The Shangsi Festival also known as the Double Third Festival is ancient Chinese festival observed on the third day of the third lunar month. In 2018, it was set as China Huafu Day to advocate the (elegance) traditional Chinese clothes. The first event was celebrated on April 18 that year in Xi'an.
The Shangsi Festival (celebrate) have changed with the times. Both the feast and praying for descendants（后代）by the river (add) in the Han Dynasty. It was after the Wei and Jin Dynasties that the event was fixed on the third day of the third lunar month. (interesting), the calligrapher Wang Xizhi from the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote in his Lanting Xu about literary men composed poetry while drinking from cups (leave) floating and moving along the winding river. In the Tang Dynasty, people went out (hold) ceremonies and appreciate lowers along winding streams. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the festival, developed a spring outing featuring lively activities like drifting cups, drifting eggs, hiking and eating glutinous rice（糯米）. The Shangsi Festival falls close to the Qingming Festival that many young people today only know about the latter.
