The custom of solar terms in Dragon Boat Festival

What are the solar terms customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

The specific customs and activities mainly include: picking dragon boats, hanging wormwood and calamus, gathering at noon, washing herbal water, flying paper kites, swinging, pasting "noon symbols", tying white locks, drinking at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, putting paper dragons, serving lunch, holding dragon boats, lighting moxa sticks, smoking Atractylodes lancea, giving incense fans, drying ginger for a hundred days, and hanging.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon spent seven nights in the sky, which is the day of the dragonfly. As the fifth poem in The Book of Changes and the Melon says, "The dragon is in the sky". The ancient astrology culture in China has a long history and is profound. "Preface to the Spring and Autumn Life Calendar" says: "Heaven and earth are open, and everything is turbid; According to yin and yang, celestial bodies begin in the field of the North Pole ... The sun and the moon turn five latitudes; The emperor went out ... the statue of the sky and the instruments of the land were fixed, and the year and month were fixed. " In ancient times, people defined astronomical phenomena, utensils and earth utensils. According to the orbit and position of the sun, moon and stars, the area near the ecliptic and equator is divided into "28 nights", and the "horns, sounds, forks, houses, hearts, tails and dustpans" in the east form a complete dragon-shaped astrology, that is, "seven nights of the black dragon". The cycle of the Black Dragon's seven nights is consistent with the four seasons of the year. Spring rises in the east, summer rises in the south, autumn retreats in the west, and winter disappears under the northern horizon. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Long Zaitian, the black dragon's main spark (Antares) is high in the south, and the dragon spirit (yang spirit) is strong. In the Book of Changes, "flying dragon in the sky" is both "winning" and "winning the right", which is a symbol of good luck.

Dragon Boat Festival

Ancient festivals are the carrier of ancient cultural heritage. Choosing to hold the Dragon Boat Festival on the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the seasonal astronomical phenomena of the Black Dragon. Seven people live in the south. In traditional culture, orientation and time are associated with divination. In the midsummer afternoon, Long Xing soars in the south of the sky, which is like "the flying dragon is in the sky" in the Book of Changes. At noon, Long Xing was both "right" and "right" and was in the position of "right", which was a symbol of good luck. The "dragon" mentioned in Gan Yi's poem is essentially an exposition of the black dragon at four o'clock and seven nights a year. The phenomenon of "flying dragon in the sky" has been endowed with multiple meanings and sustenance, forming the custom of Dragon Boat Festival, in order to repay the kindness of dragon ancestors, pray for happiness, drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. Dragon Boat Festival culture fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' natural view of "harmony between man and nature". The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content.