Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, about the Dragon Boat Festival, how much do you know? The following is a brief introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival that I have organized for you, welcome to read.

Introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional Chinese folk festival? Dragon Boat Festival, it is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, heavy five festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Daughter Festival, the day in the festival, the ground wax, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival or more than different.

Over the Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people for more than two thousand years, due to the vast geographical area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different festival name, but also has a different custom around. Its content is mainly: the daughter back to his mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, avoiding Wu, posting Wu Ye Fu, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat racing, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children painted with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang liquor, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits, etc., in addition to superstitious color of the activities have gradually disappeared, the rest of the so far spread all over China and the neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, has been a new development, breaking through the time, geographical boundaries, and has become an international sporting event.

On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, said a lot of things, such as: commemorate Qu Yuan said; commemorate Wu Zixu said; commemorate Cao E said; from the three generations of the summer solstice festival said; the evil month of the evil day to drive to avoid that, Wu Yue national totem sacrifices said and so on. Each of the above said, each of its origin. According to scholars Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival of the history of education" lists more than a hundred ancient records and expert archaeological evidence, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient Chinese southern Wu Yue national totem festival, earlier than Qu Yuan. But for thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poetry, has been widely popular, so people? cherish and mourn, the world on its words, in order to pass it on to each other? Therefore, the idea of commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest and deepest influence and occupies a mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people to the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race and eat zongzi, etc., are associated with the commemoration of Qu Yuan.

To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and solemn festival among the Chinese people.

Dragon Boat Festival Customs

Dragon Boat Racing:

Dragon Boat Racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times when many people in Chu could not bear to see Qu Yuan, the wise minister, throw himself into the river to die, and many people chased after him to save him. They scrambled to chase to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

In fact,? Dragon boat racing? As early as in the Warring States period. In the sound of drums, rowing carved into the shape of a dragon canoe, to do the game, to entertain the gods and people, is a half-religious, half-entertainment program in the rituals.

Later, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the dragon boat race, people around the world also pay a different meaning.

Zhejiang and Jiangsu areas rowing dragon boat, both to commemorate the local birth of the modern female democratic revolutionaries Qiu Jin meaning. Night on the dragon boat, lights and colors, back and forth, water and underwater, the scene is moving, interesting. Miao people in Guizhou in the lunar calendar May 25-28 held? Dragon Boat Festival to celebrate the victory of rice-planting and wish a good harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots in the Water Festival Dragon Boat Race, in honor of the ancient heroes of the rock red nest. Different ethnic groups, different regions, paddle dragon boat legend is different. Until today in the south of the many near the rivers, lakes and seas of the region, every year the end of the festival will be held in their own characteristics of the dragon boat racing activities.

In the twenty-ninth year of the Qing dynasty Qianlong (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Taiwan Governor Chiang Yuan-jun had hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Nowadays, dragon boat races are held in Taiwan every year on May 5th. In Hong Kong, the race is also held.

In addition, dragon boat rowing has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. 1980, dragon boat racing is included in China's national sports competitions, and held annually? The dragon boat race was included in China's national sports program in 1980 and is held annually as the Qu Yuan Cup. June 16, 1991 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), in Qu Yuan's second hometown of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China, held the first International Dragon Boat Festival. Prior to the race, the Dragon Head Festival was held, which preserved the traditional rituals and injected new modern elements. The Dragon Head Ceremony is held before the race, preserving the traditional rituals while injecting new modern elements. The Dragon Head Festival is the first international dragon boat festival to be held in Yueyang, Hunan Province, China. The dragon's head is carried into the Qu Zi Temple. was carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, and the athletes gave the dragon head a red? The dragon head is carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall and the athletes put a red band on it. (After the ceremony, the officiating priest reads out the rituals and opens the light on the dragon's head. The head of the dragon will be honored. (i.e., point clear). Then, all the participants in the dragon festival three bow, the dragon head is carried to the Buro River, running to the dragon boat race course. This time to participate in the competition, trade fairs and celebrations up to more than 600,000 people, can be described as unprecedented. After that, Hunan will regularly organize the International Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat races will be prevalent in the world.

Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings

Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as ? The Chinese people have been eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. The Chinese people are also known as the "Kokomitsu", or "Kokomitsu". The tube zongzi? Its origins are long and varied.

According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, with Mizushu leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, said? Corn? ; with a bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, said? Tube dumplings? At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mizong leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

In the Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called ? Yizhi zongzi? Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and localities" records:? Commonly wrapped in millet with Mushroom leaves,? Cooked, and rotten, on the fifth of May to the summer solstice bite, a dumpling, a millet. North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.

By the Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings with rice, has been? White as jade? Japanese literature on the record? Tang dumplings? Song Dynasty, there have been? Candied fruit dumplings? , that is, fruit into the dumplings. Poet Su Dongpo has? When in the dumplings see Yangmei? The verse. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has been changed from the ZongZi leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package of zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnut, etc., more colorful varieties.

Until today, the beginning of May each year, the Chinese people have to dip the glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its more colorful varieties. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of jujube Beijing jujube zong; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk and other fillings, which is represented by Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Wear scented pouches:

Dragon Boat Festival children wear scented pouches, the legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite and lovely.

Hanging moxa leaves calamus:

Folk proverb: ? Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai? In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every family sweeps the court, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai, Ai Tiger; made of garlands, jewelry, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive miasma.

Ai, also known as Ai, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma, can drive flies, insects and ants, purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into moxa velvet. Ai velvet? , is an important herb for moxibustion treatment.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which is a drug that refreshes the mind, strengthens the bones and eliminates stagnation, kills insects and sterilizes the body.

It can be seen that the ancients inserted Ai and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times? Health Festival? , people in this day, cleaning the courtyard, hanging ai sticks, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, and stir up turbidity in addition to corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to collect medicine, is our country's national **** the same custom.

Dragon Boat Festival legend

Originally from the commemoration of Qu Yuan

According to the "Historical Records"? Qu Yuan Jia Sheng biography? According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记), Qu Yuan was a minister of King Huai of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the promotion of the wise and capable, rich and strong, and strongly advocated the United Qi anti-Qin, was strongly opposed by the aristocrats Zilan and others, Qu Yuan was gluttonous, was driven out of the capital, exiled to the Yuan, Xiang basin. During his exile, he wrote such immortal poems as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Questions" and "Nine Songs", which are unique and far-reaching (thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Poets' Festival). In 278 B.C., the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, and his heart was like a knife, but he could not bear to give up his motherland, and on the 5th of May, after writing his final poem "Huai Sha", he threw himself into the Miluo River, and died, composing a magnificent piece of patriotism with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu grieved and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. One fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan, ? flop, flop? thrown into the river, saying that the fish, lobsters and crabs will not bite the body of Dr. Qu when they have eaten enough. People see have followed suit. An old doctor brought a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown.

Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat rice dumplings, drink Xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC). Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother killed by the king of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu to help Wu conquer Chu, and entered Ying City, the capital of Chu, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Vietnamese were defeated, so King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zixu, who was a loyal man and regarded death as a good thing, said to his neighbors before his death: "When I die, gouge out my eyes. When I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu to watch the Yue army enter the city to destroy Wu. The first day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Wu Zixu's body was put into the river on May 5, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Cao E, a filial daughter who saved her father's life and threw herself into the river during the Eastern Han Dynasty (23 - 220 AD). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river, and the body was missing for several days; at that time, Cao E was only fourteen years old, and she cried along the river day and night. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. This is a myth, and it was passed down to the governor of the county, who made Du Shang erect a monument for it, and let his disciple Handan Chun make a eulogy in praise of it.

The tomb of the filial daughter Cao E, in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, later rumored that Cao E monument was written by Jin Wang Yi. To commemorate the filial piety of Cao E, later generations built the Cao E Temple in the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, renamed the village where she lived as Cao E Town, and named the place where Cao E died for her father as Cao E River.

From the ancient Vietnamese national totem sacrifices

A large number of recent excavated artifacts and archaeological research confirms that: the vast area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in the Neolithic era, there is a geometric printed ceramic as a characteristic of the cultural remains. The remains of the clan, according to experts inferred to be a worship of the dragon totem tribe ---- history called the Baiyue tribe. Unearthed pottery on the decoration and historical legends show that they have the custom of breaking hair tattoos, living in the water countryside, self-comparison is the descendants of the dragon. Their production tools, a large number of stone tools, but also shovels, chisels and other small pieces of bronze. As a living thing in the altar pots and jars, cooking food printed pots are unique to them, is one of the symbols of their community. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still Baiyue people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was the festival they created for ancestor worship. Over thousands of years of history, most of the Baiyue people have been integrated into the Han Chinese, while the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south, making the Dragon Boat Festival a festival for the entire Chinese nation.

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