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Express the characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival in one sentence respectively

Duanwu Festival: Dragon Boat Racing with thousands of sails, hanging Qu Yuan on the Miluo River.

Mid-Autumn Festival: The Moon Festival is very bright.

Duanwu Festival is a very popular folk festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people since ancient times, due to the vast area, coupled with a number of stories and legends, so not only produced a large number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around.

Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, is the auspicious day of the dragon in the sky, in the form of steak dragon boat sacrifice dragon is the Dragon Boat Festival is an important rituals and customs of the theme, this custom is still prevalent in the coastal areas of southern China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from the yin and yang magic numbers and seasons. According to the yin and yang magic number, noon is yang, and the heavy noon is the most yang. The ancients regarded the midday of the Dragon Boat Festival, when the three noon parties overlap, as an extremely yang time, most capable of warding off evil spirits.

The ancients also the Dragon Boat Festival this day coincides with the summer solstice as an auspicious year, known as the "Dragon Flower Club", there is "a thousand years of Dragon Flower Club" said. Summer is the time of yin and yang two gas competition, Yang moving up, Yin forced down, the month of noon, pure yang Qi, for the Yin evil fear. Summer is also a season to drive out the plague, mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival yang qi is strong, all things to this are full, is the strongest day of the year in the herb, Dragon Boat Festival on this day to take the herb to get rid of disease and epidemic prevention is the most effective, effective.

Because of the Dragon Boat Festival, the pure yang of heaven and earth is the most conducive to the convergence of Yin and evil, as well as the magical properties of the herbs on this day, so many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs passed down from ancient times have to ward off the Yin and evil with the expulsion of disease and epidemic prevention content, such as hanging wormwood, water at noon, dipping in the water of the Dragon Boat, tied to the five-color thread to ward off the evil, as well as the washing of herbal water, fumigation of Cangzhu to dispel disease and epidemic prevention and other customs.

Duanwu Festival origin:

Duanwu Festival originated from the worship of heaven, evolved from the ancient times of the dragon totem sacrifice. Dragon Boat Festival rituals and primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, the dry calendar and the Canglong seven hosts are located in the south of the celestial phenomenon. Ancient Chinese astrological culture has a long and profound history, and the ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe at a very early stage, and thus deduced a set of complete and profound stargazing culture.

People in ancient times, the image of the sky, the law of the instrument, according to the orbit and location of the sun, moon and stars, the ecliptic and the equator near the region is divided into 28 groups of stars and lodging, commonly known as the "28 lodging", according to the southeast, west, north and west of the four directions are divided into seven lodging, that is, the "four elephants "

The Canglong seven lodges in the east of the "angle, hyper, dibutyl, room, heart, tail, Kei" to form a complete dragon-shaped star, that is, the Canglong seven lodges.

The Canglong seven sleepers cycle and the four seasons of the year cycle in line with the spring in the east, summer in the south of the rise, the fall in the west recede, the winter hidden in the north under the horizon. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival Canglong seven hosts hanging high in the south of the sky, in the "center" of the position, the metaphor that things are in the state of the most flourishing, is the great luck of the sky.