The mainland is an ancient civilization with 5,000 years of history, and it is also a multi-ethnic country, so there are many ancient traditional cultural customs and traditional festivals.
In particular, those representative ancient traditional festivals, with the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation, but also the flavor of modern social civilization, are very popular and valued, such as Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other traditional cultural festivals.
In the traditional cultural festivals, there is a festival, which not only makes people very close, but also seems to be unacquainted, and now the vast majority of people are the new generation, and these traditional cultural festivals, seem to understand or not, and every year is passed and confused.
This festival is March 3 "Shangsi Festival", this "Shangsi Festival", now most people do not have a complete understanding, only know that it is a very important traditional festival, only know one and do not know the other, so the connotation of the festival is not well understood, therefore, the average person downplays this festival.
Today is the third day of March, and it is very unfamiliar to ordinary people, and they do not understand, only to hear some educated old people, and the common people in the society to circulate about the "March 3" festival of the piece, so that ordinary people seem to understand whether they understand or not, and it has become a traditional cultural festival that they do not understand.
"Shangsi Festival" in different rural areas, different ethnic groups, have different titles, some people directly call it "March 3rd", some people call it "Heavy Three Festival", "Yuan Si Festival", "Daughter's Festival" or "Spring Bath Day", and so on.
The festival of "March 3rd" is around the Qingming Festival, which is the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar, so the ancients called it "Shangsi Festival" for convenience and unified name.
"Shangsi Festival" in the historical period after the Wei and Jin dynasties, the ancients fixed the time of this festival on the third day of the third lunar month every year, which is an ancient traditional cultural festival of the Chinese nation.
The "Shangsi Festival" was originally a kind of sacrificial activity held at the water's edge, and the ancients called it "Xiuyu", and in the countryside on March 3, people came to the water's edge to burn incense and paper money to worship the ancestors who lost their lives due to water.
And, on this day, people use soaked herb water to bathe, wash off the dirt on the body, maintain the body, remove diseases and insects, and expel plagues and diseases, and get rid of the stubborn diseases of the past year.
There are also people of some nationalities, in order to treat female infertility, this traditional festival is called "Daughter's Day", which is mainly to welcome the resurrection festival of the god of life, and extend a festival of traditional customs for life.
"Shangsi Festival" originated in the Xia and Zhou Dynasties, flourished in the Han and Tang Dynasties, declined in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, until the end of the Qing Dynasty changed to "March 3", the title of "Shangsi" was abolished in modern times, and now most ethnic groups, including most of the Han people, no longer celebrate this festival.
At present, with the progress and development of society, the "Shangsi Festival" is still very popular in a wide area, including China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Japan, South Korea and other countries, and the ethnic groups that have passed the "Shangsi Festival" are, Han, Zhuang, Korean, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Gelao, She and so on.
There are three main contents of the "Shangsi Festival", sacrifice, spring and food.
The "sacrifice" is mainly to burn incense and paper money by the water, put on the "three animals" and fruit delicacies, used to worship the souls of the dead due to water loss, and pray for the water god to bless the peace, eliminate disasters and bring blessings.
"Outing" is because when the spring flowers bloom, people invite each other to go out on this day to go out, enjoy the beautiful scenery of spring, and the gifts of nature, at the same time, people also want to enjoy flowers, flower arrangement, flower planting, willow planting, tree planting, dancing, singing and other entertainment activities that the public likes very much.
"Food" in the Jiangnan region of the mainland, people have the custom of eating boiled eggs with shepherd's cabbage, people think that children can get the protection of the gods to grow up healthily after eating, women eat, the sky is blessed, fertility is vigorous, and people are prosperous.
In the countryside, there is a custom of "March 3rd, Camelina Sailing Pill", "Spring Food Camelina Lai Sailing Elixir", eating Camelina can drive away evil spirits and protect the body, all of which are the evolution of the ancient ancestors' ancestral worship activities in the water.
In addition, in many areas in the countryside, there are stir-fried bacon with spring bamboo shoots, dumplings wrapped with shepherd's cabbage, diced meat with toon sprouts, tofu mixed with tender willow sprouts, fried small fish with shallots, sauerkraut fish, etc., all of which are the delicacies that people must eat in March.
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