What is the mysterious legend between the Dragon Boat Festival of Zhuang nationality and the Duke of Crossing the River?

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the biggest traditional festival in China. In Li San Town, Shanglin, Guangxi, there is a different kind of excitement. Every household gathered by the clear river to celebrate the local folk activity "Du He Gong", which was originally called Du He Gong or "Du He Gong" according to Lisan dialect. This folk custom was formed in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of 400 years.

On this night of the lunar calendar every year, men, women and children spontaneously flock to Huishui River, a small river in the south of Lisan. A large-scale "crossing the river" activity was held on both sides of Huishui Bridge, where the east-west rivers meet. Every year on the first day of the fifth lunar month, the girls in Lisan Town get together, sing folk songs and do "crossing the river".

Up to now, every year on the Dragon Boat Festival night on the fifth day of May, men, women and children in the village are chanting prayers and hanging "crossing the river" around the child's neck and navel with red or yellow silk thread. Because "Ai Xiang" has the functions of exorcism, earthquake suppression and analgesia, it can protect children's well-being. Or put "Duke of Du He" and the son of Brown on the boat, light red candles and drift along the river, let the small river lanterns take away the misfortunes and sorrows of the years, and the villagers pray together: the family is happy and healthy, and the motherland is prosperous.

The prototype is a pumpkin-shaped palace with no face, black heads and no folds. In the process of development, Du Hegong, who has no face and blackheads, was added with an innocent smile and delicate braids by the producers, making some dark images of Du Hegong instantly smart and lovely.

Making Du He gongs is a Zhuang folk custom that spreads in Lisan Town, Shanglin County, Guangxi. The Duke of Du He sewed and embroidered a little man in cloth with various colors. Cloth man dressed in Ming dynasty, little cloth man holding a golden pumpkin in his arms. The production of "Duhegong" is purely handmade, and the fabrics are mostly cloth. "Pumpkin" is filled with dried wormwood, angelica dahurica, atractylodes rhizome and other Chinese herbal medicines, so smelling the faint fragrance of wormwood in Du Hegong can make people feel refreshed. People make "crossing the river" to express their desire to remember their ancestors, save lives, keep safe and avoid disasters, and pray for good weather and prosperity in the future.

Legend of Zhuang nationality crossing the river on Dragon Boat Festival

One: According to legend, there was a great famine in ancient times, and the world was Wang Yang. Only a man and a woman hold a magic pumpkin floating on the water to avoid being killed. After the flood, there are only men and women left in the whole world. After they went ashore, they began to live again and reproduce human beings. Later modern people regarded these two men as the ancestors of mankind. This version is the official version at present, and many people who come from other places to "cross the river" are familiar with this story.

Secondly, it originated in memory of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The reason is that the statement of commemorating Qu Yuan and the statement of crossing the river are strikingly consistent in time and manner. Therefore, through the oral spread of local residents, the Dragon Boat Festival crossed the river to commemorate the patriotic poet who fell into the water and died. This version is widely circulated in Lisan Town, Shanglin County, Guangxi.

Third: this version is relatively rare, and even Li Sanren rarely knows it. This legend is a combination of Pangu and historical stories. In ancient times, after the chaos was broken, three brothers, Thor, Wang Hailong and Buluotuo, were born. Later, Thor fought against Bubo, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality. Bubo caught Thor in the henhouse and wanted to buy a knife to kill Thor in the street.

Before Bubo left, he told his two children, the Pangu brothers and sisters, not to give anything containing water to Thor, or Thor would take back his skills. After Bubo left, Thor tricked the Pangu brothers and sisters into asking for water, but because their father refused, they refused. Then Thor asked Pangu's brothers and sisters for pig food, but was refused with water-containing pig food. Finally, Thor asked Pangu brothers and sisters for straw and sucked a pool of water beside him.

After my skills were restored, I broke out of the chicken coop. Before Raytheon left, he planted a front tooth for Pangu brothers and sisters, and what he got could save his life. After Lei Gong left, Pangu's brother and sister planted Raytheon's teeth, but a gourd grew. After the death of Raytheon, the land of Zhuang nationality was flooded in retaliation for Bubo. Halfway through the flood, Thor dropped a foot from the sky to explore the water depth, and Buber cut it off with a knife.

Thor had to cut off a chicken foot and put it on. Therefore, in the temples of the Zhuang nationality, the image of Thor is like this: one foot is a chicken foot and only one front tooth. In the master dance of Raytheon, Raytheon has been repeating a kind of street dance, which is also derived from this legend. This time, the land of the Zhuang nationality was flooded, and most of the ancestors of the Zhuang nationality died, while Pangu brothers and sisters hid in the gourd and escaped this robbery. After oral spread and changes among the people, the gourd held by Pangu brothers and sisters became a golden pumpkin symbolizing wealth.