Changes of Dragon Boat Festival

If we want to talk about the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, we must of course go back to the past. In ancient times, May was called "bad month", "poisonous month" and "good month". Because this is a bad month, people are afraid to violate it, so there are many taboos. The life of the Dragon Boat Festival has produced a series of contents and forms because of the bad month. These contents and forms are constantly conceptualized and formalized with the continuous evolution and development of the times. In contemporary times, many previous forms are gradually forgotten or indifferent. For example, many customs listed below are more or less "slimmer" than before.

Treat diseases with wormwood.

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Zongce set out on the fifth day of May, before the dawn of the chicken, picked wormwood and came back to cure the disease, which was very effective. According to the investigation, people had realized the medicinal properties of Ai at that time. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Jingchu gather wormwood, weave it into human shapes and hang it in front of their homes, praying to eliminate the poison disaster. Since then, people have formed the custom of hanging Ai people on the gate during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Deploy troops

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In the Southern Dynasties, people wore five-color silk fabrics on their arms during the May Festival, which was called "Dingjun". It is about praying that there will be no war, so that there will be no plague and disease. This is the spiritual sustenance that people are easy to produce during the scuffle in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, there were hundreds of kinds of ropes, colored lines and beads ... ""

Dragon Boat Racing

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Dragon boat race, also known as "dragon boat race", "dragon boat rowing" and "dragon boat race", is a mass entertainment activity with a long history. There have always been different opinions about its causes, mainly including: First, to commemorate the training of the navy by Gou Jian, the king of Yue, and to defeat the State of Wu. "The story of crossing the sea spread, and the competition began with Gou Jian, the king of Yue ..." "

Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.

Weight loss index: ★★

According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into horns by leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called "horny millet". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube dumplings". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains alkali, the millet is wrapped in leaves and cooked in a quadrangle, which becomes jiaozi, an alkaline water in Guangdong.

Peixiangnang

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Sachet, also called sachet, sachet, wallet, etc. , is made of colored silk thread or rags. It is filled with spices (made from Chinese herbal medicines, such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Herba Paicao, Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Gan Song, and Rhizoma Kaempferiae) and worn on the chest, with fragrant smell. Chen Shiliang's "Guang Ji" quoted a kind of "mentioned in the miscellaneous notes at the age of 18"

Artemisia argyi and calamus

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In ancient times, there was a custom of hanging wormwood and calamus in front of the door. There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, putting calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows ... "

Diaozhong statue

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It is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival for Zhong Kui to catch ghosts. In the Jianghuai area, bells and statues are hung in every household to ward off evil spirits. Emperor Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty returned to the palace from Lishan, and malaria was rampant. He dreamed that two ghosts, one big and one small, were wearing red crotch pants and stealing Yang Guifei's sachet and the Jade Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. ......

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Hanging purse-string five-color silk thread

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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 ... ""

For more than 2,000 years, of course, the Dragon Boat Festival has not been slimming all the time, and occasionally it will do fattening exercises. Especially in contemporary times, with the continuous improvement of living conditions, many traditional customs have been endowed with fresh meanings and fashionable ways through ingenuity. For example, some examples listed below are full of current trends compared with tradition.

Fun dragon boat race foreign teacher PK Shunde aunt

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Compared with the Phoenix Boat Team, the team with foreign teachers is not so smooth. Tall foreign teachers either tie ropes around their necks or oars. Just through the rope array and storm, the ship capsized in the water before sailing. Four men struggled to turn the boat over, and the Phoenix Boat Team had rowed a long way ... "

Community residents proposed to make the Dragon Boat Festival a neighborhood festival.

Fattening index: ★★★★

Now the feelings between neighbors are becoming more and more indifferent. Even neighbors who have lived for seven years are only familiar with each other. When I was a child, I was jealous with my boss in jiaozi, and the situation of borrowing garlic from the West will never happen again. "Especially for the residents of the new community, there seems to be a net between the neighbors, which cuts off everyone's communication. In fact, everyone wants to take this opportunity to tear up this net and let the residents in a building feel like a family ... "

Zhejiang Taizhou border guards send zongzi to Taiwan Province compatriots during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Fattening index: ★★★★★

Chen Xingfa, a Taiwan compatriot, tasted the zongzi presented by border guards and praised its delicious taste. On the same day, the Tai Lun Jixiang sailed into haimen port, Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. The officers and men of Haimen Border Police Station in charge of supervising Tai Lun learned that compatriots in Taiwan Province Province also ate zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hanfu fans in Nanjing offered sacrifices to Qu Yuan for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Fattening index: ★★★★★

On June 17, more than 50 Hanfu fans gathered in Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing, to pay a solemn tribute to the patriotic poet Qu Yuan in a traditional folk way, and to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China. It is understood that this activity was spontaneously organized by netizens who sent notices online, and the Hanfu they wore was customized by themselves ... ""

There are no urban and rural areas in the festival. Children in the city spend the Dragon Boat Festival together.

Fattening index: ★★★★★★★

On June 17, students of Jinpan Road Primary School in Xihu District of Nanchang made zongzi with the help of teachers and parents. On the same day, eight children of migrant workers and 100 children from cities in Jinpanlu Primary School, Xihu District, Nanchang City got together, wrapped jiaozi, ate zongzi, and held activities such as answering questions related to the Dragon Boat Festival to welcome the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan Province Province is full of tradition, innovation and love.

Fattening index: ★★★★★★★

On June 7th, 65438, Taipei held a three-day "2007 Waterfront Taipei-Dragon Boat Festival Carnival", the core content of which was "Taipei Dragon Boat Championship". As early as the 9th of this month, the Taipei City Government held a dragon boat coronation ceremony and a river sacrifice ceremony at the only Quyuan Palace in Taiwan Province. The Dragon Boat Festival in Kaohsiung started on 16, and the organizers specially invited primary and middle school students to perform folk arts for the public, including lion dance, "big drum", "flower drum", "seasonal drum", "gun flag", acrobatics, folk dance, etc ... "

The bride and groom wrapped "Zongzi" to witness love.

Fattening index: ★★★★★

As the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, a wedding photography studio in Nanjing has launched a wedding photography service with the theme of "Zongzi", which has been welcomed by some newcomers who pursue individuality.

Old people living alone, such as embroidered sachets, are also auspicious.

Fattening index: ★★★★★★★

After nearly a month's careful embroidery by two 70-year-old people and a dozen enthusiastic helpers in Datang Lane Community, Gongshu District, yesterday, 100 hand-embroidered Dragon Boat Festival sachets were made, which will be delivered to more than 90 elderly people living alone in the community on June 19 ... ""

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