelfth lunar month was called the twelfth lunar month. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the old custom is to drink Laba porridge. According to legend, Sakyamuni became a Buddha on this day, so every time the temple cooked porridge for the Buddha on this day, the people followed suit and became a custom, which continues to this day.

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Drink laba porridge

Table of traditional festivals in China

Unless otherwise specified, the following festivals are calculated according to the lunar calendar (also known as summer calendar and lunar calendar):

1, Spring Festival on the first day of the first month, there were more than 30 names in ancient times, such as Yuanri, New Year's Day, Jacky, Chen Yuan, Yuanshuo, Sanyuan, Sanzheng, Zheng Dan and Zhengshuo.

2, the fifth day of the first month, Shen Lu's birthday.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival)

4. The Spring Dragon Festival on February 2nd is also called Dragon Head Raising and Qinglong Festival.

May and February 15 Flower Festival

6. Tomb-Sweeping Day Cold Food Festival the day before.

On the third day of March, the legendary Queen Mother held a flat peach party.

8. Tomb-Sweeping Day on the 15th after the vernal equinox (now April 5th in Gregorian calendar).

9. On the eighth day of April, Buddha's birthday, it is also called the festival of the ox. After that, the cows will go to the fields.

10, Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May

1 1, summer solstice

12, June 6 Sun Fu Festival "June 6, sun red and green." "Auntie's Day" and "June 6th, Please Auntie" are another festivals in ancient times, called Tiangong Festival, and June 6th is also a festival of Buddhist temples, called Fan Jing Festival.

13, July 7th, commonly known as Qixi, July 7th, Beggar's Day.

14, July 15 Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Ghost Festival and Arahara Festival.

15 and July 30th Dizang Festival

16, August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival

17, Double Ninth Festival in September

18, the first day of October and the October dynasty, also known as ancestor worship festival.

19, 10 15 Lunar New Year.

1 1 22nd, winter solstice.

2 1,1February 8th Laba Festival

22. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves is commonly known as "off-year", also known as off-year, off-year and off-year festivals.

23. The last day of the twelfth lunar month is called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, anniversary Festival, etc. People call it New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.

There are several sages' birthdays:

Guandi's birthday: June 24th.

Birthday of Confucius, the most holy teacher: August 27th.

Master Saint was born: March 28th.

Lu Ban's birthday: June 13th (the seventh day of May)

Fuxi's birthday: May 13 (the legendary dragon's birthday)

Yandi Shennong's birthday: April 26th.

Huangdi's birthday: the second day of February.

Zhu Gekongming's birthday: July 23rd.

Mencius' birthday: the second day of April.

Yue Fei's birthday: February 15.

Laozi's birthday: February 15.

Sakyamuni's birthday: the eighth day of April.

Qu Yuan's birthday: the 21st day of the first month.

Sixth ancestor Huineng's birthday: the eighth day of February

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Twenty-three/twenty-four sacrificial stoves in twelfth lunar month

Take a bath on the 27th/28th of the twelfth lunar month.

Lunar New Year's Eve on the 29th.

Sacrifice to the god of wealth on the second day of the first month

On the third day of the first month, the door god paper/millet birthday/off-year dynasty was burned.

The fifth day of the first month, commonly known as the folk custom of breaking five.

On the seventh day of the first month, people are also called "People's Victory Day", "People's Celebration Day", "Population Day" and "People's Seventh Day".

On the eighth day of the first month, the lower bound of the stars along the line is also called "offering stars" and "receiving stars"

On the tenth day of the first month, the stone's birthday "the stone does not move" and "ten does not move" mice marry women.

Attachment 2: Other festivals:

"Semiannual Festival" has the names of June 15, June 14, June 6, June 5, June 1 day!

Guanyin Birthday: February 19, June 19, September 19,1month 19. The belief of Guanyin Bodhisattva has gone beyond the scope of Buddhism. This is a culture and a wish!

March 23rd of the lunar calendar is Mazu's birthday every year!

The first day of July, commonly known as the interest gate.

Bunker Festival: A traditional festival of sacrifice for the Han nationality in China, which falls on the 25th day of the first lunar month. Also known as Tiancang Festival and Tiancang Festival, it is a festival to worship the God of Heaven. Appendix Chinese-English comparison of traditional festivals in China

1. Spring Festival (lunar calendar 1 month 1 day); Chinese New Year

2. Lantern Festival (lunar calendar 1 month 15)

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (April 5) Tom B- Tomb-Sweeping Day

4. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month)

5. Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar)

6. Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month)

7. New Year's Eve (December 30th)