Tianchuan Festival is a traditional festival in China. The festival time varies slightly from place to place, including the seventh, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-third day of the first month. As a memorial day for the people of China to commemorate the goddess of mending the sky to save mankind, it is also a festival for ancient people to look forward to good weather, prosperity of everything, bumper harvest of agriculture and happiness and peace.
Among the folk festivals in China, the only folk festival in which housewives offer sacrifices reflects the importance of ancient women in family life.
Introduction:
There is an ancient traditional festival in China in Guanzhong area, called Batian Festival, as well as Queen's Day and Wapo Festival. According to legends and local relics, this festival originated from Mount Li in Lintong.
In some places, it is the twentieth day of the first month, and in some places it is the twenty-third day of the first month. It is said that the former is the birthday of Nu Wa, and the latter is the day when the goddess fills the sky. On festivals, elderly housewives will make pancakes or make pancakes with noodles. The cake is round and thin, and it is called "Tianbu cake".
The ceremony of mending the sky and land is very simple. A cake tied with red silk thread is thrown on the roof to symbolize mending the sky, and another cake falls into the well or corner of the yard to symbolize mending the ground. After the ceremony, the whole family did not eat bread.
Today, the rocks behind the Shiweng Temple in Shandong are still red. According to China folklore, it is a five-color stone refined by Nuwa Mountain. In the rural areas around Lishan Mountain, the "Festival of Mending Heaven and Land" is celebrated on the 20th day of the first lunar month every year. Every family spreads pancakes and throws one at home before it is ripe, which is called mending the sky. If you put another piece on the ground, it's called mending the ground.
These are all ways to commemorate Nu Wa, so that people will always remember the merits of Nu Wa's salvation. Huaqingchi Hot Spring at the foot of Lishan Mountain is famous at home and abroad. Why are there hot springs here? China folklore goes like this: When Nu Wa burns five-colored stones, the fire reflects the sky and illuminates the earth.
The fire was absorbed by the sun god, and the sun brightened again, and the four seasons kept shining on the world; The hot air was absorbed by the groundwater in Mount Li, and the water became a hot spring flowing in all seasons, and this hot spring became magical because of the magic of Nu Wa.