May 5 Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Daughter's Day"? What are the sayings and instructions?

As we all know, the fifth of May is our country's major traditional festival: Dragon Boat Festival, but few people know that in fact the Dragon Boat Festival is also China's Daughter's Day, so the Dragon Boat Festival to tie the tradition of the five-color rope. The Dragon Boat Festival is called the Daughter's Day, which is a festival for married women to return to their homes; Ming Shen Bang, "Miscellaneous Records of the Department of Wan": the Daughter's Day in May, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Department of the Dragon Boat Rope, wear the 艾叶, the five poisons and the spirit of the charm. Wan custom from the first to the fifth day of May, decorate the little girl, all state extremely research. The married women also return to Ning. It is called Daughter's Day.

In China, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival, New Year's Eve is the main important activities, New Year's Eve can be up to the second lunar February, but the New Year's Eve is the men's business, women do not go out, and so on, until New Year's Eve, the women walk and no atmosphere, plus the beginning of the busy farm, the most no walking time, how to do it? So the ancients chose the Dragon Boat Festival. Women choose the Dragon Boat Festival back to the door has many benefits, but there is one thing is the ancients most valued, that is, double five in the gossip than and the elephant, Daji, Li travel. Therefore, married women have returned to their parents' homes to save their relatives, the daughter of the Festival thus named.

Ancient people believe that the beginning of the Taiji, Dao Li in one, creating a division of heaven and earth, into all things. Taiji born two meters, these two meters is the yin and yang. Tanabata when in the forefront, is a small daughters of the festival; Chung Yeung second, is married women; the last for the Dragon Boat Festival, is the old daughters, but also belong to all married women.

The Dragon Boat Festival called Daughter's Day said two: in honor of Wu Zetian; according to legend, the Tang Dynasty Wude six years (624 AD) of the Day of the Dragon Boat Festival this day, Shu North town of Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan Province) outside the city of Jialingjiang River, a Jiangtan, an official boat is swinging oars in this. The boat was filled with melodious pipes and strings, singing and dancing. Suddenly, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the river surface was swirling with waves. Just see a lightning bolt flash, from the center of the river violently out of a golden dragon. The golden dragon in the sky after a wave of wild dance, then directly to the official ship, immediately will be seated on the boat of the Governor of Li Zhou Mrs. Yang fainted in fear. When the beauty of the Governor's wife woke up, the wind has stopped the waves are quiet, the sky full of dark clouds have disappeared without a trace, only the bright sun is warmly sprinkled in the clear river.

Mrs. Dudu went back to the soon to be pregnant, and later gave birth to a baby girl, and then later this baby girl grew up in a period of hardship after a long history of China's only female emperor, she is China's feudal society, outstanding female politicians, on behalf of the Tang dynasty and the Lord of the world's Golden Wheel of the Holy Spirit of the Great Zhou Dynasty Emperor Wu Zetian.

When the Tang Li Zhou in honor of the birth of this outstanding woman here, the local people will be in Yang ?a href="1520/" target="_blank"> fine Xin ? Huan? Go? Song Zhuo which mace ?ldquo; Lizhou Jiangtan side of the Wulong Mountain built a sacrificial temple Huangze Temple, that the blue waves of Jiangtan is also known as the Golden Wheel sense of pregnancy place. Every year in wu zetian birthday this day will be held a grand celebration of commemorative activities, the city women will be dressed in colorful costumes out of the city gathered on both sides of the Jialing River. They moved the boat river pool, singing and dancing, wing begged the golden dragon again, and then feel the dragon pregnancy, and then give birth to a few more for the world's women to raise the eyebrow of the female heroes. This custom has been inherited today, this is the colorful, fascinating Guangyuan Daughter Festival.