Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival ...... are all traditional festivals in our country, the introduction of the origin of a festival

The Dragon Boat Festival origin mainly has the following four:

1, commemorate Qu Yuan said

Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu State poet Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival jumped Miluo River, the people are afraid of fish in the river to eat his body, they have to go home to bring the rice ball put into the river, so as to avoid the fish and shrimp spoiled the body of the Qu Yuan, and later on, the custom to eat rice dumplings. People will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival in honor of Qu Yuan.

2, commemorating Wu Zixu said

Wu Zixu was loyal, death is like home, before he died, the neighboring people said: "I died, will I dig out my eyes hanging in the east gate of the capital of the Wu to see the Yue army into the city to destroy Wu," and then cut their own throats, Fu Chai was furious at hearing the words, so that the body of the Zixu installed in leather in the fifth day of the fifth month, and therefore, each other. The Dragon Boat Festival is also said to be a day to honor Wu Zixu.

3, to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E said

The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, is to commemorate the Eastern Han Dynasty filial daughter Cao E save his father threw himself into the river. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, when 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 ordered Du Shang to erect a monument for the story, and his disciple Handan Chun to make a eulogy in praise of the story.

4, to commemorate the jiezitui said

Jiezitui is the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival origin of the legend of the protagonist, but there is also the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and jiezitui related. According to Cai Yong's work on qin music, "Qin Cultivation," the Dragon Boat Festival was held in honor of the sage Jie Zi Tui, who was a member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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Historical Origins

The origins of ancient traditional festivals are related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial cultures, and humanistic and natural cultural contents such as celestial phenomena and calendars. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed in the ancient people's activities of choosing auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as nature worship, solid foundation and thinking of the source; a series of sacrificial activities, which contains the profound cultural connotation of the civilization of respect and virtue, rites and music. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, refinement and popularization.

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