About the Dragon Boat Festival handbook

A, Dragon Boat Festival Introduction

Chinese name: Dragon Boat Festival

Foreign name: Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival

Also known as: Tuanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, etc.

Time: Lunar May 5

Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar every year. The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival and so on. Dragon Boat Festival is the Chinese Han people to commemorate the traditional festival of Qu Yuan, to around the talented, independent Chu state doctor Qu Yuan and start, spread to all parts of China, folk culture **** enjoy, Qu Yuan's name is known to all, after the Chinese nation's high and pure feelings. But there are exceptions, the Dragon Boat Festival around the East Wu traditionally does not commemorate Qu Yuan, but to commemorate the fifth of May was thrown into the river Wu Zixu, and Wu and Yue areas to dragon boat racing on this day to hold tribal totem sacrifices in the custom of the Spring and Autumn period is even earlier than a long time. Dragon Boat Festival have eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, artemisia, mugwort, lavender, Angelica dahurica, drink xionghuang wine custom. The "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national holidays, and was included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

Second, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival legend: to commemorate the Qu Yuan

Legendary Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the warring states era Chu poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth of May to martyr himself. Qu Ping, the word Yuan, usually called Qu Yuan, and since the cloud name Zhengzhe, the number of Lingjun, Han nationality, the end of the Warring States period of the State of Chu Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei Province) people, Chu King Wu Xiongtong's son Quchu's descendants. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized, and after the death of King Huai, he was exiled because King Hai Xiang believed the slanderous rumors, and finally threw himself into the Miluo River and died.

This story was first mentioned in Wu Jun's "The Record of Qi Harmony" of the Liang Dynasty in the southern part of China, and Zong Security Service's "The Record of the Years of Jing and Chu" of the southern part of China. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed their boats to rescue him, but they never saw his body until they reached the Dongting Lake. At that time, it was a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered together by the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send their condolences, people swing boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. Hundreds of people are afraid of the river fish eat his body, they have to go home to bring the rice ball into the river, so as not to spoil the fish and shrimp Qu Yuan's body, and later became the custom of eating rice dumplings. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing and commemorate the Qu Yuan related to the Tang Dynasty Wenxiu "Dragon Boat Festival" poem as evidence: "Festival points Dragon Boat Festival since who said that the rumors of the ancient for Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the empty Chu River, can not be washed straight minister injustice."

Three, the Dragon Boat Festival food customs

1. Eat zongzi

"Zongzi incense, incense kitchen. Ai leaf fragrance, fragrance full of hall. Peach sticks are inserted in the front door, and when you go out, you can see that the wheat is yellow. Here, there, everywhere." This is a popular ballad describing the Dragon Boat Festival. On the whole, people around the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is similar, and Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, throughout the ages, all over China are the same.

Today's dumplings are even more diverse and brilliant. Today's zongzi, generally use Ruo shell package glutinous rice, but contains the color is based on the local specialties and customs, the famous cinnamon zongzi, meat zongzi, crystal zongzi, lotus seed paste zongzi, candied fruit zongzi, chestnut zongzi, spicy zongzi, sauerkraut zongzi, ham zongzi, salted egg zongzi, and so on.

2. Drinking Xionghuang wine

Duanwu drinking Xionghuang wine custom, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. As the old saying goes, "Drinking Xionghuang wine, the diseases are far away". Xionghuang is a mineral, commonly known as "cockle stone", its main component is arsenic sulfide, and contains mercury, toxic. General drinking of xionghuang wine, just in white wine or home-brewed yellow wine to add trace andrographis and become, no pure drinking. Xionghuang wine has the effect of antiseptic insecticide to solve the five poisons, Chinese medicine is also used to cure skin diseases. In the absence of iodine and other disinfectants in ancient times, the use of andrographis soaked wine, you can get rid of poison and relieve itching. Not to the drinking age of small children, adults will give their forehead, ears and nose, hands and feet heart and other places coated with andrographis, intended to disinfect and prevent disease, insects and insects do not bite.

3. Eat five yellow

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow refers to the cucumber, eel, yellow fish, salted duck egg yolk, xionghuang wine. In addition, northern Zhejiang Dragon Boat Festival also eat tofu.

Four, Dragon Boat Festival proverbs

Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival Ai. (North)

Toad can't hide from May 5th. (Beijing)

Toad tadpoles hide from the Dragon Boat Festival. (North)

If you don't wear moxa at Dragon Boat Festival, you'll die and become a monster. (Northwest)

Drinking a mouthful of water at noon is a good tonic for three years. (Shandong)

Drinking Xionghuang wine will make you lose all diseases. (Shanxi)

It is difficult to buy the May 5 drought (Shanxi)

Before eating the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, the cold clothes can not be sent; eat the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, but also freeze three frozen. (Baoshan)

Duanwu Festival, the weather is hot; the five poisons wake up, not peaceful. (Jiangsu and Zhejiang)

Duanwu invites the Bodhisattva, and the squid is sent on the sixth day of the Dragon Boat Festival. (Jiangsu, Zhejiang)

The good time is the fifth day, and the old man wishes for a thousand years. (Jiangsu)

Fifth, the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Works Appreciation

May 5th (Sung - Mei Yaochen)

Qu's has sunk to death, the Chu people mourn can not be.

What can be done about the slanders and slanders, and what can be done about the dragon?

It is not yet over, but it has been traced.

The water in the blue pool of Yuan-Xiang should be able to illuminate a thousand peaks.

Duanwu (Tang Dynasty - Wenxiu)

Who said that the festival of Dragon Boat Festival is a part of the Dragon Boat Festival, but it has been rumored that it is Qu Yuan

It is a pity that the Chu River is so empty, and it is impossible to wash away the injustice of the upright ministers.

And Duanwu (Zhang Lei)

The competition for the crossing of the river is y saddened by a thousand years of injustice, and the loyal souls can never be restored once they are gone.

Where is the country's death, but only the departed soul remains in the world.

Duanwu (Bei Qiong)

The wind and rain of the Duanyang Festival have made it dark and gloomy, and there is no place in Miluo to hang the souls of the heroes.

The pomegranate blossoms should make each other laugh, and Yuanming is awake alone without wine.

Duanwu (Tang - Li Longji)

Duanwu is approaching the middle of summer, and the time is clear and the day is long.

Salt and plums are already on the table, and the wine is being passed on to the goblets.

The ancient people have left traces of their lives, and the years are deep and the wisps are long.

When the Hibiscus is in full bloom, the water is fragrant with the fragrance of the reed.

There are a lot of people who are looking for a way to make a living, and they are looking for a way to make a living.

Loyalty and chastity, such as not to be replaced, after the Kung Fong.

Customs

The most important event of the Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat Race, in which competing teams paddle their colorful dragon boats to the sound of enthusiastic drumming. The event was inspired by the time when the inhabitants of Miluo River rowed their boats in the river to save Qu Yuan, and the tradition has been maintained for centuries.

A popular food at the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi, which are rice wrapped with meat, peanuts, egg yolks and other ingredients, then wrapped in bamboo leaves. The tradition of zongzi comes from fishermen on the Miluo River, who threw rice into the river to calm the dragons in the river in the hope that they would not eat Qu Yuan.

The month of May on the lunar calendar, known as the Dragon Boat Festival, has many other important meanings for the Chinese besides the story of Qu Yuan. Many Chinese believe that the month of May is a dangerous time of the year when illnesses can easily occur, so there are many precautions that must be taken to prevent family members from getting sick. Many families hang a special plant, Mugwort, at their doorsteps for protection, and people also wear scented sachets, made from medicinal plants that contain a variety of scents, to protect them from illness.

Introduction of the Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "Dragon Boat Festival", the end of the "beginning", "the beginning of the" meaning. The first five days can be called the end of the five. Lunar calendar to the Earth's branches of the month, the first month of building Yin, February for the Mao, in turn to May for the Wu, so that May for the month of Wu, "five" and "Wu" through, "five" and for the number of Yang, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanwu is also known as the five, heavy five, Duanyang, in the sky, heavy afternoon, noon, in addition to some places will be called the Dragon Boat Festival May Festival, Ai Festival, Summer Festival. From the historical point of view, "Dragon Boat Festival" two words were first seen in the Jin Zhou Zhi "land and customs": "mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking washed corn". Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into: eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, moxa, fumigation Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing, is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, so after liberation had the Dragon Boat Festival named "Poet's Day", to commemorate the Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, moxa leaves, lavender, dahurica, drink xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to suppress the evil spirits.

Duanwu Customs

Hanging Ai leaves, calamus, garlic: Ai, calamus and garlic is known as the "Dragon Boat Festival three friends". Pick Ai to start before the rooster crows, pick the most humanoid Ai grass to take back to hang on the door, some will also tie the Ai grass into the shape of a tiger, and then paste the Ai leaves on it. During the Dragon Boat Festival, close to the summer solstice, it is the time of the interactive conversion of cold and summer, from diet to clothing, action must pay attention. In ancient times, people lack of scientific concepts, mistakenly thought that the disease are by the ghosts and evil worship to, so, the Dragon Boat Festival this day, people to calamus as a sword, to Ai as a whip, garlic as a hammer, also known as the "three kinds of weapons", that can retreat snakes, insects, germs, and eliminate the demons.

Dragon Boat Race: This activity is held before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, is a powerful spontaneous festive cultural activities. Dragon boat is the dragon shape and oars. Ancient emperors patrolled the rivers and lakes and rivers by the boat, its head and tail for the shape of the dragon, called the dragon boat or dragon boat. Jingzhou City, May Dragon Boat Race in general is in the ordinary wooden boat at the head and tail, temporary tie on the dragon head, dragon tail, there are also special special dragon boat.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: China's Jiangnan folk Dragon Boat Festival has eaten "five yellow" food customs. "Five yellow" refers to eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted egg yolk and xionghuang wine. In the mythological legend "The White Snake", the White Lady drank Xionghuang wine and appeared in her original form as a snake. Therefore, the folk believe that snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other venomous insects can be cracked by andrographis, Dragon Boat Festival drink andrographis can drive away evil spirits and detoxification, good health.