The emperor's birthday is called Wanshou Festival, which is a national holiday. Celebrating the emperor's birthday is an important ceremony in the Qing Dynasty. On the birthday, the emperor's palace received royal greetings and contributions from princes and officials. Slaughtering is forbidden on Wanshou Festival, and the names of criminals are ignored for several days before and after, and all civil and military officials have to wear embroidered robes to make up their clothes. On this day, craftsmen in Beijing filled the main streets with colorful paintings and cloth, singing and dancing everywhere. Hundreds of officials from all over the country set up incense tables and presented gifts to the capital. Longevity is the beginning of being a monarch. Wanshou Festival refers to the birthday of the monarch in feudal times. China ruled the world with filial piety, so the emperor's birthday, as the "parents of the people", has been attached great importance by all dynasties. In China, the custom of celebrating birthdays began very early, and the word "shou" appeared in various ways in inscriptions on bronze, which indicated that celebrating birthdays was popular in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Before the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's birthday had not yet formed a fixed festival, so there was no special etiquette to celebrate the emperor's birthday. In the seventeenth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (729), Yao, the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, and the prime minister led a hundred officials to a banquet. Please regard the fifth day of Xuanzong's birthday as "Qian Qiu Festival". Since then, except Dezong, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty have their own birthday names. For example, Su Zong's birthday is called "Tiancheng Diping Festival" and Wu Zong's birthday is called "Qingyang Festival" and so on. The names of French emperors' birthdays in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were only called Wanshou Festival, and there were many names in history, such as Qian Qiu Festival, Tianchang Festival, Tianping Festival, Qingcheng Festival and Jiahui Festival in the Tang Dynasty. Post-Jin festival; Jiaqing Festival in the Later Han Dynasty; Tomb-Sweeping Day in the following week; The Spring Festival, Ganming Festival, Shouning Festival, Chengtian Festival, Gan Yuan Festival, Shousheng Festival, Tiantong Festival, Xinglong Festival, Tianning Festival and Ganlong Festival were celebrated in the Song Dynasty. The famous Millennium celebration in Liao Dynasty; The festival of Jin dynasty; Ming sheng festival in yuan dynasty. Almost every emperor's birthday has a different name. On the birthday of the emperor, the whole country has a three-day holiday and a celebration is held. "The ruling and opposition parties have fun together." In the capital, princes celebrated the emperor's birthday, presented wine and nectar and various gifts, and the emperor also rewarded hundreds of officials according to their grades. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's birthday, Wanshou Festival, was called the three major festivals with New Year's Day and Winter Solstice, and so was the Qing Dynasty. In this way, juxtaposing Tian Zi's birthday with festivals such as "Chinese New Year" and "Sacrifice to Heaven" will increase the solemn atmosphere of "Wanshou Festival" and make it more noble. The origin of Wanshou Festival Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no birthday ceremony for the Qing emperor in the palace. To be exact, the emperor's birthday began with Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. One day in December of the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong said to his eldest grandson's brother Sun Chang Wuji, "Today is my birthday. Secularity is interesting, but it turns into sadness in me. Shi Yun: Mourn my parents and give birth to me. Why are hard days more enjoyable? " However, more than 80 years later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty proudly accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Yuanhe to celebrate his birthday. Zhang and others said to Xuanzong in the Table: "There is a feeling of flowing rainbow, and going to the pond is the life of Xuanbird. Your majesty, the two spirits are in harmony, and the Kowloon Bath Saint. The moon only has the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the Dragon Boat Festival. On the night when there are no stars, the auspicious room faces the sun. Please think that this will be the festival of the Millennium. The first stage of the book, the world of cloth, the feast of salt. On this day, ministers presented mannitol bottles and Wanshou wine to celebrate the Millennium. Princes and princes entered the ribbon of seven golden mirrors, and seven ministers asked them with silk knots. The community in the village held a birthday party named Sai Bai Di and Bao Tianshen. Ming pastoral, Guangqi Sheng Da; Under the emperor, there is endless margin. " Xuanzong happily wrote a letter and answered the request of Zhang and others: "When I was born, Qing and others invited me to give you a good festival name for the sake of beauty. According to Qing, please report to the company. " This year was the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was forty-four years old. On August 5, 2000, a banquet was held for officials downstairs in Calyx, where Chen sang and danced, making the whole city happy. All the states in the world have established three-day festivals and holidays and put them into law. The following year's Millennium Festival, Li Longji came to Calyx Building again, and officials congratulated him. At the celebration banquet, Xuanzong likes to give officials gold beads and ribbons above the fourth grade and silk below the fifth grade. He also likes to write eight-rhyme poems for ministers: Lanqiu Festival, which is called Long Live. Rumor has it that there is a celebration, and there is a succession of days. Jade blossoms, and there will be prosperity in the palace. Covered with egrets, Cui Yun grows in the twilight. Dedicate the heritage to a new custom and the ceremony to an old chapter. The moon has reading glasses and colorful silk bags. There are plenty of feet everywhere, and Zhang Xiang has a big feast every year. A thoughtful consideration of a virtue will make everyone healthy. In order to celebrate the Millennium Festival, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote the great song Joy of the Millennium and Son of the Millennium. On the birthday of the Emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty, ministers celebrated their birthdays in Chenziting, and made 33 obeisances to the Emperor, while Zheng Dan made 19 obeisances to the Emperor, and made 12 obeisances to the Emperor in winter solstice, both lower than the birthday of the Emperor. The prime minister went to the temple on behalf of the ministers and wished the emperor a long life. The emperor gave Guan Bai tea soup. Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no birthday ceremony for the Qing emperor in the palace. To be exact, the emperor's birthday began with Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. One day in December of the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong said to his eldest grandson's brother Sun Chang Wuji, "Today is my birthday. Secularity is interesting, but it turns into sadness in me. Shi Yun: Mourn my parents and give birth to me. Why are hard days more enjoyable? " However, more than 80 years later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty proudly accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Yuanhe to celebrate his birthday. Zhang and others said to Xuanzong in the Table: "There is a feeling of flowing rainbow, and going to the pond is the life of Xuanbird. Your majesty, the two spirits are in harmony, and the Kowloon Bath Saint. The moon only has the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the Dragon Boat Festival. On the night when there are no stars, the auspicious room faces the sun. Please think that this will be the festival of the Millennium. The first stage of the book, the world of cloth, the feast of salt. On this day, ministers presented mannitol bottles and Wanshou wine to celebrate the Millennium. Princes and princes entered the ribbon of seven golden mirrors, and seven ministers asked them with silk knots. The community in the village held a birthday party named Sai Bai Di and Bao Tianshen. Ming pastoral, Guangqi Sheng Da; Under the emperor, there is endless margin. " Xuanzong happily wrote a letter and answered the request of Zhang and others: "When I was born, Qing and others invited me to give you a good festival name for the sake of beauty. According to Qing, please report to the company. " This year was the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was forty-four years old. On August 5, 2000, a banquet was held for officials downstairs in Calyx, where Chen sang and danced, making the whole city happy. All the states in the world have established three-day festivals and holidays and put them into law. The following year's Millennium Festival, Li Longji came to Calyx Building again, and officials congratulated him. At the celebration banquet, Xuanzong likes to give officials gold beads and ribbons above the fourth grade and silk below the fifth grade. He also likes to write eight-rhyme poems for ministers: Lanqiu Festival, which is called Long Live. Rumor has it that there is a celebration, and there is a succession of days. Jade blossoms, and there will be prosperity in the palace. Covered with egrets, Cui Yun grows in the twilight. Dedicate the heritage to a new custom and the ceremony to an old chapter. The moon has reading glasses and colorful silk bags. There are plenty of feet everywhere, and Zhang Xiang has a big feast every year. A thoughtful consideration of a virtue will make everyone healthy. In order to celebrate the Millennium Festival, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote the great song Joy of the Millennium and Son of the Millennium. On the birthday of the Emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty, ministers celebrated their birthdays in Chenziting, and made 33 obeisances to the Emperor, while Zheng Dan made 19 obeisances to the Emperor, and made 12 obeisances to the Emperor in winter solstice, both lower than the birthday of the Emperor. The prime minister went to the temple on behalf of the ministers and wished the emperor a long life. The emperor gave Guan Bai tea soup. The scene of the Emperor's Holy Birthday Banquet in the Northern Song Dynasty was very big, and the artists in the teaching workshop sang and danced endlessly. At the beginning, musicians sang a hundred birds first, and they were awed both inside and outside. They only hear the sound of harmony in the air, if husband and wife are together. The prime minister, the prince and foreign envoys sit in the hall, and the ministers and foreign envoys sit in the two corridors outside the hall. There are all kinds of foods in front of everyone, including rice cakes, oil cakes, jujube towers, fruits and so on. The food of Liao envoys is the most abundant, especially cooked meat such as pigs, sheep, chickens, geese and rabbits. Those who poured wine for the emperor often rolled up their sleeves and sang, "Sui Yu wine-"-page 5 1. Musicians in Jiao Fang have arranged instrumental music in the color shed downstairs, including bangzi, pipa, cymbals, drum sets, Jie drums, iron stones, flutes, sheng, cymbals and flutes. Royal wine was first proposed, and musicians were famous for their songs. Sheng, Xiao and Di played first, and all the music rang together. Zaichen raises wine, officials pour cups, artists dance on the stage and sing solo. The second one is the same as before. In the third royal wine, the left and right armies entered. The so-called left and right armies actually refer to the left and right compartments of Jingshifang City, and the actors are all folk artists. Hundreds of acrobatics include: climbing pole, skipping rope, handstand, bending over, making bowl notes, kicking bottles, somersaulting, holding through and so on. The Royal Banquet arrived in Three Lamps District and served wine, meat, drums, fried meat and double hump horns. Four lights, miscellaneous theater. In the fifth light, the musicians played the pipa and Fang Jie. After three dances, they joined the army in a playful way. More than 200 people from the children's dance team entered, and quick march knocked on the temple steps. The color of joining the army and the first question and answer of the children's class, the children's class recited lines (slogans), the music sounded, and the children's dance team sang and danced. Then the zaju appeared. This one, baked with wine and immortals, smallpox cake, Taiping Robbie, dried rice, wisp of broth and lotus paste patties. In the sixth royal wine game, three dances of slow music were played first, and then the left and right armies competed to hit the ball. The three-foot-high goal stand, whistle sticks and drums in front of the temple cheered the two teams. This appetizer is a fake turtle, with honey floating and crispy flowers. Seventh, more than 400 girls' dance teams took the stage. The girls are all young and beautiful people selected from the market. As soon as they came on stage, they dressed up as fairies, holding flowers and dancing, singing and dancing. Then zaju entered the theater, and the color of joining the army was interspersed between song and dance and zaju as humorous words. This light is the eighth light, cooking mutton, Hu cake, wine stir-fried golden sausage, singing, playing slow, dancing three times. The appetizers are fake sand fish, steamed bread and belly soup. The ninth lamp, the left and right armies perform sumo wrestling, offer drinks and rice, and nail rice. The emperor started driving. In fact, the emperor's birthday party is not always so complicated, sometimes it is very simple, because the emperor is not durable. The day before the emperor's birthday in Yuan Dynasty, officials from civil and military affairs personally went to the temple to build a Dojo to celebrate his birthday. On the day of the festival, the courtiers congratulated him, and local officials brought their families, Confucian scholars, the elderly, monks and Taoist priests. , tied a table of colorful incense, offered a hundred dances, and only greeted him by the way. After making three phone calls, they withdrew from the public party. During the Wanshou Festival in the Ming Palace, eunuchs and maids in low positions can wear their favorite clothes so as not to be blue. During the apocalypse, ladies-in-waiting competed to create a new type of Fangsheng gourd and put it on their bodies. The glyph patterns include: Paulie Wannian, Hongfu Qitian and Four Seas Fengdeng. Polaroid Wannian consists of eight-treasure lychee and fish. The composition of Hongfu Qitian is that there is a red bat on each side, which is filled with the word Qitian. The four seas are abundant, and two bees fly around with lights, filling every corner of the sea. The birthday ceremony of the Qing emperor was more prosperous than any other dynasty. Among the emperors, Kangxi's 60th birthday and Qianlong's 80th birthday are the most magnificent, and Qianlong is more prosperous than Kangxi. Kangxi's birthday picture is more than twenty feet long, and Qianlong's birthday picture has hundreds of pages. The most extravagant and grand ceremony in Qing Dynasty was the seventieth birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi. In fact, the emperor's birthday party is not always so complicated, sometimes it is very simple, because the emperor is not durable. The day before the birthday of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, officials from civil and military affairs personally went to the temple to build the Dojo, wishing a long life. On the day of the festival, the courtiers congratulated him, and local officials brought their families, Confucian scholars, the elderly, monks and Taoist priests. , tied a table of colorful incense, offered a hundred dances, and only greeted him by the way. After making three phone calls, they withdrew from the public party. During the Wanshou Festival in the Ming Palace, eunuchs and maids in low positions can wear their favorite clothes so as not to be blue. During the apocalypse, ladies-in-waiting competed to create a new type of Fangsheng gourd and put it on their bodies. The glyph patterns include: Paulie Wannian, Hongfu Qitian and Four Seas Fengdeng. Polaroid Wannian consists of eight-treasure lychee and fish. The composition of Hongfu Qitian is that there is a red bat on each side, which is filled with the word Qitian. The four seas are abundant, and two bees fly around with lights, filling every corner of the sea. The birthday ceremony of the Qing emperor was more prosperous than any other dynasty. Among the emperors, Kangxi's 60th birthday and Qianlong's 80th birthday are the most magnificent, and Qianlong is more prosperous than Kangxi. Kangxi's birthday picture is more than twenty feet long, and Qianlong's birthday picture has hundreds of pages. The most extravagant and grand ceremony in Qing Dynasty was the seventieth birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi. Of course, the first to win this victory was Emperor Kangxi. During the 60th birthday celebration, from Changchun Garden in the west of Beijing to Xizhimen, through Xinjiekou and Xi 'anmen to Zhongnanhai, it was connected with the celebration instrument of the Forbidden City. Multicolored squares are one after another, with colorful walls, colorful corridors, performance tables, song tables, light squares, lighthouses, light corridors, dragon sheds and light sheds. There are countless temples and large celebration altars on the path. The representatives of the subjects from Zhili and other provinces who went to Beijing also set up colorful squares as their respective celebration circles, and along the way, various ministries, temples and prison officials in Beijing also set up canopies and colorful squares. There is a throne within a few miles, surrounded by a hot and beautiful scenic spot. Along the way, Chinese characters such as "Long live without borders" and "Long live the son of heaven" made of colored silk suddenly appeared on the painted walls; The longevity picture screen dedicated to the emperor by alternate officials has 10 thousand fonts of golden characters; Both Mongolia and the Han army unified the following military attache to build a centenary birthday table, with a total of nine levels. Actors dressed as hundreds of old people each held a golden birthday word in a pile. There are countless songs, dances, drama programs and furnishings on the colorful stage, and most of them are fairy birthday stories. As for the small flat peach, the big longevity flower, and the big unified evergreen, they all deliberately seek their auspicious meaning. At that time, inside and outside the capital, resplendent and resplendent, colorful lanterns and candles were misty and full of turns; The Forbidden City and the Imperial Garden are connected by embroidery, by singing and dancing, and by thousands of stones and clouds, which is beyond description by the world. There is no one here who doesn't wear a dress, and all kinds of affairs are suspended for seven days. In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's birthday was celebrated for ten years, and there was a small celebration every year. The milestone of his sixtieth and eightieth birthdays was deliberately Qin Long.