What do Shangyuan, Zhongyuan and Xia Yuan mean?

1, Shangyuan: the name of the festival. According to custom, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is Shangyuan Festival, also called Lantern Festival.

Quote: Song Dynasty's "Good Things Near, Spring Rain as Fine as Dust": Beauty has no intention of lighting, and tears lean on Yao and Se.

Beauty cut lanterns on the Lantern Festival, and because of grief and indignation, she had to lean on the harp and shed tears.

2. Central Plains: refers to the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th of the lunar calendar.

Quote: Shen Congwen's autobiography of an old soldier: "This day is the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th, and I remember it clearly. I went to the river to get some paper money, water, wine and white meat to pay homage to the river ghost. "

3. Xia Yuan: The name of this festival. In the past, the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month was the next Lantern Festival.

Quote from: Pan Qingrong-bi's October Peace Period of Emperor Jingdi: "On the fifteenth day of the Yuan Dynasty, the monastic classes began to live in peace until the 25th day of the first month of the following year."

From October 15th of the lunar calendar, temples arrange related courses, and on the 25th of the first month of the following year, it happens to be a hundred days.

Extended information holiday source:

1, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "night", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after Sui. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao.

2. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Taoism has a "ternary theory", so it is named "Central Plains" because "Heaven officials bless Yuan, local officials forgive Yuan, and water officials relieve Yuan". Buddhism calls July and a half the "Kasahara Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, the rulers respected Taoism, and the Taoist Mid-Autumn Festival became popular, and gradually fixed the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as the name of the festival, which was set on July 15 and has continued to this day.

3. October 15th of the lunar calendar is Xia Yuan Festival, also known as Xia Yuan Day and Xia Yuan Day. It is one of the traditional folk festivals in China, and its origin is related to Taoism.

Taoism has three officials, namely, heaven official, earth official and water official, which is called God bless the people. Local officials forgive sins and water conservancy officials relieve Eritrea. The dates of birth of these three officials are the 15th day of the first month, the 15th day of July and the 15th day of October of the lunar calendar, which are called Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival. The next Yuan Festival is a day when officials of the Ministry of Water Affairs and the Emperor Urgu solve problems, commonly known as the Festival.

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