What is the origin of the Harvest Festival?
On June 2nd, 2065438, the State Council issued an official reply on the establishment of "China Farmers Harvest Festival", agreeing to establish the annual Spring Equinox of the Lunar New Year as "China Farmers Harvest Festival" from June 20th, 2065438.
Festival time
The tenth day of the tenth lunar month
South India
Harvest Festival, also called "Pong Festival", is popular in South India around the middle of March in the solar calendar. During the festival, every household should clean up, people should dress up, cook sweet milk and rice porridge to worship the sun god, and then share it with the whole family. Married daughters will go back to their parents' homes for reunion. People also hold cattle worship ceremonies, bathe cows, dye their horns, treat them well, hold cattle parades or hold cattle competitions.
China
Harvest Festival of She Nationality
On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Han people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Reunion Festival, and the She people also call it the Harvest Festival. On this day, every household of She nationality makes glutinous rice cakes to celebrate the harvest and worship their ancestors. Influenced by the Han people after the founding of New China, most of the She people also eat moon cakes like the local Han people. Some elders send moon cakes to their younger generation, while children and son-in-law send cakes, noodles and meat to their parents (in-laws). /kloc-On the evening of 0/5, every household held a dinner party. This custom was still used after the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Traditional harvest festival
In China, the 10th day of the 10th lunar month is a traditional harvest festival with thousands of years' history. Mainly to celebrate a year's harvest, offering sacrifices to the god of harvest "Yan Di Shennong". In China, people think that the Double Tenth Festival of the lunar calendar is a "perfect" auspicious day, and people who get married on this day even think it is a "perfect marriage".
Every harvest festival, children who go out to work at home will come back for the holidays, and married women will also bring their son-in-law and children back for the holidays. Especially if there are elderly people at home, the children will come back for the holidays. Villagers also like to bring friends back for the holidays. Whoever comes back in time has more friends, which proves that this family is the most United, harmonious and popular.
Anyone familiar with agriculture knows that rice is usually planted in two seasons in the south, and early rice matures in July in the solar calendar. Immediately after harvesting, we should plough and transplant rice seedlings, and we must plant late rice seedlings before and after beginning of autumn. Because it takes more than 60 days for rice to mature after transplanting, it is harvested in August and1October. Harvesting, ploughing and transplanting are very busy, so it is called double robbing. After harvesting rice in Gregorian calendar 10 (the best time for harvesting rice is about 65438+ 10.5, and the best time for harvesting rice is about 65438+10/5), the millet should be dried and stored in the granary. Peanuts, corn and other related crops will be harvested in 10. It was not until the tenth day of October in the lunar calendar (November in the solar calendar) that I really began to be at leisure.
Every year on the 10th day of October in the lunar calendar, during the slack season after the autumn harvest, guests naturally come to get together without saying hello, and even strangers passing by can come into the house to attend the banquet. On the morning of the festival, every household in the village cooked more than ten catties of oil and white cakes for the guests, killed chickens and ducks, and fried fish. At noon, wine and meat appeared, and friends and relatives gathered from all directions. People talk about the harvest scene while eating, and everyone is immersed in the joy of harvest. Before leaving, the host also packed a few pieces of oil and white cakes for each guest to take home, so that the family could share the joy of harvest. In the evening, young men and women also sing folk songs and stay up all night, which is very lively.
Farmers' Harvest Festival in China
On June 2, 2065438, the State Council issued an official reply on the establishment of China Farmers' Harvest Festival, and agreed to establish the annual Spring Equinox of the lunar calendar (around September 23 every year) as China Farmers' Harvest Festival from June 20, 2065438. To celebrate the first China Farmers' Harvest Festival, every household in Qiling Village, Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province basked in crops in front of and behind the house, celebrating the harvest with its unique "autumn sun" method.