What spiritual pursuit did Dragon Boat Festival express for China people?

Deep national feelings come from the cultivation of excellent national traditional culture, and traditional festivals are fertile soil for cultivating excellent national culture. Dragon Boat Festival is no exception. In the thousands of years of inheritance and accumulation, the Dragon Boat Festival is rich in customs and connotations. Judging from today's inheritance, there are three themes worth promoting, that is, caring for life, inspiring spirit and caring for home.

It is human nature to cherish life, and the Dragon Boat Festival is particularly distinctive in caring for life, so people in modern society once called it "Health Festival". The original intention of the Dragon Boat Festival is to support yin and suppress yang, and to offer sacrifices to water gods. Later, it evolved into a water military training method, and people achieved spiritual sublimation through competition and appreciation. With the passage of history, people gradually added the connotation of commemorating patriotic sages to the Dragon Boat Festival.

When we enjoy and inherit the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, we are blessed with ethical education, spiritual pleasure and life. At the special moment of earthquake relief and supporting the reconstruction of disaster areas, we should especially thank our ancestors for creating such a festival that integrates personal life and feelings of home and country, so that our motherland and people can be safe and auspicious in midsummer.

Deep national feelings come from the cultivation of excellent national traditional culture, and traditional festivals are fertile soil for cultivating excellent national culture. Dragon Boat Festival is no exception. Starting from this year, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday, which is a respect for traditional culture and folk feelings.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, also known as Duanyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Tian Yue Festival, Box Festival, Poet Festival, Zongzi Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. From these numerous names, we can feel the colorful customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival has a long history and originated in the pre-Qin period. The summer solstice festival is the time basis for its initial appearance. Finally, in the Han and Wei Dynasties, it broke away from festivals to form independent festivals, and only after the Six Dynasties did it really become a folk festival. The connotation is very heavy. Although festivals and customs in different parts of China have their own characteristics due to the differences in water, soil and living conditions, generally speaking, the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival can be classified into three categories: keeping fit from epidemic, dragon boat racing and remembering Qu Yuan.

As far as the inheritance of today's Dragon Boat Festival is concerned, there are three themes worth promoting, namely, caring for life, cheering up the spirit and caring for the home country.

-Care for life. Cherishing life is human nature and the guarantee of social continuity. Traditional festivals in China have always been concerned about people's lives, such as praying for longevity on New Year's Eve and climbing mountains for happiness on the Double Ninth Festival. And the Dragon Boat Festival is particularly distinctive in caring for life.

The Dragon Boat Festival is on May 5th in the summer calendar, which is midsummer. People are prone to get sick and their living environment deteriorates seasonally. In traditional society, people call May a "bad month" and May 5th a "bad day". In order to eliminate the real health risks and the mental fear of death, people have created many health-care activities to relieve the body and mind, one of which is picking herbs. People climb mountains at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. Herbs collected from Dragon Boat Festival are most effective in treating diseases caused by yin deficiency. People attach great importance to wormwood and calamus. People hang wormwood at the door, make a bun with calamus roots, and bathe in water with wormwood leaves and calamus. The custom of "blue bath in May" was recorded in Summer Zheng Xiao, which later became one of the customs of Dragon Boat Festival. In Beijing, there is a custom of catching toads for medicine during the Dragon Boat Festival, so there is a saying that toads are most afraid of the Dragon Boat Festival. Medical care. We can understand the relationship between herbs and health by reading Qu Yuan's Lisao. In traditional society, the midsummer season when medical conditions are seriously inadequate is a dangerous moment. People should not only put wormwood in front of the door and bathe in orchid soup, but also wear sachets to ward off evil spirits. Sacks embroidered with auspicious patterns and filled with herbs are called sachets among the people. The third health custom is drinking realgar wine. In traditional society, realgar wine is a health care medicinal liquor for Dragon Boat Festival. It is said to have the effect of expelling poison. It is under the action of realgar wine that the white snake shows its true colors. In fact, according to today's pharmacological analysis, realgar is toxic and cannot be taken.

In any case, people's love and care for life are reflected in the subtle customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, people in modern society once called the Dragon Boat Festival "Health Festival", and I think the custom of students' health preservation during the Dragon Boat Festival is also worth promoting today.

-inspire the spirit. People should not only have the basic material conditions to ensure the continuation of life, but also need to survive as the spirit of all things. Spirit is one of the pillars of human existence. Due to the harsh environment and the mediocrity of years, people are prone to mental fatigue and hardship. In order to improve people's minds and stimulate their vitality, people invented festivals and used periodic holiday entertainment activities to adjust the spiritual needs of individuals and society. Dragon Boat Festival is such an inspiring national festival.

One of the important customs of China Dragon Boat Festival is dragon boat race. Dragon boat race is a water sports activity, and it is still an important content of national sports. In the past, the concept of Hong Kong Dragon Boat Race Torch Relay came from the mutual infiltration and blending of traditional and modern, western and China cultures. In fact, in the early society of China, there were two trends in the Dragon Boat Festival: one was to rest for the festival, and people thought that the summer solstice was a time of drastic changes of Yin and Yang, so they avoided seclusion at home, which was the main way to avoid the New Year in the early society; One is that people's activities should conform to the needs of the times and changes in conditions, and promote people's anger with personnel. This way is mainly reflected in the Dragon Boat Festival. With the deepening of people's understanding of nature and the enhancement of their viability, people's mentality has changed from passive adaptation to active response to nature, and the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually become the main way to celebrate festivals (especially in the south). The original intention of the Dragon Boat Festival is to support yin and suppress yang, and to offer sacrifices to water gods. Later, it evolved into a water military training model. The fierce competition and confrontation on the water not only requires courage and strength, but also emphasizes the spirit of teamwork. Dragon boat race, dragon boat athletes in high spirits, Qi Xin's concerted efforts, the audience exulted, paddled, the helmsman blew the horn, the audience cheered, and the waves beat against the coast. This is an annual opportunity to cheer the people up, and the national spirit of courage, tenacity and unity has been vividly displayed in the dragon boat race.

China is a country that attaches importance to cultural ethics, and most of the traditional festivals in China have implicit or explicit ethical significance. The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival has become a folk festival in China and lasted for thousands of years is directly related to its rich historical and cultural connotations. In its origin, the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly to avoid plague and sacrifice water. With the passage of history, people gradually added the connotation of commemorating patriotic sages to the Dragon Boat Festival.

Since the Han Dynasty, different historical figures have commemorated the Dragon Boat Festival in different places. Chu commemorates Qu Yuan, Yue commemorates Gou Jian, and Wu commemorates Wu Zixu. There are local legends as the basis, that is, local cultural feelings need these sages as the projection objects. However, in the long history, most people in China finally chose Qu Yuan, who rose from a local saint to a sage of the motherland and even a world celebrity. Qu Yuan became an important patriotic figure who loved his hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan stands out in the Dragon Boat Festival, which is the historical and cultural choice of China. His humanistic feelings of worrying about the country and the people, his noble quality of loyalty to the country and his innocent personality charm have made Qu Yuan shine for thousands of years. China has experienced division and war in history, and the people of China have suffered a lot. China needs a loyal minister like Qu Yuan. Only the Chinese nation can stand. The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates a patriotic saint like Qu Yuan, not only from the simple feelings of civil society, but also from the national level. In the country of poetry, it is of great and far-reaching significance to commemorate this great patriotic poet. In the process of "rejuvenating the country", China is bound to encounter many difficulties, obstacles and challenges. We are destined to cultivate a family loyal to the country and caring for the people like Qu Yuan.

While enjoying and inheriting the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, we have been blessed with ethical education, spiritual pleasure and life. At the special moment of earthquake relief and supporting the reconstruction of homes in disaster areas, we should especially thank our ancestors for creating such a festival that integrates personal life and feelings of home and country, making our motherland and people safe and auspicious in midsummer.