Shangsi Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, and it is listed as one of the four ghost festivals in China. Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3, is a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor. According to legend, March 3 is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. Since ancient times, the Central Plains has had "February 2, the dragon looked up; On March 3, I was born in Xuanyuan.

Shangsi Festival existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was officially included in the national celebration in the Han Dynasty. The famous "Lanting Assembly" in the Jin Dynasty was one of the activities of Shangsi Festival, which reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, and the poet Du Fu left a famous sentence of "on the third day of the Third-month in the freshening weather, many beauties take the air by the Changan waterfront". However, in the Song Dynasty, Shangsi Festival was increasingly marginalized, because it was very close to the traditional Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial court stipulated that all parts of Tomb-Sweeping Day should pay homage to the tombs to express their mourning for the dead, which was the original custom of the Cold Food Festival, while Tomb-Sweeping Day's hydrophilic and willow-wearing circles were the original customs of Shangsi Festival. Later, Tomb-Sweeping Day gradually became a big festival known to everyone, while Shangsi Festival was gradually forgotten. Therefore, it is understandable for modern people not to know this traditional festival.

The custom of Shangsi Festival

Shangsi Festival has a long history. In ancient times, Shangsi Festival has become an important festival for people to hold activities of "removing bathing by the bank". Every time this season, people come to the water's edge to hold sacrifices, wash and remove dirt, and eliminate ominous. It is also called Spring Bath Day.

Due to China's vast territory, the latitude difference between north and south is tens of degrees, and the latitude of the Yellow River basin is on the high side, the beginning of March is still a cold season of "chilly light cold and cloudy night, flying to the courtyard and complaining about the deep spring", and people in the northern region can't bear to play in the river at this time.

Probably in the Jin Dynasty, the custom of splashing water on the river was changed to "meandering water" by northern literati-let a small glass drift in the river, and whoever stays with the glass will drink it. This form has completely changed, but its custom significance remains the same.

Reference to the above content? People's Network-How many of these four "Ghost Festivals" have you known for thousands of years?