Knowledge of the Dragon Boat Festival. Urgent

Introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival

The traditional festival of Chinese folklore, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the summer calendar, is also known as the "Duanyang", the "Pu Festival", the "Festival of the Heavenly Center", the "Festival of the Great Length", the "Festival of Mu Lan", the "Festival of Daughters", and the "Festival of Children". ", "big long festival", "Mu Lan Festival", "Daughter Festival", "Children's Festival ". It is one of the traditional festivals of the Han Chinese In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival also has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet's Festival, Dragon Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Summer Festival, Chongwu, Wuzhi, and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival is still the same more than different. To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people.

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major festivals of the year. May is a poisonous month, the fifth day is a poisonous day, the fifth day of the noon is poisonous time, in the end of the three poisons. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "end of May". May is the beginning of the entire hot days, five poisonous snakes began to be active, ghosts and demons will be rampant, these will give people, especially to the children who have nothing to worry about and no resistance to bring disaster, must be concentrated in the end of the day in May for the children to eliminate the disaster and prevent the poison, therefore, people also said that the Dragon Boat Festival in May is the "Children's Day" or The "Dolls Festival".

The Dragon Boat Festival is the traditional habit of Chinese people for more than two thousand years, due to the vast area, many nationalities, part of Mongolia, Hui, Tibet, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyei, Korea, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, She, Lahu, water, Naxi, Daur, Mulao, Qiang, Gelao, Sibe, Pumi, Ewenke, Yugu, Eroqin, and other ethnic minorities have also been this festival, coupled with a lot of stories and legends! The festival not only has many different names, but also has different customs in different places. Its content is mainly: the daughter back to his mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, avoiding Wu, posting Wu Ye Fu, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in the hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat race, than the martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children painted with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang liquor, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings, and seasonal fruits, etc., in addition to superstitious color of the activities have disappeared, the rest of the so far spread all over China and the neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have been newly developed, breaking through time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sporting events.

The Duanwu Festival was officially applied for as an intangible cultural heritage by South Korea, and has been successful, which is also a profound lesson for us Chinese in the protection of our own cultural heritage.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival that began in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in China and has a history of more than 2,000 years. There are many origins and legends of the Dragon Boat Festival, only the following four are introduced here:

〖Origin of commemorating Qu Yuan〗

According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记), Qu Yuan was a minister of the King Huai of Chu during the Warring States period. He advocated the promotion of the virtuous, the rich and the strong, and advocated the alliance of Qi against Qin, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan and others, Qu Yuan was gluttonously removed from his post, driven out of the capital city, and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. During his exile, he wrote such immortal poems as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Questions", and "Nine Songs", which are unique and far-reaching (thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Poets' Festival). In 278 B.C., the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, and his heart was cut to pieces, but he could not bear to give up his motherland, and on the 5th of May, after writing his final poem "Huai Sha", he threw himself into Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were in mourning and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. Fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped in rice, wrapped in colorful silk, developed into a brown.

After that, on the fifth day of the fifth month of every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

[Originated from commemorating Wu Zixu〗

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, commemorates Wu Zixu during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC). Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother killed by the king of Chu. Later, Wu Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu to help Wu conquer Chu, and entered Ying City, the capital of Chu, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed to it. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him. Wu Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill him. Zixu was a loyal man, and he was very happy to die. Before he died, he told his neighbors, "After I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to see the Yue army enter the city to destroy Wu", and then he killed himself. Fu Chai was furious at the news, and he ordered to take Zixu's body and put it into a leather bag to throw it into a big river on the fifth day of the fifth month, so it is said that Duanwu Festival is a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

〖Originally Commemorating the Filial Daughter Cao E〗

The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates a filial daughter, Cao E, who saved her father's life and threw herself into the river in the Eastern Han Dynasty (23--220 A.D.). Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. The story was passed down as a myth, and the story was passed down to the governor of the county, who made Dushan erect a monument for it, and had his disciple Handan Chun write a eulogy in praise of it.

The tomb of Cao E, a filial daughter, is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and the monument to Cao E is said to have been written by Wang Yi of the Jin Dynasty. To commemorate Cao E's filial piety, a Cao E Temple was built at the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, the village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E was martyred was named Cao E River.

〖Originally from the ancient Vietnamese national totem sacrifices〗

Many recent excavations and archaeological studies have confirmed that: in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in the Neolithic era, there is a geometric printed ceramics as a characteristic of the cultural remains. The remains of the clan, according to experts deduced that it is a tribe that worships the totem of the dragon ---- historically known as the Baiyue tribe. The decorations on the excavated pottery and historical legends show that they have the custom of breaking hair and tattooing, living in the water countryside, comparing themselves to the descendants of the dragon. Their production tools, a large number of stone tools, but also shovels, chisels and other small pieces of bronze. As a living thing in the pots and jars, cooking food printed pots are unique to them, is one of the symbols of their community. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still Baiyue people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was created by them for ancestor worship. Over thousands of years of history, most of the Baiyue people have been integrated into the Han Chinese, while the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south, making the Dragon Boat Festival a festival for the entire Chinese nation.

[May 5 is a bad month and a bad day〗

Yuan Xuejun, president of the Hebei Folk Culture Association, believes that the concept of "Dragon Boat Festival" existed long before Qu Yuan.

Yuan Xuejun said, the Chinese people's way of thinking has always had the concept of overlapping numbers, such as the first month of the first (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar) of the Spring Festival, February 2 Dragon Head Festival, March 3 is said to be the Queen Mother's Peach Fair, in addition to the July 7 Tanabata Festival, the 9th of September Festival, etc., these festivals have their own connotations, and they are closely linked to thousands of years of agricultural civilization in China. The 5th of May is treated as a holiday and these festivals are formed sooner or later, in the 7,000 to 8,000 years ago has been formed.

"In Chinese historical tradition, May 5 is an evil day in an evil month, according to the "I Ching" and other canonical records, the evil from the five, May 5 is precisely the yang qi running to the end of the end of the day when the sun, such a day of evil plague disease and epidemic more widespread, therefore, this day, people will be inserted into the moxa leaves, hanging calamus, drink xionghuang wine, with scented pouches and so on, in order to drive away the evil and health care and fitness. " Yuan Xuejun said Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, may intend to be in the Dragon Boat Festival, to express loyalty to the country and the nation.

Yuan Xuejun believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is now handed down to eat rice dumplings, dragon boat racing, is more than 2,000 years ago after Qu Yuan jumped into the river, descendants in the salvage of Qu Yuan's remains gradually evolved way to commemorate. People spread rice in the river is to let the fish eat enough to avoid eating the remains of Qu Yuan, salvage Qu Yuan to use the boat, the boat more naturally formed competition, so the race gradually unfolded, as for the dragon boat, it is a little later.

Duanwu Festival customs

China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more grand, the celebration of the activities are also very rich, from dawn in the morning, and lasted until noon before the end. More common activities are the following forms:

1, dragon boat race

Dragon boat race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it originated in the ancient Chu people because they could not afford the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowed boats to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. 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, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

In fact, "dragon boat racing" as early as the Warring States period. In the sound of drums, rowing a canoe carved into the shape of a dragon, to do the game of racing, to entertain the gods and people, is a half-religious, half-entertainment program in the rituals.

Later, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, people around the world also put a different symbolism.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of the dragon boat, both to commemorate the local birth of the modern female democratic revolutionaries Qiu Jin meaning. Night on the dragon boat, lights and colors, back and forth, water and underwater, the scene is moving, interesting. Miao people in Guizhou in the lunar calendar May 25-28 held "Dragon Boat Festival" to celebrate the victory of rice-planting and wishing a good harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots in the Water Festival Dragon Boat Race, in honor of the ancient heroes of the rock red nest. Different ethnic groups, different regions, paddle dragon boat legend is different. Until today in the south of the many near the rivers, lakes and seas of the region, the annual Dragon Boat Festival will be held in their own characteristics of the Dragon Boat Race activities.

Qing dynasty Qianlong twenty-ninth year (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat racing. At that time, Taiwan's governor, Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Nowadays, dragon boat races are held in Taiwan every year on May 5th. In Hong Kong, races are also held.

In addition, rowing dragon boat has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. 1980, dragon boat racing is included in China's national sports competitions, and held annually, "Qu Yuan Cup" Dragon Boat Race. 1991 June 16 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar), in the second hometown of the Qu Yuan in Hunan City, China, Yueyang City, the first international dragon boat festival. International Dragon Boat Festival. Prior to the race, the "Dragon Head Festival" was held, which preserved the traditional rituals and injected new modern elements. The "dragon head" was carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, where the athletes "reddened" the dragon head (draped with a red sash), the officiating priest read out the sacrificial text, and the dragon head was "opened" (i.e. lighted). Then, participate in the sacrifice of the dragon's three bows, the dragon is carried to the Buro River, running to the Dragon Boat Race. More than 600,000 people participated in the race, fair and celebration, which was an unprecedented event. After that, Hunan will regularly organize the International Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat racing will be prevalent in the world.

2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings

Duanwu Festival to eat dumplings, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, a variety of patterns.

According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of millet"; bamboo tube with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water dumplings.

Jin Dynasty, dumplings were officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yi Zhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yi Zhi Zong". Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and local records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... cooked, and rotten, in the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.

The Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings, has "white as jade", the shape of the cone, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings". Song Dynasty, there has been "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. Poet Su Dongpo has "in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates, walnuts and so on, more colorful varieties.

The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families ate zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, generally the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, the morning to eat. Packing dumplings are mainly used by the river and pond side of the abundance of young reed leaves, there are also bamboo leaves, collectively referred to as dumplings. Zongzi traditional form for the triangle, generally named according to the flesh, wrapped glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small beans zongzi, mixed with red dates called jujube zongzi; jujube zongzi harmonic for "early", so eat the most jujube zongzi, intended to study the children ate can be early in the Scholar. In the past, readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, parents also want to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat.

Cooking rice dumplings in the pot must be boiled eggs, conditions and then cook some duck eggs, goose eggs, eat sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and then eat eggs dipped in salt "pressure top". It is said to eat May end of the dumplings pot of hard-boiled eggs in the main summer does not give birth to sores; the dumplings pot of boiled duck eggs, goose eggs in the sun at noon and then eat, the whole summer does not have a headache.

Till today, every year at the beginning of May, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of small jujube Beijing jujube zong; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolks and other fillings, which is represented by Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

3, Pei Xiangbao

Duanwu Festival children Pei Xiangbao, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and lovely. ★ In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented pouches to express their love.

4, hanging moxa calamus

Folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival moxa". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Every family sweeps the court, with 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 compete to wear, to drive away miasma.

Ai, also known as Ai, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma, can drive flies, insects and ants, purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long, narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which are medicines for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria.

See, the ancients inserted the wormwood and calamus is a certain role in preventing disease. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging Ai Zhi, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, and stir up turbid in addition to the corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to pick medicine, is China's various nationalities **** the same custom.

5, hanging Zhong Kui statue

Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan 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 Minghuang'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 ghosts of the portrait, the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

According to legend, Zhong Kui is a Tang Dynasty person, to Chang'an to take the exams in the Scholar, because of its appearance was abolished, and the indignation touched the temple steps and died. Later, he sent a dream to Emperor Ming of Tang, determined to wipe out the world's devils. At that time, the palace was haunted by ghosts and evil, Tang Ming Huang called the great painter Wu Daozi according to what he saw in the dream, painting "Zhong Kui catch ghosts". And this painting will be hung in the back of the door to drive away demons and evil, the palace was then peaceful. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty named Zhong Kui as the "Great God of Exorcism", so Zhong Kui statue traveled all over the world, cut off the ghosts and demons, and made great achievements, and then myths and legends by the Jade Emperor as "Exorcism Emperor". People hang Zhong Kui statue in the Dragon Boat Festival, used to quell ghosts and evil spirits, and seek family peace.

6, hanging purse 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 of the Bing Zeng, a five-color wisp, a Zhu Suo, and ghosts, the fate of the people do not get sick plague".

Ancient China worshiped the five colors, to five colors for the auspicious color. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the adults in each family get up the first big thing is in the children's wrists, ankles, neck tethered to the five-color line. When tying the thread, children are forbidden to speak. The 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 snake and scorpion-type poisonous insects; throwing it into the river means letting the river wash away the plague and diseases, and children can thus preserve their health and well-being.

Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dreaming Records," Volume VIII recorded: Dragon Boat Festival objects, hundred of rope, mugwort, silver-like drums, flowers and cleverly painted fans, incense candy, dumplings small, white balls. Perilla, calamus, papaya, and all velvet cut, to incense and medicine, with plum red box wrapped. Since the first of May and the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, selling peaches, willow, sunflower, cattail leaves, Fudao Ai. The next day, every family spread at the door, with five-color water ball, tea and wine offerings. The next day, all the houses spread out the flowers on the doorsteps and offered them with five-colored water balls, tea and wine.

Chen Shiliang's "Years and Seasons" quoted in "Miscellaneous Records of Years and Seasons" mentions a kind of "Duanwu to red and white coloring such as a bag, with colorful threads, twitching to make the shape of a flower, or with or nailed to the door, in order to avoid the red mouth and white tongue, and is also called twitching money". As well as another "mussel powder bells": "the fifth day of the end of the mussel powder in the silk, decorated with sheep, such as a number of beads. So that the children to bring to absorb sweat." The contents of these portable bags have changed several times, from the clam powder to absorb sweat, to drive away evil spirits, copper coins, andrographis powder to ward off insects, developed into a spice-filled scented pouches, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, and became the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

Similarly, there is drinking xionghuang wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Basin area of the family is very popular. Swimming in a hundred diseases: this custom, prevalent in the Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival.

7, hide five

May of the lunar calendar, the summer heat is approaching, the plague and poisonous insects breeding, the ancient times called May for the "evil month". And that the fifth day of May is an unlucky day. On this day, parents should bring children under the age of one to their grandmothers' houses to hide, in order to avoid the inauspicious.

8, send time

Central Plains Duan Yang Festival, where the newly married girl's mother's family, before the festival or the festival to give the man to send straw hats, rain fans, mats, and other things to prepare for the heat and rain, so the Duan Yang Festival is also known as the "Send Time Festival".

9, drive five poisons

Five poisons are scorpions, centipedes, snakes, shrimp salamanders gecko five kinds of poisonous insects." Duanyang Festival, the weather is hot; the five poisons wake up, unsettled." So to the day of the Duanyang Festival people will be in the door on the paper cut out of the five poisons image, in order to avoid its poison. Some places also want to put the head of the five poisons figure and then tie a needle, said to get rid of them nailed to death. Driving away the five poisons reflects people's good wishes to get rid of pests and prevent diseases.

10, roll eat chicken, duck and goose eggs

All over the country are popular. Duanwu morning, the Northeast is a boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs by the elders on the children's belly rolling, and then peeled to let the children eat, it is said that this can be done to avoid children's stomach ache, in fact, for the festival of a hippie game. Other areas are mainly boiled, it is said that the original into the river water to feed the fish and shrimp to save Qu Yuan, so as to avoid the bones of the fish and shrimp, and then evolved into a boiled food to commemorate.

11, boiled garlic

Garlic is a traditional Chinese medicine, taste sweet, can kill poison sterilization, cooked food can clear the gastrointestinal toxins, dredge the blood. On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the custom in most parts of the country is to cook new garlic in order to dredge the bloodstream, disinfect and sterilize.

12, broken eye of fire

Duanwu Festival customs around Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Is the day, in a bowl of water to put the right amount of staghorn, thrown into the two coins, the whole family with this water to wash their eyes, it is said to be able to prevent and control eye glass staghorn has the efficacy of sterilizing the poison, so that there are certain benefits.

13, swim a hundred diseases

Guizhou region Dragon Boat Festival customs. Duanyang Festival day men and women, young and old to wear new clothes, take food to the outside to play all day, and in the mountains and fields to collect wildflowers and herbs, and bring back to the evening after the water boiled bath. The local people call this act as swimming or washing for a hundred diseases, and believe that this will make the year auspicious and safe.

14, cut color gourd

Colorful paper cut into a gourd shape, in the Duan Yang Festival, upside down on the door, take the poisonous gas out of the meaning.

15, drink andrographis

andrographis is a traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine books say andrographis can cure a hundred insect poison, insect and animal injuries, so the folk have "drink andrographis wine, a hundred diseases are far away", "May 5 drink andrographis calamus wine, can remove a hundred diseases and prohibit a hundred insects," "with andrographis into the mountains are not afraid of snakes" and other common saying. In the iodine was not invented in the era, our people is to use white wine mixed with andrographis and alum water to smear poisonous insect stings and mosquito bites. People are familiar with the "Legend of the White Snake" has depicted: the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu Xian listened to the words of Fahai, so that the White Lady drank the andrographis and revealed its original form. Now many places in the Duanyang Festival, but also in the house outside the spray andrographis water, and in the children's ears, nose, forehead smeared with andrographis. However, according to modern scientific analysis, andrographis is toxic and should not be taken internally.

Selected poems for Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Festival

(Tang) Wenxiu

Section divided into the Dragon Boat Festival since who said that the rumors of the ancient for Qu Yuan;

Kan laugh at the empty Chu River, can not be washed to the injustice of the straight ministers.

2, seven rhymes - Dragon Boat Festival

(Tang) Yin Yaofan

Young people are more sentimental during the festivities, and who knows how old people are when they grow old;

It's not a customary thing to do, but I pray that the wine will be used to talk about the prosperity of the people.

These are the most important things in the world.

This is the most important thing in the world, and it is the most important thing in the world.

3. Song of the Race to the Ferry (excerpt)

(Tang) Zhang Jianfeng

The sky was clear on the 5th of May, and the poplars were crowing the eagles around the river;

Before the king of the country left the county, he heard the sound of Qi and the voice of harmony on the river;

When the king of the country left the country, he had all the right intentions, and the horses were already being guided by the red banner;

The two banks of the river were fragrant with the fragrance of the clothes on both sides of the river, and the hairpins shone on the sun like the edge of the frost;

the sound of the drum was heard.

The two dragons jumped out of the water;

Throwing on the waves, they flew ten thousand swords, and the drums split the waves with a thousand thunderbolts;

The drums sounded fast and the mark was near, and the two dragons looked at the mark as if they were in a flash;

The people on the slope were alarmed by thunderbolts, and the colorful rainbows hung on the head of the pole;

The front boat had already won the mark in water grabbing, and the rear boat lost the momentum to swing in an empty way.

4. Racing Song

(Tang) Liu Yuxi

The Yuan River flows on a flat embankment in May, and the people of the Yuan River float colorful boats.

The song has been sung by Lingiun for many years, and it is a sad song that the oars have been lifted since then.

The sound of the rafters beating the knots was loud and clear, and the sound of the turbulent currents was loud and clear.

The dragon is moved by the rain, and the rainbow drinks from the river.

The assassins were in the middle of the river, and the king and queen were separated from each other.

The first to sound the courage to be encouraged, but not the color to be discouraged.

This is the first time I've ever been in a position to win, but I've never been in a position to win.

The custom is as crazy as this time, and we can see the clouds in the river.

The colorful flags are shining on the shore, and the socks are showing the water play,

The song is over, and the people are sad, and the water car in front of the Pavilion of Recruitment is injected.

5, yimao heavy five poems

(Song) Lu You

Heavy five mountain village is good, pomegranate blossom has suddenly flourished.

The dumplings are wrapped in two buns, and the mugwort is wrapped around the crown.

The old custom is to store medicine, and the weak body also points Dan.

When I finish my work at the end of the day, I smile at the cup and saucer.

6. Festivals - Duanyang

(Qing Dynasty) Li Jingshan

Cherry mulberry and calamus, and buy a pot of Xionghuang wine.

The yellow paper post is hanging high outside the door, but I suspect that the accountant is afraid of the spiritual talisman.

7, seven rhymes. Duanwu

Lao She

Duanwu coincides with the wind and rain, the village children are still wearing the old clothes;

Invited to love each other with a straw raincoat, and dare to love the grass for the mud deep;

There are guests of the same heart when the flesh and blood, and have no money to buy wine to sell articles;

The year of the meeting of the fish three feet, not like today, the flavor of beans.

8, You Duanwu

Bei Qiong

Wind and rain Duanyang born in obscurity, Miluo nowhere to hang the spirit of heroes.

The pomegranate blossoms should smile at each other, and Yuanming is awake alone without wine.

Duanwu Festival couplets

1, a thousand souls sad Chu Shi

Ten thousand people caress the scroll sighs of Li Sao

2, to remove filth in addition to the evil spirits of thousands of households in front of the suspension of the tiger wormwood

Honor the virtuous and hang the ancient, ten thousand people on the banks of the river to drink the Dragon Boat

3, Miluo sank in a first-class hate

Xiang Chu long remembered a thousand years of shame

4, it is difficult to get the love of the two exile

Only the courage to serve the country, and the bad luck to serve the country

5, the righteousness to repay the motherland, banished from the poet's aspirations

Spirit tied to the Mulberry, love only to pour the mountains of Jingchu

6, the package of rice dumplings, the national feast to gather friends and relatives,

Race Dragon Boat, the wine reciting poems to comfort the saintly

7, I cried for him to Qu fell into the water

He was strong for my generation to rise to heaven

8, I cried for him to Qu fell into the water

He was strong for my generation to rise to heaven

This is a good example of the kind of love that we have.

8. I am not afraid of the depth of Miluo River

I am willing to brave the waves of the East China Sea

9. I think of Qu Zi when I meet the Dragon Boat

Every time I see the dragon boat, I think of Buro

10. I should hang the Tiger Ai and eat zongzi in the Dragon Boat Race

More than poems, I am not sure if I can sigh at the Qu Gong

11. I have been exiled by a slanderous person for serving the country, but I will not change my heart and I will not change my heart and will not change my mind.

Miluo rolls in the tears of thousands of people, but only a thousand years of flow of Li Sao.

12, remembering the deceased, ten thousand families wrapped rice dumplings

Celebrating the festival, beating the gongs and drums to race the dragon boat

13, the beauty of the grass Qu Zi fugue

Ice heart Jieyu Daifu poetry

14, the dragon race to win the gold drums to urge the children to fight;

The end of the day to get the wave of the pulps and beat the Hao Tang Boat Team Wei.

15, Ruo leaf fragrance, a zong taste to a thousand years;

Dragon boat by the water, a hundred radius rowing out of the four times love.