Dragon Boat Festival custom: Hanging a clock to catch ghosts is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. In the Jianghuai area, every family hangs clocks to ward off evil spirits.
Emperor Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty returned to the palace from Lishan, and malaria was rampant. He dreamed that two drag bottles, one big and one small, were wearing red crotch-less pants and barefoot, stealing Yang Guifei's sachet and the Jade Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Run around the temple. GREAT GHOST is wearing a blue robe, a blue hat and bare feet. Catch the kid, gouge out his eyes and swallow one. Ming Taizu, He Wen, GREAT GHOST, and the minister, Zhong Kui, are willing to exorcise evil spirits for your majesty. When the emperor woke up, he recovered from malaria and became a painter, Wu Daozi. According to what I saw in my dream, I drew an image of Zhong Kui catching ghosts and ordered all people to post it on the Dragon Boat Festival to exorcise evil spirits.
Hanging wormwood leaves and calamus: hanging wormwood leaves in the hall, cutting them into the shape of Eric tiger or cutting them into ribbons of tigers, and sticking them on them, so that women compete to wear them to ward off evil spirits. Using calamus as a sword and inserting it on the couch has the magical effect of exorcising ghosts. On Duanyang Festival, every household uses calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic and dragon boat flowers to make human figures, which are called Ai people. Eating calamus can live forever, and it can live forever. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to be a master and once ate calamus for two years.
Dragon Boat Race: At that time, Chu people were reluctant to part with the death of Saint Qu Yuan, so many people rowed boats to save them. This is the origin of dragon boat race, and then rowed dragon boats every May 5 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.
You Zhou Tournament began in Taiwan Province Province in the 29th year of Qing Qianlong, when Jiang, then the magistrate of Taiwan Province Province, held a friendly match in Hexi Half Moon Pool in Tainan City. At present, boat races are held in Taiwan Province Province on May 5th every year, and there are boat races in Hong Kong. Recently, the British have followed our example and organized ghost teams to hold competitions.
According to Wen Yiduo, a famous patriotic scholar in modern times, the Dragon Boat Festival was originally a totem festival held by Wuyue people, and the dragon boat race was a semi-religious ceremony. Semi-entertaining programs. "
Four or five thousand years ago, people living in water tribes in primitive totem society were threatened by snakes, insects, diseases and floods. In order to resist these natural disasters, they worship the imaginary powerful dragon as their ancestor and protector (totem), and build the boat into the shape of a dragon and draw a dragon pattern, and hold a competition every year on the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to show respect for the dragon, he also said that he is a descendant of the dragon, a descendant of the dragon.
Eating zongzi: On May 5th, people in Jingchu cooked glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes and threw them into the river as sacrifices to Qu Yuan, so they threw the glutinous rice in bamboo tubes for fear of being eaten by fish. Later, they gradually replaced the bamboo tube with rice wrapped in zongzi leaves.
Drink realgar wine: Realgar is a mineral containing arsenic trioxide, which is mixed with wine for drinking. That is to say, the realgar wine with repellent and detoxification is applied to the child's head and forehead. Ears, nose, hands, feet and heart. Sprinkle the wall and ask, attack the law with poison. The story of "Legend of the White Snake" circulated among the people is to cure the snake's poison with realgar wine, and now the true colors of the white snake are revealed. This kind of learning is very popular among people in the Yangtze River valley.
Wandering all diseases: it is a popular custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Guizhou. Men, women and children go out to play and wear new clothes. At noon 1 o, the roads, mountains and trees are crowded with people, holding flowers and plants, and they are happy. Go home at night to cook flowers and take a bath. Old people call it "a tour of all diseases" and "a wash of all diseases". People who don't go out for a walk and don't wash all their illnesses will not be lucky all year round.
Wearing sachets: Children wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, but also has decorative styles on the front. Cinnabar is hidden in a sachet. Realgar. Aromatherapy medicine, wrapped in silk, is full of fragrance, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk strings to make a series of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and dazzling.
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The origin of "Qixi"
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is China people's Valentine's Day. Some people call it Chinese Valentine's Day or Daughter's Day, which is the most important day for a daughter's family. The seventh day of July is called begging for cleverness because it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet the Tianhe River, and the daughter's family will worship the sky with melons and fruits at night to beg for cleverness from the goddess.
In addition to seeking the skills of the weaver girl, I also seek a clever match in marriage. Therefore, countless sentient men and women in the world will pray for a happy marriage to the stars on this night, in the dead of night.
When it comes to Tanabata, we have to mention the folk love story-Cowherd and Weaver Girl. On Tanabata, they meet once a year and are regarded as a symbol of love by affectionate children. Their love tragedy left a deep impression on everyone in China. So every Tanabata night, many lovers will pray for eternal love in the starry night sky.
There are many versions of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The most widely known thing is that it is said that Cowherd's parents died young and were often abused by his elder sister-in-law, only accompanied by an old cow. One day, the old cow gave him a plan to marry the weaver girl. On that day, the beautiful fairies did bathe in the Milky Way and play in the water. Then the cowherd, hiding in the reeds, suddenly ran out and took the clothes of the Weaver Girl. The panicked fairies hurried ashore, dressed and flew away, leaving only the weaver girl. At Cowherd's request, Weaver Girl agreed to be his wife. After marriage, the cowherd and the weaver girl loved each other and lived a very happy life. Weaver girl also gave birth to a son and a daughter to Cowherd. Later, when the old cow was dying, she told the cowherd to keep its skin and put it on for help when it was in trouble. After the old cow died, the couple reluctantly peeled off the cowhide and buried the cow on the hillside.
When the marriage between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd was known by the Jade Emperor and the Heavenly Queen Mother, they flew into a rage and ordered the gods to take the Weaver Girl back. When the Cowherd was away, the gods took the Weaver Girl. Cowherd didn't see Weaver when he came home, so he quickly put on cowhide and chased after him with two children. On the verge of catching up, the queen mother was in a hurry, tore off the golden hairpin on her head and rowed to the Milky Way. The once shallow Milky Way suddenly turned into a raging sea, and the Cowherd couldn't cross it any more. Since then, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only look at each other across the river with tears, forever and ever, and the Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager can't resist their sincere feelings, allowing them to meet once every July 7th. According to legend, every year on July 7th, the favorite birds on earth will fly to the sky to meet the cowherd and the weaver girl in the Milky Way. In addition, in the dead of night on Tanabata, people can also hear the love story of cowherd and weaver girl in the sky under the grape trellis or other fruit trellis.
Of course, this is just a legend. Begging for Qiao ceremony originated from the original belief of the ancient weaver girl, Sang Shen, and combined with the saying that the cowherd and weaver girl meet on July 7 every year, it has become the folk belief of our Qixi Qiqiao film today.