The Origin and Customs of Dragon Boat Festival (100-200 words)

First, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push.

Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons over the sky" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" into summer. The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.

Second, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

1, roast dragon boat

Boating dragon boat has a long history, and it is a multi-person collective rowing competition. The dragon boat race is divided into several parts, such as inviting dragons, offering sacrifices to dragon gods, Youlong and collecting dragons. Before the dragon boat race, a grand sacrifice ceremony is usually held. One is to invite dragons to worship the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, you should choose an auspicious day to come out of the water, and after offering sacrifices to the gods, you should install a dragon head and a dragon tail, and then prepare for the race. Fujian and Taiwan went to Mazu Tempel to worship.

2. Fly a kite.

A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

Extended data

The fifth day of May is called Dragon Boat Festival because:

Literally, the Dragon Boat Festival also has names such as "Dragon Boat Festival", "Chongwu" and "Chongwu". Duan, in ancient Chinese, there is a meaning of beginning and beginning. Calling it "Dragon Boat Festival" is just like calling it "the fifth day".

The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Record of Years Old said: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and even five as the beginning and end." According to the time sequence of heavenly stems and earthly branches, the ancients calculated that May was "noon month" and noon was "sunshine day", so the Dragon Boat Festival was also called "Duanyang".

In the afternoon, the ancients and the "Five" are common, so the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are synonymous. There is also a saying that because Emperor Taizong's birthday is on the fifth day of August, it was changed from five o'clock to noon in order to avoid taboo. Since then, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival has become more common. Because the number of months is the same as the number of days, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Double Five Festival" or "Double Noon Festival".

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