What is the Dragon Boat Festival

Summary: There is a rumor circulating on the Internet that the Koreans have seized the Dragon Boat Festival's heritage, in fact, the Koreans are applying for the heritage of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, a festival originating from the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival culture, but the essence of the connotation of the festival has been very different, the Dragon Boat Festival's activities are mainly to sacrifice to a variety of deities, prevalent in the Gangneung area, and therefore also known as the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival. The difference between the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival and the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is mainly reflected in the three aspects of food, customs, and scope of influence. Here to understand what is the Dragon Boat Festival. First, what is the Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, also known as Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, is a witchcraft festival unique to Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, South Korea in the Dragon Boat Festival time period of 20 days to a month, during which a variety of witchcraft and ritual ceremonies will be held, and will be held in the rope skipping, mask-making and other traditional games and experience activities, as well as exciting witchcraft performances, mask dance, agricultural music performance, etc..

The Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals that have been preserved intact in Korea. In the Gangneung area, the festival is characterized by elaborate rituals, including the brewing of sacred wine with rice and rice crackers on April 5 of the lunar calendar to honor the gods and to drink during the festival, the "Dagwanryeong Mountain Deity Festival" and the "Kokseo Seonggwang Festival" on April 15 and the "Kokseo Seonggwang Festival" on April 15, and the "Daegwanryeong Mountain Deity Festival. "Guo Shi Chenghuang Festival"; on the third day of the fifth lunar month to Jiangling Guo Shi female Chenghuang Ancestral Temple (Zheng Jia female) to receive "Feng An Sacrifice"; on the fourth to the seventh day, every morning, the "Chao Dien Sacrifice". From the name can also be seen, most of the content of the Dragon Boat Festival is a sacrifice, and China's Dragon Boat Festival is different in nature, but the prototype of the Korean Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is indeed influenced by the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival culture.

In recent years, rumors abound on the Internet, "South Korea robbed the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, resulting in China's inability to apply for the heritage", which is actually rumor, South Korea's heritage is the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival is a different project, and the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was successfully applied for the heritage in 2009.

Two, Jiangling Dragon Boat Festival and the difference between the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

People's Daily Online had published in 2005, "Jiangling Dragon Boat Festival to win" article pointed out that: "In addition to the time close to the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival and South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival has been a matter of two things. Many of the customs of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival cannot be found in the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival. Instead, the rituals, performances, and amusements in the Dragon Boat Festival are strongly characterized by Korean folklore." In fact, the difference between the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival is still very big:

1, dietary differences

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, around the world also derived from many kinds of locally unique food customs, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years in China prevailed.

Korea's Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival food is eaten Aizi cake, is a kind of wormwood and glutinous rice made of round cakes; will also drink Chang Pu soup, usually boiled on a pot of calamus soup, in addition to eating, will be freshly boiled calamus water to wash your head, said to be able to wash away bad luck, to ward off evil spirits.

2, different customs

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, a major traditional competition, that is, the dragon boat race, in addition, there are different customs, such as washing the water dragon boat race over the water, hanging moxa leaves calamus, wear colorful rope.

The main activity of the Dragon Boat Festival in Korea is the festival, which honors twelve deities, such as the god of Daegwanryeong Mountain, the female city goddess Jungjae-nyeo, and Kim Yu-sin, as well as performances and amusements.

3, the scope of influence is different

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals, almost universal **** celebration of a festival, 36 of China's 56 ethnic groups are over the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Korean Dragon Boat Festival is mainly prevalent in the Gangneung region, where most of the Dragon Boat activities in other regions have been lost, while the rituals in the Gangneung region are more prevalent as they have preserved the complete form and content.

Overall, the connotation of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is completely different from that of the Korean Dragon Boat Festival, which is merely similar in name and close in date, and the Dragon Boat Festival, though originating from the Dragon Boat Festival, has developed into a culture of a different nature.