xiàyuán
Xia Yuan Festival
下元 xiàyuán
- Xia Yuan Festival
- The 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, a traditional festival where Taoists pray for good fortune and people honor ancestors; short for 下元节 xiàyuánjié.
- last sixty-year cycle
- The last sixty-year cycle in the 180-year cosmological period used in traditional Chinese divination.
- water realm
- (literary) The realm of water or the underwater palace of the gods in Taoist belief.
- kidneys
- (bound form) Traditional medical term for the kidneys or the lower part of the body containing them.
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Abbreviation of
- 下元节 xiàyuánjié