Explanation: Ancient folk custom, every year in the third month of the lunar calendar in the curved stream of water beside the wine cups, flow to whoever in front of, who will take down to drink, can remove the inauspicious.

Curved water goblet, is a traditional custom of the ancient Chinese Han folk, and later developed into a literati poetry and wine singing and honoring a kind of elegant things. In the summer calendar, people held a purification ceremony (fúxì) on the day of March, after the ceremony, everyone sat on both sides of the river, in the upper stream placed wine cups, wine cups downstream, stopped in front of whoever took the cups and drank, meant to remove the disaster inauspicious.

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The allusion to the source:

In the ninth year of Yonghe's reign, in the year 353, the first three days of the third month of March, on the sixth day of the third month of the third month of the third month of the third month of the third month of the third month of the fifth lunar month, there was an incident that occurred. On the third day of the third month, the Jin Dynasty aristocrat, Wang Xizhi, the inner history of Huiji, together with his friends and family Xie An, Sun Chao and other 42 national military and political officials, in the Orchid Pavilion after the semi-annual ceremony of purification, held a drinking poetry "goblet" activities, cited as the story of the ages. This Confucian custom has been handed down to this day.

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