Valentine's Day on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar: The Valentine's Day on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar has a long history. As evidenced by a poem, Li Bai's poem: "The sound of whistling, Qin'e dreaming of breaking the Qinlou moon; Qinlou moon, the color of the willow year after year, Ba Ling sad goodbye. In the autumn festival on the Leyou Yuan, the old road to Xianyang was closed to the sound and dust." The color of willow here refers to the Valentine's Day on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Through this poem, we can see how romantic the Valentine's Day in China is: a couple of lovers strolling on Ba on a sunny day in spring, folding willows to give each other gifts, and whistling incessantly, what a realm! Not only that, but in China, a long, long time ago, it was customary for loved ones to part with each other and for friends to part with each other by folding willows, as evidenced by the poem: "The willow is a gift for no reason". From this we can see, love is willow, willow is love to become a stereotype. The common people will be many lovers of the floating waves called looking for flowers and willow, that is from this. Today, although we can no longer see the ancient love objects and love scenes, but there are countless love poems and love songs, enough for us to enjoy. In addition, among some ethnic minorities, the custom of the March 3rd Song Contest is still preserved. Yunnan's ethnic minorities, in the lunar calendar on the third of March this day, many groups of beautiful men and women sing to love, give each other a token of appreciation, the secret meeting deep in the forest, this scene and Europe and the United States Valentine's Day only has the same flavor.
Valentine's Day on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar: this is a story of love between man and God, according to legend, the Queen Mother's daughter of the weaver fell in love with the earth's Cowherd, and gave birth to a pair of children. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Queen Mother came to earth to break up the lovers, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, and she took the Weaving Maiden to heaven. The Cowherd, with the help of a kind old ox (the sacred ox gave his skin to the Cowherd when he was dying), carried a pair of children in a basket and chased them to heaven. Seeing that the two lovers were about to get together, the Queen Mother pulled out a golden hairpin and drew a river in the sky, separating the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, and made a promise that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden would only be allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month. Since then every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the magpies will be the transfer of information to play the important task of matchmaking - their first articulation in the sky to build a sky bridge. China's ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and other places of young men and women to this day, in pairs to the grape arbor, it is said that you can hear the cowherd and the weaving maiden's whispers. But let's not forget the magpies for the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to do a good job, just because of the bridge every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of July they are mysteriously lost from the earth. By the time you see them again, the hair on their heads is all gone. Some people say it is the sky fire burned, some say it is the mutual articulation off, in any case, the hair is gone, do not believe you see!
China's Valentine's Day, although no one to legislate for it, but heaven and earth, can really let you love enough for a lifetime! There are two love stars in the sky and a pair of lovers on the ground. China has two Valentine's Day, foreign countries have a Valentine's Day, in the end is that Valentine's Day is good, or by the lovers to pick it.
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Festivals like Valentine's Day should only be in the spring. In the spring, everything is budding, youthful and vigorous, Yang Qi rises in the body, the air is filled with the smell of hormones, this time between men and women are prone to feelings. And Tanabata, the July fire, the yang qi is full and decline, is about to break up the time, but also lover what ah.
So, in essence the program early July 7 can not be Valentine's Day.
So is there a Valentine's Day in China? There is. It's on the 3rd of March.
As you know, the 3rd of March is the Valentine's Day of the Hmong people, a day when the Hmong girls dress up and come to a fixed place to show their beauty. The boys also wait for this day, they have a chance to meet many girls, sing songs with them, and if they like each other, they can immediately pull them home. That's why you can see a lot of men and women pulling and tugging after the song session breaks up.
This day is not only a song festival for the Miao, but also for the Yi, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities. "I remember that March 3, when kites flew all over the sky." This is a very old song, probably saying that older brothers and sisters go off to fall in love on this day, while children are not idle, this day is also their festival, and their activity is to fly kites.
In fact, March 3 is a festival within the Han cultural circle, but the Han people have gone through turmoil and like to be fashionable, this tradition was gradually lost, but instead, it has been preserved among ethnic minorities. The Zhou Li - the ground official - medium of the "said:" the month of mid-spring, the order will be men and women, so the time is also, the runners are not prohibited. On that day, it was the time for men and women to meet, and on that day, marriages without going through the "six rites" were allowed. It is believed that this day is the third day of the third month.
This custom is interrupted when I do not know, probably scholars can be proved out. But the custom of going out on the third day of March to meet and fall in love is preserved, to the Tang Dynasty, there are, Du Fu has a poem: "March 3 weather is new, Chang'an waterfront more beautiful people." In the Tang Dynasty, March 3 Chang'an city as far as the kings and prime ministers, down to the civilian hundreds of sex, have been in the Qujiang River area to play, many tourists, lively. Suspenders beauty out, the lover is not yet? In this song "Lillian line", ambiguous, fragrant, lovers and so on also have everything.
March 3 is an ancient festival, called "on the Si Festival", in ancient times this is a very important festival, people invited to the riverside on this day, men and women wearing newly sewn spring clothes, out of the city, or to the valley to pick orchids, or to the water's edge to play bathing, or to the countryside to feast and drink line, that this can be purged of bad luck. to purify the bad luck. "Poetry - Zheng Feng - River and Henan" has a poem: "only Qin and River, Fang Huan huan Ruoxi, only Shi and women, Fang Binglan Ruoxi." This is the same day.
The Analects of Confucius - Advanced said: Mo spring, spring clothing is completed, the crown of five or six people, children six or seven people, bathing in the Yi, wind and summer dance, singing and return. This is probably the same day.
In ancient times, men and women did not have many opportunities to meet, the spring is a good opportunity to travel, and March 3 is officially "legal" spring meeting day. The day of March 3 is the official "legal" day of spring meeting. "Last year today, the next door, the face of the peach blossom is red" is not also make this day?
And this day, there are myths and legends, that is, Fuxi and Nuwa, it is said that they met on this day, and now some places have the custom of worshiping Fuxi and Nuwa on this day. The two of them are the founding fathers of our Chinese people, much more typical than the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.
So March 3 is more qualified than July 7 to be China's Valentine's Day.
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March 3 Hmong Valentine's Day
March, the time for flowers to bloom; March, the time for farmers to sow their seeds, and nowadays, March has become a diaphanous girl with red fat. Choosing this time of year to celebrate the festival, choosing this time of year to celebrate, choosing this time of year to be happy, how poetic and picturesque! The people who know how to live are the ones who know how to live!
In Xiangxi Luxi, Guzhang, Jishou Miaozhai border Liangjiatan Township, March 3, the sky is clear and cloudless, the sun is soft and warm, the birds' chirping and the creek's murmuring sound are intertwined together to form a wonderful spring music, as if one were walking into a dream. When the mountain side flew to a burst of moving song, we woke up from the dream, looked back, from the highway, ridge, mountainside ` came a group of men and women in full dress, the young scion mouth mouth wooden leaves while walking and blowing, beautiful girl with a flower umbrella while walking and singing ......
Miaojia girls come to the side of the singing field, often by their grandmothers to wear silver jewelry garlands before going on stage. Because of the annual Song Festival, not only to celebrate the spring sowing, but also the Miao young men and women looking for sweethearts of a good time, so the song is not just blowing wood leaves, dancing reunion dance, it also has a wonderful joy of life.
Under the bright moonlight, the Miao men and women I a group I a group, free and easy to sing love songs. I walked into the love song of the singing field, from time to time to see a few Hmong students in the invitation to a beautiful full-bodied girl singing, and the girl just a slight smile, but closed their mouths do not sing, she secretly from around the search for rivals, the girl aiming at a student singing, not selected to sing the song of the students will automatically withdraw, and look for objects to find a song to go. Those pleasant and emotional songs stirred my heart, as if I had drunk a bowl of mellow with bao gu yao, the heart is drunk.
In this joyful festival, I can not help but think of their past, which is a cost of blood and in exchange for the festival.
Legend has it that in that time of slash-and-burn farming, there was a dense forest and black fertile land in the border of Luxi, Guzhang and Jishou Miao village in western Hunan, and there was spring and autumn. The border of the Miao people to fight for this piece of "fat meat" and sharpen their knives, bloodshed and casualties. This history continues for a long, long time, the Miao people finally awakened, the Miao brothers can not kill each other ...... After negotiations between the heads of the various regions, an agreement was reached, and it was decided that a songfest would be held every year on the third day of the third month of the ancient lunar calendar on the terrace of the Miao village of Liangjiatan, celebrating the great unity of the Miao brothers.
With the passage of years, the content of the song will be gradually enriched, every year to this day, the Miao border villages and cottages of young men and women dressed in new clothes, came to this piece of terrace that can accommodate a few thousand people, with the form of the song to choose the object of choice, under the shade of the trees, the bushes, the pairs of pairs of pouring out their love, talk about ideals......
How sweet the song will be, the happy Miao township ah! The era of barbarism is gone. Especially today, the reform and opening up, the life of the Miao family is like that sesame seed blossom high, Miao girls after the students, blowing wooden leaves race song song is even more energetic.
The emotive song as the foot of the stream flowing in my heart, the melodious sound of wooden leaves opened my heart ......