Festival Folk Culture in A Dream of Red Mansions

There are many traditional festivals in A Dream of Red Mansions, such as Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve and Dragon Boat Festival. Every festival has many exquisite and interesting customs. Near the Dragon Boat Festival, let's take a look at how Jia Fu spent the Dragon Boat Festival in a Dream of Red Mansions.

There are so many customs of Dragon Boat Festival in a Dream of Red Mansions!

Peixiangnang

Back to the original twenty-fourth write Jia Yun and Wang Xifeng job hunting. He borrowed money from Neil and bought expensive borneol and musk as a gift for Wang Xifeng. Jia Yun is a witty person who is good at speaking and doing things. His gift came at the right time, because "Xifeng is going to celebrate the Duanyang Festival and want to buy spices and bait", so Jia Yun said, "I saw my aunt buy these things with a big bag of money in previous years, not to mention this year's Forbidden City, which is Duanyang Festival. Needless to say, these spices are naturally ten times more than usual. "

Therefore, in the past, Plutocratic family people would buy many precious spices on Duanyang Festival, not only for their own use, but also for others, especially Princess Yuan Chungui. Because in the past, the Dragon Boat Festival had the custom of making sachets and wearing sachets, especially for children, to ward off evil spirits and plague. Generally, there are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine. In the sachet. Even young men and women usually make exquisite sachets and give them to each other to express their friendship. There are "two sachets" in the holiday gifts given to Li Wan, Wang Xifeng and others on the Dragon Boat Festival in Yuanchun.

Therefore, Jia Yun, who is sensible, knows that Xifeng definitely needs spices, so giving it to the right person at the right time will naturally help him find a job.

There are so many customs of Dragon Boat Festival in a Dream of Red Mansions!

Give a fan

In Chapter 28 of the original text, Yuan Chun gave you two kinds of Dragon Boat Festival gifts, "two gongshan handles and two strings of red musk beads". These two things belong to Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, Jia Zheng, Baoyu, Baochai, Daiyu, yingtan Xichun and others. As we know, red musk string is a string made of musk and other ingredients, which belongs to the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony made of spices.

In ancient times, it was getting hotter and hotter after Duanyang. There were no fans and air conditioners in ancient times. In summer, we use round fans or folding fans to enjoy the cool, so there is a custom of sending fans on the Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, fans have been written many times in A Dream of Red Mansions, including round fans, folding fans, and banana fans ... In the heat of the ancient people's Duanyang Festival, fans are indispensable objects. Qingwen fell and tore the fan just before and after the Dragon Boat Festival.