How do you celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanyang Festival. Every household eats rice dumplings, rows dragon boats and watches temple fairs. . Every Dragon Boat Festival, I go to the countryside to visit my grandma.

Grandma likes to eat rice dumplings, and she is also first-class at making rice dumplings. Making rice dumplings is grandma’s specialty, not to mention how well grandma’s glutinous rice goes with the fillings, let’s just talk about cooking the rice dumplings, when to cook them, how long to cook them, and what kind of heat. It’s also quite particular. It is usually cooked at night, and the aroma wafts out, making people salivate.

The rice dumplings grandma holds come in many colors. There are mung bean fillings, red date fillings, meat fillings... Grandma will divide it by three and five, and a cone-shaped rice dumpling will appear in front of you.

On the evening of the Dragon Boat Festival, I listened to my grandma telling the story of the Dragon Boat Festival while eating rice dumplings. I know that the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history in China. It was established for Qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet during the Warring States Period of our country. According to legend, Qu Yuan, unwilling to be humiliated, with a deep love for the motherland and the pain of being unable to realize his ideal of serving the country, bouldered and threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Some of the fishermen who loved Qu Yuan on the shore rowed boats to rescue him, and some quickly threw the rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish could fill their stomachs without swallowing Qu Yuan's body. In this way, on the fifth day of May, dragon boat racing and rice dumpling making became a grand day for the people to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it has since become an important traditional festival among Chinese people.

This year, my grandma gave me a lot of rice dumplings, which I thought were delicious. Relatives and neighbors also gave me a lot of rice dumplings, but when I ate them, I always felt that they didn’t taste like the rice dumplings made by my grandma. Maybe there was a sense of family affection mixed with them!

How to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

Prepare rice dumplings and eggs in advance. Before your husband leaves, your family will have a reunion Dragon Boat Festival. When you leave, bring him some rice dumplings and eggs. egg.

How everyone celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival

Eating rice dumplings and rowing dragon boats.

How did the ancients celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

Ni Fangliu Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, this day was very lively. After the Dragon Boat Festival became a legal holiday in 2008, modern people's interest in the Dragon Boat Festival has also greatly increased. So, how did the ancient Chinese view the Dragon Boat Festival? Is the Dragon Boat Festival commemorating Qu Yuan? The Dragon Boat Festival, which originated from the death of King Zhao of Zhou Dynasty on the river, has more than a dozen names such as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, and May Five Festival. In everyone's mind, the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival formed because Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State, threw himself into the Miluo River. People threw food into the river to commemorate him. This statement is really a misunderstanding. The fifth day of May has become a festival. It existed long before Qu Yuan's death and has rich festival contents. One of them is "Growing orchids for bathing". In his "Chu Ci", Qu Yuan said, "Bath in orchid soup to bathe in youthful beauty", which refers to this kind of festival custom. This is why the ancients called the Dragon Boat Festival "Bathing Orchid Festival". Throwing food into the river during the Dragon Boat Festival was first related to the fourth king of the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhao Ji Xia. According to "Historical Records·Zhou Benji", "King Zhao did not return from his hunting tour in the south and died on the river. His death did not go to report, so it was taboo." This means that King Zhao of Zhou did not come back after his patrol in the south and died on the river. The news of this death was not announced to the princes, thus covering up the cause of King Zhao of Zhou's death. This is probably the earliest record of "secret mourning" after the death of an ancient emperor. How did King Zhou Zhao die? According to the "Century of Emperors", King Zhao of Zhou actually crossed the Han River by boat during his southern expedition against the Chu people. As a result, he fell into the trick of the boat boss. The boat fell apart and sank in the river together with the two beauties accompanying him. After King Zhao of Zhou died, the locals discovered that the ghosts of King Zhou Zhao and the two women were still there, often appearing on the river, so people set up temples by the water to offer sacrifices. Wang Jia, a native of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, interprets this matter in his "Records of Collected Relics": "On the day of Shangsi in late spring, people gather in the ancestral hall. They may wrap them with orchids and durians, which are fresh and sweet in season, and sink them into the water. They may tie five-color gauze bags to hold food, or they may use The gold and iron utensils are immersed in the water to frighten the dragon water and prevent it from invading the food." Wrapping the food in plant leaves is exactly the way to make rice dumplings. It can be seen that the earliest place to put packaged food into the river was not to commemorate Qu Yuan, but because of King Zhou Zhao. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to worship the water god, and one of the objects is the "Tao God". This Tao God is Wu Zixu, who was originally from the Chu State. After he died unjustly in the Wu Kingdom, he transformed into the Tao God. At that time, an important part of the Dragon Boat Festival for the Wu people was to "welcome the Tao God."

Another theory is that the Dragon Boat Festival is to worship Jie Zitui, who was burned to death by Duke Wen of Jin in connection with the Cold Food Festival. In the Han Dynasty, the object of sacrifice was the 14-year-old girl Cao E who threw herself into the river on May 5th to find the body of her drowned father. The Dragon Boat Festival was in Shangyu, Zhejiang, so it was also called "Daughter's Day". As for commemorating Qu Yuan, it was not really established until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the date was fixed as the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and it developed into a national festival. Wu Jun, a native of Liang Dynasty, said this in "Xu Qi Xie Ji": "On May 5, Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River and died. Every time on this day, he would store rice in bamboo tubes and throw water into the river as a sacrifice." Qu Yuan's date of throwing himself into the river It is controversial. It is generally believed to be the fifth day of May, but some also say it is the fifteenth day of May. "Book of Sui Dynasty: Geography" states that Qu Yuan went to Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. "Wangri" refers to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar when the moon is full. It can also be seen from this point that the Dragon Boat Festival did not originate from Qu Yuan, and worshiping him is just an additional part of the Dragon Boat Festival. Why did the ancients think giving birth to a child during the Dragon Boat Festival was "poisonous"? May is actually the original "family planning month." In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival first appeared out of the ancient Chinese's need to ward off evil spirits. Judging from the records in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals of Midsummer", the ancient Chinese regarded May as the most unlucky month. They believed that when the summer solstice arrived in this month, yin and yang competed, yang life reached its peak, yin death began, and life and death were divided into five The month is the dividing line. Because of this understanding, the ancients regarded May as a poisonous, evil, and evil month. This "poisonous view" should originate from the perceptual reaction to natural disasters: May is in the midsummer season, and the heat is about to come. At this time, poisonous insects breed, and people are very prone to sores, diseases, and injuries and bites. Therefore, it left a legacy to the ancients. "May is bad" impression. The month of May is not good, and so are children born in May. It is said that it will bring misfortune to the family, which is the proverbial "poison of fate". Why this understanding? It may be directly related to the original "shengkeguan". May is the season of alternation of yin and yang in the eyes of the ancients. Children belong to "yang" and parents belong to "yin". When giving birth to a child, the yang energy will rise, which is naturally not good for the parents. The most poisonous day in May is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. On this day, evil is in power and the five poisons appear simultaneously. Therefore, the ancients believed that children born on this day were the worst. Yingshao of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in "Customs and Customs" that "when a child is born on May 5th, the male will harm the father, and the female will harm the mother." Children born on this day, regardless of gender, must be killed. This is the "infant drowning" in ancient times. "......

How the Miao people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

The customs of the Miao people celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival

1. Visiting villages

Every year during the Miao Dragon Boat Festival, relatives and friends from other villages go to the Miao village that celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival first to eat rice dumplings, drink rice wine, and worship Qu Yuan together. No matter how many guests come, the host will stay with them until dawn.

When the guests want to go home the next day, the host will give each guest a hanging rice dumpling and send it out of the village gate himself. This custom has been followed to this day.

2. Eat "Five Yellows"

The Miao family has to eat lunch during the Dragon Boat Festival. The "Five Yellows" are served for lunch: eel, cucumber, yellow croaker, yellow mud eggs and realgar wine. Therefore, the necessary main dishes for lunch include: a large pot of eel soup, a bowl of salted duck eggs, a bowl of braised yellow croaker, a bowl of Miao pickled cucumbers, and a bowl of realgar wine. Of course, rice dumplings are a must-have on the dinner table.

Before the banquet begins, the elders first pour realgar wine from the wine bowl, and then smear it on each child's face, forehead, and neck. When the banquet begins, the eldest person takes the first sip of realgar wine, and then passes it down. All men, women, and children at the table must take a sip.

3. Zongba Festival

The Miao people call the Dragon Boat Festival the Zongba Festival. The Miao family's rice dumplings are very unique and have rich fillings, such as bean paste rice dumplings, fresh meat rice dumplings, bacon rice dumplings, mung bean rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings, etc. The most commendable is the Miao family's "five-color rice dumplings". They use the leaf liquid of five plants to dye the rice dumpling fillings into five colors: red, yellow, blue, black and white, and then wrap them in banana leaves into a cylindrical shape and cook them.

Zongzi are usually wrapped and cooked 5-10 days before the Dragon Boat Festival. In the past, the Miao family would hang cooked rice dumplings in the main room, both to respect their ancestors and to express a happy life.

4. Two people biting rice dumplings

The Miao family has a rich rice dumpling culture. A series of activities are held around the rice dumplings before and after the Dragon Boat Festival. The most interesting one is "two people biting rice dumplings". .

In the cheerful sound of wooden drums, girls and boys work in pairs. The competition is divided into steps such as walking with leggings, making rice dumplings, walking in double sneakers, biting rice dumplings, and one person leaving the ground and returning. The first one returns to the starting point. One team wins.

5. Duck grabbing competition

Duck grabbing competition is also an essential part of the Dragon Boat Festival in Miao villages. It originated from the legend of the ancient Miao hero who killed the evil dragon to eliminate harm to the people. It is still followed today and uses ducks as the mascot. During the dragon boat race, a large group of live ducks are released on the water of the dragon boat race at the same time, allowing people to Whoever catches the duck will get it, and it is considered good luck to catch the duck.

The rules of the competition are to put the ducks into the river first. As soon as the competition command is given, the men and women waiting by the river start to catch the ducks. The ducks were driven around in the river, and the duck snatchers chased them along the river. Whoever caught the duck would get the duck.

6. Dragon Boat Festival

Every year from the Dragon Boat Festival to the end of May in the lunar calendar, there is the Guizhou Miao Dragon Boat Festival. In the Yunnan-Guizhou area, the climate is very distinct between rainy and dry seasons. In the dry season, rainwater is particularly precious. Therefore, Miao people's dragon boat racing is closely related to the weather and agricultural activities, and has a strong praying and celebrating nature. Dragon boat racing usually has practical meanings such as warding off drought and praying for rain, celebrating the success of rice transplanting, and wishing for a good harvest.

How to celebrate the modern Dragon Boat Festival?

In May, when the orioles sing and the swallows dance, I see the green calamus by the door again. The Lunar Dragon Boat Festival is coming.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the legacies of the spiritual homeland of the Chinese nation. Every Dragon Boat Festival, calamus and mugwort leaves are hung at the door of every house; children wear colorful sachets on their chests and play; there are also soft and delicious rice dumplings, filled with a faint fragrance... The beautiful memories of the Dragon Boat Festival are accompanied by We grow.

However, it is not enough if the memory only stops at planting calamus, drinking realgar, racing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings. Colorful folk customs constitute the rich content of the Dragon Boat Festival, but its most profound connotation is connected with a great name - Qu Yuan. A thinker who spreads his hair by the riverside, a creator of the immortal spirit of "Chu Ci". The high-spirited sentence "The road is long and long, I will search up and down" is inspiring, and along the Miluo River where the holy breath is blowing, the passionate patriotic feelings are passed down from generation to generation. This is the essence of the Dragon Boat Festival!

On May 12, a sudden and severe earthquake in Wenchuan shocked the hearts of every Chinese. From enthusiastic blood donations across the country to donations for disaster relief from all directions, from volunteers rushing to participate in disaster relief, to people from all over the country sending people to the disaster areas to help with post-disaster reconstruction. The unprecedented disaster inspired unprecedented patriotic enthusiasm among the 1.3 billion Chinese people. When rebuilding our homes in the earthquake-stricken areas, it is necessary for us to use the Dragon Boat Festival as a carrier to further gather patriotic enthusiasm and win the "double victory" of earthquake relief and economic and social development.

This year, the Dragon Boat Festival is listed as a national statutory holiday for the first time. Putting traditional festivals in holiday attire reflects the country's emphasis on and protection of traditional culture, and injects new vitality into the Dragon Boat Festival, thereby further strengthening the bones of my country's traditional culture.

Dear readers, to revitalize the Dragon Boat Festival, it is not enough to take a vacation. If you are the head of a department or related organization, have you set up a platform to create a festive atmosphere and attract mass participation? To awaken more people’s memories of the Dragon Boat Festival; if you are a parent or elder, would you hang a sachet on your child, tell him the story of Qu Yuan, and conduct a patriotic education so that the child can feel In addition to the joy of the festival, we should inherit the spirit of patriotism; if you are an adult, have you actively designed and participated in some festival activities, such as making rice dumplings, making sachets, and dragon boat racing, to send festive gifts to compatriots in the disaster-stricken areas of Sichuan? Greetings, even just a fragrant rice dumpling, a sincere invitation, or a cordial greeting, can make your Dragon Boat Festival particularly meaningful. We might as well start from now on, open our hearts, express our feelings, re-memorize the Dragon Boat Festival, once again stimulate our patriotic enthusiasm, gather our patriotic strength, and make it a national festival that "cannot be snatched away or taken away" by others. And it is passed down from generation to generation, endlessly.

We believe that the Dragon Boat Festival at this special time will have special meaning.

(Zhejiang Daily)

Reference: news.qq/a/20090525/001112

Which countries have Dragon Boat Festival? How do other countries celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

In addition to China, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a holiday in many countries, so which countries celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. South Korea

South Korea’s Dragon Boat Festival activities are rich and colorful, usually lasting for more than 20 days. During the Dragon Boat Festival, masked dance dramas, pot throwing, wrestling, swinging, taekwondo competitions, college football games and other activities will be held. These are all Korean local characteristics. of.

The "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" is a large-scale folk event in which citizens of Gangneung City, South Korea, pray for a good harvest and good health. It is also a typical representative of South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival activities. According to research by Korean scholars, the origin of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival can be traced back to more than 1,000 years ago.

2. Japan

Japan’s Dragon Boat Festival is held on May 5 in the Gregorian calendar and is a legal holiday in Japan. It is said that because of the homophony of "iris" and "martial arts" in Japanese, this day has also become Japan's "Boys' Day" (Children's Day). On this day, Japanese families with boys will hang up carp streamers, and colorful carp streamers dancing in the wind are a common sight on the streets. Carp is regarded by the Japanese as a symbol of strength and courage, and it expresses the hope of parents that their children will grow up healthy, brave and strong like carp.

The Japanese also eat rice dumplings on May 5th, but the rice dumplings that were said to have been introduced to Japan from China during the Heian period are now very different. Japanese rice dumplings are made of rice flour wrapped in bamboo leaves or wild rice leaves. Into, into a cone shape, commonly known as "Mao Juan".

3. Malaysia

Malaysia is a multi-racial and multi-religious country. There are more than 6 million Chinese, accounting for about a quarter of the country's total population. In the Chinese community in Malaysia, every traditional Chinese festival is a holiday, because each festival has a special meaning, and they also need to be expressed through special rituals. In Malaysia, both young and old participate in the activities together. The festival is The atmosphere is very strong, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to eating rice dumplings, there will also be dragon boat races.

There are many guilds in Malaysia, and they will send their representatives to form teams and participate in dragon boat racing. Local people also like to eat rice dumplings. The rice dumplings they eat are characterized by their large size. In addition to fresh meat rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings, rice dumplings with bean paste, coconut paste rice dumplings, etc., they taste unique.

4. Singapore

The Chinese in Singapore all know the Dragon Boat Festival. Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people will never forget to eat rice dumplings and race dragon boats. Around the Dragon Boat Festival, Singapore's East Coast Park will hold a wonderful dragon boat invitational competition. Dragon boat teams from all over the world gather here to compete.

Singaporeans love flowers very much. Whenever a guest comes to visit, the guest will send a few bouquets of flowers, and they will also bring rice dumplings dipped in flower juice for the guests to taste. This flower juice rice dumpling is made of green leaves wrapped into a polygonal shape, only the size of an egg. The rice dumpling behind the unfolded green leaves is made of light green rice flour essence dyed by flower juice. The color is attractive and the taste is fragrant and delicious.

5. North Korea

North Korea also celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the season for North Korean farmers to harvest rice, wheat and plow and weed rice. Their Dragon Boat Festival is actually a happy traditional rest day for farmers during the busy farming period. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people bring the precious items of early summer - moxa cakes and songpi cakes to pay homage to their ancestors to show their memory of their deceased relatives.

On this day, girls take a bath with calamus soup, wash their hair, and use calamus roots as hairpins to insert in their heads. In the past, newly married brides would wear a crown decorated with various wild flowers and insert calamus hairpins. Nowadays, this habit is rare. When Koreans celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, they also have the custom of making various homemade fans. Homemade folding fans and round fans can be given as gifts to relatives and friends. This traditional custom has played a great role in promoting the development of Korean handicrafts. In addition, people also carry out traditional folk sports activities such as wrestling and swinging during the festival.

6. Thailand

In Thailand, the Dragon Boat Festival should be regarded as a relatively important festival in the traditional Chinese customs preserved by the local Chinese. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, overseas Chinese in Thailand will also celebrate the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival in their own way. The most representative one is the custom of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Thai rice dumplings are either single and large, or small and exquisite, and are strung together. The fillings of the rice dumplings are mainly rice and meat, which is somewhat similar to the rice dumplings in southern China.

Here, every traditional Chinese festival, the Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom will hold some traditional cultural activities to spread Chinese culture and stimulate Thai students’ interest in learning Chinese.

7. Vietnam

Vietnam also celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Their main activities are eating rice dumplings and expelling insects during the Dragon Boat Festival. Parents will prepare a lot of fruits for their children, and wear auspicious charms woven with colorful threads on their bodies, and the adults will drink wine...

How do Chinese celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese eat rice dumplings, give some eggs, and go for an outing, freely

Which countries have Dragon Boat Festival? How do other countries celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

In addition to China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, etc. also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. North Korea also has the habit of using mugwort on Dragon Boat Festival. It’s the fifth day of the fifth lunar month! The difference is that in China, people hang moxa leaves, plant calamus, or drink realgar and calamus wine; while in North Korea, they eat moxa cakes and take calamus baths. Instead of worshiping Qu Yuan, they used moxa cakes and pine bark cakes to worship their ancestors. They are not racing dragon boats, but wrestling and playing on swings. Japan - It is similar to our Chinese customs: planting mugwort and eating rice dumplings. Activities similar to dragon boat racing are also held along the coast, called "Meeting" and "Dragon Climbing". Families with boys also hang carp flags in the hope that their sons will "carp and jump over the dragon." SINGAPORE - The National Dragon Boat Races are held on Dragon Boat Festival. United States - Since 1979, the annual Boston Dragon Boat Festival has been held at the Boston Children's Museum, and has gradually formed a traditional American cultural festival. Vietnam - Eating rice dumplings to pray for a good harvest. Vietnam also celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Their main content is to eat rice dumplings and drive away insects during the Dragon Boat Festival. Parents will prepare a lot of fruits for their children and wear auspicious charms woven with colorful threads on their bodies. Adults will drink realgar wine and smear realgar wine on their children to repel insects. Moreover, Vietnamese people believe that eating rice dumplings can bring good weather and abundant harvests.