1, "September 9, Memories of Shandong Brothers" - Wang Wei - Tang Dynasty
Alone in a foreign land is a foreign guest, every festive season doubly think of relatives. I know from afar where my brothers climbed to the top of the mountain, and I have to put in cornelian cherry trees all over the place, but there are fewer of them.
Interpretation: A person is a guest alone in another country, and he misses his relatives twice as much on festivals. When I think of my brothers climbing up the mountain today, my head is full of Cornus officinalis and I am the only one missing.
Customs of Chrysanthemum Festival: Chrysanthemum Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday, the custom is to step on the fall, climb high, drink chrysanthemum wine.
2, "Qingming" - Tang Dynasty - Du Mu
The rain falls one after another at the time of Qingming, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. The pastor is pointing to the village of apricot blossoms. The shepherd boy is pointing to the apricot blossom village.
Interpretation: During the Ching Ming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, the rain falls one after another, and the pedestrians on the road all want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine to drown their sorrows, the shepherd boy smiled but did not answer and pointed to the village deep in the apricot blossoms.
Customs of Qingming Festival: Qingming Festival is not only a solemn day for sweeping tombs and paying tribute to ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring.
3, "New Year's Day" - Song Dynasty - Wang Anshi
Blazing firecrackers in the sound of a year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel. A thousand doors and tens of thousands of tels, always change the new peach for the old one.
Interpretation: With the sound of firecrackers, the old year has already passed, and with the warm spring breeze, we are enjoying drinking Tusu wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, all of them take down the old peach symbols and replace them with new ones.
Customs of the Spring Festival: China has a long history of New Year's Eve, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still passed down to the present day, such as buying New Year's goods, dust sweeping, sticking couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, the Dragon and Lion Dance, worshipping the gods, praying for blessings and calamities, firecrackers, fireworks, touring the gods, betting on the boat, the temple fair, touring the gongs and drums, touring the standard flags, on the lights of the wine, and enjoying the lanterns, etc. Customs.
4. "And the Dragon Boat Festival" - Song Dynasty - Zhang Lei
The race to the ferry is y saddened by a thousand years of injustice, and how can the loyal souls be restored once they are gone. The country has died and the body has perished, leaving only a riot in the world.
Interpretation: The Dragon Boat Race is to mourn for Qu Yuan's thousands of years of injustice, but the loyal soul has never returned. What is there now after the country is broken and the body is dead? Only left the ancient song of Li Sao in the world!
Duanwu Festival customs: customs are mainly dragon boat racing, sacrificing dragons, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the water at noon, wash the herbal water, worship the gods and ancestors, soak the dragon boat water, eat dragon boat rice, eat zongzi, paper dragons, paper kites, tie five-color silk threads, wear a scented capsule and so on.
5, "Begging for coincidence" - Tang Dynasty - Lin Jie
This evening of the Tanabata Festival is a night to see the blue sky, the cow and the weaving maiden cross the river bridge. Every family begs for the moon in autumn, and wears out tens of thousands of red threads.
Interpretation: On the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, people look up at the vast sky as if they can see the cowherd and the weaver crossing the Milky Way to meet on the magpie bridge. Families are viewing the autumn moon while begging for money, and there are tens of thousands of red threads crossed.
Customs of the Tanabata Festival: commonly known as "Tanabata", also known as the "Daughter's Day", "Maiden's Day", is the legendary "heavenly river" between the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. "of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the Magpie Bridge to meet the day. In ancient times, the main folk activity of Tanabata was begging for coincidences. The so-called begging for coquettish means begging for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaving Maiden. The most common way to beg for coquettish hands is to thread a needle to the moon, if the thread passes through the hole of the needle, it is called coquettish hands. This custom was most prevalent in the Tang and Song dynasties.