Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival (nickname: Duanyang Festival, Midday Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, English name: Dragon Boat Festival) is the first festival in China to be selected as a world-famous festival. It originated in ancient China and falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival to drive away plague and dragon boat festival in summer. Later, people took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and there were also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui. There are folk customs such as "picking dragon boats", "eating zongzi", "flying kites" and "hanging wormwood and calamus".

Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. This is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places. The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is a festival to ascend to heaven, and the Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat race is an important theme of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons. According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang; The five elements belong to fire, when it is in midsummer, the weather is right and the people are harmonious, and everything grows with great potential; The heavy noon is an auspicious day for a clean and healthy world. The ancients regarded three o'clock in the afternoon and three o'clock in the afternoon as the most important time to eliminate evil spirits. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon". Summer is a season of struggle between yin and yang. Yang goes up and Yin is forced down. In the afternoon, pure yang is healthy, which is what yin is afraid of. Summer is also the season to drive away the plague. In midsummer, the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, and everything is thriving at this time. It is the strongest day of Chinese herbal medicine in a year. Herbs collected during the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective in eliminating diseases and preventing diseases. Due to the convergence of pure yang and healthy qi between heaven and earth at noon, and the magical characteristics of herbs on this day, many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have the theme of eliminating yin and evil, eliminating diseases and epidemic prevention, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and so on.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, such as avoiding evil spirits and epidemic prevention, so some people think that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient people's festival of "avoiding evil spirits and epidemic prevention". China culture has a long history and is profound, and the formation of ancient festivals contains profound and rich cultural connotations. Ancient festivals attach importance to gods, ancestral beliefs and sacrificial activities, and spiritual beliefs are the core of ancient traditional festivals. It is not a folk festival passed down from generation to generation to avoid evil and prevent epidemic. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient saying of "avoiding evil and preventing epidemic", which is a misunderstanding of the cultural connotation of ancient festivals by later generations. With regard to the greetings of the Dragon Boat Festival, most folklore experts believe that only after the Dragon Boat Festival can legends and historical figures be attached to the festival and given other meanings, but these meanings are only part of the Dragon Boat Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival is good for health" only began to spread in recent years. Many ancient poems describe the festive atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival has been a festive day to eat zongzi and roast dragon boats since ancient times. In the ancient Dragon Boat Festival, the lively dragon boat show and the joyful food feast were all manifestations of celebrating the festival. Happy Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition. [54][50][5 1][55][56][57]

In traditional festivals, there are many and miscellaneous folk customs, or only the Dragon Boat Festival can be compared with the Spring Festival, and they all have etiquette and custom themes such as praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, which are entrusted with people's good wishes to welcome auspicious, exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters. The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated a variety of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the contents or details of the customs are different due to different regions. The custom activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are carried out in the form of praying for blessings, eliminating evil spirits and disturbing disasters. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, with strong regional characteristics. Every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, many special festivals are held all over the country, such as boating, hanging wormwood and calamus, making zongzi, worshipping elephants with nine lions, and Youlong. , both traditional and innovative, rich and colorful. Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world. Countries influenced by the Dragon Boat Festival culture include South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, Germany and Britain.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Zongzi, a kind of glutinous rice, is a tribute used by people to worship the gods at festivals. It is an ancient traditional custom to worship God in festivals. There are many kinds of glutinous rice, and different kinds of glutinous rice will be made in different festivals. Zongzi is a tribute to God during the Dragon Boat Festival. The main materials of Zongzi are rice, fillings, bamboo leaves (or Hiragi leaves) and so on, and there are many kinds. Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and it has become one of the most influential and extensive folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Drink Pu wine, realgar cinnabar wine and spray wine. Jingchu Chronicle: "Acorus calamus (a perennial herb, born by the water, has reddish roots underground and leaves shaped like swords and spikes." . The rhizome can be used as medicine or medicine) or carved or shredded to cool the wine. "Pu wine is fragrant and refreshing. Later, realgar and vermilion were added to the wine. Feng Ming Yingjing's Generalized Moon Order: "On the fifth day, cinnabar wine was used to ward off evil spirits and detoxify, and the forehead, chest, hands and feet were dyed with wine, so there was no danger of poisonous snakes (poisonous snakes mentioned in ancient books). Sprinkle water on walls, doors and windows to avoid poisonous insects. "This custom is very widespread.

Medicinal materials include Realgar, Zhu Lei, Semen Platycladi, Semen Persicae, pulp, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, etc. After soaking in wine, people dip Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi in walls, doors, windows, beds and other corners. Then apply wine to the child's ears, nose and navel to drive away poisonous insects and ensure the safety of the child. In addition, in some areas, realgar wine powder is used to draw the word "Wang" on children's foreheads, so that children have the mark of tigers to ward off evil spirits. From a health point of view, these activities are still scientific and reasonable. Realgar mixed with water and wine can be disinfected indoors, and drinking cattail is also beneficial.