Excuse me, what festival is the third day of the third lunar month in 2008?

The fourth day of the first day of the third lunar month is the traditional Shangsi Festival, and it is also a day of infancy, that is, spring bath day. Shangsi Festival, like Flower Festival, is gradually being forgotten and ignored by people.

Shangsi refers to the first day of the third lunar month. The custom of thinking about spring bath originated from the waterfront of the Zhou Dynasty, and was later presided over by the court, which specially assigned witches to take charge of it and became an official festival. In the Han Dynasty, Shangsi was designated as a festival, and after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the third day of March was designated as the Spring Festival, which was one of the important festivals at that time. Shangsi Day is a festival to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. The main contents are: getting rid of diseases and purifying body and mind. Hair: Trim and clean. Bathing: All swaddling clothes are finished by washing, so bathing has become the main content of swaddling clothes. At that time, not only the folk people bathed in the water, but also the emperors and queens in the court rushed to bathe in the water, forming a scene of "self-purification on the east running water".

An anecdote of "Qushui Flowing" also evolved from Shangsi Festival. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the literati were in infancy, they also held waterfront banquets, talked about writing and drank for fun. When drinking, put the glass in running water, and the glass will follow the water. Before anyone, you should drink and recite poems. This activity was recorded as "Qushui" in Preface to Lanting Collection by the famous calligrapher and writer Wang Xizhi. Qushui activities also spread as far as Japan, forming a Qushui banquet and welcome ceremony in Japan. Shangsi Festival is also a day for ancient emperors to evoke spirits. It is the custom of Zheng to hold a memorial ceremony in Qinshui on the last day.

As can be seen from the above, Shangsi Festival is a reading festival and calligraphy art festival in China.

Apart from Shangsi Festival, March 3rd is the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West. This theory originated in Taoist legend. On this day every year, immortals from all walks of life will present gifts to Yaochi to celebrate their birthdays, and the famous "Ma Gu Shou Li" came into being.

Shangsi Festival is still a festival for people. Everyone's Day is also a traditional festival. According to legend, Nu Wa created seven kinds of animals in seven days, arranged as follows: the first day is chicken day, the second day is dog day, the third day is sheep day, the fourth day is pig day, the fifth day is cow day, the sixth day is horse day, and the seventh day is human day. According to the arrangement of heavenly stems and earthly branches of A, B, C, D and Tatsumi at noon, the seventh day is earthly branches, so earthly branches are a day for people, so Shangsi Festival is also a day for people. In commemoration of People's Day, we should eat "Qibao Soup" and "Smoked Heaven". "Qibao soup" is a dish made of seven kinds of vegetables, while "Xuntian" is a pancake made in the open air. In addition, colorful silk fabrics need to be cut into human figures or carved into human figures with gold foil and hung on screen curtains for good luck.