Who is honored by the Dragon Boat Festival 2019 Dragon Boat Festival taboo what

From the Dragon Boat Festival there is more than a month, there are vacations can also eat dumplings, really let people have to look forward to ah. Then you know that in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival is commemorated by Qu Yuan this one statement, there are two other statements? Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, the history of a long time, so you know the Dragon Boat Festival folk taboo handed down?

The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates who Qu Yuan said

This is the earliest from the Southern Liang Dynasty Wu Jun "continued Qi Harmonious Records" and the Northern Zhou Zong hours of service "Jingchu chronicle" records. It is said that Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month, and after his death, he was trapped by a dragon, and the world mourned his death and threw five-colored silk rice dumplings into the water on this day to drive away the dragon. It is also rumored that Qu Yuan cast Miluo River, the local people heard immediately rowing boats to rescue, has been traveling to the Dongting Lake, and finally did not see the body of Qu Yuan. At that time, it was a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered together by the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that is to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send condolences, people swinging boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. Hundreds of people are afraid of the fish in the river to eat his body, they have to go home to bring the dumplings into the river. Later became the custom of eating rice dumplings. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings, dragon boat racing and commemorate Qu Yuan, Tang Dynasty Wenxiu "Dragon Boat Festival" poem as evidence: "Festival points Dragon Boat Festival since who said that the rumors of the ancient for Qu Yuan. It is a pity that the Chu River is so empty that it can't wash away the injustice of the upright ministers."

Wu Zixu

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, honors Wu Zixu, who lived during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC). Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother killed by the king of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu to help Wu conquer Chu, and entered Ying City, the capital of Chu, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed to it. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zixu was a loyal and good man, and looked upon death as a homecoming, and before he died, he said to his neighbors: "After I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu in order to see the Vietnamese army enter the city and destroy Wu", and then he cut his own throat, and Fu Chai was furious at the news, and he ordered to take the body of Zixu and put it into a leather bag to throw it into a big river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and so the Dragon Boat Festival was also said to be a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Cao E, a filial daughter who threw herself into the river to save her father. Legend has it that her father drowned in the river, and the body was not seen for several days. At that time, the filial daughter Cao E was only fourteen years old, and she cried along the river day and night, and after seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on the 5th of May, and held her father's body five days later, which was passed down as a myth, and was then passed down to the governor of the county government, who made the Dusun Shang to set up a monument for the festival. Later generations to commemorate Cao E filial piety, in Cao E cast the river where the construction of Cao E Temple, she lived in the village and town was renamed Cao E town, Cao E martyrdom of the father of the river named Cao E River.

2019 Dragon Boat Festival taboos what taboos evil day

May in feng shui customs known as the "evil month", is inauspicious month, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth month is also known as the "heavy five", is the evil on the evil, is the most inauspicious day in the month of May. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival this day, there is a "hiding noon" custom, not full age of the child must be sent to his grandmother's home to drive away the evil and avoid disaster.

Avoid the five poisons

The five poisons are snakes, scorpions, lizards, toads and centipedes. On the Dragon Boat Festival, pictures and paper cuttings of the five poisons are put up in the house, and needles are stuck on them to represent that the five poisons have been killed and can no longer continue to do evil. Other places will embroider the five poisons on their clothes, and still others will wear jewelry of the five poisons on their wrists. The main purpose of avoiding the five poisons is to remind people to pay attention to preventing pests and diseases.

Avoid Swimming

There are some places that avoid swimming on the Dragon Boat Festival, especially those where people have drowned before. The custom in some places is that on the Dragon Boat Festival, many drowned ghosts will return to the yang world to look for their replacements, so it is important to throw the dumplings into the water and share them with them, so that they don't find themselves.

Avoid losing children's scented packets

In some places, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, small children wear scented packets to ward off evil spirits. After the Dragon Boat Festival, it is necessary to burn the incense packets brought by small children to represent the removal of bad luck. If you lose the incense sachet you are wearing, the child may not be able to live the year. The child may not stop for the year.

Avoid eating the dumplings of the mother's home

married daughter can not be in the mother's home over the Dragon Boat Festival, and can not eat the dumplings made in the mother's home, if you eat it will be bad luck. As the saying goes, "Eat the mother's family Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, a family member is not left".

Dragon Boat Festival customs 1, eat zongzi

In ancient times, in order to worship Qu Yuan, Jingchu people will cook glutinous rice on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month or steamed zongzi cake into the river, for fear of fish eat, people came up with zongzi leaves wrapped in rice, outside the wrapped with colorful silk. Later, eat zongzi became the Dragon Boat Festival custom. Rice dumplings made of rice, yellow rice, jujube, commonly known as "two rice dumplings".

2, hanging mugwort

Mugwort medical, rich in use value, in addition to can be made into mochi, there is a cure for sweating, anti-allergy, cold, dampness and other effects. And because of its unique aroma, so many people will be in the Dragon Boat Festival this day, in front of the house and under the eaves hanging mugwort. There are also calamus, people will carve calamus into various shapes for good luck.

3, Dragon Boat Race

Legend has it that the people of Chu used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuoshi said, the ancients race dragon boat at the end of the set up a fish mark, duck mark, iron mark, who got the three mark on the first runner-up. In order to allow participants to see the end from a distance, the ancients will also be on the 3 mark with brocade bow.

4, eat five poison cake

This and the Dragon Boat Festival where the season, when the climate is hotter, bacteria are also easy to grow. Shooting five poisons, eating five poisonous cakes, detoxification, strong body, against mosquitoes.

5, fighting grass

In ancient times, people to the Dragon Boat Festival, will go to the countryside to pick medicine, medicine on the way to fight grass to play, and gradually formed a custom. Participate in the game of the two will hold grass relative to stand, hands each holding a grass or flower stems at both ends. After the start of the game, the two grass hook, the two sides each pull the grass to their own direction, who's grass or flower stems were pulled by the other side who lost.

6, shoot five poison

Dragon Boat Festival, the girl should be in the chest don't "Zengzi", it is said that this colorful silk thread sewing, look similar to the dumplings with the appearance of cloth can drive away evil. Boys hang a gourd on the neck, inside the collection into the "five poisons" pattern, meaning that the "collection" of five poisons.

7, paste gourd flowers

Because the gourd is the "fortune" of the harmonics. In ancient times, people will use red burlap cut into gourds, including "five poison" pattern, known as "gourd flowers", May 1, May 5, May 5, May 5, take off at noon and throw away, known as "throw disaster ".

8, point xionghuang

point xionghuang that point xionghuang wine, generally in the boy's forehead to write the word "king", in the girl's forehead point on five points. In ancient times, it is said that the yellow wine can drive away evil spirits and avoid harm.

9, Pei Xiangbao

Pei Xiangbao on the one hand can do lapel decoration, on the other hand, the contents of the capsule containing various types of incense, fragrant. Will also use the five-color silk thread tied into different locks. Children wear scented pouches, legend has the meaning of driving away evil spirits and avoiding harm.