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Dragon Boat Festival can cut hair Dragon Boat Festival can cut hair

Introduction: can you cut hair on Dragon Boat Festival? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it. The Dragon Boat Festival as a traditional festival also has a lot to say, so the Dragon Boat Festival can cut hair? The following with the love of the show beauty I came to understand it!

You can get a haircut

The Dragon Boat Festival to cut hair, especially children and girls.

Legend has it that if you don't get a haircut for the festival, the ghosts will pull out your long hair and use it as a rope for wrapping rice dumplings - when I was a kid, the adults used to scare us for fear of getting a haircut.

The festival is called the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, and traditional festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chung Yeung Festival are not called festivals in my hometown.

Every year, we have to get a haircut, so we can see that the Dragon Boat Festival is as important as the Spring Festival in our hometown.

When can't you get a haircut?

In the folklore of the lunar calendar in May can not shave the head, shaving the head of the dead uncle said.

Legend:

Legend has it that one year after a storm, in its Linmen ten miles east of the Baota Mountain yellow mud hole, appeared a python snake spirit, often turned into a man out of the hole for evil, a ten-mile radius of the people are alarmed, and every day the sun has not yet set on the early closure of the door, and some of them are dragging their children fled to the outside world for refuge.

One day at dusk, the python took on human form and came down the mountain to steal a girl named Huijuan to be its fifth wife. Huijuan is not only beautiful and smart, in order to get rid of this monster, she is obedient on the surface, secretly looking for opportunities. One day, while the Python Snake Spirit was happy, she sighed, "Husband, you are a goddess and I am a mortal girl, how happy I should be to live forever like you!" The python spirit was so happy that he forgot himself, and put his arm around Huijuan and whispered, "Though I am a divine immortal, I have my shortcomings, and if I pull off one of my nephew's hairs, and strangle my neck, I shall die."

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of this year, the python snake spirit invited his nephew to come to Huangni Cave to spend the Dragon Boat Festival, wine and food on the bed to sleep. Late at night, Huijuan pulled down a hair from the head of the nephew of the python spirit, to the neck of the python spirit a stranglehold, the demon spirit suddenly head off the gas.

The next day, four townships and eighteen villages heard that the python was dead, but happy! In order to solve the hate, people burned up a fire to throw the python's head into the fire. Who knows that this year in May, I do not know what is going on, where the children shave their heads, three days after the uncle died of an acute illness. People speculate that, although the python snake spirit into ashes, but May has become a poisonous month. So after that, "May not shave the head, shaving the head of the dead uncle", will be spread in the folk.

Dragon Boat Racing Dragon Boat Racing

Legend has it that the origin of the ancient Chu people could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed boats to catch up to save. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they lost sight of him. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of racing was prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

Eating Rice Dumplings

This is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Rice dumplings are also called "corn" and "rice dumplings". It has a long history and is made in many different ways.

Wearing scented sachets

Children wear scented sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to protect them from evil spirits and plague, but in reality, they are used to decorate their lapels. Scented bag inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, shape ***, exquisite and lovely. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express their love.

Hanging leaves

Calamus folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people take the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear, to drive miasma.

Hanging Zhong Kui statue

Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, every family hangs Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Ming Huang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan lecture martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, stealing Yang Guifei's scent bag and the Emperor's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, so the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, through the order of the world in the end of the day, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

Hanging lotus bags and tethered colorful silk thread

Ying Shao "customs" recorded: "May 5, to colorful silk tie arm, the name of the long-life wisp, a renewed life wisp, a life to avoid the military bindings, a five-color wisp, a Zhu Suo, to avoid the military and ghosts, the fate of the people do not suffer from the disease of the plague".

Ancient China worship of the five colors, to five colors for the auspicious color. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the adults in each family after the bed the first big thing is in the child's wrist, ankle, neck tie five-color line. When tying the thread, it is forbidden for children to speak. Five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the first summer rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that children wearing the five-color thread can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; thrown into the river, it means that the river will let the plague, disease wash away, the children can thus protect the well-being.

To the children painted Xionghuang

To the small children painted Xionghuang, in order to Tuoli, to drive away the disease and evil. This custom is rarely seen in the city. There is Xionghuang wine on the market, but we have never drunk it.

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