All to bask in the Dragon Boat Festival customs

A Dragon Boat Festival Customs and Forms of Celebration Across the Country

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month of each year is the ancient traditional Dragon Boat Festival of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, was originally a summer festival to drive away the plague. Duanwu Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, the essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus ` Artemisia annua, moxa, fumigation of Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drinking Xionghuang wine. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States to the present, the Dragon Boat Festival has been in the folk heritage for more than two thousand years. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival said a lot, but to sacrifice Qu Yuan said the most widely circulated; around the law is not the same, but the package of rice dumplings, rowing the dragon boat is a common custom.

1, eat rice dumplings

Duanwu Festival, of course, the main character of the dumplings. Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi should be considered the most culturally rich traditional food in Chinese history so far.

Till today, every May 5th Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese people's families have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzhi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. From the filling point of view, the north more package small jujube Beijing jujube brown; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, eight treasures, ham, egg yolk and other fillings. The custom of eating rice dumplings, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

2, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon Boat Race is also one of the important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, in Miluo City, Hunan, the Dragon Boat Race before the Qu Zi Temple Temple, will be offered to the dragon head in the words of the God of Weng worship, Phi red cloth in the dragon head, and then An dragon head in the boat racing, both worship the Dragon God, but also to commemorate the Qu Yuan. And in zigui, hometown of qu yuan in hubei province, there are also rituals to worship qu yuan. And in Guangdong, before the dragon boat racing, to first invite the dragon, the ceremony of sacrificing to the gods.

Dragon boat racing, a traditional Chinese folk water sports and entertainment program, has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, and is mostly held on festive occasions besides the Dragon Boat Festival. If the dragon boat race is to commemorate the Qu Yuan this argument to understand, it has now transcended the scope of a sport, into a kind of Chinese people from generation to generation to inherit the spirit of totem.

3, wearing a bag

Duanwu Festival wear jewelry incense bags and other small objects also has a long history. The bag is wrapped with colorful silk thread, there are also used to sew into the rags.

These portable bags of bright colors, bags filled with several changes, from sweat-absorbing mussel powder, to drive away the evil spirits, copper coins, andrographis powder, the development of spices filled with scented pouches, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

4, plug calamus, plug wormwood

The folk proverb says: "Ching Ming plug willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every family sweeps the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear to drive away miasma. Can be seen, the ancients inserted ai and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day sprinkled clean the courtyard, hanging Ai Zhi, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, stirring up turbidity in addition to corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to pick medicine, is China's various nationalities **** the same custom.

5, Zhong Kui catch ghosts

Jong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan lecture martial arts back to the palace, malaria big hair, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, stealing Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, through the order of the world in the end of the day, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

6, hanging bags and tethered five-color thread

Hanging bags and tethered five-color thread, the ancient Chinese worship of the five-color, five-color for the auspicious color. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the adults in each family get up the first big thing is in the children's wrists, ankles, neck tethered to the five-color line. When tying the thread, children are forbidden to speak. The five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the first summer rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that children wearing the five-colored threads can avoid the harm of snake and scorpion-type poisonous insects; throwing them into the river means letting the river wash away the plague and disease, and the children can thus preserve their health and well-being. The contents of these portable bags have changed several times, from the sweat-absorbing mussel powder, the evil spirits of the talisman, coins, andrography powder to avoid worms, the development of spices filled with scented capsules, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

7, around the Dragon Boat Festival customs

(Hebei Province)

Beijing taboo on Dragon Boat Festival well water, often in the festival before the pre-drawing, it is said to be in order to avoid poisoning the wells. The vendors also sell cherries and mulberries at the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is said that if you eat cherries and mulberries at the festival, you will be safe from flies all year round. Furnace food store to sell "five poisonous cakes", that is, five kinds of poisonous insects decorated with patterns for the cake. Luan County has been hired by the male and female in-laws salty at the Dragon Boat Festival gifts to each other. Zhao County Dragon Boat Festival, the local government will hold a party to the south of the city, inviting the city of scholars to feast and poetry, known as "tread willow".

(Shandong Province)

Zouping County Dragon Boat Festival, each person needs to drink a cup of wine in the morning, and legend has it that it can avoid evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival for children wrapped in seven-color line, has to wear to the festival after the first rain before unraveling thrown in the rain. Linqing County Dragon Boat Festival, boys under the age of seven years with a charm (necklaces made of wheat), girls with pomegranate flowers, but also to wear their mother's hand-made yellow in the shoes, shoes with brushes painted with five kinds of poisonous insects. The meaning is to kill the five kinds of poisonous insects by means of Qu Yuan's ink. That is to say, in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, wash your face with dew.

(Shanxi Province)

Duanwu, Xiezhou, men and women wear moxa leaves, known as the "go to the disease", the youngest child is tied to the neck of a hundred rope, which is said to be "for Qu Yuan to tie the dragon". Xi'an County Dragon Boat Festival, the village sacrificed to the Dragon King, and hanging paper in the field. Huairen County Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Zhu Men". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County, students were required to give gifts to teachers. Lu'an Province to wheat flour steamed dough, known as "white dough", and zongzi brought together to give each other.

(Shaanxi Province)

In Xing'an Prefecture, at the Dragon Boat Festival, local officials led their subordinates to watch a race, called "Tap Shi". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small corner of millet is sewn into a piece of silk and a small doll is sewn underneath, known as "playing with dolls". Tongguan County Dragon Boat Festival to bushels of wormwood, paper cow paste door, known as the "town of disease.

(Gansu Province)

Jingning State Dragon Boat Festival to pick roses pickled in honey for syrup. Zhenyuan County, the end of the gift to the newlyweds incense fan, Luoqi, scarf handkerchiefs, Ai Hu. Sons and daughters and invite their fathers and brothers to feast on the master, known as "enjoy the festival". Zhangxian County Dragon Boat Festival, shepherd children worship mountain gods. Accumulation of salary mound, burned before the cock crows, commonly known as "burning high mountains".

(Jiangsu Province)

Jiading County Dragon Boat Festival, rich or poor, must buy stone head fish (commonly known as sturgeon) cooking. Yizheng County also has "when the pants, buy yellowtail" proverb. Nanjing Dragon Boat Festival, each family is a box of water, add a little andrographis, googly-eyed money two, the size of the family are using this water to wash their eyes, known as the "broken fire eye", it is said to protect a year without eye disease. Wujin night dragon boat theater, the night on all sides of the dragon boat hanging on the small lights racing, and there are xiao drums and singing.

(Sichuan Province)

Shizhu has "out of the Dragon Boat Lo" custom. A large square table covered with a red carpet is lifted by four people with two bamboo poles. Carpet with bamboo gabions braided a Taoist priest riding a tiger. Drums and gongs are beaten, and a street parade is held. In the old days, there was also the custom of "typing" at the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On this day, Chengdu people buy plums, in the southeast corner of the city under the city tower, up and down to throw, gather tens of thousands of observers. The custom was stopped in 1895 because of a conflict between the plum throwers and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places in the Dragon Boat Race, but also held a grand commodity fair.

(Xijiang Province)

Tonglu County, the village school children, the Dragon Boat Festival with the gift to the teacher, known as the "clothes". The doctor is at noon to collect medicine, according to legend, this day the sky doctor star in the sky.

(Jiangxi Province)

Jianchang Province, the afternoon of the Festival with a hundred grass water bath to prevent scabies, Xinchang County, Xionghuang, dansha drink wine, called the "open eye".

(Hubei Province)

Huanggang County Dragon Boat Festival Bahe town to meet Nuo people, flower crown body, sounding gold by epidemic. Yichang County Dragon Boat Festival, but in May thirteen, fourteen, fifteen three days special. May 15, also known as the "big Danyang", eating rice dumplings, drinking bus wine, routine with the Dragon Boat Festival.

(Hunan Province)

You County Dragon Boat Festival, pregnant women, rich people with flower money wine and food, poor people prepared chicken wine, bamboo clip kozo money, for the dragon boat in front of the dragon's head to pray for a safe birth. In Yuezhou Prefecture, people race to avoid disasters and illnesses. The boat is also flooded with grass, which is called "sending the plague".

(Fujian Province)

Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival old custom, the daughter-in-law is the day to the birthday suit, shoes and socks, dumplings, fans into the in-laws. Jianyang County to five days for the medicine king sunshine medicine capsule day, people are on this day for sauce. Shanghang County Dragon Boat Festival with a small boat bound reeds as a dragon play on the waterfront, known as the race. Xianyou County Dragon Boat Festival after the race, offering paper in the Hu Xiaotan, to commemorate the Jiajing Dec. Qi Jiguang drowned soldiers in this. Shaowu Province before the Dragon Boat Festival, women to Jiang Jiang yarn for the bag Sheng Fu. And the five-color velvet as a square victory, associated with colorful threads, tied to the hairpin. Young girls are hanging on the back, known as "Dou Niang".

(Guangdong Province)

Conghua County Dragon Boat Festival at noon to burn water to wash hands and eyes, sprinkled in the road, known as the "send disaster". Xinxing County Dragon Boat Festival, people from their neighboring temples to welcome the guide statue of the gods on patrol. Witches and water, stickers to expel the evil mortal charm. Shicheng County Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites, known as "put the disaster".

(Taiwan Province)

Taiwan is located in the subtropical, early immigrants from the mainland were unable to adapt to the climate here, died of miasma and plague epidemic, heard from time to time. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, which is based on the spirit of expelling diseases and avoiding epidemics, is particularly important.