[Explanation] On April 3, the first day of the Qingming holiday, flowers are red and willows are green, spring and Jingming are bright.
This day is also the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which is the ancient Shangsi Festival.
Shangsi Festival is a grand festival in ancient times. On this day, people meet together to bathe by the water, girls hold coming-of-age ceremonies, and men and women meet to give peony flowers to make love... According to experts, in ancient times, the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar was " Shang Si".
The Shangsi Festival has been a popular folk festival since ancient times.
[Concurrent] Tang Zhiqiang, Secretary General of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Protection and Inheritance Alliance
The so-called slaughter is the ritual of the ancients to seek blessings from disasters, and take away those things that are considered to be old and filthy.
One of the most famous is orchid soup bath, orchid has the function of cleaning.
There are also floating eggs on the water, jujubes floating on the water, and springs on the Qushui River.
Let the river carry wine glasses to drift down the water, which later became an entertainment activity for literati.
The most famous gathering was the Lanting Repair Conference held on March 3, 9th year of the Yonghe year. The great calligrapher Wang Xizhi and 41 celebrities at that time played a song by the Lanting Stream. After the meeting, the poems were collected into a collection of Lanting. , written by Wang Xizhi, wrote the most prestigious "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
[Explanation] The coming-of-age ceremony of ancient girls was also held on the day of the Shangsi Festival. The girls dressed up and sang and danced.
Boys and girls meet by the water to play, and dating between men and women has gradually become one of the important activities of the Shangsi Festival.
[Concurrent] Tang Zhiqiang, Secretary General of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Protection and Inheritance Alliance
Because the Shangsi Festival is when the spring is bright, the vegetation is prosperous, and everything is full of vigor and vitality, reflecting the wish to be passed down from generation to generation.
The second is that this time is also the daughter's day, and the coming-of-age ceremony, the girl's coming-of-age ceremony, will be held on this day.
Du Fu wrote a poem "Beauty Walk", the weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an.
At this time, the girls come out to wash, and they are the most beautiful when they wear beautiful clothes, so they attract boys to come over, and it is also an outing, which extends to men and women going out to the wild, splashing water on each other, being free and happy, and giving a peony emoji at the same time. Long, use peony to settle love.
[Explanation] During the Tang Dynasty, due to the similar dates, the Shangsi Festival and the Cold Food Festival gradually showed a trend of integration with the Qingming Festival.
Especially after the Song Dynasty, under the influence of "Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism", the travel of men and women was also restricted, and many main customs of the Shangsi Festival were gradually forgotten.
Tang Zhiqiang introduced that at present, there are still some ethnic minorities who have the custom of celebrating "March 3".
[Concurrent] Tang Zhiqiang, Secretary General of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Protection and Inheritance Alliance
Minorities such as the Zhuang, She, and Buyi all regard the third day of the third lunar month as a very important traditional festival.
The Zhuang people think it is the birthday of the ancestor Buluuotuo, and the She people gather in the ancestral hall on March 3rd to sing in memory of the ancestor from morning to night, and they also cook black rice (made from the leaves of Wuren).
Every Buyi family makes colorful rice to worship the gods and ancestors.
So they now retain some of the connotations of March 3 at that time.
Reporter Wang Shibo reports from Beijing
Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]