Xiuxi

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Xiuxi (Chinese: 修禊 Pinyin: xiūxì), also known as the Spring Purification Festival, was an ancient tradition in China during which people would go for an outing by the water, during the third day of the third lunar calendar month, where they would enjoy themselves at a picnic, pluck orchids, and to rid themselves of any bad luck.

Simply they has several traditions in the festival of '3rd March'(上巳). 1. To take a river bath 2. To compose poems beside rivers 3. Make wishes to the god of 'First Mother'(高禖) 4. To date opposite sex,and to have picnic, to pick orchid flowers, and even to have wild sex with him/her.

The great calligrapher Wang Xizhi mentions this festival in his famous Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion.