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The Ama Rose Book Club

🇨🇳 New Book Alert🇨🇳Chinese Legends - Chinese Zodiac, Mid Autumn Festival & Dragon Boat Festival🇨🇳 M Kan & H Wang🇨🇳

The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac Animals💫The Legend of Chang Er & Mid Autumn Festival💫The Legend of Qu Yuan & Dragon Boat Festival💫

Three classic Chinese legends in one beautifully illustrated book.

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"L'umanità viene dall'oceano, ecco perché le lacrime e il sangue delle persone sono salati come il mare. Dal momento in cui nascono, le vite degli uomini sono in viaggio verso casa, sebbene non ne siano consapevoli. Pensano di seguire un percorso scelto da loro, si incontrano, si separano; alcuni invecchiano, altri no. Ma quando muoiono la voce del mare parla alla loro anima richiamandoli indietro e ognuno nuota fino al proprio destino." 上右有大椿考、以八千歳為春、八千歳為秋。 #bigfishandbegonia #movie #quote #chineselegends https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpj62rvH7XDcNs9My4cSTs3lKmyhBfrSWbDIPM0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10sns4ab8xmnw

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Tomb Sweeping Day, a Spring Day. Tomb Sweeping Day is how Chinese people named Qingming Festival (请明节), actually tomb sweeping is considered the most important custom during this day. So it's not the Chinese version of Halloween or a new movie released by Tim Burton, don't let your imagination run wild... It generally falls on the 4th or 5th of April according to the Gregorian calendar and it's one of the Chinese Twenty-four Solar Terms. What is it? Let me explain you more, Solar Terms are a calendar of 24 periods to govern agricultural arrangements in Ancient China, the most significant days are summer and winter solstice, spring and autumn equinoxes. So the Festival is closely related to agriculture, because it indicates the rising of temperatures and the rainfall increasing as a crucial time for plowing and sowing. So why should Chinese people call it Tomb Sweeping Day? It's not only a seasonal matter, it's a day of paying respect to deads. Its origins date back to the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), the Festival seems held to commemorate a loyal man named Jie Zitui. The legend tells about Prince Chong'er who was exiled after a fight. One day the Prince was starving to death, Jie Zitui saw him and secretly decided to cut a piece of meat from his own leg to prepare a soup to save his hungry Lord. The Prince promised to reward him at the end of his exile. After 19 years the Lord could come back to his Kingdom and took power as Duke Wan of the State of Jin, but didn't look for Jie who retired with his mother on the top of the mountain called Mianshan (绵山). Later on somebody talked to the Duke about Jie, he felt ashamed, because he totally forgot him. He tried to convince him to come to his court to confer him a title, but Jin wasn't the kind of person who liked to be rewarded. So he decided to find him and ordered to set on fire the mountain to force him to come out of hiding. Unfortunately Jie was found dead with his mother, therefore the Lord decided to name Hanshi (cold food) Festival the day Jie was found dead and ordered that only cold food could be eaten. After one year the Lord came back to the mountain and found out that some willow revived. That day he took the decision that after Hanshi Festival, QingMing, which means Pure Brightness, one of the Solar Terms, should be celebrated. Later the two festivals have been united in one. Tomb sweeping is still the most important custom during this Festival, so people generally clean tombs, add fresh soil and offer dead person's favorite food and wine along with paper resembling money. All these offerings are burned because the dead person must not lack of food and money, and recently all the more weird luxuries objects can be found to be burned. A second traditional custom that dates back to the Tang Dinasty (618-907 BC) is spring outing. Spring is the best season to go out, to enjoy flowers blossom and sun shining and you must know that Chinese people are strong promoters of healthy mind in a healthy body. As you might know Chinese people are also attentive on the subjects like food, a special affinity that makes them really close to Italian people, so you may wonder: What do they eat during this Festival? Please don't try to guess...they don't eat noodles!, but Qingtuan (青团) a sticky green little cake, which maybe are you curious to taste?!