The Chunjie Festival，popularly called the Grand New Year’s Day, enjoys the timeless fashion despite its long history. It has been established as the beginning of the new year for over 2000 years, but at the same time it has been called the Chunjie Festival for less than 100 years．Now，the Chunjie Festival is celebrated in much the same way […]
The fifteenth of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, which is the middle of autumn, is the Chinese traditional Mid-Autumn Day. There are many legends about the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the most popular one is the story of “Chang’e’s Flying to the Moon.” It is said that in ancient times, there […]
People who take ample precautions are liable to be off guard. Familiar sights do not rouse suspicion. Yin is the inner instead of the opposite aspect of yang. The great yang contains the great yin. This expression came from the story of an ingenious Tang general who devised a method to transport the emperor (regarded […]
In the regions of the Yi and Bai ethnic groups, there is a popular saying, “The theme of the Spring Festival is eating while the theme of the Torch Festival is playing.” The Torch Festival begins from the twenty fourth of the sixth lunar month and lasts for three days. On the nights of the festival, holding […]
In the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), patriarch Pi Luoge of Mengshe Zhao, (the most powerful among the six tribes in Dali) schemed to annex the other five tribes. On the twenty fourth of the sixth lunar month in the twenty sixth year of the Kaiyuan Period (713-741 A.D.), P Luoge set the pine tower on […]
The Water-Slashing Festival of the Dai Nationality, also called “Songkran” in the Dai dialect (meaning “the New Year in June” or “the New Year in the Dai calendar”), is celebrated in the middle of the sixth lunar month (about ten days before or after the Tomb-sweeping Festival) of the Dai calendar. During the time, the […]
A folktale of the Dai nationality relates to the origin of the Water-Splashing Festival. In ancient times, a ferocious and powerful demon in the Dai region took seven girls by force to be his wife. Having suffered enough from the prosecution, the seven girls decided to take concerted effort to revenge the demon. Once they […]
The ninth day of the ninth month in the lunar calendar is the Double-Ninth Festival (Chongyang Festival). Ancient people thought nine a positive number, so the festival was regarded double positive (Chongyang in Chinese). Ancient customs included mountain climbing, drinking, admiring chrysanthemum, arranging dogwood branches, eating colorful steamed cakes and so on. The Double-Ninth Festival […]
Talking about the Double-Ninth Festival, a mythical legend is worth mentioning, which is about Fei Changfang, a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty. One day, an aged medicine seller came to Fei’s city, rent a small shop and opened a drug store. He hung a teapot by the door and jumped into it when […]
During the festival, drinking chrysanthemum wine is a popular custom. The wine is made of steeping chrysanthemum in the alcohol, but the method varies in different times. In the Jin Dynasty, people mix the leaves and stems of chrysanthemum with grain and brew until the September of the following year, while in the Ming Dynasty, […]
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