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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China? Dragon Boat Festival is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and Dragon Boat Festival. Although the names are different, on the whole, the customs of people everywhere are more similar than different.

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcoming the ghost boat, hiding in the afternoon, sticking leaves in the afternoon, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrificial bowls, dragon boat races, competitions, hitting the ball, swinging, drawing children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, drinking calamus wine, eating poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have made new progress, breaking through the boundaries of time and region and becoming international sports events.

There are many opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; In memory of Wu Zixu's theory; In memory of Cao E; From the three generations of summer solstice festival; The theory of exorcising evil days on the moon, the theory of national totem sacrifice in wuyue and so on. Each of the above has its own source. According to more than 100 ancient books and archaeological studies by experts listed in Wen Yiduo's Dragon Boat Festival Examination and Dragon Boat Festival History Education, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held by Wuyue people in the ancient south of China, earlier than Qu Yuan. But for thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. What about people? Remember and mourn it, tell it in the world and pass it on? Therefore, the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest and deepest influence and occupies the mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, China people associate dragon boat racing and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival with commemorating Qu Yuan.

Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China.

Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Dragon Boat Festival has many origins and legends. Here are only the following four:

Commemorating Qu Yuan

According to historical records? Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng? According to records, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food for Qu Yuan. Plop, plop? Throw it into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs are full and will not bite the doctor's body. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Commemorating Wu Zixu.

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Wu Zixu, a famous Chu national, and his father and brother were all killed by the King of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu to attack Chu, and entered the capital city of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zixu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father's murder. After the death of He Lu, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he was defeated by Yue. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, made peace, and Fu Cha agreed. Zi Xu suggested the complete elimination of Yue, but Fu Cha didn't listen. Wu was massacred and bought by the state of Yue. He was framed by slanderers. Fu Cha believed him and gave him a sword. Zi Xu died. Zi Xu is a loyal man, who is as dead as death. Before he died, he said to his neighbor: After my death, I dug out my eyes and hung them in the east gate of Jason Wu to watch the Vietnamese army enter the city to destroy Wu. Later, Fu Cha committed suicide and died. Fu Cha was furious when he heard this. On May 5th, he put Wu Zixu's body in a suitcase and threw it into the river. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

In memory of the dutiful daughter Cao E.

The third legend of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who saved her drowning father in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river, and her body was not seen for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old and cried day and night by the river. 17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. This was passed down as a myth, and then to the governor of the county government, who made it a monument for disciple Han Danchun to make a eulogy.

The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, and there is a monument made by Jin. Later, in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, Cao E Temple was built where Cao E threw himself into the river. The village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died was named Cao E River.

Totem sacrifice originated from the ancient Yue nationality.

A large number of cultural relics unearthed in modern times and archaeological studies have confirmed that there was a cultural relic with Tao Wei characteristics in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Neolithic Age. According to experts' inference, the remaining clan is Baiyue clan, a clan that worships dragon totem in history. The decorative patterns and historical legends on unearthed pottery show that they have the custom of tattooing constantly, live in a water town and compare themselves to the descendants of dragons. Among its production tools, there are a large number of stone tools, as well as small bronzes such as shovels and chisels. As daily necessities, the printed pottery ding used for cooking food is unique to them and is one of the symbols of their ethnic group. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still more than 100 Vietnamese people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival for their ancestors. During thousands of years of historical development, most Baiyue people have integrated into the Han nationality, and the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival for the whole Chinese nation.

Dragon boat festival poems

1, colorful boats, dragon watching boats in pairs, waves like a spring. It's amazing. Difficult to draw, stirring waves, snow flying between lakes. Draw drums and thunder, red flag and lightning, and win the championship. ? Huang Shang's Dragon Boat Festival Xi Qian Ying Lake

2. Shen Jian has gone far away, so I advise you to rest on wine and talk about old feelings. The slow warbler's voice and the tapping on the elephant board are better than reading the chapters of Li Sao. ? Yang Wuxia spends the Dragon Boat Festival in Qi Tianle.

3, red lotus root silk, white lotus root silk, Ai Hu shirt cut witch hazel. Litchi with two heads. Bones, back? Ghosts? How do you know the symbol in your mind? Acacia at twelve o'clock. ? The heavy noon of Sauvignon Blanc in Sok Li.

4. The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, when the Qing people grow up. ? Li Longji's "Dragon Boat Festival Wucheng Hall Banquet"

5300 wives dance with sleeves, and there are voices in the sky. ? On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

6. Official uniforms are also famous, and the Dragon Boat Festival is glorious. The fragrant silk is spun into fine kudzu vine, and the soft wind blows as white as new snow. ? Du Fu's Gift of Clothes at Noon

7. Sun Yat-sen Xunzi leans on new makeup, and Yan Ji, the daughter, is good at it. ? Bianjing Yuanxi

8. It rains and winds every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, which seems to be a grievance of Qu Yuan and Chen. I want to talk to anyone I want. ? Three Poems of Zhao Fan's Dragon Boat Festival (Part Two)

9. In May, the river around the river flows horizontally on the embankment, and people in the city will float colorful boats. The spirit sang for a long time, and the lamentation shook from then on. Yang Jian thunder thunder, turbulence, sound crashing. The dragon trembled in the rain. Drink the river together. The secretariat is in a state of change, and it is revealed that nobles are divided into men and women. First, Yu Yong fought for encouragement, but the color of the champion did not fall. ? Liu Yuxi's Song of Race Crossing

10, Chu people have been mourning for Qu Yuan for thousands of years. Where did the spirit drift? My father choked. So far, on the Cangjiang River, I have put rice to quench my thirst. Heritage becomes a race, lamenting the cracks in Chushan. ? Su Shi's Quyuan Tower

1 1, Good Wine Shen Zui Festival, ten glasses of wine, one song. ? Su Shi's "Youth Tour with Huang Shou and Xu Jun Tour at Dragon Boat Festival"

12, I haven't seen you last year, and my sleeves are wet with tears. ? "Health check? Yuanxi

13,5 days, long jiaozi, empty topic, nine customs, carving tigers, wasting souls. ? Quyuan Temple in Song Qi

14, jade leaks silver pot, but don't worry, the iron lock is completely open. ? Last night in the Yuan Dynasty

15, far in color and far in light. ? Watch the lights for fifteen nights

16, the race has been deeply saddened for thousands of years, and the loyal soul is gone forever. Where the country dies today, there is only Li Sao left in the world. ? Dragon Boat Festival in Zhang Lei

17, a small ball of crystal sugar, transparent corn and pine. ? The Disordered Words of Dragon Boat Festival in Zhang Lei

18, light makeup and heavy makeup, the West Lake looks amazing. Acorus calamus horn millet family festival. Water play ichthyosaurs, ten miles curtain opened. Ling Bo infinite dust socks, ice muscle fragrant Luo Xue. Don't rush home by cruise ship, cover the dusk, there is a new moon outside. ? Zhao Changqing's Drunk Afternoon

19, the colored thread is lightly wrapped around the red jade arm, and the fine print is obliquely hung on Lv Yun. Beautiful women meet for a thousand years. ? Su Shi's Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival

20, look at Ma's dripping powder, try to sell Yuanxiao in the wind. ? Shangyuan Zhi Zhu Ci

2 1, the breeze does not break the dust, and the Hosta is drunk. ? Su Shi, Huanxisha? Dragon Boat Festival

22, want to go to the sea to find the moon, Wu Geng flew to dream of crossing the ocean. ? Yuan Xi has no moon.

23. Wearing Hanfu and makeup, the lights on Sixth Street make the children angry. ? Lantern Festival in Beijing

24. After the death of the spirit, it is an orchid festival. Colorful green zongzi, fragrant white jade balls. The dead are gone, and the hardships are sweet, but today is joy. ? Ten Poems on Summer Poems by Yuan Zhen

25, Gao Yong Chu Ci Fu Wu, Tianya in a hurry. Liu Hua is not as red as a dance skirt. No one knows this. Full of music. Everything hurts the old, and Rong Kuining smiles at the east wall. The depth of the glass is the same as last year. Try to pour the bridge into the water and arrive in central Hunan tonight. ? Chen's Linjiang Fairy

26, don't sing Jiangnan ancient tune, resentment is hard to recruit, Chu Jiang is heavy. ? Bathing in Wu Wenying, heavy noon in Huai 'an, Lan Xiang

27. Flowers compete for four seasons, and nine jiaozi compete for novelty. ? Li Longji's "Dragon Boat Festival Three Halls Banquet"

28, five-color new silk wrapped around the corner, gold plate to send, raw painting fan plate double phoenix. It's time to bathe orchids. The calamus wine is beautiful and clear. ? Ouyang xiu's fish house pride

29. The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is widely rumored that it is Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight. ? Dragon Boat Festival in Wen Xiu

30, fire tree silver flower, star bridge lock. ? On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month