Dragon Boat Festival is the traditional culture of Yuyao?

Duanwu Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague, and then the Chu poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, it became a festival in honor of Qu Yuan, and the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, with China's most important traditional festivals.

Origin

The generally accepted theory is: Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet of the state of Chu, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month to martyr himself. However, many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs that were prevalent in the world had been passed down before that, and many of them had the element of driving away the plague and avoiding epidemics, so some people speculate that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the taboo on the evil day (i.e., the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which is named for the plague prevalence in midsummer).

Another theory, the scholar wen yiduo pointed out that the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival - race and eat zongzi, are related to the dragon (see "Dragon Boat Festival Examination"), may be to welcome the Tao God sacrifices totem customs. According to legend, a minority group in ancient southern China (probably in the area of today's Zhejiang and Shanghai) considered themselves to be the heirs of the dragon, and held a ceremony of sacrificing totems on the fifth day of the fifth month every year, in order to seek favorable winds and rains and a large harvest in the coming year. They wrapped their food in leaves or put it in bamboo and threw it into the river. Later, they also have the practice of visiting friends and relatives in a canoe on this day. When they were happy, they held impromptu canoe races, which slowly evolved into the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival today.

Customs

People at the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, dragon boat racing, hanging Zhong Kui Zhong Kui statue in front of their homes, hanging mugwort and wormwood (Ailanthus calabash), swim in the hundred diseases, wear scented pouches, ready to livestock sweet. Families wrap colorful silk threads around their children's wrists, which, according to legend, can renew their lives and pray for a long and happy life.

Hanging Zhong Kui statue: In the Jianghuai area, every family hangs Zhong Kui statue, Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, used to calm down the house to drive away evil spirits.

Hanging Ai leaves and calamus: every family has calamus, Ai leaves, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made into a human figure called Ai people to seclude the evil and drive away miasma.

Dragon Boat Racing: Dragon boats were used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The custom of dragon boat racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu. To commemorate Qu Yuan.

The dragon boat race began in Taiwan in the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, when Taiwan governor Chiang Yuanjun presided over a friendly race at the Half-Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Dragon boat races are now held in Taiwan every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Eating zongzi: in the Jing Chu region, boiled glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cake into the river, in order to worship Qu Yuan. Later, gradually with rice wrapped in zongzi leaves instead of bamboo tubes. Now all over the country, regardless of the shape or content of the zongzi, there are a variety of changes. Such as Zhejiang's Huzhou zongzi, Sichuan's pepper and salt bean zongzi, Guangdong's Zhongshan Ludou zongzi.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: It is prevalent in the Yangtze River basin area.

Swimming for a hundred diseases: prevalent in the Guizhou region.

Perfume Sachet: Children wear perfume sachets to protect themselves from evil spirits and plague, and to decorate their lapel heads. There are vermilion sand, andrographis and aromatic herbs inside the pouch, wrapped with silk cloth and tied with five-color silk thread.

Writing charms and reciting incantations: Before sunset, some peach tree branches are folded and inserted in doors and windows, or charms are hung indoors to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. This traditional folk custom is now largely extinct.

Standing Eggs: If you stand an egg upright at noon, it means that you will have good luck in the coming year.

Significance

In honor of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

To commemorate the anniversary of Wu Zixu's death (because King Fu-chai of Wu threw Wu Zixu's body into the river in leather on the fifth day of the fifth month).

Commemorates the death of Cao E, a filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who saved her father's life by throwing herself into the river (Cao E threw herself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month, and carried out her father's body five days later).

Commemorating the modern revolutionary poetess Qiu Jin (Qiu Jin was martyred on June 5, and later generations revered her poems and her person, and commemorated her on the Poet's Day on the fifth day of the fifth month, which was combined with Qu Yuan).

Spreading

Many Asian countries also have Dragon Boat Festival, generally originating in China, but traditional customs vary from country to country

Japan

Men swim and women wash their hair. Since the lunar calendar is no longer used, the Dragon Boat Festival in Japan is fixed on May 5 of the solar calendar every year, and it is also Boys' Day and Children's Day, which are legal public holidays in Japan. On this day Japanese families with boys hang carp flags, a custom not found on the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

Korea

Called the "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival," it is a form of shamanic ritual in which people **** together to pray for a good harvest during the period of Korea's agrarian society, starting on the fifth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar and ending on the seventh day of the fifth month. Men wrestle and women wash their hair. Masked dance dramas, pot throwing, wrestling, swinging, long kneeling competitions, taekwondo competitions, and other events with Korean local characteristics are held. It is very different from the Chinese customs of Dragon Boat Festival and Zongzi.

The Korean Cultural Foundation proposed the idea of applying for the "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" in 2000. In 2005, Korea submitted an official application to UNESCO for the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, and on Nov. 24, 2005, it was officially recognized by UNESCO.

Holidays

Countries and regions that recognize the Dragon Boat Festival as a public holiday include Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau

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