What is the origin of the next Yuan Festival?

The origin of the next Yuan Festival is related to Taoism. There are three kinds of Taoist officials, namely, heavenly officials, local officials, water officials and God bless the people. Local officials forgive sins and water conservancy officials relieve Eritrea. The dates of birth of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October. These three days are called Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival.

Shangyuan Festival is what we call Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, Zhongyuan Festival is what we call Ghost Festival on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, while Xiayuan Festival is generally forgotten, and the related folk customs are hardly obvious. It needs to be revived. Let excellent cultural content be passed down.

Seasonal food

Dietary customs are an important part of holiday customs.

In the long-term practice of numerous festival activities, human beings have formed independent and special seasonal foods, such as eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival, Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Like other customs and habits, it is the national unity of people's holiday behaviors with the same feelings and mentality, which plays an important role in the survival and development of festivals.

The next Yuan Festival also has its own unique seasonal food. Take Beijing as an example. Next Lantern Festival, every household will make "red bean paste and bone flowers". "Bean paste" is the "bean paste stuffing" made by adzuki beans. This is a Beijing snack "bean paste buns". This kind of "bean paste buns" that can be eaten all year round has been a seasonal food for Meng Dong in October in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.