The custom of Dragon Boat Festival?

The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are: eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, dragon boat racing, hanging Zhong Kui in front of the house, hanging mugwort and wormwood (Acorus calamus), swimming in all diseases, wearing sachets and preparing sacrifices. Family members wrap colorful silk threads around their children's wrists. Legend has it that they can extend their lives and pray for a long life. The Dragon Boat Festival, Volume 8 of A Dream in Tokyo, says: "Dragon Boat Festival objects: baisuo, mugwort, silver drum, fancy flower fan, fragrant sugar, zongzi, ……".

Clock-hanging statue: In Jianghuai area, every family hangs a clock, which catches ghosts and exorcises evil spirits.

Acorus calamus leaves: Acorus calamus leaves, Artemisia argyi leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic and dragon boat flowers are made into human figures, which are called Ai people to exorcise evil spirits. Yin's poem "Noon Day" says: "Youth Day is more affectionate, and when you get old, you will feel sad." It's useless, but just pray for wine and wine. Mei said in the poem "Acorus calamus in the evening of Dragon Boat Festival": "It is better not to get Acorus calamus at dusk. How can I avoid custom and bow to the pot three times? "

Dragon boat race: Use dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. In memory of Qu Yuan, wuyue and Chu have the custom of competitions. (Actually, ancient competitions were not held once a year. There were also Chinese New Year's Eve, late spring March and Double Ninth Festival. Later, it was mainly the Dragon Boat Festival. )

Eating zongzi: In Jingchu area, glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes are cooked and thrown into the river to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan. In the future, rice wrapped in rice leaves will gradually replace bamboo tubes. Now there are various changes in the shape and content of zongzi all over the country. For example, Huzhou Zongzi in Zhejiang, pepper and salt bean Zongzi in Sichuan, and Ludou Zongzi in Zhongshan, Guangdong.

Drinking realgar wine: popular in the Yangtze River valley.

Eating steamed rice: popular in some Jin-speaking areas, steamed rice is rice steamed from yellow rice (millet).

Wandering all diseases: popular in Guizhou.

Wearing sachets: Children wear sachets to ward off evil spirits and plagues and decorate their chests. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk and tied with five-color silk thread.

Write spells: before sunset, fold some peach branches and insert them in doors and windows, or hang spells indoors to ward off evil spirits. This traditional folk custom has basically disappeared now.

Stand an egg: If the egg stands upright at noon, it means good luck in the coming year. Interviewee: Tian Han Fengyun | Level 3 | 2011-6-319:12

Respondents who eat zongzi and drink realgar wine for dragon boat race: See Pain | Level 2 | 2011-6-319: 23.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. Although the names are different, the customs of people everywhere are the same. Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in China for more than two thousand years. On this day, every household hangs clocks and statues, hangs mugwort leaves and calamus, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, sings realgar wine, swims all diseases, matches sachets and prepares sacrifices.

The first significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great national poet in history. Qu Yuan, Ming Ping, was a native of Chu in the Warring States Period. Born in the seventh day of the first lunar month in Wu Wang, Chu Wei, or twenty-seven years, he died in the ninth year of King Xiang of Chu.

The second meaning of Dragon Boat Festival is the anniversary of Wu Zixu's death. Wu Zixu, a famous Chu national, 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 to attack Chu, and entered the capital city 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 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. 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, a loyal minister, feels like death. Before he died, he said to his neighbor, "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 to destroy Wu." Hearing this, Fu Cha was so angry that he took the body of Zixu away, wrapped it in leather and threw it into the river on May 5th. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

The third significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who saved her drowning father. 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 several days. At that time, Cao E, the 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 5th and 5th.

After holding out his father's body. This was handed down as a myth, and later passed to the governor of the county government, and a preface was made for it. His disciple Han Danchun wrote a poem to praise it. The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, and there is a monument made by Jin. To commemorate Cao E's filial piety, later generations built Cao E Temple 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.