Legendary stories of Dragon Boat Festival in Qiandongnan

Legendary Stories of Dragon Boat Festival in Qiandongnan

The Miao people have a long history of Dragon Boat Festival. About the Dragon Boat Festival, the Miao people have a moving legend story, the following for you to bring the legend story of the Dragon Boat Festival in Qiandongnan, welcome to browse!

Legendary story of Qiandongnan Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival held in Miao villages. Each village specializes in the production of one or two dragon boat, parked in the cover tile promenade-shaped boat shed, wait until the festival in the water paddle race.

The Miao people's Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. Qing Qianlong Xu Jia Gan's "Miaowang Wenshi Records" recorded that: "The Miao people are good at fighting the dragon boat, the age of the dragon boat, and the Miao people are very good. Miao people good fight dragon boat, the year to May 20 for the end of the festival, competing in the wide and deep waters of the Qingshui River. The boat is routed into five or six feet of large whole wood, with a dragon head in front and a phoenix tail at the back, which can accommodate more than 20 people. The short flexing agitation water, walking like flying.

About the Dragon Boat Festival, the Miao people have a moving story, according to legend, in the distant past. The river lived a Miao fisherman named Paul, he had an only son named Jiu Bao. One day, he took his only son down to the river to fish, suddenly the cloudy sky, gale force winds, the river waves beat the sky, from the deep pool leaped out of an evil dragon dragged nine Paul into the Dragon Cave, Paul grieved, and then dive man cave to look for. See the dragon has killed his son, and used the body as a pillow to sleep soundly. Bao was furious and determined to avenge his son's death. He went ashore, took a fire scythe and fireweed and dived into the dragon's cave again, and set fire to the dragon while the dragon slept soundly and burned the dragon to death. The smoke from the dragon's cave filled the whole area. At this time, the rain was pouring thickly, and it was dark for nine days and nine nights in a row, so everyone was very worried. At that time, a woman with her child went to the riverside in the dark to wash her clothes. The innocent child paddled up and down the water with her mother's clothes-whacking stick, chanting: ? Dondondo! Dondondo! Who knew that when he shouted this, the clouds in the sky suddenly disappeared. The east 10,000 sunsets, a round of bright red sun rose high, everyone was happy to cheer and save. Afterwards, people saw the burned 'evil dragon floating in the water, they have rushed to the river to share the dragon meat. Sheng Bing Zhai earliest discovery, divided into the dragon head (also said that the dragon head first divided into defying the dragon's power, kill the evil dragon's Paul), Shi Dong went to a later step, divided into the dragon's tail, Yang Jia Zhai also went to a later, only divided into the dragon's intestines. Therefore, Yang Jia Zhai's dragon boat are painted dark green, is considered a green dragon. When people divided the dragon meat away, the evil dragon will dream to say to everyone:? I have lost the only son of the old man, I have lost my life. I hope you young and old good, with cedar tree imitation of my body, in the Qingshui River, Xiaojiang River area for a few days, like I live as in the river play, I will be able to make rain, to ensure that you have a good harvest. After this dream spread, people talked a lot, said the dragon was subdued, imitation of its production to row, can get rain, to protect the harvest, why not have both? At first, they do a few boats to try to row, and indeed encountered heavy rain, so the cottage are doing up the dragon boat. People agreed on the first five or six of the fifth lunar month. At this time when the farming season, hindering production, so the cottage and mutual consultation, in addition to Shengping, Ping pick according to the fifth of May rowing boat, Pingzhai changed to the 24th of May lunar calendar, Tanglong twenty-five, Yungshan sixteen, ShiDong set as a? The 26th day of the 5th lunar month. The twenty-sixth day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, the Dragon Boat Festival activities will be in this order passed down to the present day.

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The Qing Shui River is like a green ribbon, flowing through the southeast of Guizhou Province, Duyun, Majiang, Kaili, Huangping, Taijiang Shidong and other ten counties, flowing eastward, into the Yuan River in Hunan Province. The Qingshui River and its tributaries pass through places that are mainly mountainous, and there are many reefs and dangerous beaches in the waterway. Along the banks of the river, villages are dotted, inhabited by the long-established, industrious and courageous Miao people.

The Clearwater River has wooden boats and sailboats running on it all year round. And rowing the dragon boat is along the river Taijiang, Shibing two counties bordering the area of sixty or seventy Miao villages **** with the festival activities held. It is up from the Taijiang County South Sentinel on the other side of the Shibing County Pingzhai, the lower cut off Jingdong pond on the river Shibing County Liao hole, Taijiang River on both sides of the five rivers and small rivers.

Every year on the 24th day of May on the lunar calendar, from Taijiang, Kaili, Huangping, Shibing, Zhenyuan, San Sui, Jianhe and other places nearly 30,000-40,000 people of all ethnic groups dressed in festive attire, joyfully gathered in the Qingshui River? Taijiang County, Shi Dongkou, to celebrate a four-day grand festival? Doki Dragon Boat Festival.

Before the dragon boat departure, the village in the dragon boat near the river bank put a four-square table, a liter of rice on the table, rice on the point of three columns of incense, put twelve yuan of money, the sorcerer hand-carried a rooster stood at the table to read the words of the sorcerer to gather the gods of the mountains, the gods of the trees, the ancestors came to bless the dragon boat peace than the village, the peace of the return. After the sorcerer with thatch dipped in the river water sprinkled to the dragon boat and a knife to kill the chicken, after the game, the sorcerer used the same method to send off the mountain gods, tree gods, ancestors.

Even when the ferry, drums and gongs, people on the boat with the rhythm of paddling shouted? Hi! Hi! Hi! Friends and relatives on the shore also followed the dragon boat running and shouting, magnificent, heart-wrenching, dragon boat festival was pushed to a climax.

After the end of the race, the dragon boat docked relatives and friends set off firecrackers, the gift of ducks and geese hanging all over the dragon neck, we began to share with the dragon boat brought glutinous rice, meat and wine, has been celebrated until dusk to sing their respective rowing home.

Dugout dragon boat is the pride of Miao culture, whether it is two rows of people standing rowing radial posture and attire, or pick wood chiseling boat, the water to even the ferry, and its related rituals, taboos and legends, all reflecting an ancient and mysterious atmosphere of the Miao culture. It is the only one of its kind in China.

Dugong Boat culture integrates the Hmong athletic culture, sacrificial culture, dress culture, song and dance culture and food culture, this unique ancient cultural practices, has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.

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