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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China and one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and Dragon Festival. Although the names are different, on the whole, the customs of people everywhere are more similar than different.

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to its vast territory, numerous nationalities, stories and legends, there are not only many different festival names, but also different customs in different places. Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging a statue of Zhong Kui, welcoming the ghost boat, hiding in the afternoon, sticking afternoon leaves, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrificial bowls, dragon boat races, competitions, playing ball games, swinging, painting children with realgar, drinking realgar wine and calamus wine, eating poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have made new progress, breaking through the boundaries of time and geography and becoming international sports events.

There are many opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; In memory of Wu Zixu's theory; In memory of Cao E; From three generations of summer solstice; The theory of exorcising evil days on the moon, the theory of national totem sacrifice in wuyue and so on. Each of the above has its own source. According to the archaeological research of more than 100 ancient books and experts listed in Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination and Dragon Boat Festival History Education", the origin of Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held by Wuyue people in the ancient south of China, earlier than Qu Yuan. But for thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. What about people? Remember and mourn it, talk about its words in the world and pass them on? Therefore, the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest and deepest influence and occupies the mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, China people associate the dragon boat race and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival with commemorating Qu Yuan.

Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China.

Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Dragon Boat Festival has many origins and legends. There are only the following four kinds:

To commemorate Qu Yuan

According to historical records? Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng? According to records, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated promoting talents, empowering them and making them rich, and advocated uniting against Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuanxiang Valley. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is also called Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he never had the heart to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he threw himself into the river and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were very sad and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food for Qu Yuan. Plop, plop? The land was thrown into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor's body. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with drugs to avoid hurting Dr. Qu. Later, for fear that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, people came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping rice with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there are customs of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

In memory of Wu Zixu.

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Wu Zixu, a famous Chu, and his father and brother were all killed by the King of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu conquer Chu, and entered the capital city of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zi Xu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father and brother. After the death of He Lu, 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, but Fu Cha didn't listen. The State of Wu was massacred and bought by the State of Yue. He was framed by slanderers. Fu Cha believed him and gave him a sword. Zi Xu died. Zixu is a loyal man, and he feels death. Before he died, he said to his neighbor: After my death, I gouged out my eyes and hung them on the east gate of Jason Wu, watching the Vietnamese army enter the city to destroy Wu. Later, he committed suicide and died. When Fu Cha heard this, he was furious and took Zixu's body from Gehe River on May 5th. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

In memory of the dutiful daughter Cao E.

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 her body was not seen for days. At that time, Cao E, a filial daughter, was only fourteen years old and cried 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 passed to the governor of the county government, who erected it as a monument and asked his disciple Han Danchun to make a eulogy.

The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, followed by the Cao E Monument written by Jin. Later, in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, Cao E Temple was built where Cao E threw himself into the river. The village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died was named Cao E River.

Totem sacrifice originated from the ancient Yue nationality.

A large number of cultural relics unearthed in modern times and archaeological studies have confirmed that in the Neolithic age, a cultural relic with the characteristics of pottery ruins appeared in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to experts' inference, the remaining clan is Baiyue clan, a clan that worships dragon totem in history. The decorative patterns and historical legends on unearthed pottery show that they have the custom of continuous tattoos, live in a water town and compare themselves to the descendants of dragons. Its production tools include a large number of stone tools, as well as small bronzes such as shovels and chisels. As daily necessities, the printed pottery ding used for cooking food is unique to them and is also one of the symbols of their ethnic group. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still more than 100 Yue people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival created by them to worship their ancestors. During thousands of years of historical development, most Baiyue people have integrated into the Han nationality, and the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival for the whole Chinese nation.

Dragon boat festival poems

1, colorful boats, watching pairs of dragon boats, the waves are in full swing. It's amazing. Difficult to draw, stirring waves, snow flying between lakes. Beating drums and thunder, red flag lightning, winning the championship. Huang Shang's Xi Qian Ying Panhu in Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Shen has gone far away. I advise you to rest on wine and feel homesick. The slow warbler's throat and the tapping on the elephant board are better than reading the chapters and sentences of Li Sao. Yang Wuxia's Qi Tianle Dragon Boat Festival

3, red lotus root silk, white lotus root silk, Ai Hu shirt cut witch hazel. Litchi with two heads. Bones, back? Ghosts? How do you know the symbols in your mind? Acacia at twelve o'clock. Sok Li's Sauvignon Blanc is in love at noon.

4. The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, when the Qing people grow up. Li Longji's "Dragon Boat Festival Wuchengtang Banquet"

5,300 wives danced in sleeves, and voices rang out in the sky. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month

6. The official uniforms are also famous, and the Dragon Boat Festival is an honor. The fragrant silk is spun into fine kudzu vine, and the soft wind blows as white as new snow. Du Fu's Giving Clothes at Noon

7. Zhongshan Xunzi relies on new makeup, and Zheng Nv Yanji is good at it. Bianjing Yuanxi

It is windy and rainy every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, which seems to be an unjust case of Qu Yuan and Chen. I want to talk to anyone I want. Three Poems of Zhao Fan's Dragon Boat Festival (Part Two)

9. In May, the river around the river flows smoothly on the embankment, and people in the city will float with colorful boats. The spirit has been singing for a long time, and the mourning songs have been vibrating since then. When Yang Jian struck the lightning, the turbulence gathered and the sound came crashing. The dragon trembled in the rain. Drink the river together. The secretariat is in a state of change, and it is revealed that nobles are divided into men and women. First of all, Yu Yong fought for encouragement, but the color of the champion did not decline. Liu Yuxi's "Song of Race Crossing"

10, Chu people have been mourning for Qu Yuan for thousands of years. Where has the spirit gone? My father choked. So far, I have been throwing rice to quench my thirst on the Cangjiang River. Legacy turned into a competition, lamenting the cracks in Chushan. Su Shi's Quyuan Tower

1 1, a good wine, a celebration in Shen Zui, ten glasses of wine and a song. Su Shi's "Youth Tour with Huang Shou and Xu Jun Tour at Dragon Boat Festival"

12, I haven't seen you last year, and my sleeves are wet with tears. "Health check? Yuanxi

13,5 days, long jiaozi, empty questions, nine customs, carving tigers, wasting souls. Quyuan Temple in Song Qi

14, jade leaks silver pot, but don't worry, the iron lock is completely open. Last night in the Yuan Dynasty

15, far in color and far in light. Watch the lights for fifteen nights

16, the race has been deeply saddened for thousands of years, and the loyal soul is gone forever. Where the country dies today, only Li Sao remains in the world. Dragon Boat Festival in Zhang Lei

17, a small ball of rock sugar soaked with transparent corn and pine. Inappropriate words of Zhang Lei Dragon Boat Festival

18, light makeup and heavy makeup, the West Lake looks amazing. Acorus calamus horn millet family festival. Water plays the dragon, and the curtain rises in ten miles. Ling Bo infinite dust socks, ice muscle fragrant Luo Xue. Don't rush home by cruise ship, cover the dusk, there is a new moon outside. Zhao Changqing's Drunk in the Afternoon

19, the colored line is lightly wound around the red jade arm, and the small print is obliquely hung on Lv Yun. Beautiful women meet for a thousand years. Su Shi's Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival

20. Look at that horse's house dripping powder well, and try to sell Yuanxiao in the wind. Shangyuan Zhi Zhu Ci

2 1, the breeze does not break the dust, and the Hosta is drunk. Su Shi, Huanxisha? Dragon Boat Festival

22, want to go to the sea to find the moon, Wu Geng flew to the other side of the ocean of dreams. Yuan Xi has no moon.

23. Wearing Chinese clothes and make-up, the lights on Sixth Avenue make the children very angry. Lantern Festival in Beijing

24. After the death of the spirit, it is an orchid festival. Colorful green zongzi, fragrant white jade balls. Although the deceased was good and bitter, today is a joy. Ten Poems on Summer Poems by Yuan Zhen

25, Gao Yong Chu Ci "Pay for the afternoon, the world is in a hurry". Liu Hua is not as red as a dance skirt. Nobody knows this. The song is full of curtains. Everything hurts the old, and Rong Kuining smiles at the east wall. The depth of the glass is the same as last year. Try to pour the bridge into the water and arrive in central Hunan tonight. Chen's Linjiang Fairy

26, don't sing Jiangnan ancient tune, resentment is hard to recruit, and the Chu River flows again. Bathing in Wu Wenying, heavy noon in Huai 'an, Lan Xiang

27. Flowers compete for four seasons, and nine dumplings compete for new ones. Li Longji's "Dragon Boat Festival Three Banquets"

28, five-color new silk wrapped around the corner, gold plate to send, raw painting fan plate double phoenix. It's time to bathe orchids, and calamus wine is beautiful and respectful. Ouyang Xiu's Fish Family Passion

29. The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored that Qu Yuan is eternal. I can laugh when the river is empty, but I can't wash it when it is straight. Dragon Boat Festival in Wen Xiu

30, the fire tree silver flower, the star bridge lock. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month