Beautiful festival
Text/Wang Lanfang
Today, on the sixteenth day of the first month, the real sense of the year is over. At the entrance of the hospital, there is an endless stream of patients, there are more cars on the street, and various shops are busy again. The year is like a tidal wave, after which it returns to calm.
The days pass quietly in such a year-by-year prayer, and we also grow and mature in this year-by-year expectation and even pass away. The costumes of the festival are still there, the joy of the festival is still there, walking on the side of the road, I think, it is precisely because of such festivals that our lives have temperature and color.
"Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms." The Chinese New Year's Eve written by the ancients is the same as ours. Look, the big red lanterns Chinese New Year's Eve hung high, the big red couplets were pasted high, and the colorful window flowers were happily pasted on the windows. Listen, Chinese New Year's Eve family reunion to eat reunion dumplings laughter, listen to Oh, melon seeds eat New Year goods to see the Spring Festival Gala to report the noisy and festive sound of the year's life, good New Year's Chinese New Year's Eve night, the family should guard the New Year together, New Year's Eve!
"Firecrackers are one year old, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su." You see, the new clothes on the first day of the Chinese New Year are beautiful to wear, the good wishes are happy to ask, and the beautiful smile blooms out sweetly. Everyone visited relatives and friends, greeted each other, greeted each other, blessed each other, and prayed to each other. After a year of hard work, I will wear new clothes for this day and go to the New Year!
"The east wind blooms a thousand trees at night, and blows down the stars like rain." The Lantern Festival in Xin's eyes is as lively as we are now, or even more so. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival began to make a fuss: playing with dragon lanterns, teasing lion dances, stepping on stilts, twisting straw songs, guessing lantern riddles, worshiping the community fire, singing big dramas, and people who prayed for the end of the New Year began to rejoice, praying for the blessings and fortunes of the new year, and also celebrating the end of the New Year's Festival with joy and joy, and embarking on the starting point of the struggle of the new year.
Grass warblers fly on February days, and February two comes. February 2 is known as the Dragon Head Festival, also known as the Spring Ploughing Festival, Agricultural Affairs Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, which is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Pray for peace and a good harvest with various dragon-related folk activities. "Dragon" refers to the seven stars of the Eastern Dragon in the Twenty-Eight Houses, and at the beginning of the mid-spring moon, the "Dragon Horn Star" appears from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it is called "Dragon Head". Legend has it that the dragon can spread rain in the clouds, eliminate disasters and send blessings, symbolizing auspiciousness, and people celebrate on the day of "the dragon rising" in mid-spring to show the blessing of the dragon, the smooth wind and rain, and the abundance of grain.
Spring breeze ten miles, good wind and smooth. In such a beautiful season, the Shangwei Festival is coming. According to records, the Shangwei Festival is commonly known as March 3, Spring Bath Day, and Daughter's Day. It is a traditional festival of the Han people, and before the Han Dynasty, it was set as the day of the first month of March, which was called "Shangwei". "Shangmi" "Zhou Li": "When I was young, I was removed, and now in March, I am on the water and so on." After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the festival period of the Shangwei Festival was changed to the third day of the third month of the third month of the lunar calendar, so it was also called "Heavy Three" or "March Three". Therefore, in ancient times, the activity of "removing the bath" became the most important festival, which originated from the sorcery activity of Lan Tang to ward off evil spirits, and the use of Lan Tang to drive away evil spirits. Orchids are used as spiritual objects, with the characteristics of the aromatic, the ancients must first fast before holding a major ritual to worship the gods, including the best bathing method of the time, "lantang bath". People go to the water's edge to bathe together, called "Qi Zen", and since then, they have added content such as sacrificial feasts, meandering water flowing, and spring tours in the suburbs. I think that at that time, Wang Xizhi and they were celebrating this day: the group of sages and sages, flowing and bending the water, leaning over and leaning down, all of them narrated their feelings, so there was the recitation of the ancient and modern "Orchid Pavilion Collection Sequence".
The sky is clear, and the willows are yiyi. So the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival came together. The day before the Qingming Festival is the Cold Food Festival. The simple and loyal ancients, on this day, every household did not move fireworks, in order to commemorate the Mianshan being burned to death by Ning and not out of the mountain.
After that, April 4 or 5, it is Qingming Festival. Qi Qing Jing Ming, called Qingming. Everything is revealed, the old is new, full of life, and the cuckoos fly, which is the scene of the Qingming Festival. It is not only a natural festival point, but also a traditional festival, Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is the unity of heaven, time, place, and people. Qingming Festival is also known as The Qingqing Festival, the Xingqing Festival, the Ancestor Worship Festival, etc. Cautiously pursuing the distant future, honoring the ancestors, and carrying forward filial piety are the grand and grand cultural and traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Of course, you can also go to the green, fly kites, swing, in this most beautiful April day in the world, you can go to close contact with nature, express the reverence and love for nature.
"The colored threads are gently wrapped around the red jade arms, and the small charms are hanging obliquely on the green cloud hyena." Beauty has been seeing each other for a thousand years. Su Shi used such verses to express the feelings of the Dragon Boat Festival. In may, people eat rice dumplings and race dragon boats, in this way to pay tribute to the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. At the same time, it also expresses reverence for nature. The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, prayer for blessings and ward off evil spirits, celebration and entertainment, and food, and the Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of natural celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon sacrifice in ancient times. In the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Seven Houses of the Dragon soared to the center of the south, and the I Ching nine five: "The flying dragon is in the sky". The ancients worshipped the dragon ancestors on the auspicious day of "flying dragon in the sky", and held some festive activities, especially the activity elements corresponding to the dragon, or used this auspicious day to do some blessings and activities to ward off evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival" is the "dragon festival", dragon and dragon boat culture runs through the historical inheritance of the Dragon Boat Festival, the customs mainly include dragon boating, dragon sacrifice, picking herbs, hanging wormwood, playing noon water, washing herbal water, worshiping the gods and ancestors, soaking dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating rice dumplings, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying five-colored silk threads, wearing sachets and so on. These festivals revolve around the form of dragon sacrifice, blessing, disaster and so on, and pinned on people's wishes to welcome good fortune and ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.
"The upper realm is pure in autumn, and the night in zhongyuan is clear", the ancient Yin Yaofan also had his own feelings in the Zhongyuan Festival. Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist name, commonly known as the half of July, the fourteenth of July, and the festival of ancestor worship, and Buddhism is called the Obon Festival. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, ghosts, paper ingots, and land sacrifices. Its birth can be traced back to the ancestral worship of ancient times and related time sacrifices. July is the auspicious month, filial piety month, july and a half is the folk early autumn to celebrate the harvest, reward the earth festival, there are a number of crops ripe, the folk custom to worship the ancestors, with new rice and other sacrifices, to report to the ancestors autumn. The festival is a cultural and traditional festival that remembers the ancestors, and its cultural core is to honor the ancestors and fulfill filial piety.
"I hope that people will be long-lasting, and they will be cherished together for thousands of miles." This ancient song expresses the good wishes of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Worship Festival, the Moonlight Birthday, the Moon Eve, etc., is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as moon festival, moon viewing, eating moon cakes, playing with flower lanterns, viewing osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been circulated and endured for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the reunion of the people with the full moon, in order to miss the hometown, miss the love of relatives, and pray for a good harvest and happiness.
"Stay until the day of Chongyang, and come back to the chrysanthemum", this agreement makes us feel that in the golden autumn of September, this is a romantic date. Chongyang Festival, the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month every year, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The number "nine" is a yang number in the I Ching, and the two yang numbers of "nine nine" are heavy, so it is called "heavy yang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, it is also called "heavy nine". Nine nine return to the truth, the beginning of the yuan, the ancients believed that the nine nine yang is an auspicious day. In ancient times, folk worship on the Chongyang Festival had customs such as ascending to the heights to pray for blessings, worshiping gods and ancestors, and drinking and feasting on chrysanthemums to pray for longevity. In ancient times, there were activities to hold harvest sacrifices and ancestor worship in autumn; the ancients worshipped the heavenly emperor and ancestors at the time of the harvest of crops in September, and the activities of Thanking the Heavenly Emperor and Ancestor Ende, which was the original form of the Chongyang Festival as an autumn harvest sacrifice activity. Since its inheritance, it has added connotations such as respect for the elderly. Ascending to the heights to appreciate autumn and gratitude and respect for the elderly are the two important themes of today's Chongyang festival activities.
"This festival has never been about me, and this year I will break my heart." Looking northwest on the cross street, three more dew dream soul invasion. Star because of the shuo qi cold tree, the child sent cotton clothes and feathers. When the paper money is removed, it should be two strings", this is a poem about the Winter Cloth Festival that expresses the deep remembrance of the deceased loved ones. The Winter Clothing Festival, also known as the "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Worship Festival", "Hades Festival" and "Autumn Festival", is a traditional Chinese festival of sacrifice, on which people will offer sweeping and burning sacrifices to commemorate the relatives of the immortals, known as sending cold clothes. The Winter Clothing Festival originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and the "Book of Poetry • Fengfeng • July" records that "in July, the fire flows, and the clothes are given in September", which means that the weather gradually becomes cooler in september of the lunar calendar, and people also begin to buy cold clothes for the winter, so the winter clothing festival is also known as the "Clothing Festival". Since October had just entered winter and September was given clothes prematurely, this custom was moved to October Shuo Day during the Song Dynasty. The first day of october in the lunar calendar is the first day after entering the cold winter, and in ancient times, there were customs such as giving clothes, sacrifices, and opening furnaces to remind people that winter was coming. On this day, the women will take out cotton clothes and give them to their relatives who are fighting in the distance and serving in the army, and while sending winter clothes to their relatives, they will gradually develop into ancestors and the deceased to send winter winter clothes.
"Do not provide porridge for the master, argue that Lapa is the present", this is the Song Dynasty poet Zhao Wannian saw the lapa porridge growing in the gap between the life and death of the anti-Hu people. The Eighth Festival, the eighth day of the first month of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, is also known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival", "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", "Enlightenment Meeting" and so on. Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Buddha Shakyamuni, it has gradually become a folk festival. Every Lapa Festival, the northern region is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Lapa Eight Garlic, and eating Lapa Eight Porridge. Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures Five Flavor Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone Rice", etc., is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients. The earliest written record of Laba porridge was recorded in the Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Record of Dream Liang" says: "On the eighth day of this month, the monastery is called Lapa Eight. Temples such as dacha have five-flavor porridge, known as Lapa Eight Congee. "The history of drinking Laba porridge on the mainland has been more than a thousand years. Every time on the day of Lapa Ba, whether it is the imperial court, the monastery or the homes of the people of Li Min, they must make Lapa Porridge. In the north of the mainland, there is a saying that "children and children, don't be hungry, after the lap eight is the year", passing the lap eight means opening the prelude to the New Year. In the south, Lapa Is rarely mentioned, and The Lapa Festival is a typical northern festival.
"Yan Shuo is poor, Jiangnan worships the little year", this is the human scene that Wen Tianxiang saw at the end of his life. Xiaonian, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as the "Jiaonian Festival", is also known as the "Vesta Festival" and "Sacrifice Stove Festival". Because the main activity of the small year, the festival stove, is carried out at night, it is also called "small Chinese New Year's Eve" and "small new year night". The Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Ding's "Four People's Moon Order" says: "La's tomorrow is renewed, called the young age, into the wine of the elders, XiuHe Junshi." "The Little Year is also a day of family reunion, family feasts, firecrackers, and its activities are similar to the New Year, but do not go out to pay homage." Since the Song Dynasty, the worship of vesta has gradually become the main activity of the New Year. The small year is regarded as the beginning of a "busy year". Due to the different customs of different places, the days called "Small Year" are also different, and most regions regard the 23rd or 24th day of the Waxing Moon as the "Small Year".
In one festival after another, the time of year flies by. In each festival, our simple ancestors expressed their reverence for the ancestors of the gods of heaven and earth and their hope for happiness and beauty. Every festival is a ritual, a worship, or a prayer for the future. In these festivals, there are this rainbow of colors, even including black and white, they use colors to express their mood, express the emotions between people and nature and between people. Because of such a festival, our days are not boring and dry, but have become warm, colorful and energetic. At that time, the material was not rich, but their spirit was rich and full.
Writing here, a sense of pride and pride arises spontaneously, our culture has a warm temperature, with colorful colors, which is the vitality of our Chinese culture! The river of our culture flows slowly in this way, and with the inheritance of our Chinese descendants from generation to generation, our culture or civilization can be passed down for a long time and be passed down to future generations, our festivals can be so vivid and vibrant, and our ordinary days can be so beautiful, warm and full of vitality!
About the Author:
Wang Lanfang, formerly known as Wang Jie, the net name Xia Ri Qinghe. Teacher, national second-level psychological counselor, member of Hebei Psychological Society. Walking in the color of fireworks, there is always poetry and a woman in the distance in her heart.