What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.

Dragon Boat Festival custom?

First, the dragon boat race?

Dragon boat, as its name implies, is a boat shaped like a dragon. The bow of this ship is like a high faucet, and the side and abdomen of the ship are painted with different colors. Dragons come in different sizes and paddles, including six pairs, twelve pairs, seventeen pairs and fifty-two pairs. If you enter the water in the same way, the size of the dragon boat must be the same. If it is a new ship, a ceremony must be held.

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, it originated in ancient times. Because Chu people could not bear to be separated from the sage Qu Yuan, they died in the river, and many people rowed to catch up and save. They rushed to catch up until Dongting Lake disappeared. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. People use dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

Second, eat brown?

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "corn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Zongzi is usually wrapped the day before, cooked at night and eaten in the morning.

According to folklore, zongzi is eaten to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. In the Records of Historical Records, people can know that Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu. Qu Yuan united with Qi to fight against Qin. However, Qu Yuan's idea met with opposition, and finally Qu Yuan was framed and relegated. When Qu Yuan was in exile, he learned that Chu was attacked by Qin, and he was heartbroken and threw himself into the river. It is reported that after the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were deeply saddened. In order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eroded by fish and shrimp. People spontaneously throw zongzi into the river. The significance of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. This festival custom has been passed down to this day.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has become a specific holiday custom. People in the south and the north will eat zongzi on this day. On this day, people will eat zongzi to pay homage to Qu Yuan.

Third, hang wormwood and calamus?

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, inserts calamus and moxa sticks in their eyebrows and hangs them in the hall. It is believed that wormwood also has the function of exorcising evil spirits and attracting happiness. During the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door has become a habit and a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing. Acorus calamus leaves are sword-shaped, which can ward off evil spirits when inserted at the door. Therefore, alchemists call it "water sword", and later it is extended to "common sword", which can cut thousands of evil spirits. Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy.

There is a custom of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival all over the north and south. Interestingly, the customs of hanging wormwood, smoked wormwood, calamus and bathing with medicine are similar whether the south regards heaven and earth as pure yang, healthy qi and auspicious days to drive away evil spirits and diseases, or the north regards evil months and evil days to avoid evil spirits and avoid drugs.

Fourth, wash herbal water?

Washing herbal water is one of the customs of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and medicines are everywhere at noon. Washing herbal water at noon can cure skin diseases and dispel evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and soaking in water, and the medicinal properties of the Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it.

Herbal water, that is, Mulan soup recorded in ancient books, was first recorded in Xia, a book about the custom of washing herbal water at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. But the orchids mentioned in this paper are not orchids, but flying grasses or compositae herbs, which have fragrance and can be decocted and bathed with water. Volume 22 of Miscellaneous Medicine Collection quotes the lost article of Miscellaneous Medicine Collection at the Age of Jingchu: "On May 5, competing for miscellaneous medicine can cure all diseases." This custom still exists today and is widely popular. In Guangdong, children use wormwood wheat medicine or wormwood, cattail, impatiens, magnolia and other flowers to boil and wash, while teenagers and adult men take a bath on the river and beach, which is called dragon boat washing water to wash away bad luck and bring good luck. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, calamus, peach leaves, etc. are boiled into liquid medicine for bathing, regardless of gender, age and family.

? Fifth, wear a sachet?

Wearing sachets is one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is usually filled with some Chinese herbal medicines with fragrance and resuscitation, which have the effects of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention. Duanyang tied his arm with four-color thread and wore a sachet, which was exquisite and exquisite. The sachet, also known as sachet, sachet and purse, is usually made by wrapping perfume with five-color silk thread, or cotton wrapped with colored satin or cloth, mixing powder of Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Sparganii, Scutellariae Radix, Flos Caryophylli, Asari, Gan Song, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Glycyrrhrizae Radix, realgar powder, etc., and then embroidering with colored silk thread, with red, green and hanging at the bottom.

Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Sachet bags are made into different shapes and strung together, all kinds of small and lovely, and now they have become a common handicraft. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use sachets to express their deep love.

The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is everywhere. People help each other to warm their hearts. It has a long history and studies the customs handed down from generation to generation. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, citizens are very lively, making zongzi cakes and traveling around the mountains to pass on bean stalks, just to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and inherit the excellent culture of Shenzhen World Expo. Although the Dragon Boat Festival comes and goes in a hurry, it pays a warm heart and is a glorious chapter in the cultural history of China! May this Dragon Boat Festival have better memories every year!