Can I burn paper during the Dragon Boat Festival?

You can burn paper during the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.

Most of the ancient festivals were formed in the activities that the ancients chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness. The early festival culture embodies the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as advocating nature and seeking the source. A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization.

The customs of ancient north and south are different, and the Dragon Boat Festival activities in the pre-Qin period are rarely recorded in the Central Plains literature, so it is impossible to directly verify the source of the existing literature. According to the written records about the Dragon Boat Festival, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local customs of the Jin Dynasty, but the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have existed for a long time, such as dragon boat racing and sacrifice.

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Dragon boat race is a symbolic custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination", the Dragon Boat Festival, which draws dragon boats, originated from Wuyue people 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.

So far, the earliest figure of "Dragon Boat Race" recognized by experts in China 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 wooden paddles existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. The original prototype of dragon boat was carving a dragon-shaped canoe on a canoe, 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 keep tattooing. The custom of who lives in a water town is like a dragon, because he is a descendant of the dragon. The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival they founded to worship their ancestors.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival Customs

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival