What is the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also customs of eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays and is listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

Basic introduction

Dragon Boat Festival (English, Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival), also known as Duanyang Festival, is held in Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Dragon Boat Festival is divided into Big Dragon Boat Festival and Little Dragon Boat Festival in Sichuan and Guangzhou. Dragon's Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifteenth of the fifth lunar month. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On September 30th, 2009, the meeting of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, decided that China Dragon Boat Festival was successfully selected into the World Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Edit this legal holiday

Article 2 of the State Council's Decision on Amending the Measures for Holidays on National New Year's Day and Memorial Day (implemented on June 5438+1 October1day) stipulates that "all citizens have holidays: ... (5) Dragon Boat Festival, one day off (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar) ..." Accordingly, since 2008, Today, with increasingly diverse cultures and abundant information, traditional festivals in China, such as Dragon Boat Festival, are facing many challenges. This urgently requires people to keep pace with the times, not only to maintain tradition, but also to adapt to the needs of today's people.

Edit the source of this paragraph name.

The word "Duan" means "the beginning", so "Duan Wu" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the "noon" month, so the "Dragon Boat Festival" has gradually evolved into the current "Dragon Boat Festival". The Chronicle of Yanjing records: "The fifth day of May is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word is also covered."

Edit this paragraph in memory of Qu Yuan.

Qu Ping, formerly known as Qu Yuan, was born in Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei Province) at the end of the Warring States Period and descended from Qu Xian, the son of Xiong Tong in Chu Wuwang. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly excluded. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers, and finally went to Miluo River and Qu Yuan.

Go to hell. Qu Yuan is one of the greatest romantic poets in China, and also the earliest known famous poet and world cultural celebrity in China. He initiated the style of "Chu Ci" and the tradition of "vanilla beauty". His representative works include Li Sao and Nine Songs.

Edit this holiday nickname.

According to statistics, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is called the most among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, which is the festival with the most aliases. For example, there are Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Quyuan Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Noon Day, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Day, Lantern Festival and Five Eggs Festival. In memory of Qu Yuan's festival!

Dragon Boat Festival

According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, midsummer is called "Duanyang Festival" because it is a good day to climb mountains in the sun in midsummer, and May is midsummer.

Mid-Autumn Festival

There are twelve noon days, and May in the lunar calendar is the noon month, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Heavy Noon Festival" or "Heavy Five Festival", and in some places it is also called "May Festival".

Noon festival

The ancients thought that on May 5th, the sun was more important than the sky, so it was called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yulan Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients used bluegrass soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".

Jie zongjie

When the ancients ate zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a competition to compare the length of each person's leaves, and the elders won, so it was also called "knot knot".

Women's festival

"Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Series" is in Bangbang: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Dai Ai Ye, and the five poison spells. Ten thousand customs are decorated with little girls from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, and we do our best. Married women also have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. "

Ending etiquette

In southern Hunan, along the ancient custom, on the fifth day of May when summer comes, mugwort leaves are hung on the door and bathed to repel mosquitoes. It is believed that malaria can be driven away after baptism, and this mosquito breeding summer can be safely spent.

Acorus calamus festival

The ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, when the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and avoid poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".

Edit the origin of this festival

About the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, to sum up, there are roughly the following statements: Qu Yuan

To commemorate Qu Yuan

This theory originated from the Peace of Continuation of Qi written by Wu Jun in the Liang Dynasty and the Chronicle of Jingchu in the Southern Dynasty. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival seems to be related to commemorating Qu Yuan, as evidenced by Wen Xiu's poem "Dragon Boat Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored that it is Qu Yuan. It is ridiculous that the Chu River is empty and cannot be washed directly. "