When is Paradise Day?

Heavenly Sacrifice, also called "Rain Festival" or "Heavenly Sacrifice Festival", is a traditional agricultural folk festival in China with a long history and cultural connotation. Every year, June 26th of the lunar calendar is the Day of Heaven. On this day, people will hold various activities in their hometown or community, such as offering sacrifices to heaven, praying for blessings, persuading farmers, and offering sacrifices to ancestors, in order to achieve a bumper harvest and peace.

As Sunrise is a traditional folk festival in China, the ways, customs and significance of celebration vary from place to place. In some places, people will put on holiday costumes, hang colorful flowers and propaganda slogans, and carry out parades and performances; Some places will hold dragon boat races, dragon boat races or set off fireworks to celebrate this traditional festival; In other places, folk information transmission and cultural exchange will be carried out on the occasion of sacred festivals, making this traditional festival more energetic and fun.

Generally speaking, the Heavenly Sacrifice is one of the most important festivals in China's agricultural folk religion and one of the outstanding traditional cultural heritages in China. Through activities such as offering sacrifices to heaven, praying for blessings and persuading farmers, people can feel the cultural memory of China, appreciate the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and enhance national cohesion and pride.