History of Dragon Boat Festival

By the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival and absorbed the custom of the Golden People shooting willow. Ming Yongle years in the forbidden palace on the cut willow play, cut willow that shoot willow, the northern people will be pidgeon bird hidden in the gourd, hanging in the willow branch, bent bow shot.

If shot in the gourd, pidgeon will fly out, so as to determine the winner. This folk competition is also often held on the fifth day of the end of the examination of its origins, it is the Liao Jin legacy.

The Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Daughter Festival". The Emperor's Capital Scenic Spectacle" cloud: "May 1 to 5, home Yan decorated little girl, hairpin with durian flowers, said 'Daughter's Day'."

Not only the name of the festival is different from the Song Dynasty, and folk customs have changed. Many summer health activities from the folk, but also mixed in this festival customs.

For example, before noon on May 5, people have to group into the Temple of Heaven to avoid poison, after noon before coming out. In the Dragon Boat Festival also pay attention to catching toads to take toads, its is to use a needle to pierce the toad eyebrow, the toad juice will be squeezed out. The toad is a precious, can pull out poison, fever, swelling, treatment of boils and gangrene has a miraculous effect.

Calamus impregnated with wine to drink to avoid bad gas, with mugwort leaves inserted into the door for the previous generation of the legacy of the custom. The new custom of the Ming Dynasty is to use the male yellow coated ears and nose, that can avoid insects and poison.

Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival customary activities in the form of change is not big, but the scale is more and more prevalent. In particular, the southern dragon boat race, became a sensational event.

According to the "Wuling Race" records, the dragon boat race is not limited to the Dragon Boat Festival day. Rather, "April 8, unveiling the boat, five days a new boat launch, five days ten days fifteen days rowing betting, eighteen days to send the standard". There are also "May 17 or 18 boat, 27 or 28 to send the markers". The scale of the race lasted for months. On this matter, "or the government first ban after the Chi, the people first drums after the strike."

The Song Dynasty on the Dragon Boat Festival sticker Tianshi charm custom, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties more popular. Not only the Tianshi charm, there are "five thunder charm", "paper charm", "five poison charm", "five Swiss charm" and so on.

The Qing Dynasty Dragon Boat Festival is extremely dressed up little girls, married women can also go home to return home, called the "Daughter's Day".

Modern

May 20, 2006, the Dragon Boat Festival folklore approved by the State Council in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

On December 7, 2007, the 198th executive meeting of the State Council adopted the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the Measures for Holidays on National Yearly Festivals and Commemorative Days", which formally classified the Dragon Boat Festival as a national legal holiday, and stipulated that the Dragon Boat Festival of the Lunar Calendar would have a holiday on that day. [6]

On September 30, 2009, the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on September 30, 2009, considered and approved the inclusion of 76 items in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in which China's "Dragon Boat Festival" was listed. This is the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage.

How did the Dragon Boat Festival come about?

Dragon Boat Racing

The Dragon Boat Festival is more famous custom is the Dragon Boat Racing, mainly because at that time, the people of Chu were sad because of Qu Yuan's casting into the river, so many people do not want to let go of the great man's.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the most famous festival of the Dragon Boat Racing. The main reason was that the people of Chu were saddened by the fact that Qu Yuan had thrown himself into the river, so many people did not want to let go of the great man.