1, Father's Day
Father's Day (Father's Day), as its name implies, is a holiday to thank your father. It started in the early 20th century, originated in the United States, and has been widely spread all over the world. The date of the festival varies from region to region.
The most extensive date is the third Sunday in June every year, and 52 countries and regions in the world celebrate Father's Day on this day. There are many ways to celebrate festivals, most of which are related to giving gifts, family dinners or activities.
The first Father's Day in the world was born in the United States in 19 10.
1909 A lady named Bruce Dodd in Washington suddenly had an idea when celebrating Mother's Day: Since there is Mother's Day, why can't there be Father's Day?
Mrs. Dodd and her five younger brothers lost their mothers in their early years and were raised by a loving father. Many years have passed, and every time my father's birthday and death, my six brothers and sisters will always recall my father's hard work to support his family. With the support of Dr. Rasmus, she wrote a sincere letter to the state government, calling for the establishment of Father's Day and suggesting that it be June 5, her father's birthday. The state government adopted her suggestion and hastily designated Father's Day as 16, that is, the third Sunday in June of 1909. The following year, Spokane, where Mrs Dodd lived, officially celebrated this festival, and the mayor announced the establishment of Father's Day, making it a statewide memorial day. Later, other states also celebrated Father's Day.
On Father's Day, people choose some flowers to show their respect for their fathers. People adopted Mrs. Dodd's suggestion, wearing red roses to express their love for their living fathers and white roses to express their condolences for their dead fathers. Later, in Vancouver, people chose to wear white lilacs. In order to standardize Father's Day, Pennsylvania strongly appeals to Congress to recognize this holiday. 1972, President Nixon formally signed a parliamentary resolution to establish Father's Day. This festival was finally confirmed in the form of law and has been used ever since.
2. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain and it is midsummer in May. Its first afternoon is a sunny day to climb mountains in the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Bathing Orchid Festival". Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. Originally, it was a totem festival for the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, it was customary to hold totem festivals in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China.
Literally, the Dragon Boat Festival also has names such as "Dragon Boat Festival", "Chongwu" and "Chongwu". "Duan" has the meaning of beginning and ending in ancient Chinese, and calling "Duan Wu" is just like calling "the fifth day". "Local Customs" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. End, start. " There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are the Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end respectively. In Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Chronicle of Years Old says: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and the even number five as the beginning and end."
According to the chronological order of heavenly stems and earthly branches, the first month of the lunar calendar begins in silver moon. According to the chronological order of Tatsumi's ugly son, May is "noon month" and noon is "sunny day", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". In the afternoon, the ancients and the "Five" are common, so the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are synonymous. Because the number of months is the same as the number of days, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Double Five Festival" or "Double Noon Festival".
According to statistics, there are more than 20 names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Day Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang 'e Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival and Lantern Festival.
Several names of the Dragon Boat Festival are called:
The word "Duan" of the Dragon Boat Festival means "the beginning", so "Dragon Boat Festival" 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."
Duanyang Festival is midsummer according to the records of Jingchu Chronicle, because the mountain climbs in midsummer, the sun is in the sky and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is a good day to climb mountains in the sun, so it is called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.
Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to the twelve earthly branches. May of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and five is homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.
Dragon Boat Race is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, which is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, and is called "Dragon Boat". It was originally a ritual activity of the ancient Yue people to worship the water god or the dragon god, and its origin may have begun in 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.
In the fifth flood season, in some rural areas of Shanghai, Fengxian, Nanhui and other places near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, it is customary to call "Dragon Boat Festival" as "noon flood season".
The name of the festival in the sky comes from the number of yin and yang. 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 reaches its highest point from noon to mid-autumn." 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.
Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients bathed and decontaminated with Cao Lan soup. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".
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".
Daughter's Day Shen Mingbang's Miscellaneous Notes: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival rope, wearing the five poisonous spells of wormwood leaves. 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. "
Duanli is an ancient custom in southern Hunan. 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.
Dragon Boat Festival is not only an ancient totem festival, but also a festival of "getting rid of diseases and epidemic prevention". 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".