Traditional festival of the Dragon Boat Festival what folklore

Dragon Boat Festival for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, is the traditional festival of the Han Chinese people, this day essential activities gradually evolved into eating rice dumplings, the following is what I organize for you traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival folk legends, welcome to learn and reference, certainly helpful to you.

What are the folk legends of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival Legends: Poisonous month, the evil day to drive to avoid that

In the pre-Qin era, it is widely believed that May is a poisonous month, the fifth day is the evil day. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" in the "Zhongsha record" chapter provides that people in May to abstain from sex, fasting.

Meng Changjun, who is famous in history, was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, as recorded in Shiji (史记)-孟尝君列传 (孟尝君列传). His father asked his wife not to give birth to him, believing that the child would jeopardize his parents. Throughout history, there are many records of such events.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the great general Wang Zhenwei was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, and his grandfather named him "Zhenwei". Song Huizong Zhao Ji was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, and was fostered outside of the palace since he was a child. It can be seen that the ancient May 5th for the evil day, is a common phenomenon.

From the pre-Qin, this day is considered unlucky day, in order to avoid the evil, people tend to insert calamus on this day, ai leaves to drive away the ghosts, lavender Cangzhu, dahurica, and drink xionghuang wine.

Dragon Boat Festival Legend 2: In honor of the Eastern Han Dynasty filial daughter Cao E

In Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the Eastern Han Dynasty filial daughter Cao E to save her father threw himself into the river. Legend has it that Cao E was from Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and her father drowned in the river, and the body was missing for several days. At that time, Cao E was only 14 years old, and she cried day and night along the river to look for her father. After 17 days, she threw herself into the river and died on May 5, and then carried out her father's body from the river five days later, which has become a myth. According to historical records, since the Song Dynasty, successive emperors have praised Cao E big event.

The tomb of the filial daughter Cao E, in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, was later rumored to be a monument to Cao E, written by Jin Wang Yi. In order to commemorate the filial piety of Cao E, the descendants built the Cao E Temple in the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, renamed the village where she lived as Cao E Town, and named the place where Cao E died for her father as Cao E River.

Legend of Dragon Boat Festival 3: In Memory of the Poetess Qiu Jin

The poetess Qiu Jin was the advocate of Chinese women's rights and women's studies, and one of the first revolutionary pioneers who sacrificed her life for the overthrow of thousands of years of feudal rule. She was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and was good at poetry, lyrics, songs and fugues in her early years, and loved horseback riding and fencing, and was known as "Hua Mulan and Qin Liangyu in the world". 28 years old when she took part in the revolution, which had a great impact on her, she was arrested by the Qing soldiers when she was preparing for the uprising, and she was killed on June 5th, 33rd year of Guangxu, in Xuanhengkou of Shaoxing, where she died bravely. Posterity for the admiration of her poetry, mourning her loyalty and courage deeds, so with the Poet's Day to commemorate her, and Poet's Day and to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and designated as the Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival customs

1. Dragon Boat Festival eat zongzi

Zongzi is also a kind of medicinal food. Glutinous rice has the effect of benefiting the qi and strengthening the spleen, appetizing and eliminating food. The leaves used to wrap the dumplings are more elaborate. In the north, most of the reed leaves are used, and in the south, bamboo leaves and lotus leaves are used. These leaves have good medicinal function. Such as: reed leaves can clear the heat, in addition to the thirst; bamboo leaves can clear the heat in addition to the annoyance, diuretic detoxification; lotus leaves can clear the heat and dampness, and the stomach and tranquility. Overall, the dumplings have heat, heat, energy, blood and tranquility effect.

At the same time, we should also emphasize that the dumplings are fragrant and sticky, high viscosity, not easy to digest, eat more easily caused by indigestion. The people who are not good at eating are especially careful to control the amount of food they eat.

2. Dragon Boat Festival hanging moxa leaves calamus

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the evil is mainly hot and humid, dirty, so to aroma wet, aroma turbid, Dragon Boat Festival customs are always inseparable from the aroma.

Proverbs: "Qingming Festival insert willow, Dragon Boat Festival insert Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every house is cleaned, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. Mugwort, also known as family mugwort, mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. It produces a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes and flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which is a drug for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria. It can be seen that the ancients inserted Ai and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention.

3. Dragon Boat Festival to wear scented bags

Dragon Boat Festival to wear scented bags, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also to have a lapel head embellished wind. Scented bag inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and eye-catching. Perfume capsule, gathering incense to concentrate, to ward off evil spirits and plague, lapel head embellishments.

The incense sachet contains cinnabar, andrographis, incense, wrapped in silk cloth, tied with five-color silk thread. The Chinese herbs used in the capsule, can emit a natural aroma, this aroma is the theory of Chinese medicine in the category of the five stink, with the opening of the mind to wake up, dampness and wake up the spleen, to remove the obscenity of the pleasing God and other effects. Modern medical research has also proved that the reason why these drugs have an aromatic odor, is because it contains a large number of volatile substances, these volatile substances have antibacterial, antiviral and other effects, the traditional Dragon Boat Festival scented bag of herbs can also prevent colds, hand-foot-mouth disease, and so on, and mosquito and insect repellent has a very good effect.

Dragon Boat Festival taboos

(a), the day of the Yang blade, poisonous gas attack.

This day is the fifth day of May, from the lunar calendar meteorological point of view, it is the summer solstice or so, so it is also the most vigorous days of the year; is also the actual day of the sheep's edge of the lunar calendar, the May, Yang blade for the evil, would have been the so-called "poisonous month", **** have "nine poisonous day! ", and the Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the "nine poisons", so it is called "poison day". And from the five elements, any one of the five elements too strong or too bad, will form the evil, will be on the natural climate or personal health, posing a threat and harm; not to mention that this time of the year, but also poisonous insects, bad bugs rampant rampant; so this day need to be in the door of the room, inserted in Ai, inserted Peach Technology, inserted Calamus in order to drive away the ghosts; lavender Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink andrographis wine, or sprinkle in the children's body andrographis wine, in order to drive away insects and avoiding the evil, to protect the health.

(2), the day of sacrifice, Yin Qi injury.

One of the most important and common elements of the Dragon Boat Festival is the sacrifice of ancestors. Not only to sacrifice to the poet Qu Yuan, some places also sacrifice to the loyal minister Wu Zi son-in-law, sacrifice to the filial daughter Cao E, etc., the day to pack a lot of zongzi, and then put the zongzi into the river, like to the grave of the dead, and the rest of their own enjoyment, so zongzi is actually a sacrificial offerings. And sacrifices inevitably produce sadness, so this day is also like the Qingming Festival, as artificially create a very strong yin gas, and these yin gas, as with yang gas, will also harm the psychological and physical weakness of the people; such as depression, bad mood, physical pain and so on. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival this day, is not suitable for all things, more unsuitable for office, moving, construction, opening, marriage, celebrations and other festivities; also not suitable for participation in recreational activities, etc., and return to the parents, and family reunion is the right choice.

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