Eating zongzi is a traditional custom in China. Glutinous rice is wrapped in zongzi leaves and cooked in a pot. People who used to study ate zongzi wrapped in dates, meaning that "jujube zongzi" and "jujube in the middle" were the first in early schools. Now everyone likes to wrap meat, egg yolk, mung beans and so on. In zongzi. On the fifth day of May every year, according to personal taste,
Dragon boat race is the most important custom of Dragon Boat Festival. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, many people rowed behind him to save him, but when he arrived at Dongting Lake, there was no trace. Then, on the fifth day of May every year, they rowed dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river and prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body, so dragon boat racing became a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.
3, wearing sachets, Dragon Boat Festival children wear sachets mainly to ward off evil spirits and avoid disaster. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine. They are wrapped in silk, tied with ropes and beads, and tied with tassels below to make various sachets. Now lavender and tea are also put in sachets to remove dampness and mildew, and young men and women send sachets to express their love.
Hanging wormwood and calamus is also the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. The folk proverb says, "willow in Qingming Festival, wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival". 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. 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.
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, Tianzhong Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient folk festival, which originated in China. It was originally a totem festival held by the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in ancient Baiyue area. It also originated from bad months and bad days, midsummer, orchid bathing and commemorating Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu and Cao E. In short, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Baiyue in the south. From the north, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month was regarded as a "bad month and bad day", which injected the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer, and attached commemorative contents to historical figures such as Qu Yuan's suicide by jumping into the river, and finally formed the Dragon Boat Festival culture.
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The word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the Local Records written by Zhou Chu, a famous minister in the Western Jin Dynasty: "The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, also called May 5, is the same as the solstice in summer." Duan, in ancient Chinese, there is a meaning of beginning and beginning. Calling it "Dragon Boat Festival" is just like calling it "the fifth day". The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Record of Years Old said: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and even five as the beginning and end." In ancient times, heavenly stems and earthly branches was the calendar year, and May and Noon Month were the calendar years.
In the historical development and evolution, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival has injected the contents of exorcism, disease prevention and commemoration of historical figures in summer. Summer is also the season to drive away the plague, and the Dragon Boat Festival is indispensable for the activities of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemic". According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang; At noon, the sun reaches the zenith and reaches the highest point, which is the day when the sun reaches the sun; When the yang is strong, the evil of yin and yang will decline, which is conducive to the use of just yang to drive away evil and eliminate anxiety. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is regarded as an auspicious day when yang and righteousness converge.
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