What does June 6th mean?
June 6th is a traditional festival for the Han nationality and other ethnic minorities. Due to different living areas, the dates of festivals are not uniform. Han and some Buyi areas celebrate this festival on June 6th, which is called June 6th.
June 6th is the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. It is an old custom to wash clothes on June 6th. It is said that clothes and books can explode without moths. Farmers say it is necessary to avoid the northwest wind in rainy days, which dominates rice and chaff in batches.
The folk custom declared by Chengbu Miao Autonomous County in Shaoyang City (June 6th Folk Song Art Festival) was included in the list of the fifth batch of provincial-level intangible cultural heritage representative projects published by Hunan Provincial People's Government on February 30th, 2002165438.
Dragon Boat Festival
In Huyang Town, dangtu county, Maanshan City, Anhui Province, the Dragon Boat Festival is held every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. Different from other places, the Dragon Boat Festival in Huyang is to commemorate the birthday of Dayu, the hero of water control, and to sacrifice to the Dragon King, much earlier than Qu Yuan.
In Huyang, there is a saying that "the head falls in June". The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the flood season, and it rises rapidly when it meets the upstream discharge. The water level will drop in June, which is also called "gap". The most dangerous flood period this year has passed. June 6th is the birthday of Dayu, the hero of water control. In order to thank the Dragon King and Dayu for their protection, I pray for a dragon boat festival on June 6th next year.
Washing and drying section
The temperature is three volts. After the summer solstice, it coincides with the solar terms in summer and summer, and the temperature rises, sometimes as high as 40℃, which has exceeded the body temperature of people and animals. Liu Xi of the Han Dynasty said, "Summer heat, cooking it, is as hot as cooking it." Entering a few days, the focus is on the sixth day of June. There is an old saying in Zixing, Hunan Province called "June 6, take a dip and grow a piece of meat", which means that washing and drying on this day brings many benefits. There are many folk customs in Beijing: bathing, drying things, washing elephants, watching valley performances and so on.
On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, people call it "washing and drying festival". Because the weather is sultry at this time, coupled with the rainy season and humid climate, everything is prone to mildew and damage. On this day, from the court to the people, from the town to the farmhouse, there are many customs of bathing and drying things. At that time, ordinary people had no bathing facilities at home, but they were also very clean and hygienic. On every festival or solar term, they must take a bath and clean themselves. Buddhists should burn incense and worship Buddha to purify themselves to show their piety.