Write a composition about Nanyang customs.

Another Dragon Boat Festival has arrived. With full curiosity, my classmates and I began to carefully explore the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown. After a period of searching, the harvest is really not small.

First, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The theory of commemorating Qu Yuan

This theory originated from the records of Wu Jun's "The Peace of Continuation of Qi" in the Southern Liang Dynasty and "The Time of Jingchu" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It is said that Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the fifth day of May. Trapped by dragons after death, the world mourned. He throws colorful silk zongzi into the water every day to drive away the dragon. It is also said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was not found. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on the river, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival seems to be related to commemorating Qu Yuan, as evidenced by Wen Xiu's poem "Dragon Boat Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored that it is Qu Yuan. It is ridiculous that the Chu River is empty and cannot be washed directly. "

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This sentence comes from Cao E tablet in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, after the death of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Wu, he became Shen Tao, and the world mourned and sacrificed, so there was the Dragon Boat Festival.

Bad day theory.

According to Historical Records, Tian Wensheng of Meng Changjun was born on the fifth day of May. His father once told his mother to abandon Tian Wen on the grounds that the child born on this day would kill his father. There is also a saying in the Customs of Yi Tong in the Eastern Han Dynasty that "having a baby on May 5th, the male is harmful to his father and the female is harmful to his mother". Wang Zhene, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born on the fifth day of May. His grandfather named him "Zhen Xie". Evonne and Song Huizong were born on the fifth day of May, and were fostered outside the palace since childhood. It can be seen that it is a common phenomenon to regard the fifth day of May as an evil day in ancient times. In this way, it is logical to insert calamus and mugwort leaves to exorcise ghosts, smoke atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica and drink realgar wine to avoid the epidemic on this day.

Dragon boat festival theory.

This statement comes from Wen Yiduo's Dragon Boat Festival Examination and Dragon Boat Festival History Education. He thinks that the fifth day of May is an ancient festival. The day when the "Dragon" tribe in Vietnam held totem sacrifice. The main reason is that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing are the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, both of which are related to dragons. Zongzi thrown into the water is often stolen by mosquitoes and dragons, and dragon boat races. Second, the relationship between race crossing and ancient wuyue is particularly deep. In addition, wuyue and people with serial tattoos have the custom of "looking like dragons". Third, there was a folk custom of "stabbing the arm on the fifth day of May" in ancient times, which should be the relic of the tattoo custom of "Like a dragon".

Summer solstice said.

Liu Deqian, who holds this view, put forward three main reasons in Yan 'an Dragon Boat Festival "Another Origin" and "An Interesting Talk about China Traditional Festivals": An authoritative book "Jingchu Sui Ji" did not mention the festival custom of eating zongzi on the fifth day of May, but wrote about the summer solstice. As for Du Jing, Du Taiqing's Jade Candle Collection in the Sui Dynasty listed it as an entertainment activity from summer to the sun, which shows that it was not necessarily to salvage Qu Yuan, a great poet who threw himself into the river. Secondly, some contents in the custom of Dragon Boat Festival, such as "stepping on a hundred herbs", "fighting a hundred herbs" and "collecting miscellaneous medicines", have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. When I was three years old, my first explanation for the Dragon Boat Festival was: "The sun shines, and the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, so it can also be called midsummer Festival. Therefore, the earliest origin of the noon festival is the summer solstice.

Second, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival can be said to be controversial, and the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are even more numerous. In Nanyang, the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival now mainly include: inserting mugwort leaves, boiling eggs, eating zongzi, wearing sachets and wearing five-color lines.

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Before the Dragon Boat Festival, adults must pick a handful of mugwort leaves. Take out a few and insert them on both sides of the lintel. This is a custom. It is said that wormwood represents good fortune, and sticking it at the door can strengthen the body.

Eat garlic and eggs

In Nanyang, every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. Eating garlic, eggs and fried dough sticks for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

eat Zongzi

At the beginning of May every year, every family should soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi, and wrap zongzi with more varieties of colors. From the perspective of fillings, most of them are glutinous rice, peanuts and red dates; In recent years, with the development of economy and the improvement of living standards, the varieties of zongzi are constantly enriched, including bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk and other fillings. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

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Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. In the past, sachets were decorated with dried garlic. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and lovely. These sachets not only have lasting fragrance, but also can dispel sweat and body odor, drive away pests around them, eliminate diseases and refresh the mind. However, in recent years, the production of sachets is very particular, and there are few single shapes made of dried garlic. The materials are more exquisite and the styles are being renovated day by day. There are not only various designs such as the zodiac, but also various styles with rich flavor of the times such as the Olympic Fuwa, which is really dazzling.

Cross the five-color line

In ancient China, five colors were worshipped, which were auspicious colors. Therefore, in the early morning of the festival, the first important thing for adults after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Children are not allowed to talk when tying the thread. The five-color line cannot be broken or discarded at will, and can only be thrown into the river when it rains heavily in summer or takes a shower for the first time. It is said that children wearing five-color thread can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; Throwing it into the river is to let the river wash away plagues and diseases and make children safe and healthy.

However, with the improvement of living standards, today's teenagers do not seem to feel particularly excited about the Dragon Boat Festival. According to their ancestors, in the past, this was the most exciting moment for them to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. They can not only eat eggs that they can't usually eat, but also bring colorful threads and sachets. In addition, there are some special activities that keep them interested. 1. Soak the leaves in water: On the night before the Dragon Boat Festival, adults will put a pot of clear water outdoors, and then let the children pick all kinds of fruit tree leaves everywhere, at least five kinds of pomegranate leaves, apple leaves and walnut leaves, and then come back to wash and soak a large pot in the washbasin, watching and smelling and moistening the lungs to prepare for washing their faces the next morning. Old people say that this kind of water washing will not cause sores in summer, and the effect should be better than the current fragrant bath. Some people get up early. Before the sun rises, come to the grass, take off your clothes, roll on the wet grass, let the dew cover your whole body, or simply jump into the river and take a bath, saying it is good for your health. Secondly, drink realgar wine: realgar is a kind of red and yellow powder, which also has the effect of detoxification. First put a small packet of red realgar powder in a small bowl, and then pour in the white wine. Stir with chopsticks and the wine will turn red and yellow. After the chopsticks are taken out, the wine is still turning, and adults and wine will eat it. Children let adults rub realgar in their ears, nose, eyes, and even asshole with realgar in a wine bowl. With such a touch, over the past year, hundreds of insects have not invaded. Don't even bite snakes. Because snakes are afraid of realgar. The legend of the white snake is proof. Some are painted on their foreheads, and some even write the word "king", which makes the summer "summer poison" harmless.

Third, inherit the meaning of festivals.

First of all, most of the Dragon Boat Festival customs have the functions of disease prevention, epidemic prevention and health care, which embodies the meaning of caring for life and paying attention to hygiene. Secondly, to strengthen people's patriotism, dragon boat race is a competitive activity with great momentum and cooperative spirit, which is conducive to physical fitness and people's unity. Together with the content of commemorating Qu Yuan's patriotism, this festival has become an important ceremony for China people to convey their patriotic feelings and spirit. Thirdly, like other folk festivals in China, Dragon Boat Festival also has the function of promoting family friendship and close interpersonal relationship. Making the traditional Dragon Boat Festival a national statutory holiday is an emphasis on and excavation of traditional culture, which shows the cultural connotation and implication of national unity and rejuvenation. Especially this year, for the Chinese nation, it is a year full of disasters. At this special moment, we need to have a good festival to increase the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and also take advantage of the implication that the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics, protect our country and nation from disasters and live a happy life as soon as possible. In the modern society with rapid urbanization, Nanyang folk customs are facing a worrying situation of inheritance and decline. Especially now, some young people are keen to celebrate foreign festivals. According to a rough survey, most Nanyang people only remember eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. Some customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have gone far away, and the folk culture of the Dragon Boat Festival has suffered from serious collective amnesia! Ma Hanchu and his classmates can find information, interview the elderly, consciously and actively explore the profound cultural connotation of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, talk about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival from its origin, and then talk about the significance of inheriting the Dragon Boat Festival. The material is informative, comprehensive, clear and complete, which is a masterpiece in the small paper. This will play an important role in inheriting the positive and healthy folk cultural tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival, rescuing and protecting its original cultural form as soon as possible, and making the ancient National Clean Fitness Festival enter the modern life of Nanyang people with its rich cultural connotation.