What are the stories and legends of Dragon Boat Festival? Is the Dragon Boat Festival a good day in 2020?

What are the stories and legends of Dragon Boat Festival?

The theory of commemorating Qu Yuan

According to Records of the Historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan (about 339 BC-about 278 BC) was born in Danyang (now Zigui, Yichang, Hubei) and was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. Qu Yuan was originally named Ping, but in fact his surname is Mi, not Qu. [49]

According to legend, Qu Yuan advocated using talents and empowering people to make them rich, and urged them to unite against Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was deposed, expelled from the capital, and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen, Jiu Ge and so on, which were concerned about the country and the people.

Commemorating Wu Zixu said

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival is that May 5th is to commemorate Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

Wu Zixu, a famous official, was born in Chu, and his father and brother were both killed by the king of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu to attack Chu, and entered the capital of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zixu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father's murder.

After the death of He Lv, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he was defeated by Yue. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, made peace, and Fu Cha agreed.

Zi Xu suggested the complete elimination of Yue State. Fu Cha didn't listen, and Wu was massacred by Yue. He was bribed by Yue, and slandered Wu Zixu. Fu Cha believed him and gave Zixu a sword, so Zixu died.

Wu Zixu, a loyal minister, said to his neighbors before he died: After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Jason Wu, watching the Vietnamese army enter the city and destroy Wu, and then I will commit suicide. Hearing this, Fu Cha was furious, and ordered that the body of the child be thrown into the river on May 5th, so it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

Commemorating the filial daughter Cao E said

The third legend of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who saved her drowning father in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and didn't see her body for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old, crying day and night by the river. 17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. This was passed down as a myth, and then to the governor of the county government, who made it a monument for disciple Han Danchun to make a eulogy. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E.

Memorial meson theory

Jiezitui is the protagonist of the Cold Food Festival and the legend of the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day, but some people think that the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to Jiezitui. According to Cao Qin written by Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the sages.

Bad one-day taboo theory

It is believed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from an evil month and an evil day (see Zhang's Dragon Boat Festival is not due to Qu Yuan). In the northern part of the Han Dynasty, it was considered that May 5th was an evil month, and there was a custom of not mentioning the son of May, that is, babies born on May 5th, regardless of sex, could not be raised, and once raised, it would be harmful to both parents. There is even a saying that when you arrive at the official in May, you will not move, and you will build a house in May, and your head will be bald.

Summer solstice theory

The initiator of the summer solstice is Mr. Huang Shi. 1963, in his book "History of the Dragon Boat Festival", he proposed that the Dragon Boat Festival, like a trickle, originated in ancient times, merged into a stream in three generations, expanded into a river in Qin and Han Dynasties, and became a lake and sea in Tang and Song Dynasties.

1983, Mr. Liu Deqian believed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice of Xia, Shang and Zhou, and Mr. Liu Deqian put forward three main reasons in "Dragon Boat Festival Begins in Another Talk" and "China Traditional Festival".

Orchid storage bath theory

According to the Book of Rites compiled by Dai Sheng, a ritual scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, there was a custom of keeping orchids for bathing in the Zhou Dynasty. The ancients picked bluegrass in May, and bathed and detoxified bluegrass soup was popular. Da Dai Li Jixia Zheng Xiao: In May, plums are cooked as beans and orchids are stored as baths. Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs in the Clouds": Bathing in orchid soup is fragrant, and Hanfu is beautiful.

Zong Yi, a Liang native of the Southern Dynasties, wrote in the Chronicle of Jingchu: May 5th is the Lan Festival. This custom spread to the Tang and Song Dynasties, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival bathing orchid month. [46]

Gou Jian's Theory of Training Water Army

In the Song Dynasty, Gao Cheng published the article "The Origin of Things". The Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, practiced the water army every day. "The Origin of Things" is quoted from "The Legend of Crossing the Sea", saying: The dragon boat is also today. How about the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020?

Lunar calendar: May 5, 2020.

Gregorian calendar: June 25th, 2020, Thursday, Cancer.

Today's almanac is suitable for Yang Gong's anniversary.

Pray, get married, make the bed, cook, sacrifice, and find an heir.

Find money, bury, collect, lift, build and go to work.

The beam on the column is planted with meridian, and the house is built over the well to catch it

Don't use the big event of Yang Gong's death in the old calendar book today.

Opening the market, establishing vouchers, collecting money, shipping, collecting livestock and moving into the house.

Separate from the fire and March to open the warehouse.

Abstract: As today is an important day to commemorate the death of Yang Gong, the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 is not an auspicious day!