Dragon Boat Festival, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival refer to the lunar calendar. What are the customs in my hometown?
Lantern Festival: On the 15th day of the first lunar month, we eat Yuanxiao, enjoy lanterns, have a solve riddles on the lanterns and have a family reunion dinner.
Mid-Autumn Festival: On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, we eat moon cakes, Yue Bai and have a family reunion dinner.
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Origin of Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival and Double Ninth Festival, is said to be the day when Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China and one of the four cultural celebrities in the world, died in Guluo River. For more than two thousand years, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month has become a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. According to historical records, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a doctor and patriotic poet of the State of Chu, was heartbroken and indignant when he learned that Qin Jun had breached the capital of Chu. He resolutely wrote the last poem "Huai Sha" and threw himself into the Miluo River. People along the river are racing to salvage with boats, evoking souls along the water surface and throwing zongzi into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from eating into his body. This custom has lasted for more than two thousand years.
Origin of Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. According to legend, Emperor Wendi (179- 157) celebrated the 15th day of the first month to investigate the Zhu Lu rebellion. Every night, he goes to the palace to play with people. In ancient times, night was the same as night, and the first month was also called January. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, and this night was called Yuanxiao. Sima Qian founded the taichu calendar, which listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. "Sui Shu Music Record" Day: "Every first month, all nations come to the DPRK and live outside the Duanmen Gate, which lasts for eight miles until the 15th." Tens of thousands of people participated in singing and dancing, from faint to dark. With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.
The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival: The word Mid-Autumn Festival was first seen in Zhou Li. In The Book of Rites and the Moon Order, it said: "Mid-autumn moon breeds aging and eats porridge." But it didn't say which day in August.
After the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. Legend has it that Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sleepwalked in the Moon Palace and got colorful feather clothes, and the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail among the people. It is generally believed that the Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang started his army, he secretly sent the news that "the Tatars (Mongols) were killed on August 15th". In the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang presented moon cakes as seasonal cakes to ministers. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mid-Autumn Festival has become a major traditional festival in China. According to the records of Zhengde Jiangning County, Nanjing people must enjoy the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, family reunion is called "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and traveling in the city is called "walking on the moon". Among the legends about the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's story is the most famous. There are several versions of legends circulating among the people. The general content is: According to legend, Hou Yi, an ancient hero who shot at the sun, married Chang 'e and became emperor, but he became more and more violent, repeatedly committed evil politics and became a great tyrant. One day, Hou Yi asked the Queen Mother for a pack of elixirs. As long as he takes the elixir of life, he can live forever. When Chang 'e knew it, she swallowed all the elixirs and saved her whole life from the eternal rule of Hou Yi. Then she became a fairy and flew to the Moon Palace. When people learned that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon had become an immortal, they put an incense table under the moon to pray for peace and good luck to Chang 'e, which gradually formed the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai.
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