Situated in Eerlitou(二里头èrlĭtóu) Village in Yanshi City close to Luoyang City, Henan Province, Eerlitou Site is the relics of the capital of the Xia Dynasty (around 2070-1600BC), the first dynasty in China of ancient times. It consists of three natural villages in Yanshi City – Eerlitou, Gedangtou and Sijiaolou, and covers an area of 4 million square meters. Unearthed from the site are foundational address of large-scale palaces, large-sized workshops for bronze metallurgy, relics of pottery and bone making, as well as architectures in relation to religious worship and over 400 graves, which jointly demonstrate that Erlitou Site was the capital during the reign of four emperors in the Xia Dynasty: Taikang, Kongjia, Dihao and Xiajie, and the political, military, economic and cultural center of the Xia Dynasty.
Category: Chinese customs
什么是处暑？
处暑，是二十四节气之中的第14个节气，在8月23日前后，太阳到达黄经150°。
《月令七十二候集解》：“七月中，处，止也，暑气至此而止矣。”此后中国长江以北地区气温逐渐下降。
此时太阳正运行到了狮子座的轩辕十四星近旁。夜晚观北斗七星，弯弯的斗柄还是指向“申”(西南方向)。处暑的“处”是指“终止”，处暑的意义是“夏天暑热正式终止”。所以有俗语说：争秋夺暑，是指立秋和处暑之间的时间，虽然秋季在意义上已经来临，但夏天的暑气仍然未减。尽管早晚已有些浓重的凉意，北京地区白昼的时间也减少到了13小时25分钟。
Qiqiao Festival / Double Seventh Festival
Qiqiao Festival (Chinese:乞巧节), or Double Seventh Festival (Chinese:七夕节), is known as Chinese Valentine’s Day nowadays, which is a most romantic festival in China particularly popular among young girls.
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival (Chinese:端午节), or Duanwu Festival in Chinese, is a grand and statutory festival celebrated on the May 5th of the Chinese lunar calendar. Dragon Boat Festival has a history of about 2500 years according to the popular story saying that it is a festival to commemorate the great patriotic poet Quanyuan (339BC- 278BC) of Chu State in Warring States Period (475BC- 221BC).
Qingming festival / Tomb Sweeping Day
Tomb-sweeping Festival (Chinese:清明节), or Qingming Festival in Chinese, is a festival to worship ancestors and deceased relatives in China usually falls on April 4 or April 5. Tomb-sweeping Festival can be traced back to Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770BC- 256BC), with a history of over 2500 years. According to the tradition, people eat cold food during this festival.
Winter Solstice Festival
Origin of the Festival
The Winter Solstice Festival, which comes on December 22nd or December 23rd, is also called "Winter Festival". According to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, one year can be divided into 24 solar terms, and the Winter Solstice is one. Since China is located in the Northern Hemisphere and the sun shines directly on Tropic of Capricorn on that day, the day of the Northern Hemisphere is the shortest all the year around on this day. Then the sun moves towards the Tropic of Cancer gradually after, the daytime of China being longer and longer. Therefore, the Winter Solstice is one of the most important solar terms. After this festival, the "yang" (a term of the principle in nature) will start slowly picked up.
Laba Rice Porridge Festival
In China, December of the lunar calendar is called the La month, so the date of December 8th is also the Laba Festival. It is a traditional festival of China that is regarded as the preface of the Spring Festival.
Double Ninth Festival / Chongyang Festival
Double Ninth Festival (Chinese:重阳节), or Chongyang Festival in Chinese, occurs on the 9th day of 9th lunar month. It is celebrated for over 2000 years but officially defined as a festival during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). As the development in modern times, the Double Ninth Festival gradually to be celebrated also as a Elder Day for young people to show their respects to the elderly as double nine symbolize the longevity in Chinese culture.
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-autumn Day (Chinese:中秋节), or Mid-autumn Festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the lunar August, the middle of the autumn, usually happens between the early September to early October in western calendar. Mid-autumn Day is a big traditional festival just second to Spring Festival and is celebrated world wide among Chinese. It is also a reunion festival related to the moon and the beautiful legend of Chang E (Chinese:嫦娥), a beauty lives in the moon.
Ghost Festival / Zhongyuan Festival
Ghost Festival (Chinese:鬼节), or Zhongyuan Festival (Chinese:中元节) in Chinese, is specified at the date of July 15th in Chinese lunar calendar, though it is celebrated on various dates of lunar July in different regions.
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