Prepare materials for making handmade dragon boats.
The materials for making handmade dragon boats are: tricolor cardboard, scissors, glue, pencil, colored paper, transparent glue and cardboard.
Draw a long box on the cardboard as the main body of the dragon boat.
The hull of a dragon boat can be represented by a long box. Here, a long box is drawn on the cardboard as the main body of the dragon boat.
Cut out the box with scissors.
After drawing the edge line of the long box, cut the edge of the box along the line with scissors, and pay attention to keeping it neat.
Fold the box according to the lines drawn.
After cutting the shape edge of the three-dimensional box, fold it according to the drawn lines to fold the three-dimensional box.
After folding the box, stick both sides with transparent adhesive.
Then stick the folded boxes on both sides with transparent glue and fix them, and the outline of the hull will be roughly drawn.
Fold the colored paper in half and draw the image of the faucet with a pencil.
After folding a piece of colored paper in half, draw the image of the faucet on the paper with a pencil. Then hold the folded paper tightly and cut out the pattern with scissors, so that two faucet patterns can be cut out at the same time.
Fold the colored paper in half and draw the image of the dragon's tail with a pencil.
After folding a piece of colored paper in half, draw the image of the dragon tail on the paper with a pencil. Then hold the folded paper tightly and cut out the patterns with scissors, so that two dragon tail patterns can be cut out at the same time.
Draw the dragon horn and the dragon beard on the colored paper board and cut them out.
Take out brightly colored cardboard, and then draw figures such as dragon horn and dragon beard on cardboard with different colors, and cut them along the line.
Draw a dragon boat decorative picture, paddle and cut it out on colored paper board.
Then draw dragon boat decorative graphics, boating and other graphics on different colors of cardboard, and cut them out along the line, as shown in the following figure.
Divide the paired cutting patterns into two groups.
Then divide the cut figures into two groups, because the dragon boat has two sides, and stick them on the box in two groups, which will have a three-dimensional effect and be more vivid.
According to the image of the dragon boat, paste a set of figures with glue.
Then, according to the image of the dragon boat, a group of figures representing various parts of the dragon boat are glued together with glue.
Glue the pasted whole portrait to the box.
Then paste the graphics of each part of the dragon boat on the box. The dragon head should be pasted inside the box, the dragon tail should be assembled behind the box, and the decorative painting and rowing should be pasted directly on the box. Pay attention to the color matching of the decorative graphics, as shown below.
Stick a set of graphics on the other side of the dragon boat to increase the three-dimensional sense.
Only one side of the dragon boat is burnt, and the paper jam will shake a little. Then paste a set of graphics on the other side of the dragon boat to increase the three-dimensional sense, as shown below. In this way, a complete hand-made dragon boat image will be done. Dragon Boat Festival is the symbol of Dragon Boat Festival. Let's do it together!
The Origin of Dragon Boat Race
Dragon boat race is one of the customs of China Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also one of the most important festivals and folk activities. It widely exists in the south of China, and there are also dragon boat races in cities near rivers, lakes and seas in the north, and most of them are held in the form of dragon boat rowing and dragon boat dancing.
There are many sayings about the origin of dragon boat racing, such as offering sacrifices to Cao E, Qu Yuan, water god or dragon god, which can be traced back to the Warring States period. Dragon boat race was first introduced to Japan, Vietnam, Britain and other neighboring countries, and it was the official event of Guangzhou Asian Games in 20 10. On may 23rd, 201/year, the dragon boat race was approved by the State Council and included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat 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.
There are also memorial halls for Wu Zixu and Cao E. It is said that Wu Zixu was slandered by Fu Cha, the king of Wu, and ordered him to be thrown into the waves of Qiantang River and sailed to save him. "Meet Wu Jun on May 5th, swim against the waves and be submerged" (Cao Ebei). Later generations rowed dragon boats to rescue soldiers.
People in different areas have also given different meanings to dragon boat racing. Different nationalities and regions have different legends and times of dragon boat racing, but most areas near rivers, lakes and oceans hold their own dragon boat races every year.
Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race Legend
The theory of commemorating Qu Yuan
According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated prospering talents and empowering the people, becoming rich and uniting with Qi to resist Qin, which was strongly opposed by the nobles. Qu Yuan was expelled from the capital and exiled to the Yuanxiang Valley. He went into exile abroad and wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Jiu Ge, which worried about the country and the people. In 278 BC, Qin Jun invaded Kyoto, Chu, and Qu Yuan could not bear to abandon his motherland. On the fifth day of May, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he threw himself into the river.
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. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body.
In Miluo County, Hunan Province, before the dragon boat race, you must go to Quzi Temple to worship the dragon head, put red cloth on the dragon head, and then race the boat, which is not only to worship the dragon god, but also to commemorate Qu Yuan. In Zigui, Hubei, Qu Yuan's hometown, there is also a ceremony to worship Qu Yuan. The custom of offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan is recorded in "Geography of Sui Shu": "The song is loud and clear, shaking the land and water, and the audience is like a cloud." Interpretation of Du Jingqu in Yuxi, Liu Tang: "Du Jing began in Wuling, and now it is harmony, and the sound is salty: where, the meaning of four valleys."
Tiger Pan's theory of evocation in Yuanling
Long before Qu Yuan, there were dragon boats in Yuanling. Yuanling Dragon Boat originated in ancient times, and the object of sacrifice was Pan Hu, the ancestor of the five rivers. Pan Hu once settled in Banxi Cave in Yuanling, and gave birth to six children and six daughters. The children married and multiplied into six ethnic groups: Miao, Yao, Dong, Tu, She and Li. After Pan Hu's death, six tribes feasted on the wizard and invited God to bring him back to life. Because of the dense mountains and rivers in Yuanling, the wizard didn't know where his soul had fallen, so he asked all ethnic groups to build dragon boats and look for shouts by stream and river, which eventually evolved into a witch worship activity of rowing and evoking souls. Yuanling Dragon Boat originated 5,000 years ago, more than 3,000 years earlier than the statement commemorating Qu Yuan.
Theory of commemorating the dragon god
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was no river on the west bank, only a small and dirty ditch. One day, a fisherman caught a small snake in a ditch. This little snake is very strange. There are nine shiny scales on its tail. As soon as the fisherman touched the fish scale, the snake's eyes shone with begging light, which was very pitiful. The fisherman felt sorry for it, touched its scales and put it back in the ditch.
Who knows, the nine scales suddenly fell off, and the little snake danced and turned into a little dragon. It turned out to be a dragon, and it became like this because it broke the dogma and was punished by the jade emperor. There are nine strands on its tail-a small snake has nine shiny scales on its tail. The Jade Emperor once said, "This lock can't be opened unless it is positive." Just now, the fisherman accidentally opened the Millennium shackles on Xiaolong.
In order to thank the fisherman, Xiaolong kept turning around in the ditch, spouting water from his mouth and pouring it into the small ditch. Slowly, this small ditch became a big river (West Bank River), which brought abundant crops to the West Bank. To commemorate this dragon, people call the villages along the river Longtouzhai and Shanglongshou Village. On the day when the dragon ascended to heaven, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, people held dragon boat races to celebrate.
Dragon boat festival nickname
Dragon Boat Festival
The word "Duan" means "the beginning", so "Duan Wu" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the noon month, so the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records: "The fifth day is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word' Duan' is also stamped."
Dragon Boat Festival
According to the records of Jingchu over the years, it is midsummer and May is midsummer, and the first afternoon is a good day to climb mountains in the sun, so it is called "Duanyang Festival".
Mid-Autumn Festival
"noon" belongs to the twelve branches. In the lunar calendar, May is noon, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Heavy Noon Festival" or "Heavy Five Festival", and in some places it is also called "May Festival".
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon boat race is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, which is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, where it is called dragon boat. It was originally a sacrificial activity of the ancient Yue people to worship the water god or the dragon god, and its origin may have started at the end of primitive society. Dragon boat races have a long history, circulating for more than 2000 years. It is a traditional folk water sports and entertainment project in China, which is mostly held on festive festivals and is a multi-person collective rowing competition. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.
Dangwu Xun
In some rural areas of Shanghai, near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "five o'clock in the flood season".
Noon festival
This name comes from the number of yin and yang strokes. Tian Rucheng's Travel Notes on the West Lake, a volume of Yue in the 20th Ming Dynasty, said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because the sun goes to Midday at noon and reaches noon, and it swims at noon." Japan designated May 5th as "Boys' Day", which may also be based on the Japan-China Festival, because Japan believes that only men inherit the universal spirit.
Yulan Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients used bluegrass soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".
Jie zongjie
When the ancients ate zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game that was shorter than each person's leaves, and the elderly won, so it was also called "Xiezong Festival".
Women's festival
"Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Series" is in Bangbang: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Dai Ai Ye, and the five poison spells. Ten thousand customs are decorated with little girls from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, and we do our best. Married women also go back to their hometown because it is called Daughter's Day. "
Ending etiquette
In southern Hunan, along the ancient custom, on the fifth day of May when summer comes, mugwort leaves are hung on the door and bathed to repel mosquitoes. It is believed that malaria can be driven away after baptism, and this mosquito breeding summer can be safely spent.
Acorus calamus festival
Dragon Boat Festival is not only an ancient totem festival, but also a festival of "getting rid of diseases and preventing epidemic". The ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, when the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and avoid poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".