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Why can't you see toads on Dragon Boat Festival?

According to folklore, everyone catches toads during the Dragon Boat Festival, so toads are most afraid of hiding after the Dragon Boat Festival.

In order to cope with the "bad month", the southern part has the habit of picking herbs during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has also spread to old Beijing. But old Beijing is a city, and there is no place to collect herbs. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival in the Ming Dynasty, "the official of the Imperial Hospital advocated going to Nanhaizi to catch toads and take toad venom." This kind of official activity has a great influence on the people, so there is a saying in old Beijing: "Toad can't hide from the fifth day of May."

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Textual research on the origin of Dragon Boat Festival

Mr. Wen Yiduo holds that the Dragon Boat Festival, in which dragon boat races are held, originated from Wuyue people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before the Warring States Period. At that time, the dragon was already the totem of the wuyue nation. Mr. Wen Yiduo believed that it was this dragon totem that later evolved into the totem worship of the whole nation; It was at the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony that I gradually got into the habit of rowing dragon boats. The earliest "Dragon Boat Race" figure recognized by Chinese experts was found in Jia Cun, Yunlong Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.

According to the prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site, canoes and wood pulp existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. The original prototype of the dragon boat was carved into a dragon-shaped canoe on a single wooden boat, and later it developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards. A large number of cultural relics and archaeological studies unearthed in modern times show that as early as ancient times, our ancestors created a splendid high civilization. Unearthed cultural relics and historical legends show that they have the custom of tattooing constantly, live in a water town and consider themselves descendants of dragons. Dragon Boat Festival is a festival they founded to worship their ancestors.