Can we worship our ancestors and visit their graves on the Shangsi Festival on the third day of March in 2021? What can we do during Shangsi Festival?
In late spring in March, the orioles are singing. The Shangsi Festival is held in the third month of the lunar calendar and is one of the sacrificial festivals. Can we worship our ancestors and visit their graves on the third day of March 2021? After February's erratic weather, March has stabilized in all respects. As the saying goes, March is the best time of spring. What good days are there in March of the lunar calendar in 2021? If you want to know, just visit Mr. Shuimo’s website.Shangsi FestivalShangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3rd, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality.The Shangsi Festival is held on the third day of the third lunar month every year. Before the Han Dynasty, it was designated as the Si day in early March, and was later fixed on the third day of the third lunar month. Shangsi Festival was the most important festival in the ancient "purification and bathing" activities. People went to the waterside to bathe in groups, which was called "purification". Later, sacrificial banquets, winding stream flowing wine cups, and spring outings in the suburbs were added. Can we worship our ancestors on the third day of March 2021?Lunar calendar: March 3, 2021; Gregorian calendar: April 14, 2021, Wednesday, conflicting with the dog (Bingxu) and the south. The old almanac’s favorable days: Do not use the day for important events such as getting married, traveling, cleaning, setting up beds, offering sacrifices, coming-of-age ceremonies, adopting, buying clothes, and house cleaning . The old almanac’s unfavorable days: Do not use the day for important events such as breaking ground, burials, well digging, consecration, and breaking ground. According to the almanac of March 3, 2021, the day of Shangsi Festival [is the day of red gauze] , and everything is unfavorable, so it is not suitable for ancestor worship and tomb sweeping .However, Shangsi Festival is one of my country's traditional sacrificial festivals, so according to tradition, this day is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping graves. What can we do during Shangsi Festival?1. Purification Purification refers to getting rid of diseases and disasters. Ancient witches performed it to get rid of bad luck. Hot spring bathing was popular during the Tang and Song dynasties. In the past, people would bathe by the waterside or river, wash the body with orchids, and nod their heads and bodies with willow branches dipped in water from flower petals, which was a ritual to get rid of disasters and bring blessings. The so-called "禊" means "cleanliness", so "祓禊" is a ritual to eliminate pathogenic factors through self-cleansing.2. Spring outing Shangsi is not only a festival for dispelling evil and seeking good fortune, but also a free and happy spring outing. In ancient times, on the day of Shangsi Festival, young men and women often went out for an outing together, splashed water on each other, and freely chose their partners. Therefore, Shangsi Festival is also the real Valentine's Day in China, with peony as the symbol of love. 3. Qushui Liushang Qushui Liushang is called "drinking from the flowing cup of curved water". The so-called "flowing cup", also known as "flowing wine cup", is to throw a cup into the water upstream, let it float down with the waves, and when it stops at a certain place, the person takes it and drinks it. Water usually has to bend. "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" records that "the scholars and common people went out to the rivers, banks, ponds and marshes to drink from the flowing water." Everyone sat by the winding water and placed the cups filled with wine on the flowing water, letting it float downstream. Whoever the cup stopped in front of had to drink the wine in one gulp and compose a poem, otherwise he would be fined three cups of wine. 4. Shooting geese and silkworms During the Shangsi Festival, there is also a kind of archery activity, which involves using arrows with silk threads to shoot wild geese. After hitting the target, the silk is used to catch the goose. This kind of goose is more like the best gift than prey. Working women in the south began to raise silkworms, picking mulberry leaves and feeding them. 5. Lifting the Bamanzi March 3rd in Taiwan and Fujian is the "March Festival" when people pick rat koji grass and mix it with rice flour to make cakes to worship their ancestors (Taiwan Prefecture Records by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty). There is a "March Meeting" in Zhong County of Chongqing and other places, where a grand event is held to commemorate the anti-enemy general Ba Manzi. On that day, the masses carry the idol of Ba Manzi and parade around the city, followed by a folk art team, playing with dragon lanterns and lion dances. Every household hangs up lanterns and lights off firecrackers, making it extremely lively. Do you want to know your own Bazi? Want to figure out where your golden marriage is? Click on the [Premium Calculation] below to calculate your horoscope and fortune! |
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