Dragon boat festival custom
1. Dragon boat racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient state of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of Qu Yuan, a sage, and many people rowed to catch up and save. They scrambled to catch up with each other and disappeared when they reached Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Dispel the fish in the river by rowing dragon boats, so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.
Eating zongzi is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "horn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Generally, they wrap zongzi the day before, cook them at night and eat them in the morning. Dumplings are mainly made of tender reed leaves which are abundant along the river pond, and bamboo leaves are also useful in some areas, collectively called zongye. The traditional form of zongzi is triangle, which is generally named after the inner pulp. The glutinous rice dumplings are called rice dumplings, the ones mixed with adzuki beans are called adzuki dumplings, and the ones mixed with red dates are called jujube dumplings, which are collectively called glutinous rice dumplings. Jujube dumplings are homophonic for "early middle school", so they are eaten the most, and children who intend to study can win the championship early. In the past, scholars used to eat jujube dumplings in the morning on the day of taking the imperial examination. Up to now, parents have to make jujube dumplings for candidates on the morning of the entrance examination day for middle schools and universities. ?
Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from dragon festival in ancient times. On the Mid-Summer Dragon Boat Festival, black dragon spent seven nights in the center of the south, which was the most "upright" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "Flying dragons are in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day of "flying dragons in the sky", and dragon and dragon boat culture have always run through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival. ? The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu Cao E and meson tui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are mixed, and there are differences in customs content or details due to different regional cultures. Dragon Boat Festival and Spring Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon boat festival blessing
Acacia keeps a piece of heart for a long time, bamboo must be folded in half, and it is useless to wait for a spoon, stealing a piece of heart in your eyes. In order to wait for life and death, you will have ten hearts on your body, so you will find endless grass.
On your birthday, I will send you a cake; On the Mid-Autumn Festival, I will send you a box of moon cakes. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, I will send you a glutinous rice. I hope you will plant it, take good care of it and wait for my blessing.
Everyone praises you for being quick and eager to learn, and you are like what you learn. I remember that day when you learned to sing from Andy Lau, it was really like you. Dragon Boat Festival is coming. I think you should imitate Qu Yuan's suicide by jumping into the river, too. How about that?
When the Dragon Boat Festival arrives, don't forget to hang mugwort leaves, hang Zhong Kui, drink yellow wine and wear sachets. Of course, the most important thing is to eat more palm seeds, hehe!
On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household hangs up the statue of Zhong Kui, hangs up the wormwood calamus, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, drinks realgar wine, swims all diseases, wears sachets and prepares sacrifices. It's fun to make a scene.
Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May; Realgar shochu calamus sword; Triangle palm wrapped in glutinous rice, colorful sachets hanging on the chest. Happy Dragon Boat Festival!