1, Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, and it is the last important festival in China Spring Festival customs. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.
2. "Zhongyuan" is one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality "Sanyuan". "Yuan" means beginning and beginning. The first month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of a year, so it is called January. Ancient astrologers took the second Jiazi as the "Zhongyuan", that is, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. This day is a day for the Han people to sacrifice their deceased relatives and remember their ancestors, and it is also one of the important "eight festivals".
3. The Next Yuan Festival is one of the festivals in China, which falls on October 15th of the lunar calendar and is the birthday of Yu, the "water official emperor". According to legend, on that day, Yu will come down to earth as the day for the people to relieve Eritrea, and people will prepare incense sticks to worship the water official emperor for peace. Therefore, it is also called "Disaster Relief Day" and "Xiayuan Water Officer Festival".
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1 The cultural value of Lantern Festival lies in that it is a carnival for all people, and everyone participates and enjoys it. The main activity of Lantern Festival is mass entertainment, but its social and cultural significance is not just entertainment. There are many religious activities on the fifteenth day of the first month, praying for the blessing of the gods. Lantern Festival, like Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival in China.
2. The Mid-Yuan Festival, which is a day of folk ancestor worship, is one of the traditional ghost festivals in China. Zhongyuan is also one of the eight important festivals (Shangyuan (Lantern Festival), Qingming, long summer, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve).
3. The Lunar New Year Festival is the day when the official of the water department and the emperor of the Valley of Eritrea are relieved. The Lunar New Year Festival is also the last moon festival in a year. At this full moon, people will have the most important ancestor worship activities. The next Yuan Festival is often to worship ancestors on a national basis, and the Chinese nation should pay homage to the most admirable ancestors on this day.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia _ Shangyuan Baidu encyclopedia _ Zhongyuan Baidu encyclopedia _ Xiayuan