Shanghai hosts ancient Shangsi Festival

Students from Shanghai University perform traditional Chinese customs while celebrating the Shangsi Festival in Shanghai on March 30, 2014. [Photo/icpress]

An event celebrating the over six-hundred-year-old Chinese Shangsi Festival was held at Swan Lake at the Daqian Ecological Manor in Shanghai, March 30, 2014. Students from the Environmental Protection Group of Shanghai University wearing Han Chinese clothing performed a series of traditional Chinese cultural customs, such as passing a flower while a drum beats and archery, raising a curtain of the “Daqian Shangsi Outing Season.” The Shangsi Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, is one of the oldest traditional Chinese festivals celebrated on the third day of the third month of the Chinese Lunar calendar. During the festival people go for walks by the water, go on picnics and pick orchids. It is also a day for invoking cleansing rituals to prevent diseases and guard against bad luck.

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