Tag Archives: sacrifice
Representative Works (4)
Miao Jin Feng(Embroidery of Golden Phoenix) is a feature-length traditional piece of SuzhouTanci. According to playbooks handed down from early days, the piece was perhaps created before the Guangxu reign (1875-1909) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Miao Jin Fengtells about the love story of Xu Huilan, an intellectual in Suzhou of Zhejiang Province. The dramatics [...]
Taoism and Folk Customs
As a Chinese native religion, Taoism has a close relationship with Chinese folk customs. With the development of Taoism, it has become deep-rooted in, and the practices of, the ordinary people. This can be seen both in Taoist religious festivals and sacrifice-offerings. There are many Taoist festivals, and quite a few of them have evolved [...]
Xiaonian
Small annual traditional festivals of China’s Han, also known as Xiaonian (literally, Small Year), is the day offering sacrifice to the kitchen god – the stoves Kings in traditional Chinese culture – and also the beginning of Chinese New Year. As for the festival, different dates are in different places that in ancient times, there [...]
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