The custom of paradise day.

Sunlight, also known as "June 6th", "Back to Mother's Day" and "King of Insects Day". "June 6th" is a small festival with few activities, mainly including hiding water, hanging clothes, reading classics, women returning to their parents' homes, bathing people and animals, and praying for sunny days. There is a legend in Han nationality. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Hu Yan, the Qing Dynasty in the State of Jin, was arrogant and arrogant, which made her in-laws very angry. One year, when Jin suffered a disaster, Gu Yan left the capital to put food. The son-in-law wants to use Gu Yan's birthday to avenge his father and kill Gu Yan. After the daughter knew it, she rushed back to her family on a starry night to prepare her father. Gu Yan released grain and returned to the city, knowing that he had done something bad, and he regretted it. Not only did he not blame his son-in-law, but he also corrected his mistake. After that, every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Gu Yan will take her son-in-law and daughter home for reunion. Later, it spread to the Han nationality and gradually became a festival for women to return to their parents' homes, also known as menstruation Festival.

It is common for a daughter to go back to her parents' house, but when she can go back depends on whether her husband's family can leave. For example, during busy farming seasons and festivals, her daughter must live in her husband's house. However, during the slack season in June of the lunar calendar, it provided convenient conditions for her daughter to return to her family. There is a folk saying that "menstruation is invited on June 6th". Therefore, it is an important part of Halloween for women to return to their parents' homes. At this time, the child should follow his mother to grandma's house, and when he comes back, he will print a red mark on his forehead as a sign of avoiding evil and seeking happiness. Women in Henan go back to their parents' homes to worship their ancestors and have children. Women should dig four pits next to their ancestral graves, and put jiaozi as a grave-sweeping sacrifice in each pit. In addition, at the temple fair in Yuzhong, Gansu Province, on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, women seeking to raise children should kneel beside Taibai Spring, take out stones from the water and wrap them in red cloth to pray for their children. Regarding the origin of Tianzan Festival, it is believed that Taoist Buddha gave books to the world at the beginning. Among the Han people, it is said that Xuan Nv gave Song Jiang a heavenly book to help the poor. It is precisely because of a legend that the gobbledygook falls on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, saying that this day is the day when dragons bask in scales. It was sunny and sunny, and it was midsummer. Rainy days are bad for books and clothes, so as long as it is sunny, you should dry it. There is a folk proverb in Henan province: "On June 6th, the clothes are dry, and it will be sunny for forty-five days." At this time, there is a custom of drying clothes, utensils and books from Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and even people's homes. On this day, women wash their hair more and blow dogs, kittens and other pets into the water to take a bath.

There is also the custom of hiding well water on June 6. This kind of clothes hanging by hiding water is a good folk custom that pays attention to summer hygiene. In a year, there are two most threatening seasons for the old, the weak and the sick: midsummer and the twelfth lunar month. At this time, the mortality rate is high and there are many patients. Special attention should be paid to the safety of people and animals on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. On June 6, Shandong Linqu area offered sacrifices to mountain gods, praying that "men are not afraid to walk, and women are not afraid to walk evil". Elephants are the most popular ornamental animals in the past, and they are also used in acrobatic performances. Elephants must take a bath on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. Elephants are often used as auspicious symbols in Han folk auspicious patterns. Besides washing elephants, other livestock are also washed. The Zhuang people in Guangxi take June 6th as the festival of cattle soul, during which they bathe, rest and feed all kinds of good feed. Another way is to use witchcraft. When the heavy rain is coming, if it is cloudy, the children in the boudoir and paper-cuts hang on the left side of the door, which is called "sweeping mother". This is a kind of witchcraft, trying to disperse the dark clouds with a sweeper to usher in a sunny day. This kind of witchcraft paper-cut is widely spread in northern China, such as in Longdong area, which is called "Tianpo", "Tianpo" and "Yunpo". These people are all women, with outstretched arms, holding a broom or a branch in each hand and making gestures to drive away sex.

In addition, there are many recreational activities on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, mainly dragon boat rowing in Guangdong. In Shandong, people think that the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is the birthday of the lotus, so they appreciate and pick the lotus during the festival and sell a lot of lotus toys in the market. Women and children also like to dye their nails with their flower juice. The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is also the Insect King Festival of the Han nationality. In order to pray for the safety of people and animals and produce a bumper harvest, there were many religious activities on June 6. For example, there is Bala Temple Fair in Gaizhou, Liaoning Province, which is an activity of expelling insects and praying for rain. There are several arhats in Guo Shan Temple that can predict good or bad luck. Han people in Shandong hold a temple fair in Dongyue on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. This day is also King Mai's birthday. The local Han people also believe that the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is the birthday of jellyfish. When it rains that day, jellyfish will have a bumper harvest. In June, pests, especially locusts, posed a great threat to agriculture. Ancient locusts are one of the biggest agricultural disasters. On the one hand, people actively catch locusts, such as catching them with fire, nets, burying them with soil and surrounding people, and trying their best to destroy them. On the other hand, they offered sacrifices to the king of insects, such as the young Miao God, general Liu Meng and Qiu Wei. , are all enshrined in various places. At the same time, various witchcraft methods are also used to drive away insects. Torch Festival is generally celebrated in southwest minority areas. Traditionally, it seems that it originated from the struggle for kingship within Nanzhao, but it is actually related to the use of fire to prevent disasters. Today, when the locals celebrate the Torch Festival, they still hold torches and March in fields and corners in order to drive away pests.

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, summer leisure begins, and women spin and weave clothes to prepare for winter. The Heavenly Sacrifice is an annual festival in Dabie Mountain area, which regulates the harmony between man and nature and between man and himself through the way of summer slack season, damp heat and Han folk festivals when crops are first ripe. Since 20 10, the first Dabie Mountain Tianlong Culture Festival has been successfully held, which has attracted great attention from many media. In order to deeply and persistently inherit and carry forward the simple folk culture of Dabie Mountain, Tiantangzhai Scenic Area decided to hold a festival every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, so that folk culture can be integrated into tourism, become attached to the public and glow with new vitality.

Tiantangzhai is like a bright green pearl, shining in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain. Tiantangzhai is located at the junction of Hubei and Anhui counties. The elevation of the main peak is1729.13m, which is one of the main peaks in Dabie Mountain and Jianghuai watershed. Tiantangzhai has the mountain style of "Southern Xiongbei Xiuxiu" in Dabie Mountain. The peaks, rocks, trees, flowers and clouds in the scenic area complement each other and are full of movement. Tiantangzhai is the last virgin forest in East China, with a forest coverage rate as high as 96.5%, ranking among the best in the national scenic spots. Its 108 relay waterfall scenic spot is rich in water and has different postures, with a drop of more than 50 meters as much as 18, which is unique in East China. Tiantangzhai has successively won the titles of National Forest Park, National Geopark, National Nature Reserve, National Geopark and National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction. On July 6th, the second Tianlong Folk Culture Festival in China Tiantangzhai (Anhui) kicked off, and dozens of media rushed to the scene to report. Gu Jianhua, general manager of Tiantangzhai Scenic Area, said that the form of this activity is "six ones": the first China Dabie Mountain Tiantangzhai Tourism Forum; Opening ceremony and cultural performances; A girl-picking blind date activity of "finding Dabie Mountain and setting a paradise village"; Folk art performances (picking baskets, playing with sticks, etc.) ); Visit Tian Li Cultural Canyon (Baima Grand Canyon); Tian Li Folk Drifting Experience Tour.

According to reports, Tiantangzhai Scenic Area, based on the theme of "eco-sightseeing, leisure and vacation", has invested in the development of Baima Grand Canyon and six scenic spots, implemented the first-line viewing facilities, leisure facilities and the restoration of ancient village elements in the main peak, newly opened tourist routes in the scenic spot, built the Dabie Mountain National Geopark Museum, relocated and renovated the front headquarters of Liu Dengjun, and built new gates, tourist roads and ecological parking lots.

As an important part of Dabie Mountain red tourist area, Tiantangzhai Scenic Area skillfully combines red tourism with eco-tourism, making "Red Dabie Mountain and Green Tiantangzhai" truly worthy of the name and complement each other.

Yu, deputy general manager of Tiantangzhai Scenic Area, told the reporter that on the morning of the weather festival, the scenic area presented wonderful cultural performances, including song and dance "Weather Festival Song", dance "Everyday Sweet", song and dance "Ancient Rhyme Tiantangzhai" and calligraphy performance.

In addition, the leaders of the scenic spot also announced four honorary villagers of Tiantangzhai: Xu Guixiang, a military writer who loves his hometown landscape, Zhou Sen, a charity ambassador from Dabie Mountain, Shi Hongyu, a pioneer of Tiantangzhai tourism culture, and Wang Zhiping, the discoverer of Tiantangzhai tourism resources.

With the development of tourism and the promotion of scenic spots, the popularity, reputation and influence of Tiantangzhai have also increased. The number of tourists in the park shows a strong growth trend, with 455,400 in 2009 and 600,000 in 2065,438+00. The number of tourists in the park shows a strong growth trend every year.

Now, the horn made by Tiantangzhai 5A has sounded. In the future, we should aim at building a famous tourist town, adhere to the principle of "paying equal attention to management and development, paying equal attention to software and hardware", strengthen internal quality, shape external image, adopt more flexible marketing strategies, establish a diversified and all-round tourism marketing system, and build a brand of Tiantangzhai, so as to heat up the tourism market and tourism products. June 6th, please aunt. In the past, on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, rural customs invited married girls, old and young, to receive them well and then send them back.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a prime minister named Hu Yan in the State of Jin. He is a hero who protects and follows Wen Gong Zhong 'er into exile in other countries. He is very clever and respected by the state of Jin. Every time Hu Yan celebrates his birthday on the sixth day of June, there are always countless people giving him birthday gifts. In this way, HuYan slowly became proud. After a long time, people are not satisfied with him. However, Hu Yanquan is so powerful that people dare to get angry with him.

Hu Yan's daughter and in-laws were the heroes at that time. He was disgusted with what Hu Yan had done, so he called a spade a spade. But Hu Yan refused to listen to the well-meaning words and scolded her in-laws in public. Zhao was old and weak, and soon he died. His son hates his father-in-law and is determined to avenge his father.

In the second year, the summer grain in Shanxi suffered a disaster, and Hu Yan left Beijing to release grain. When he left, he said that he would definitely come back for his birthday on the sixth day of June. Hu Yan's son-in-law got the news and decided to hold a birthday party on the sixth day of June to kill Hu Yan and avenge his father. Hu Yan's son-in-law sees his wife. Ask her: "Does everyone in the world hate people like my father-in-law?" Hu Yan's daughter was also very angry with her father's behavior, so she replied smoothly, "Even I hate him. Why should I say anything about others?" Her husband told the plan. On hearing this, his wife turned red and white and said, "I belong to your family, and I don't care about my mother's family." It's up to you! "

Since then, Hu Yan's daughter has been in fear all day. She hates her father for being arrogant and heartless to her in-laws. But then I remembered my father's kindness, and my own daughter was not immune from destruction. She finally ran back to her mother's house on the fifth day of June and told her husband's plan. Mother was frightened and quickly wrote to Hu Yan overnight.

Hu Yan's son-in-law saw his wife escape and knew that the secret was exposed. He stayed at home and waited for Hu Yan to clean himself up.

On the morning of the sixth day of June, Hu Yan personally came to her in-laws' house. When Hu Yan met his son-in-law, as if nothing had happened, Weng Xu and his wife immediately returned to the Prime Minister's office. At that year's birthday party, Hu Yan said: "I have been delivering meals all this year, witnessed the sufferings of the people, and I know that I have done something wrong in recent years. Today, my husband set me up. Although he was too vicious, he didn't do it. He did it for the people as well as for his father. I will never blame him. My daughter saved her father's crisis and did her filial piety, which is worthy of my worship. And I hope that my good husband will look at me, regardless of hatred, and the two sides will make up! " Since then, Hu Yan has really changed, and Weng Xu is closer than before. In order to remember this lesson forever, Hu Yan invites her daughter and son-in-law to reunite every June 6th. The matter was publicized, and the people followed suit. They also took back their daughter on June 6, which should be good luck to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters. As we grow older, we become accustomed to each other, which has been passed down to this day. People call it "Aunt's Day".

In northern Shaanxi, there is a custom of "cooking mutton with new wheat buns on June 6, June 6". At the beginning of June, it was the time when wheat harvested sheep fat, and the intense harvest season had just ended. In order to celebrate the bumper harvest, the cultivators took their daughters back to their parents' home, and it became a pleasure for the whole family to get together and enjoy family happiness.

There are also sayings such as "June 6th, everyone dries clothes" and "June 6th, dogs take a bath". The temperature is the highest in June of the lunar calendar, and people and animals are prone to illness, so the Han people take this festival to advocate the cleanliness of people and animals. The annual Song Festival held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is a traditional festival of Miao people in Fenghuang, Hunan and Songtao, Guizhou. At that time, young Miao men and women dressed in festive costumes will gather in the concert hall to enjoy singing and dancing.

The song club has a long history and various legends. One theory is that the local Miao people lived a very difficult life under feudal rule. On the sixth day of June one year, they fought resolutely against the officers and men who came to collect grain, repelled the officers and men and saved the thatched cottage. But later, under the siege of a large number of officers and men, the Miao people were brutally killed. In the future, on this day, they will get together and hold a song party to remember the heroes and heroes.

Another way of saying it is to commemorate loyal love. Song contest is the main content of the song meeting, and antithesis singing is the main way for Miao people to express their love and choose lovers. On the festival day, the boys rushed to the music scene, playing lusheng, suona, flute and other musical instruments. The girls wore clothes embroidered with famous flowers and butterflies, and accompanied them to the concert hall with wide lace and dazzling silver ornaments. The collective duet with the village as the unit, each looking for an opponent to compete, has various forms. After repeated contests, the "king of songs" was finally produced. King of songs, everyone loves him. Half-year festival is a traditional folk festival of Yao nationality, which is held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year.

Legend has it that a long time ago, the Yao people living in the mountains were busy hunting and farming all day, forgot to sacrifice to the gods and did not burn incense for many years. Immortals from all directions can't enjoy sacrifices and smell incense, so they are very unwilling. They all went to heaven to tell the Jade Emperor about the Yao family. The Jade Emperor was very angry when he heard that he sent malaria gods and scar gods to work on earth, but it was only one year, and the Yao family could not lose them. Two plague gods came to Yaoshan, where malaria, loach dysentery, strangulation dysentery and other plagues immediately ran rampant. The Yao family suffered a lot. One day in May, two athel lorens were chatting under a pomegranate tree, which was heard by Pan's boss. They learned that the two atheletes of plague would not leave until after the New Year. They were in a hurry, but they soon came up with a good idea. On the sixth day of June, on the birthday of Gonggong Tugong, the Yao family killed chickens and ducks, pigs and sheep, posted couplets, set off firecrackers, sang Yao songs and visited relatives and friends, just like the Chinese New Year. The two atheletes of plague were very strange, and they discussed under the pomegranate tree again, but the Pan family's second child heard them. Only then did I know that the god of plague didn't eat radishes and didn't see heavy snow, so I became suspicious. So every household cooked a large pot of gourds, deliberately told the wretched to eat "radish" everywhere, and sprinkled lime on the fields and houses. This intelligence took two plagues and returned to the Heavenly Palace early. People can be healthy, and the millet for half a year is particularly full. So the custom of the first half of June was handed down.

On this day every year, the Yao family will sprinkle lime, set off firecrackers and put up couplets, hoping that people and animals will be safe and the grain will be plentiful. Xianglang Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. It is held from the fourth day to the seventeenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. "Xianglang" is a Tibetan language, which means "walk around a place and ask God to bless you".

During the festival, Tibetan men, women and children came to grasslands and alpine forests to set up tents, slaughter cattle and sheep, prepare fragrant tea and set up wine to celebrate the festival. Riders ride horses and yaks to participate in horse racing, yak racing, archery and "elephant tug of war" and other activities. Young men and women sang passionate toast song, danced cheerful pottery dances, and performed Tibetan operas in the sound of cymbals, gongs and suona. Insect King Festival is a traditional festival of Manchu, which is held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

On the day of the festival, each family sent a person to worship at the Insect King Temple. People slaughtered pigs and sheep and sacrificed to the king of insects, praying that the king of insects would not suffer from insect pests and let the crops have a good harvest. Those who stay at home, rummage through the closet to hang clothes to prevent insects from eating them. June 6th, also known as "respecting Pangu" and "celebrating the New Year", is a grand traditional festival of Buyi people. June 6th can be celebrated on any day of the sixth, sixteenth and 26th day of the sixth lunar month every year. In some places, there is a festival on June 16 or June 26, which is called "June Field" or "June Bridge".

Buyi people slaughter pigs and cows on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month (the anniversary of Pangu's death) and make zongzi to worship their ancestors. On June 6th, Buyi people like to eat glutinous rice and glutinous rice cakes and drink glutinous rice wine, and every household should kill dogs to celebrate.

During the festival, women carry baskets full of zongzi and visit relatives and friends from one village to another. Young men and women wear national costumes, hold flutes or erhu, and blow leaves with their mouths. They came to the square in droves and held activities such as singing duets, throwing flower bags and catching watches.

There are different legends about the origin of festivals. According to a legend, Pangu, the ancestor of Buyi nationality, was good at planting rice in early human days, and taught the local people the techniques of planting rice. Later, Pangu married Wang Hailong's daughter and gave birth to a son named Hong Xin. Pangu died a few years later on the sixth day of June. In memory of his teaching rice planting techniques, people hold sacrificial activities on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year. Another legend is that the local tyrant Sanliu of Xingyi County colluded with Si Liu, the landlord of Longguang University, and massacred and plundered the Buyi people in Anlong at the beginning of June in the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870). After a heroic struggle, he finally won on the sixth day of June. In order to commemorate this struggle, Buyi people set this day as the biggest festival of the year. Laundry Festival is a traditional festival of Yao nationality in Pan Yao, Guiping, Guangxi, which is held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

On the festival day, it was very lively. In the early morning, every family slaughtered chickens and ducks and held a celebration party. After the banquet, the whole family mobilized to take the quilt, clothes, shoes, boxes and cabinets outside the house to dry, then turn them over for an hour or two, and then move the clothes back to the main room to cool and put them back in their original places. When the sun is about to set, the whole village will wave to thank the sun. Flower Festival is a traditional festival of Tu, Hui, Dongxiang, Salar and Baoan nationalities in Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai provinces. It is held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year for five days.

"Flower" is a kind of folk songs, also known as "Youth". The lyrics of "Flower" are mostly improvised, with duets and solos, and the content is rich and colorful. There is a beautiful legend about "flowers". It is said that a long time ago, there were five beautiful Turkish sisters, each with a silvery voice. Every time they sing Flowers, everything is fascinated. Many handsome guys came to sing with them, but after three days and nights, the boys were defeated one by one. On the fourth morning, five colorful clouds floated from the place where the sun rose and took away five sisters. Later, people said that the five sisters were named "flower fairies" and sang "flowers" for the Jade Emperor every day. In memory of them, people held an annual "Flower Show".

During the "Flower Festival", the local Tu, Hui, Dongxiang, Salar and Baoan people came to the party wearing distinctive national costumes and brought tents and cakes. The crowd kept flowing. At the meeting, everyone played songs and exchanged ideas with each other. Many artists come here to collect life materials and write articles, which further expands the influence of the "Flower Festival" and makes it a famous singing event at home and abroad.