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1 ~ 3 grade Dragon Boat Festival handwritten newspaper video

1 ~ 3 grade Dragon Boat Festival handwritten newspaper video copy

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the "bad month and bad day" in the north, accompanied by the commemoration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, and finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets. Dragon Boat Race is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, which is deeply loved by people all over the world and has formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.

Dragon Boat Race (Dragon Boat Race): Dragon Boat Race (Dragon Boat Race) is a symbolic activity of the Dragon Boat Festival and a multi-person rowing competition. On the fifth day of May every year, dragon boat races are held all over the country to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. After the dragon boat race spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.

? Eating zongzi: Eating zongzi is one of the important customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. At the end of April and the beginning of May every year, people begin to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi in memory of Qu, a great patriotic poet in China.

Ancient ancestors had the habit of picking bluegrass in May, and there was a saying that they used bluegrass soup to bathe and detoxify. Because the spirit of the sun reached its peak on May 5, there is a saying that "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, and the five poisons wake up, and there is no peace", coupled with the folklore that "five poisons the world", so there is a saying that bathing in bluegrass soup on this day, praying for peace and avoiding the five poisons.

Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.