Dragon Boat Festival Customs Exercise

Duanwu Festival customs assignments are as follows:

Duanwu Festival customs of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar will soon be here, it is a traditional Chinese festival we all know that the Dragon Boat Festival on this day, the country's most the same is to eat zongzi. About the Dragon Boat Festival there are many sayings, such as my hometown; in the first day of May in the lunar calendar to give family members to bring two-color silk thread, the first five days of May to change five-color silk thread. Legend has it that bringing colorful threads to God can bless the family with good health, drive away the plague, and make everything go well.

Duanwu Festival day, the sun is not yet out, the family will go up the mountain to pull some Ai back, with Ai leaf water to wash your face, legend has it that this can drive away mosquitoes. After washing your face, you start to eat dumplings, dumplings are made of glutinous rice, red dates, red beans packaged into a particularly tasty, eat a still want to eat another one. There are also eggs with the yolks boiled in gray. After eating, the sun shows half a head, the family will also get some willow back, and then folded into a gourd with colorful paper, inserted in the door above.

This way the country will be at peace. Legend has it that this is a custom left behind by the people in honor of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, although it is a legend, but people in my hometown are very convinced. My mother said she was told by my grandmother. The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is very grand.

Duanwu Festival Name:

The word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty's "Records of the Terroir": "The Dragon Boat Festival in mid-summer is called the fifth day of the month of May, and the popularity of the day is also heavy with the summer solstice. " End, the ancient Chinese language has the beginning, the initial meaning, said "Duanwu" is also known as "the first five". "Shuowen Jiezi": "end, the first born of the question also", that is, the end of the meaning of the first, so the first five days of May is known as "Duanwu Festival".

Yanjing Times: "the first five for the May single five, cover the "end" of the word transcription also." Ancient people used to the first few days of May respectively to end to address, "Years and Years Guangji" said: "the capital city dust people, the first day of May for the end of one, the first two for the end of two, the number of five to five is called the end of five." The first noon of the month of five (noon), called the Dragon Boat Festival.