The moral of Dragon Boat Festival

The moral of Dragon Boat Festival is as follows:

1, pray for peace

Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has the connotation of praying for peace. On this day, the ancients would collectively hold a luncheon, wear long life wisps, paint their foreheads, wash herbal water, etc. to pray for the safety of their families and themselves. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival. Until today, our attention to the Dragon Boat Festival has not decreased day by day, and it has even been established as a legal holiday.

2, exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters

One of the important meanings of the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid five poisons, exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Therefore, whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, it is necessary to hang wormwood, calamus, noon symbols, bind white locks, drink at noon, light moxa sticks, wear Atractylodes macrocephala, dry ginger, hang kudzu vine, wear sachets, tie colored ropes, wear damselflies, put up a map of five poisons, hang portraits of Zhong Kui and drink realgar wine, etc., so as to resolve disasters and disperse insects and ants.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, eat zongzi

As a sacrifice, Zongzi appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was not until the Jin Dynasty that Zongzi was officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. During this period, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added Alpinia oxyphylla, a traditional Chinese medicine. Cooked jiaozi is called Education jiaozi.

2. tie five-color silk thread

In the traditional culture of China, the five colors symbolizing the five elements are blue, red, white, black and yellow, which are regarded as auspicious colors. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles to protect their health.

Step 3 drink realgar wine

The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival was very popular in the ancient Yangtze River basin. As the old saying goes, drinking realgar wine will cure all diseases.

4. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is one of the customs and the most important folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, which is widely spread in the south of China. There are also dragon boat races in cities near rivers and lakes in the north, mostly in the form of dragon boat rowing and dragon dancing.