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 "purification bath" activities in the most important festival, people go to the water side bathing in groups, known as the "Purification of purification", and since then has increased the content of the rituals of feasts, 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 became a waterfront 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.
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Shang Si Festival
The Shangsi Festival originated from the witchcraft activity of orchid soup to ward off evil spirits, in which orchids were used as spiritual objects. Orchid grass has the characteristics of the aroma of the people, the ancients in the major ceremonies held before the gods, must be preceded by fasting, including the use of the best bath at that time - orchid soup bath, which is vividly depicted in the Chu speech. Sacrifice to the gods must fast, fasting must be bathed, bathing with orchid soup, the difference only lies in the orchid bath is personal behavior, more indoors, and can be implemented at any time, purification of purification is a collective activity, must be in the riverside, and must be held regularly.