Why celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

We all know that the Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday in our country, so why do we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? Let’s find out together.

Why celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? The Dragon Boat Festival, which is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the lunar calendar, is often jokingly called the "Zongzi Festival" by "foodies" in recent years, just like the Mid-Autumn Festival is called the "Moon Cake Festival" and the Lantern Festival is called the "Tangyuan Festival".

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These foods are indeed special foods during festivals, but using food to refer to festivals at least reflects: We have not inherited and respected the national spirit of the festival, and only focused on the folk customs of the festival.

The traditional Chinese festivals are solidified in the form of festivals to remind people of a certain spiritual orientation year after year, and passed down are certain values ????that must be celebrated from generation to generation to continue the ancestral civilization.

If we fail to understand why each festival is initiated, why it exists, and why it is spread, we cannot say that we are truly celebrating our own Chinese festivals. We can only reluctantly say that we are eating specialties.

(1) Ancestor Worship The Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four traditional festivals of the Chinese Han people.

Judging from the characteristics of these four festivals, we will find that the most important Chinese festivals are closely connected with ancestor worship.

Returning home during the Spring Festival, visiting graves during the Qingming Festival, and reuniting during the Mid-Autumn Festival all have ancestor worship etiquette and rituals, all of which must bear in mind the teachings and contributions of our ancestors.

The same goes for the Dragon Boat Festival.

According to Mr. Wen Yiduo's research, the Dragon Boat Festival originally originated from the ancient Baiyue area where dragon totems were worshiped and totem sacrifices were held. Therefore, the rice dumplings were thrown into the river to worship the dragon god, and the dragon boat race was used as a boat race to please the gods.

Dragon boat racing and other festival customs.

Well, the Chinese nation has always claimed to be the descendants and descendants of the dragon. The worship of the dragon on the Dragon Boat Festival is equivalent to a grand ancestor worship for the Chinese nation.

The essence of this kind of respect for ancestors is respect for the experience and wisdom of ancestors and respect for the contributions of ancestors to the family and the country.

Only by not forgetting our forefathers and ancestors can we open up tomorrow and pass on civilization.

(2) Respect for Heaven: Chinese culture pursues the harmony of heaven and man, so traditional festivals also correspond to the seasons and nature.

For example, the Double Ninth Festival on the Double Ninth Festival is a kind of emotional expansion on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month and the Double Ninth Festival; while the Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Double Ninth Festival, which is also a superposition of Yang numbers, so the Dragon Boat Festival

The festival is also called "Duanyang Festival".

"Duan" means "initial", that is to say, the fifth day of every month can be called "Duan Wu"; but the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the "noon month" in the order of the earthly branches, so the fifth day of May

It is commonly called "Dragon Boat Festival".

In addition, there are also titles such as "Chongwu Festival" and "May Festival".

Each of the four seasons can be divided into three stages: early, middle and late afternoon, and May is in the midsummer stage.

In such a hot midsummer season, it is when mosquitoes begin to rage and poisons gradually become active. Therefore, the ancients with low medical standards followed the laws of nature to prevent the plague that may arise at any time in the hot weather and to fight against the plague that is about to swarm on the midsummer night.

Snakes.

They picked orchids for bathing, hung mugwort leaves to repel mosquitoes, drank realgar wine to ward off insects, and wore sachets to ward off evil spirits. Through their perception of nature and their harvesting, they eliminated plagues, exorcised evil spirits, and sought good luck.

The Dragon Boat Festival, like many traditional festivals, is a solemn response to the nature of heaven and earth with a heart of respect and a sense of etiquette.

(3) Patriotism The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival will become a festival with a strong sense of story and great influence in later generations can be traced back to the legend of Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival.

In fact, the origin legend of the Dragon Boat Festival goes far beyond the character Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river on May 5th. The more popular Dragon Boat Festival theories include Cao E's theory, Wu Zixu's theory, and so on.

However, only Qu Yuan, an official of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, has become one of the most important spiritual remembrances and collective memories in the long history, just like his heroic feat of throwing a boulder into the Miluo River and dying for his country.

Qu Yuan, who was born into a noble family of the Chu State, had an instinctive patriotic enthusiasm and an ideal of integrity. Therefore, even though he lived in the chaotic Warring States period when etiquette collapsed and music was broken throughout his life, and even though he was later ostracized by the King of Chu and the powerful and exiled,

He also did not change his "vanilla beauty" style of loyalty to the emperor, patriotism and ambition to adhere to his ideals.

Perhaps, Qu Yuan's era was wrong.

He advocated reform internally and insisted on uniting Qi to resist Qin externally. However, it was no longer the era of the wise king of Chu and the rise of Chu as a powerful country. The vision, mind and courage of the late monarchs and powerful ministers could not accept the good strategy of a loyal minister.

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?The whole world is turbid and I am alone pure; everyone is drunk and I am alone awake!? In the wrong era, Qu Yuan's reason was shouting.

Perhaps, Qu Yuan's Chu State was sad.