Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The festival can be traced back to the end of the Spring and Autumn period in the written record, is the most important ancient activities held in the "purification of the bath" in the festival, people go to the water bathing, known as "Purification of purification", and since then has increased the content of the rituals and banquets, goblets and so on.

Anciently, the "stem and branch" date, the first six days in early March, called "on the six". After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the festival was changed to the third day of March, it is also known as the heavy three or March three. Later generations followed, and then into the water's edge of the feast, the countryside tour of the spring festival. The traditional on the Si Festival, is also a day of purification, that is, "spring bath day", also known as the daughter of the Festival. After the Song Dynasty, the festival and the flower festival, is gradually being forgotten. p>Holiday Alias

Chinese Valentine's Day

This is China's Valentine's Day, recorded in the Book of Songs, 1,000 years before Western Valentine's Day. After the pre-Qin Dynasty, the March 3 Valentine's Day was extended in all generations. During the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu's line "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people at the water's edge of Chang'an" brought the festival to a higher level of splendor and beauty. Since the Song Dynasty, the prevalence of science, etiquette and strict, March 3 Valentine's Day custom in Chinese culture gradually declined. March 3 romantic love, beautiful vision, as well as the elegant fun of the goblet, so far disappeared.

One of the main activities of the Festival is the meeting of men and women, that is, men and women to express their feelings of love and adoration "Valentine's Day".