What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival of life

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include eating zongzi, five yellow and six white, colorful rope and so on.

"Eat the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, but also frozen three frozen" "eat the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, but also jumped three jumps" "eat the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, cold clothes far away from the send" these are folk proverbs. Dragon Boat Festival dumplings are mainly wrapped in moso bamboo shells and green bamboo shells, and the inside is mainly made of glutinous rice.

There are many different flavors, divided into sweet and salty mouth, red bean dumplings, date dumplings, green bean dumplings, fresh meat dumplings, alkaline water dumplings and so on.

The "five yellows" refer to cucumber, yellow fish, yellow eel, yellow clam, and yellow plum; the "six whites" refer to tofu, wild rice, Chinese cabbage, white fish, and white chicken. Although few people do it so comprehensively now, many people still eat it according to the custom, which is said to drive away poison and evil spirits.

Duanwu hang colorful ropes, colorful ropes also have a nice name called long-life wisps, every Dragon Boat Festival, families put colorful ropes on their children to pray to ward off evil spirits and drive away disasters.

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The Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of heavenly signs, evolved from the ancient times of dragon totem sacrifice. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared to the south in the sky, is the day of the dragon flying, that is, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "flying dragon in the sky"

. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star both "in" and "get positive", in a position of great good fortune, Enshi Pu also, Dragon Deyang.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation; in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content.

The Dragon Boat Festival and the Rice Dumpling Festival are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

The Dragon Boat Festival was founded by the ancestors of the ancient Baiyue people to pay homage to their ancestors.

Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5 to kill himself, the Dragon Boat Festival was later regarded as a festival in honor of Qu Yuan; it also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, among others.

Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the south of the Baiyue ancestors to choose "dragon ascension" auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestor, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month, bad day" in the north of the Central Plains, with the honor of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, the Dragon Boat Festival. Attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the fusion of the customs of the north and south.

The Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Intangible Heritage.