Interesting topics about traditional festivals

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Five-Day Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Noon Day. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging mugwort leaves and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus leaves, smoking atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine, it is said that it is to ward off evil spirits.

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that Chu people who originated in ancient times could not bear to throw themselves into the river and died. Many people rowed to catch up and save. They rushed to catch up until they reached Dongting Lake, and then people rowed dragon boats on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body, the custom of dragon boat racing is popular in wuyue and Chu. Later, people everywhere not only commemorated Qu Yuan, but also gave different meanings to dragon boat racing. For example, dragon boat rowing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also to commemorate Qiu Jin, who was born there.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food in Jin Dynasty. At the beginning of May every year, every household should soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors. From the perspective of stuffing, there are many dates in the north, such as jiaozi; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as red bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk, among which Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi is the representative. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits. Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air.

1: Zongzi is a kind of festival food of Dragon Boat Festival, which was called "Zongzi" in ancient times.

The five poisons are five kinds of animals. They are green snake, centipede, scorpion, gecko and toad.

Yes, the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates many people, including Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu and Cao E, etc.

4, 5: The Dragon Boat Festival began in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

6. Wu Zixu (770 BC-476 BC). Wu Zixu was a famous minister, a native of Chu, and a native of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

7. Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival, means "beginning" and "beginning".

8: Multicolor consists of five colors: red, yellow, blue, green and purple. Multicolor in Ming Dynasty consists of red, yellow, green and purple underglaze colors and underglaze blue and white.

Multicolored lines are called multicolored longevity lines in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a girl's festival, and it is China's Daughter's Day.

This is an ancient custom in the Song Dynasty, wearing colorful immortal wisps. Red, green, yellow, white and black thick silk threads are twisted into colored ropes and tied around the girl's arms and neck, which are called long life strands and long life strands. It is this custom that Yu Youding, an Amin, said that "five lives can be sustained" in "Song of the Imperial Capital for Five Days".

Han Yingshao's "Customs Pass" reads: "On May 5, five-color silk was tied to the arm, which was called long life." Later generations are also called "extending life". Accordingly, this custom lasted for two thousand years from the Han Dynasty.

In traditional customs, the five-color silk thread is twisted into a general shape and tied to the child's arm. It was not until Qi's birthday on July 7th that he untied it and burned it with the golden coffin.

It is also said that cutting colorful threads and throwing them in the rain on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival will bring you good luck for a year.

Colorful lines are called "five-color lines", "Zhu Suo" and "Bai Suo", which are essential items for the Dragon Boat Festival. Shaanxi custom, on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, tie colored silk thread on children's wrists, ankles and necks, which is said to ward off evil spirits and prevent the five poisons from approaching each other. This colorful silk thread will not be cut until "June 6" and thrown into the river and washed away by the water. Shaanxi legend believes that this is related to the story of Sun Simiao, the drug king. Throwing the flower thread into the river means taking all the diseases away, which has the nature of sending disasters. Today, silk thread is generally used for embroidery, with many colors, bright colors and flexible colors, ranging from a dozen to two or three. What color to use is also very flexible, and some people use whatever color they have at hand. On May 5th, adults and children will wear colorful ribbons. Together, they will look better than anyone and be interesting. Of course, people who are more particular still use five-color lines.