Dragon Boat Festival speech [three articles]

Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China and has a history of XX years. Dragon Boat Festival has many origins and legends. Here are only the following four:

Commemorating Qu Yuan

According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Parting *, Tian Wen and Nine Songs, which had a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is also called Poets' Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Commemorating Wu Zixu.

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Wu Zixu, a famous Chu national, and his father and brother were all killed by the King of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu to attack Chu, and entered the capital city of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zixu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father's murder. After the death of He Lu, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he was defeated by Yue. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, made peace, and Fu Cha agreed. Xu Jian, a son, wants to completely destroy Yue State. Fu Cha didn't listen, but Wu was slaughtered and bought by Yue. He was framed by slanderers, and Fu Cha believed him and gave him a sword. Zi Xu died. Zi Xu, a loyal and righteous man, regarded death as death. Before he died, he said to his neighbors, "After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Jason Wu, watching the Yue team enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he killed himself. Hearing this, Fu Cha was furious and ordered people to put the body of Zixu in a leather bag and throw it into the river on May 5th. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

In memory of the dutiful daughter Cao E.

The third legend of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who saved her drowning father in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and didn't see her body for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old, crying day and night by the river. 17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. It was handed down as a myth, and then spread to the governor of the county government, so that the degree remained a monument and his * Han Danchun made a eulogy.

The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, and there is a monument made by Jin. Later, in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, Cao E Temple was built where Cao E threw himself into the river. The village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died was named Cao E River.

Totem sacrifice originated from the ancient Yue nationality.

A large number of cultural relics and archaeological studies unearthed in modern times have confirmed that the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are vast.

In the Neolithic Age, there was a cultural relic with the characteristics of Tao Wei. According to experts' inference, the remaining clan is Baiyue clan, a clan that worships dragon totem in history. The decorative patterns and historical legends on unearthed pottery show that they have the custom of tattooing constantly, live in a water town and compare themselves to the descendants of dragons. Among its production tools, there are a large number of stone tools, as well as small bronzes such as shovels and chisels. As daily necessities, the printed pottery ding used for cooking food is unique to them and is one of the symbols of their ethnic group. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still more than 100 Vietnamese people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival for their ancestors. During thousands of years of historical development, most Baiyue people have integrated into the Han nationality, and the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival for the whole Chinese nation.

I hope these speeches about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival can help students. I hope the students will inherit the excellent Chinese traditional culture during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and wish you a happy and meaningful Dragon Boat Festival!

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Dragon Boat Festival is coming. Do you know the origin of Dragon Boat Festival? Let me tell you something!

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as Duanyang, Chongwu and Dragon Boat Festival. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was a custom of "storing orchids and bathing on May 5th".

But today's Dragon Boat Festival is more to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. According to legend, the dragon boat race is to save Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who died in the Miluo River. Dumpling zongzi into the river is to prevent fish, jiaozi, shrimps and crabs from eating Qu Yuan's body. Here, I will tell you a story about Qu Yuan. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Central Plains region was dominated by Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin Wei, who fought for land among themselves, thus achieving the Central Plains War. At that time, Qu Yuan was a leftist official of Chu State. He advised Chu Huaiwang to be benevolent and not to listen to slanderers, but instead of listening, Wang Huai listened to slanderers and demoted Qu Yuan. The grief-stricken Qu Yuan wrote an immortal poem-Li He. In 278 BC, Chu State was attacked by Qin State, and Qu Yuan's spirit suffered a great blow. Faced with the destruction of the country and the suffering of the people, he could do nothing, so in extreme disappointment and pain, he threw himself into the Miluo River. Hearing the news, the Chu people rowed in succession to salvage Qu Yuan's body in the river, and brought zongzi to feed the fish, jiaozi, shrimps and crabs in the river to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body. More than two thousand years have passed, but the image of the poet Qu Yuan remains in people's hearts. Nowadays, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people will row dragon boats and eat zongzi to commemorate this great poet.

Of course, customs vary from place to place, but they all eat zongzi, insert mugwort leaves, wear sachets and race dragon boats. Besides the above, we also have the habit of giving away mung bean cakes.

Dragon Boat Festival is my favorite festival. Not only because it can eat zongzi and mung bean cake, but also because it is a memorial to the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

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Dear teachers and students:

The theme of today's speech is: to commemorate Qu Yuan and celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Everyone knows that the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional festival of our Chinese nation-Dragon Boat Festival. So how did the Dragon Boat Festival come about? The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival, which means the same as Chu. Calling it "Dragon Boat Festival" is just like calling it "the fifth day". The word "five" in the Dragon Boat Festival is also connected with "noon". According to the order of earthly branches, May is "noon" month. Because noon is the "sun", the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". On May 5th, both the month and the day are five, so calling five is also called noon. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Summer Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and so on.

Many nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival indirectly explain the differences in the origin of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. That's what happened. There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; Wuyue's national totem sacrifice theory: From the three generations of summer solstice festival; Evil month and evil day drive away, and so on. So far, the most influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, China people regard dragon boat racing and rowing as the main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "corn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. At the beginning of May every year, every household in China should soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi 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.

China's traditional culture has a long history!

In order to inherit Qu Yuan's patriotic tradition, we must study hard and make progress every day. Thank you all.