Cultural Connotation of Dragon Boat Festival

Lead: What are the different cultural connotations of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival besides offering sacrifices to the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats? Come with me to get to know it!

? The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to be Qu Yuan. ? When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, people always associate it with Qu Yuan, Dragon Boat and Zongzi.

Song Ying, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Chinese Folklore Society, undertook a research project on the changes and folklore of the Dragon Boat Festival. In her view, the Dragon Boat Festival contains profound patriotic feelings.

In Zigui, Qu Yuan's hometown, Zongzi song is sung up to now: angular and caring. A lifetime of innocence, a lifetime of pain. ? It is a metaphor for Qu Yuan's personality and destiny. Song Ying believes that the creation of this folk song will not be earlier than 1950s, and most of the Dragon Boat Festival folk songs should be created after the founding of New China. There are few folk songs about the Dragon Boat Festival. "Evocation Song" is a popular local minor. What are the lyrics? I just hope my doctor can return to his hometown soon. You don't need to ask for food and clothes. Is Chu a good place? It comes down in one continuous line with Qu Yuan's "evocation of souls" and has a long history. It is the bugle of the local boatman pulling the fiber, not a folk song in the strict sense.

According to Song Ying, there are many legends about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the long selection and elimination, the legend commemorating Qu Yuan is the most popular and popular. ? His ambition is pure, but his behavior is mean? Since Sima Qian's affectionate narration of Qu Yuan, the image of Qu Yuan's loyalty to the monarch and patriotism has become higher and higher in the narratives of literati in past dynasties. Since the Han Dynasty, people believe that the Dragon Boat Festival began in Qu Yuan.

During the stalemate of the Anti-Japanese War (1942), Guo Moruo's historical drama Qu Yuan used the past as a mirror to arouse the patriotic enthusiasm of the general public and made Qu Yuan's patriotic image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. From 65438 to 0954, Qu Yuan was included in the list of world cultural celebrities. Song Ying believes that the Dragon Boat Festival was not originally to commemorate Qu Yuan, but in the process of development, it gradually became closely linked with Qu Yuan and patriotism and became an intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival also includes people's attention to Chinese medicine. Song Ying believes that herb picking is the most important folk custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is also the only festival to promote Chinese medicine in a folk way. On or before the Dragon Boat Festival, people go up the mountain to collect herbs before dawn and then take them to the market for sale. People put realgar powder on their children's heads? Wang? In other words, when realgar powder is applied to walls and doors, there will be mosquito bites after solidification. You can dig the powder down and apply it to the swollen place for external use.

Respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching is a major connotation of traditional festivals, and Dragon Boat Festival is no exception. According to Song Ying, every year before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, fathers usually took their children to visit their teachers and gave them gifts such as salted duck eggs and zongzi, and the teachers gave them fans and other things in return.

It can be said that patriotism, attaching importance to traditional Chinese medicine and respecting teachers and teaching constitute the rich connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival.