The Mid-Autumn Festival - a festival that is shared by Chinese **** around the world
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The 15th day of the 8th lunar month is right in the middle of autumn, and is therefore it is called the mid-autumn or mid-autumn. The moon on August 15 is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, so it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people try to get together with their families as much as possible, taking the significance of the moon and the people, the fifteenth day of the eighth month is also called the "reunion festival".
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival of the Han Chinese and ethnic minorities. As early as in the Three Dynasties period in China, there is "autumn sunset" custom. The moon, that is, to worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people gave moon cakes to each other, taking the meaning of reunion. In the evening, there are activities such as enjoying the moon and swimming in the lake. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival has become more prevalent; many places have formed special customs such as burning douxiang, tree mid-autumn, pointing tower lamps, releasing sky lanterns, walking on the moon, and dancing with fire dragons. Today, the custom of playing under the moon is far less popular than in the old days. But the feast is still very popular, people drink to the moon, to celebrate the good life, or to wish distant relatives healthy and happy, and family "thousands of miles *** Canyuanjuan".
In the past, the Mid-Autumn Festival night in Jiangsu, women go out to play under the moon, or visit each other, or go to the Buddhist temple nunnery, or hold a grand cultural activities. Even play to the four cock crows. This custom is locally called "walk the moon". Shanghai's custom is similar to Jiangsu. Only the Mid-Autumn Festival night, women out to play must walk across at least three bridges, so called "walk three bridges".
In ancient times, there was also a moon festival and moon worship activities. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're getting into. The watermelon should also be cut in the shape of a lotus flower. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, red candles are lit high, and the whole family pays homage to the moon in turn, and then the housewife of the family cuts the mooncakes for reunion. The cutter counts in advance how many people in the family ****, at home, out of town, should be counted together, can not cut more or less, the size should be the same. If there is a pregnant woman in the family, you have to cut more than one.
Moon worship does not refer to the worship of the moon. This custom originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. On that night, people all over the city, rich or poor, old or young, should put on adult clothes, burn incense and worship the moon to say their wishes, and pray for the blessing of the moon god. Legend has it that an ugly girl from Qi, Wu Yan, used to worship the moon when she was young, and when she grew up, she entered the palace with outstanding character, but she was not favored. One year, on the 15th day of the 8th moon, the Emperor saw her under the moonlight and found her beautiful and outstanding, and later made her the Empress, from which the Mid-Autumn Moon Worship came. Chang'e in the moon, known for her beauty, so the young girl to worship the moon, may "look like Chang'e, face like the moon".
Many places have also formed a lot of special mid-autumn custom. For example, Hong Kong's fire dragon dance, Anhui's pile of pagodas, Guangzhou's tree in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jinjiang's burnt tower, Suzhou Shihu to see the cascade of the moon, Dai's moon worship, Miao's moon jumping, Dong's stealing the moon vegetable, alpine tribe's ball dance, and so on.
There are many customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the forms are different, but all of them send people's infinite love of life and yearning for a better life.
What are the seven traditional Chinese festivals?
The traditional festival culture is one of the essences of national civilization, a culture that a nation *** with the creation of *** with the enjoyment of a culture. This culture will naturally form the cohesion of a nation and has great spiritual influence. Here, we focus on seven traditional folk festivals.
The Spring Festival - the Spring Festival
General: the first major festival of the Chinese nation, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Origin and flow: Spring Festival for the winter will end, when the spring sun is budding, its origin can be traced back to the ancient times of the "wax festival", said to be the original Shennong's time "to the ghosts and gods and sacrifices", "together with all the things that are enjoying the "It is said that it was originally a year-end sacrificial custom in the Shennong era, thanking the gods for their blessings and praying for good weather and abundant harvests in the coming year. New Year's custom sprouted in the pre-Qin Dynasty, finalized in the Han Dynasty, after the Tang Dynasty, gradually shifted from sacrificing to the gods to entertain people, the Ming and Qing Dynasties began to transform, ceremonial, socializing to strengthen. Because the first day of the first month is very close to the establishment of the Spring Festival, it is called the Spring Festival. Customs: family reunion, New Year's Eve, sleepless all night, the clock strikes zero, competing fireworks and firecrackers, to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Elderly to the younger "New Year's money"; outside the house stick door gods, couplets, New Year's paintings, Fukuzi; the first morning to go out, visit each other, gifts; the north like to eat dumplings, the south more food snacks and rice cakes.
The Lantern Festival
General: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Source: Lantern Festival means the first full moon of the year. Also known as the "on the Yuan Festival". The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is associated with religious culture. Customs: The custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements". The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Upper Yuan Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the Middle Yuan Festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the Lower Yuan Festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower three yuan were "heaven", "earth", "human" three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the lanterns should be lit on the Day of the First Emperor. "Lantern riddles", also known as "playing lantern riddles", appeared in the Song Dynasty. With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added the dragon lantern, lion, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing the Taiping drum and other activities. In addition, the Lantern Festival, the people's families eat Lantern.
Cold Food East Wind Royal Willow - Qingming
General: April 5 on the solar calendar. Origin: Qingming is the only major folk festival that is both a festival and a holiday, mainly referring to natural festivals, and later became an important festival for ancestor worship. It really became a folk festival after the Tang and Song dynasties. Customs: Ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping are the focus of Qingming festival customs. Later on, it evolved from a mere ritual activity to a trekking in the spring to visit the victory at the same time. Playing swings and flying kites also became recreational programs. The day before Qingming is the Cold Food Festival, the custom of eating cold food.
Ai Fu Pu wine talk about the rise of peace - Dragon Boat Festival
General: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Origin and flow: as the name of the festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, began in the Wei and Jin dynasties. Its origins say quite a lot, the most widely circulated is in honor of Qu Yuan. Customs: dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, hanging ai leaves. At that time, the people of Chu could not bear to see the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there were many people rowing after him to save him. They scrambled, chased to the Dongting Lake when they disappeared, is the origin of the Dragon Boat Race, after the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year to commemorate the rowing of dragon boats. Boiled glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings cake into the river, in order to worship Qu Yuan, for fear that the fish eat, so the bamboo tube loaded with glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use rice dumplings wrapped in leaves instead of bamboo tubes. Hanging moxa leaves calamus, inserted in the lintel, there is to drive away demons and ghosts of the divine effect.
Year beg with the human coincidence - Tanabata
General: the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the ancient Chinese Valentine's Day. Origin: Some people call it "Begging for Coquettishness" or "Daughter's Day", Tanabata Begging for Coquettishness, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty. The festival has always been linked to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Customs: Begging for coquettish objects by threading a needle is one of the programs for young daughters in the Tanabata Festival, which is said to have been prevalent in the Han Dynasty. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the Altair and Vega stars on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month. According to legend, on this night every year, it is the time when the Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd in the sky meet at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever and dexterous fairy, and women in the mortal world beg her for wisdom and skill on this night, as well as for a beautiful marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging Festival. The festival food is most famous for the coquettish fruits.
The moon to the Mid-Autumn Festival is very bright - the Mid-Autumn Festival
General: the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, China's second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. Source: China's Mid-Autumn Festival is in the ancient autumn equinox and the moon god worship on the basis of development and change, and finally fixed in August 15 every year. In ancient times, there was the custom of "Autumn Moon Festival". The custom was to worship the moon god. Until the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival, the Song Dynasty prevailed, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and New Year's Day has been the same name. Customs: on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people are as far as possible and family reunion, *** words of harvest, people and the moon, so it is also known as the "reunion festival". The main activity is to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival is most famous for Chang'e running to the moon.
The festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Moon, which is the most famous of all the legends of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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The traditional program culture is one of the essence of the national civilization, is a nation *** with the creation of the same, *** with the enjoyment of a culture, which will naturally form the cohesion of a nation, with a huge spiritual influence. Here, we have an important seven traditional festivals of the Chinese nation:
(a) the universal celebration of the new spring to - Spring Festival
The first Chinese nation, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Spring Festival for the end of winter, when the spring sun is budding, its origin can be traced back to the ancient times of the "wax festival", is said to be the original Shennong's time "to the ghosts and gods and sacrifices" "together with the gathering of all the things and the enjoyment of the demand "It is said that it was originally a year-end sacrificial custom during the Shennong era to thank the gods for their blessings and pray for good weather and abundant harvests in the coming year. New Year's custom sprouted in the pre-Qin Dynasty, stereotyped in Han, in the Tang Dynasty later gradually turned from sacrificing to entertaining the gods, the Ming and Qing dynasties began to transform, ceremonial, socializing to strengthen. Because the first day of the first month is very close to the establishment of the Spring Festival, it is called the Spring Festival. Spring Festival, the whole family reunion, New Year's Eve, sleepless all night, zero clock struck, competing fireworks, to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new; the older to the younger "New Year's Eve money"; inside and outside of the house pasted door gods, couplets, New Year's Eve paintings, Fukujin; the first morning out, pay visits to each other, gifts; the northern people like to eat dumplings, the southern people eat snacks with the rice cake.
(B) fire trees and silver flowers all night long - the Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Lantern Festival means the first full moon of the year, also known as the "on the Yuan Festival". The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is associated with religious culture. The custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is the Upper Elements Festival, the 15th day of the 7th month is the Middle Elements Festival, and the 15th day of the 10th month is the Lower Elements Festival, and those in charge of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Elements are respectively the "Heavenly," "Earthly," "Human," and the "Earthly," and the "Earthly," and the "Earthly," respectively. The three palaces in charge of the Upper, Middle and Lower Yuan are "Heaven", "Earth" and "Man" respectively, and since the God of Heaven is happy, lanterns are lit on the Upper Yuan Festival. "Lantern riddles", also known as "big lantern riddles", first appeared in the Song Dynasty. With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added the dragon lantern, lion, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other activities. In addition, the Lantern Festival, the people's families are eating Lantern.
(C) Ai Fu Pu wine to talk about rising - Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. As the name of the festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the origin of its argument is quite a lot, the most widely circulated is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Race dragon boat, eat zongzi, hang ai leaves is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. But the Chu people because they can not afford to die of the sage Qu Yuan, so there are many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue, they scramble, chased to the Dongting Lake, no trace, is the origin of the Dragon Boat Race, after the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year to commemorate the Dragon Boat Race. Boiled glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings cake into the river, to worship qu yuan, for fear of fish eat, so use bamboo tube with glutinous rice thrown down, and later gradually use the mane leaf package rice instead of bamboo tube. Hanging moxa leaves calamus, inserted in the lintel, there are demons in addition to the divine effect of ghosts.
(D) the moon to the Mid-Autumn Festival points out bright - Mid-Autumn Festival
The 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, second only to the Spring Festival, the second largest traditional festival. China's Mid-Autumn Festival is in the ancient Autumn Equinox and the moon god worship on the basis of the development of changes, and finally fixed in August 15 every year, ancient times, there is "autumn sunset" custom. The custom of "moon festival" was established in ancient times. It was not until the beginning of Tang Dynasty that Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival, and then it was popularized in Song Dynasty, and then it has been on a par with New Year's Day in Ming and Qing Dynasty. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people are as far as possible and family reunion, *** words of harvest, people and the moon are round, so it is also called "reunion festival". The main activity is to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival is most famous for Chang'e running to the moon.
(E) wine enjoy chrysanthemum times think of relatives - Chongyang
The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Chongyang will be in the "I Ching". Ancient folk in the day and the custom of climbing high, so the Chongyang Festival is also called "Denggao Festival", in the Tang Dynasty was officially established. The customs of Chongyang Festival include going out to enjoy the scenery, climbing high to look into the distance, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc. Now, China has designated the ninth day of September as the "Chongyang Festival". Now China will be the first nine days of September as a festival of respect for the elderly.
(F) cold food east wind willow - Qingming
April 5 on the solar calendar. The Qingming Festival is the only major folk festival that is both a festival and a holiday, mainly referring to natural festivals, and later became an important festival for ancestor worship. It really became a folk festival after the Tang and Song dynasties. Sweeping the graves of ancestors was the main focus of the Qingming Festival, which later evolved from a purely sacrificial activity into a green trekking activity with a tour of the spring and a visit to the victory, and swinging and kite-flying also became recreational programs. The day before Qingming is the Cold Food Festival, and there is a custom of eating cold food.
(VII) year beg in the human coquettish - Tanabata
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the ancient Chinese Valentine's Day. Also known as the "Beggar's Day" or "Daughter's Day", Tanabata Beggar's Day, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty. The Tanabata Festival has always been linked to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Threading a needle to beg for coquettish objects is one of the programs for small women in the Tanabata Festival, which is said to have been prevalent in the Han Dynasty. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the stars of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month. According to legend, in ......
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The universal celebration of singing and dancing, laughter, a sea of people, a sea of people, drums and gongs, golden drums, the day of sacrifices to the ancestors' graves, the festival of condolences, by the way, cold food, the grand grand, cold, warm, warm, rounded, warm and quiet, noisy, noisy, noisy, noisy, tumultuous, chaotic
Their own festivals, the grand festivals, universal festivals, joyful, auspicious, harmonious, festivals
What are the festivals around the world? What are the customs of these festivals? What are the customs of these festivals?
Major World Holidays, Observances, and Events
NEW YEAR'S DAY (January 1)-----NEW YEAR'S DAY
ADULTS DAY (Japan, January 15)-----ADULTS DAY
VALENTINE'S DAY (February 14)-----ST. VALENTINE'S DAY (VALENTINE'S DAY)
Lantern Festival (Lunar January 15)-----LANTERN FESTIVAL
Carnival (Brazil, mid- and late February)-----CARNIVAL
Peach Blossom Festival (Japanese Girl's Day, March 3) -----PEACH FLOWER FESTIVAL (DOLL'S FESTIVAL)
International Women's Day (March 8) -----INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY<
St. Patrick's Day (Ireland, March 17)-----ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Maple Sugar Festival (Canada, March-April)-----MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL
April Fool's Day (April 1)-----FOOL\\\'S DAY
Easter (first Sunday after the full moon on the vernal equinox)-----EASTER
Songkran (Thai New Year, April 13)-----SONGKRAN FESTIVAL DAY
Food Festival (Singapore, April 17)-----FOOD FESTIVAL
International Labor Day (May 1)-----INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY
Boy's Day (Japan, May 5)-----BOY'S DAY
MOTHER'S DAY (second Sunday in May)-----MOTHER'S DAY< /p>
Putting Lent on -----BAMADAN
Eid al-Fitr (April or May, October 1 A.H.)-----LESSER BAIRAM
Bank Holiday (UK, May 31)-----BANK HOLIDAY
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY (June 1)----- INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY
Father's Day (the third Sunday of June)-----FATHER'S DAY
Dragon Boat Festival (May 5) -----DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
Midsummer Festival (June in Northern Europe)-----MID-SUMMER DAY
GURBAN FESTIVAL ( *** Festival, late July)-----CORBAN
Chopsticks Festival (August 4 in Japan)-----CHOPSTICS DAY
Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15 on the lunar calendar)-----MOON FESTIVAL
Teachers' Day (China, September 10)-----TEACHER'S DAY
Senior Citizens' Day (Japan, September 15)-----OLD PEOPLE'S DAY
Oktoberfest (Germany, October 10 Day)-----OKTOBERFEST
Pumpkin Festival (North America, October 31)-----PUMPKIN DAY
Spooktacular Festival (Halloween New Year's Eve, the night of October 31)-----HALLOWEEN
Halloween (November 1)-----HALLOWMAS
THANKSGIVING (U.S., last 4th of November)-----THANKSGIVING
NURSE'S DAY (December 12)-----NRUSE DAY
CHRISTMAS NEW YEAR'S EVE (December 24)-----CHRISTMAS EVE
CHRISTMAS DAY (December 25)----- CHRISTMAS DAD
Boxing Day (December 26)-----BOXING DAY
New Year's Eve (December 31)-----NEW YEAR'S EVE (a bank holiday in many countries)
Spring Festival (阴历一月一日)-----SPRING FESTIVAL (CHINESE NEW YEAR)
Other events and festivals
WORLD CONSUMER RIGHTS DAY (March 15)-----WORLD CONSUMER RIGHT DAY
WORLD WATER DAY (March 22)----- WORLD WATER DAY
World Health Day (April 7)-----WORLD HEALTH......
Which are the four major festivals in China
Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival. The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year originally came from agriculture, and in ancient times people referred to the growth cycle of grain as "year". The ancient people called the growth cycle of the grain "Nian", "Shuowen. In the Xia and Shang dynasties produced the summer calendar, the cycle of the moon for the month, a year divided into twelve months, each month to not see the moon for the day for the first day of the first month of the first day of the month of the son of the time known as the first of the year, that is, the beginning of the year, also known as the year, the name of the year is from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Western Han Dynasty to formally fixed, and has been continued to the present day. But the first day of the first month in ancient times was called "New Year's Day", until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in modern China, the Nanjing Provisional *** in order to comply with the lunar calendar and facilitate the statistics, the provisions of the civil use of the summer calendar, the implementation of the Gregorian calendar in the *** authorities, factories, mines, schools and organizations to the Gregorian calendar of the first day of the new year for the New Year's Day, the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is known as the Spring Festival. On September 27, 1949, the new China was founded, in the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, adopted the use of the world's common calendar, the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year; the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually around the time of the first day of spring, and therefore the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is designated as the Spring Festival, commonly known as the lunar year. The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually around the beginning of spring. Traditionally, the Spring Festival is celebrated from the Lunar New Year's Day or the Lunar New Year's Day, until the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the ***. In the Spring Festival this traditional festival period, China's Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities have to hold a variety of celebrations, most of these activities to the gods and Buddhas, ancestors, in addition to the old and the new, to welcome Jubilee to receive the blessing, praying for a good year as the main content. Activities in a colorful form, with a strong ethnic characteristics. One of the legends of the Spring Festival: the New Year's Eve vigil The New Year's Eve vigil, that is, the last night of the old year does not sleep, stay up all night to meet the arrival of the new year's custom, also known as the New Year's Eve vigil, commonly known as the "New Year's Eve". Explore the origins of this custom, in folklore is an interesting story: ancient times, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people call them "year". It is hideous, ferocious nature, specializing in eating birds and beasts, scales and insects, a day to change a taste, from knocking insects have been eaten to the living, so that people talk about the "year" color change. Later, people slowly mastered the "year" of the law of activities, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, and so on, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go. Calculated the date of the "year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a gate to brake, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a set of New Year's Eve approach: every night, every family is done in advance of the evening meal, put out the fire and clean the stove, and then put the chicken coop Cattle fences all tied up, the front and back doors of the house are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so it is very rich, in addition to the whole family to dine together to express the harmony and reunion, but also have to be in the meal before the sacrifice to the ancestors, praying for the blessing of the gods of the ancestors, and peacefully through the night, and after eating dinner, no one will have a good time, and then the fire will be turned off. After dinner, no one dares to sleep, sitting together in a crowded chat. Gradually formed on New Year's Eve to stay up to keep the New Year's custom. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve rose in the North and South Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems about keeping the New Year's Eve. "One night is even a double year, and the fifth night is divided into two years." People lit candles or oil lamps and kept vigil all night, symbolizing that they would drive away all evils and diseases and look forward to an auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to this day. Spring Festival Legend No. 2: Wannian created the calendar said Legend has it that, in ancient times, a young man named Wannian, saw that the festival was very chaotic, and had the intention of trying to set the festival accurate. But the bitter can not find a way to calculate the time, one day, he went up to the mountains to cut firewood tired, sitting in the shade of a tree to rest, the movement of the tree inspired him, he designed a measurement of the sun's shadow to count the time of day sundial, the determination of the time of day, and later, the cliffs of the drip spring inspired him, and he did a five-tier funnel, to calculate the time. Over time, he realized that every 360 days or so, the four seasons would rotate and the length of the day would repeat itself. The king of the country at that time was called Zuyi, who was also often distressed by the unpredictability of the weather winds and clouds. Wannian knew, took the sundial and funnel pot to see the emperor, to Zuyi clear reasoning for the operation of the sun and the moon. Zu Yi listened to the dragon's face, feel reasonable. So left Wannian, in front of the Temple of Heaven to build the Sun and Moon Pavilion, built the sundial and funnel kiosk. And hope to be able to measure the sun and moon law, project the accurate morning and evening time, create the calendar, for the benefit of the people of the world. Once, Zu Yi went to find out the progress of the Ten Thousand Years Test Calendar. When he ascended to the Altar of the Sun and the Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall beside the altar of heaven: The sun rises and the sun sets in three hundred and six days, and the cycle begins again and again from the beginning. Grass and trees wither and prosper in four times. ......