Recently, the TV series "East Palace" is very popular. I wonder if you have seen one of the scenes - princes and princesses are playing "Qu Shui Liu Shang" around the pool. The rules are very simple. The water is filled with people, and a wine cup flows down from the upstream. Whoever floats to the front will face the poem. If you don’t meet it, you will have to be punished for wine.
screenshot of the TV series "East Palace"
In fact, this is not the so-called "traditional tradition" in the TV series, but the Shangsi Festival custom that has existed in my country since the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Shangsi Festival, also known as "March 3". Similarly, there are Dragon Boat Festival on May 5, Dragon Boat Festival on July 7, and Double Ninth Festival on September 9, but after the Song Dynasty, people did not spend it too much. Like the Flower Festival on February 2, traditions gradually disappeared.
If you still have no impression of " Shangsi " and "March 3", then there is always a news about " Lanting Preface ".
The ninth year of Yonghe was in Guichou. At the beginning of late spring, I met at the Lanting in the Yin of Kuaiji Mountain and to cultivate the affairs. All the wise men arrived, and young people gathered together. There are high mountains and steep mountains, lush forests and bamboos here; there are also clear and turbulent streams, reflecting the left and right, which is considered the first place to be the second place. Even if there is no prosperity of silk and bamboo orchestra, a cup and chant are enough to express the secluded feelings. On this day, the sky is bright and the air is clear, and the wind is smooth. Looking up at the universe and looking down at the prosperity of the categories, we can enjoy the eyes and make you entertain and enjoy the audio-visual entertainment and make you happy.
"Lanting Preface" partial
"cultivation and cultivation" described in "Lanting Preface" is the custom of Shangsi. It can be said that Wang Xizhi led a group of literati to hold an Lanting rally in Shanyin, Kuaiji, is the most famous Shangsi Festival in history.
literati put on a mat of fruits and melons, covered with flowers and grass, and the surrounding mountains and rivers are beautiful, lush forests and bamboos are built. The weather is refreshing and bright, and the wind is warm and light. The atmosphere is coming, so I recite poems and write them together, which is so unhappy. The literati then dig a curved stream in their yard, install some Taihu stones, and set up a seat to "Qu Shui Liushang".
Drunk Weng Pavilion Garden Qushui Liushang
In ancient times, the "gans and branches" were recorded. The first day of Si in early March was the Shangsi Festival, and the Shangsi Festival in 2019 was April 7.
The oldest custom is not "Qushui Liushang", but "Bathing on the side of the verge of the verge of the spring water, using orchids and aromatherapy medicines into soup, and sprinkle willow branches and orchids on their bodies, meaning to eliminate patients and gain rebirth.
On the day of Shangsi, both the poor and the nobles and nobles had a "spring bathing day". As described in Wang Wei's "The Holy System of Fenghe and the Princes' Kings on March 3rd, the Spring Festival of the Dragon Child" is the Spring Festival of the princes and grandchildren: the story of the Spring Festival of the new palace, and the travel of Yu. The wise king moved the phoenix chariot and the prince came out of the Dragon Tower. The poem covers King Chen's work, and the cup is like the flow of Luo River. The golden man came to hold the sword and painted the steed and went back to the boat. The garden is floating in the palace, and the sky pond shines on the crown. The seal of the palace is on the clouds, and the elephant is hanging over the imperial state.
Du Fu's "Beautiful People": The weather is new on March 3rd, and there are so many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an. The body is thick and the mind is far-reaching and true, the texture is delicate and the bones are even. The embroidered silk clothes shine in late spring, and the golden peacock and silver unicorn are furrowed. What's on the head? The green leaves droop the temples. What can be seen behind the scenes? The beads pressed against the waist and firmly weighed their body. It describes a woman's spring romance.
In addition to the two important customs of burning incense and bathing and reciting poems by water, Shangsi Festival is also a very ancient Valentine's Day. Lovers give each other vanilla, as described in "The Book of Songs·Zheng Feng·Zheng Feng":
年 andZheng Feng, it is only scattered. A scholar and a woman are only at ease. The woman said, "Watch it?" The scholar said that he was right. Besides, I am very happy. Wei Shi and his daughter joked with each other and gave him a spoon of medicine. The verge and the whisper are clear. The scholars and daughters are full of energy. The woman said, "Why do you think?" The scholar said, "I'm right." Besides, I am very happy. Wei Shi and his daughter, I was about to joke and gave him a spoon of medicine.
The general meaning is that the two rivers of Feng and Wu are flowing. Two young men and women surround the river with tourists, laughing and fighting, spreading love to each other, and giving peony and vanilla. They express their love to each other and make a private lifelong decision.
"Shangsi Zhenglan" written by Deng Yunxiao in the Ming Dynasty: "The orchids are green in the water, and the fragrance of the two sides of the river is smelled. After the fragrance of the purse is finished, I want to recommend Yunzhongjun." is the continuation of this allusion.
Of course, in addition to the love between lovers, Shangsi Festival is also the time for men and women to have fun in spring. Therefore, the coordination of yin and yang and the growth of all things is the best day for reproduction - Shangsi, which can be said to be a festival where all things are in the world are happy.
Nowadays, the customs of this festival are lost. On the one hand, is due to the fact that the three festivals of Cold Food, Qingming and Shangsi are too close to , and the customs have most similarities, so they are combined with Qingming; on the other hand, it is due to the conservative Song people after the Song Dynasty, and the wild bathing gradually disappeared, and they often bathed indoors. There is no bathing custom to this day. However, the "Water Splashing Festival" that is still preserved in Yunnan Province today has the shadow of Shangsi.
In ancient my country, Valentine's Day was not the Chinese Valentine's Day, and Shangsi was not many years earlier than Western Valentine's Day. Nowadays, people are more keen to send roses and receive gifts on Western Valentine's Day, but they don't know how romantic the Shangsi Festival in ancient China was! Which is limited to asking for gifts!
such as Ouyang Xiu "Caising Sangzi·Shangsi West Lake is Good" :
The West Lake is Good in Qingming and Shangsi West Lake is Good in Qingming and is full of prosperity. Who is fighting for? Green Willow Zhu Lu Walking car. Tourists are about to leave at dusk, awake and drunk. The road turns to the dike and is slanted. It's always flowers until the city wall.
——People are moving in a stunning city, enjoying flowers on the road, and tourists are everywhere.
is also like Meng Haoran "The Shangsi day, the Jiannanyuan period, Chen Qi, the king of Wangshan, will not arrive" :
, the boat is waiting for the Ming hair, the flower source is in late spring. In the mountains, I remember Xun Chen when I came to the Han Dynasty. In March of the Shangsi period, the floating cup will be full of ten days. Sitting and singing are waiting for nothing, and having fun and regret are not neighbors. On the evening of the day, the north of Lanting, the smoke opens to the Qu Waterfront. When bathing in silkworms, meet a beautiful girl, picking wormwood and are worthy of a secluded person. The stone wall is worthy of preface, and it is easy to solve the problem on the battlefield. The crowd of people can't see it, and they waste this beautiful morning.
——Spring songs carry wine, bathe in silkworms and pick wormwood, and enjoy the fragrant spring.
Let us have more than some such beautiful and romantic festivals, rather than spending money on foreign festivals!
Written by: Qimiaowan
Edited by: Guanru
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