Today is the Tiankuang Festival, the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. In the old days, dragon robes were displayed in the palace, and among the people, there was a custom of displaying books .
It is said that the day when Tang Xuanzang's scriptures fell into the water,
happened to be the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.
Later, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng
claimed that God gave him a heavenly book on this day,
and designated the sixth day of June as Tiankuang Festival,
The word "Kui" means God's gift.
In the folk, this day is also called Book Sharing Festival .
It is said that on the sixth day of June in the Qing Dynasty,
the great talent Zhu Yizun,
is said to have been lying on the side of the official road, sleeping soundly on his bare belly.
He happened to be bumped into by Kangxi who was visiting in private.
asked him why he was like this,
Zhu Yizun replied that
was showing off his knowledge.
Kangxi was very talented,
later recruited him as an official,
majored in "History of the Ming Dynasty " among the Twenty-Four Histories.
This legend has become a widely circulated legend among the people.
So there is a saying that
is used to dry clothes and books on the sixth day of June.
Among the people in the south of the Yangtze River,
Tiankuang Festival is also a "mold festival".
There is a proverb that "on June 6th, every family is exposed to red and green clothes."
"Red and green" refers to all kinds of colorful clothes.
In the old days of Jiangnan people,
had just experienced the rainy season.
The clothes hidden at the bottom of the box were prone to mold, so they would take advantage of the long-awaited sunshine to dry them in the sun to avoid mildew.
Farmers also need to dry various foods or stored grains to prevent mildew.
Therefore, sun mold was a unique style of urban life in the Jiangnan area in the past.
