The story about the Dragon Boat Festival [6]

# Children's Story # Introduction The Dragon Boat Festival was originally spread mainly in southern wuyue, and appeared as a "totem sacrifice". Ancient ancestors took "dragon" as a totem and chose to sacrifice on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was actually a festival to worship the ancestors of the dragon at that time. The following is the legendary story of Dragon Boat Festival. Welcome to read and learn from it. I hope it helps you!

The story about Dragon Boat Festival: In memory of the great poet Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan was a native of Chu during the Warring States Period. At the age of 22, he was already a formal disciple and a Class 3 doctor, assisting Chu Huaiwang. At that time, Chu Huaiwang was visited by the minister and did not accept Qu Yuan's idea of uniting against Qin. He was lured into house arrest by lobbyist Zhang Yi, forcing him to cede territory to the city. Later, he became ill because of anxiety and soon died in the state of Qin.

Qu Yuan was heartbroken when he learned that, and wrote a letter asking King Xiang of Qin to avenge King Huai. However, Xiang Wang liked him very much, and he expelled Qu Yuan from his post to the south of the Yangtze River. Later, the State of Chu was captured by the State of Qin, and his death was imminent. Qu Yuan's desire to save the country was shattered. In a state of extreme grief, he jumped into the choppy Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC (when Qu Yuan was sixty-two).

When the Chu people heard the news, they rowed after him, but when they arrived at Dongting Lake, Qu Yuan was no longer there. This has become the beginning of the dragon boat race on this day every year. Since then, people have thrown rice into the river at this time every year as a sacrifice to him. But because the rice sacrificed to Qu Yuan was eaten by the dragon on the river, people later wrapped the rice dumplings with leaves of rice dumplings, reed leaves and colorful silk. From generation to generation, it evolved into the custom of eating palm seed on the Dragon Boat Festival.

The second story of Dragon Boat Festival: in memory of Qiu Jin, a modern revolutionary poetess

Qiu Jin was martyred on June 5th. Later generations admired his poems and mourned his heroic deeds. It was held to commemorate the Poets' Day, and the Poets' Day was designated as the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qiu Jin was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. When she was young, she was good at poetry and lyrics, and she liked riding and fencing. She is called Mulan and Qin Liangyu. Joining the revolution at the age of 28 had a great influence. He planned an uprising. He was arrested by the Qing soldiers at the meeting and persevered. Guangxu died heroically in Xuanhengkou, Shaoxing on June 5th, thirty-three years ago.

The third chapter is the story of Dragon Boat Festival: the anniversary of Wu Zixu's death

Wu Zixu was a famous minister and a native of Chu. His father and brother were both killed by the King of Chu. Later, Wu Zixu abandoned the dark and turned to the bright, and went to Wu to help Wu cut Chu, and entered the capital city of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was dead, and Wu Zixu dug a grave and whipped three hundred corpses to avenge his father and brother. After the death of He Lu, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he was defeated by Yue. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, made peace, and Fu Cha agreed. Wu Zixu suggested the complete elimination of Yue, but Fu Cha did not listen. Wu was massacred by Yue, and slanderers framed Wu Zixu. Fu Cha believed it and gave Wu Zixu a sword. Wu Zixu died. Wu Zixu, a loyal minister, is dead. Before he died, he said to his neighbors, "After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wujing to watch the Vietnamese army enter the city and destroy Wu." On May 5th, Fu Cha was furious when he heard that Wu Zixu's body was put in a leather bag and thrown into the river. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

Dragon Boat Festival story: In memory of Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, she saved her drowning father and died.

Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and didn't see her body for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old, crying day and night by the river. 17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. This was passed down as a myth, and then to the county magistrate, who made the degree a monument and asked his disciples to praise it as a speech. The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, and there is a monument made by Jin. Later, in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, Cao E Temple was built where Cao E threw himself into the river. The village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died was named Cao E River.

The fifth chapter is the story of Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Race.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little village in Okawabe. People who live here farm every day and live a happy life. There lived a dragon king in this big river. Every spring, when people start plowing, the dragon king will fly into the air and walk in the clouds. At this time, it will rain in Mao Mao in the sky, and the seedlings in the field will be full of water, flourishing and full of vitality.

However, this spring, the sky didn't rain for a long time. The rice fields dried up and the seedlings turned yellow. Anxious people don't know what to do. One day, a little girl in the village followed her mother to the river to wash clothes. They came to the river. The little girl followed her mother's example and tapped the river with a laundry stick. As she knocked, she read: "Knock, knock, knock-"The sound spread far and far, waking the Dragon King who was sleeping at the bottom of the river. That night, everyone in the village had the same dream. In the dream, the dragon king said, "Dear people, I'm sorry. I slept too long. Now I really want to rain heavily for everyone, but I need your help. Please turn me into a big tree and row on the river so that I can rain for you. "

The next morning, people woke up and went to the mountain, cut down thick and long trees, made beautiful dragon boats and rowed in the river during the Dragon Boat Festival. Sure enough, it rained heavily immediately, and the seedlings in the field drank happily and soon straightened up.

The story of Dragon Boat Festival: Hanging Gourd

A long time ago, there was a fairy who was tired of fairy life and came to the world alone to see how people on earth lived.

He disguised himself as an oil vendor, shouldered the burden and came to a remote mountain village, shouting to sell oil. The villagers heard the shouts and took bottles to buy oil. Those who sell oil on weekdays do business by the catty and collect money to pump oil. But Lv Dongbin is different, leaving the oil burden behind, sitting on one side, shouting and looking around, neither weighing nor counting money. It is entirely up to the oil buyer to weigh the oil consciously and pay at will. Some greedy people in the village were overjoyed to see this scene, and they all took the opportunity to weigh more oil and pay less. Then some villagers heard the news and followed suit.

An honest man in the village saw that everyone was pumping more oil and paying less, and left. He did the same, carrying more oil and rushing home happily. After meeting my mother, I told her as a joke about me and the people buying oil. Who knows, when the mother heard this, she looked unhappy and sternly reprimanded her son for taking improper benefits. Ordered his son to immediately return all these dozens of packages of oil and apologize to the oil seller in person. According to the instructions, the son returned dozens of oil, made up the money he owed, and apologized to the oil seller.

In fact, the immortals have long realized this. But seeing that only the young man in the village came to apologize and pay back the oil, he repeatedly praised him for his kindness, honesty, kindness and filial piety. Apart from feeling, he leaned over his ear and told him a secret: "On the first day of May, there will be a great disaster in the mountain village. Hanging a gourd in front of the door can eliminate disasters. "

The kind and simple mother heard her son's complaint and asked him to tell the villagers the news quickly. The villagers who heard the news hung gourds on the lintel of their house. A few days later, as expected, dark clouds rolled, heavy rains and flash floods broke out. The rushing flood washed away the houses, furniture and cattle of people who didn't hang gourds in the village. The person who hangs the gourd is unscathed and safe.

Since then, every year on the first day of May, the whole village will hang gourds early before this to pray for the safety and health of the family.

The news soon spread throughout the rural areas of Shan Ye, which is a commercial market town north of the Yellow River. As soon as people here arrive at the Dragon Boat Festival, they begin to prepare to hang all kinds of gourds. However, it is not common to grow gourds in northern China. Therefore, people ask painters who are good at binding paper to stick it into a gourd shape with colored paper and hang it on the door to avoid disasters and pray.