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The Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival beautiful appreciation:

1, the Dragon Boat Festival, people get up early are required to drink a cup of wine, legend has it that can avoid the evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival to children wrapped in seven-color thread, has to wear to the first rain after the festival before unraveling thrown in the rain.

Linqing County Dragon Boat Festival, boys under seven years of age with a charm (necklace made of wheat), girls with pomegranate flowers, but also to wear their mother's hand-made yellow in the shoes, shoes with five kinds of venomous insects painted with brushes. The meaning is to kill five kinds of poisonous insects by Qu Yuan's ink. In the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, they wash their faces with dew. 

2. The Dragon Boat Festival, inherited a sentiment, sad and poignant, swallowing mountains and rivers. What it conveys to the world is the noble style of a poet who worries about his country and loves his homeland. Dragon Boat Festival, precipitated a spirit, heavy and solid, everlasting. What it tells the world is the great feat of a warrior who defies tyranny and perseveres in the struggle. For more than two thousand years, this sentiment and spirit that characterizes the Dragon Boat Festival has never changed.

3, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings are really surprising, reed long leaves, Jiangnan glutinous rice, and honey dates. Packed into a dumplings, boiled water, reed leaves refreshing aroma, glutinous rice, sticky incense, and the sweetness of honey dates, mixed together is how to enjoy ah. What kind of person would have such a wonderful construction, so that the people of the past thousand years have been intoxicated by it. 

4, Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, the streets and alleys of Yongcheng, the fragrance of zongzi wafted everywhere, but also everywhere you can see the people holding moxa calamus, face full of festive cheer. People's lintel on the pillar early hung a handful of fresh calamus Artemisia absinthium, they hold the threshold for the host, emitting a faint fragrance, to drive away the evil, guarding the peace. 

5, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, more than two thousand years ago. Ancient folk song sings: "Zongzi incense, incense kitchen. Ai leaf fragrance, fragrance full hall. Peach sticks are inserted in the gate, and when you go out, you can see that the wheat is yellow.

Duanyang here, Duanyang there, Duanyang everywhere." There are many origins of the festival, including honoring the god of Tao in memory of Wu Zixu, the filial daughter Cao E, the poet Qu Yuan, and so on.

But the legend about the evil day of the earliest, in the pre-Qin era, it is generally believed that the month of May is a poisonous month, the fifth is the evil day, according to legend, the day of the evil sycophants when the road, the five poisons and out. In this way, in this day insert calamus, mugwort to drive away ghosts, fumigate Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica and drink xionghuang wine to avoid the epidemic. And people also avoid the "Dragon Boat Festival" taboo, called "Dragon Boat Festival".