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The Xia Yuan Festival is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, also known as "Xia Yuan Day" and "Xia Yuan". It is one of the traditional Chinese folk festivals.

Xia Yuan Festival

The fifteenth day of the lunar calendar is the ancient Chinese "Xiayuan Festival". At this time, it is the rural harvest season.

According to the Chinese calendar, the lunar calendar is on the 15th of October, and it is also the last moon festival of the year. At this full moon, people have to perform the most important ancestor worship.

The ancient "Xia Yuan Festival", also known as "Xia Yuan Day", "Xia Yuan", "Xia Yuan Birthday" and "Xia Yuan Shuiguan Festival".

About the record of Xia Yuanjie:

"Chinese Customs and Records" also records: "October is the next Yuan Festival, and the custom passes the water palace to relieve the distress, and there are also those who hold fasting chanting."

Song Wu Zimu's "Menglianglu": "(October) the fifteenth day of the emperor's extermination of distress, the palace watch the emperor, set up a fasting imperial concubine, or exile or recommend death."

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Eating habits are an important part of festival customs. In the long-term practice of many festivals, human beings have formed independent and special seasonal foods, such as eating dumplings on the Spring Festival, eating Lantern on the fifteenth day of the month, eating dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival, and eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. Like habits, it is a common emotion and common mentality of the nation. It unifies people's festival behavior and plays an important role in the survival and development of the festival.

The Xia Yuan Festival also has its own unique seasonal food. Take Beijing as an example. Every day after the Xia Yuan Festival, every household has to make "bean paste bone". "Bean puree" is the red bean paste made from red beans. It is Beijing snack "dousha bun". This kind of "bean paste buns" that can be eaten all year round was already Meng Dong's seasonal food in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

Instructions for the next yuan

What needs to be explained in the revival of the next Yuan Festival is that revival here does not mean necessarily

Xia Yuan Festival

It is necessary for all the people to come to the New Year Festival with great fanfare. In fact, the reasonable cultural content of the Xia Yuan Festival can be continued in the times, and the relevant festival folk customs can be selectively inherited, so that people who are interested in this festival have a choice, it should be said that it is already very good.

The next Yuan Festival has a very valuable thing, based on such a beautiful wish: that is to eliminate and resolve the lasting dilemma and suffering in the life course. This kind of life experience cannot be summarized or even suppressed only by "ignorance" and "religious obedience". We consider that if Xia Yuan Festival can be shaped as the "Day of Relief" and "Day of Prayer for Blessings" in the contemporary era, then it is expected to be revived.

Xia Yuanjie Basic Ideas

The activities of worshiping ancestors such as the burning of "gold and silver wallets" should be discarded. Instead, use other more appropriate ways to commemorate the ancestors. The Xiayuan Festival comes from Taoism. In fact, for today's Chinese people, this day is an opportunity to experience the Taoist culture up close. Therefore, the Xia Yuan Festival can also be a feeling day for Taoist culture.

In addition, because the water officer is Dayu, this commemorative activity for Dayu obviously has more positive significance and can be continued as a useful activity for people to experience traditional culture. For the sake of convenience and reality, we may combine the memorial of our ancestors and the worship of Xia Yuanshuiguan into one, and add the two human consciousness of commemorating our ancestors and praying for relief. And through thrifty and convenient customs to achieve this goal.

One issue needs to be clarified here. The worship of Xia Yuan Shui Guan does not mean that he must believe in an idol of Taoism. In fact, we can use Xia Yuan Shui Guan as a religious god in the sense of cultural symbols to express people. The beautiful wish to get rid of distress is enough. It's as if people set off firecrackers to not drive out the monster of the year. The theme of eliminating distress and relieving distress in the next Yuan Festival is especially suitable for carrying out activities that are full of humanity and care, such as inquiring patients and comforting the distressed. The food custom of the Xiayuan Festival can be faithfully inherited, and incorporate the beautiful wishes of people's mutual blessings.

National costume

Xia Yuan Festival is a solemn and solemn national festival, solemnity and restraint are the keynote of the festival. The festive Hanfu worn at this time should adapt to this kind of festival

Xuanyuan Festival (2 photos)

Day atmosphere. Red and green, too festive, too lively Hanfu are not suitable. Taking into consideration, we suggest that in the next Yuan Festival, men can wear a deep-colored, low-dark uniform, and wear more solemn and serious clothes when worshipping. Women can wear dark clothes, skirts and so on.

Xia Yuan practice plan

1. Commemorate the ancestors and loved ones at home: After bathing, put on appropriate clothing, put a few cases in the cleaned home, and place fish and fruits on the sacrifice, and prepare a few wine offerings. On the night of Xuanyuan, burn incense and sacrifice wine in memory of ancestors and loved ones. If there is a courtyard at home, it is better to perform in the courtyard after the moonrise. During worship, appropriate etiquette may be adopted according to the identity of the person being memorialized.

2. Sacrifice Yuan Shuiguan at home, pray to relieve the distress, and live a more comfortable life: you can do it in the same cases. After commemorating the ancestors, I burned incense and sacrificed wine again, and told the Yuan Yuanshui officials about the suffering and troubles of life, and prayed for a more peaceful and smooth way of life. In this process, you can just sit on the mat, and you don't need to worship and other etiquette. In order to create a festive atmosphere, lanterns can be hung under the main hall, next to a few cases, etc. (general lanterns can be used, the lanterns should be solemn and peaceful).

3. Visit the Taoist cultural venues and participate in related festival activities: according to the local conditions, if there are Taoist cultural venues such as Taoist temples, you can go to the aforementioned costumes. Watch and participate in related festival cultural activities in Taoist Temple, and learn about Taoist cultural knowledge. Can go home.

4. Participate in sacrifice activities at Dayu memorial sites in various places: Yu's memorial sites are widely distributed throughout China, with many tombs, temples, and monuments. You can participate in various cultural activities to worship Yu in these places according to the actual situation in each place.

5. Make festive food for the next Yuan Festival at home or give away to relatives and friends: You can steam some hemp buns for the family to eat together, you can make some ravioli, wear Chinese clothes to give relatives and friends, and say some soothing distressed and auspicious wishes.

6. Visit patients in distress and bless them: you can bring Xiayuan holiday food at the same time.

7. Conduct outdoor activities such as "water color": multiple people can participate. They all wore Chinese clothes and cruised on the rivers and lakes on the moonrise. It can also place sacrifices on the boat, set up musical instruments, hang lanterns, carry out the aforementioned activities to commemorate the ancestors, sacrifice to the Yuan Shuiguan, and pray and bless, and to eat Xia Yuan festival food. It is especially suitable for inviting relatives and friends such as the sick (who can travel) and distressed people who have experienced misfortunes to pray and relieve them collectively, soothe sickness, relax the body and mind, and pray for happiness.