Dragon Boat Festival festival origin Dragon Boat Festival traditional folklore

1, the Dragon Boat Festival festival origin: Dragon Boat Festival, originally created by the ancient ancestors to worship the dragon ancestor, pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits festival. Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan jumped Miluo River on the fifth of May to kill himself, and later people will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, but also to commemorate the Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings. In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the ancient ancestors choose "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestor, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, injected into the summer seasonal "to get rid of the disease and epidemic prevention fashions, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month and bad day" in the northern Central Plains, attached to the commemoration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content.

2, the Dragon Boat Festival traditional folklore: Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival, Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people since ancient times, due to the vast area, coupled with a lot of stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different festival name, but also have different customs around. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, is the auspicious day of the dragon in the sky, in the form of steak dragon boat sacrifice dragon is the Dragon Boat Festival is an important ritual theme, this custom is still prevalent in the southern coast of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs have been derived from the yin and yang magic numbers and seasons. According to the yin and yang magic number, noon is yang, and the heavy noon is the most yang. The ancients regarded the noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, when the three noon are overlapping, as the time of extreme yang, which is most capable of warding off Yin and evil spirits. Ancient people also put the Dragon Boat Festival this day coincides with the summer solstice as an auspicious year, known as the "Dragon Flower Club", there are "a thousand years of Dragon Flower Club" said. Summer is the time of year when yin and yang are competing, Yang moving up, Yin forced down, Wuyue pure Yang Qi, for the Yin evil fear. Summer is also a season to drive out the plague, mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival Yang Qi is strong, everything to this are full, is the strongest medicinal herbs in a year of the day, Dragon Boat Festival on this day to take the most effective herbs to get rid of disease and prevention of epidemic, effective. Due to the Dragon Boat Festival, the pure Yang Qi of heaven and earth convergence of the most conducive to the elimination of Yin and evil, as well as the magical properties of the herbs on this day, so many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs inherited from ancient times have been eliminated Yin and evil with the elimination of disease and prevention of epidemic content, such as hanging mugwort, water at noon, dip the Dragon Boat water, tethered to the five-color thread to ward off the evil spirits, as well as the wash of herbal water, fumigation of Cangzhu to get rid of disease and prevention of disease and so on customary.