The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is the traditional festival of the Han people in China, this day is essential to the activities gradually evolved to eat rice dumplings, dragon boat races, the following is what I have organized the Dragon Boat Festival short folk tales, welcome to learn and reference, surely helpful to you.
Short folk tales of the Dragon Boat Festival
1, to commemorate the Qu Yuan said
According to the Records of the Grand Historian, "Qu Yuan Jia Sheng Lianzhuan," Qu Yuan, was a minister of King Huai of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated for the promotion of the virtuous and the capable, the enrichment of the country and the strengthening of the army, and advocated for the alliance of Qi against Qin, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan and other people, and Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post and driven out of the capital city, and was exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. During his exile, he wrote such immortal poems as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Questions" and "Nine Songs", which are unique and far-reaching (thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Poets' Festival). In 278 B.C., the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his country was invaded, heart like a knife, but always can not bear to give up their own motherland, in May 5, in the writing of the final work "Huai Sha", holding the stone thrown Miluo River death, with their own life composed a magnificent patriotic music.
Legend: After Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned his death and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. The fishermen rowed their boats up and down the river to salvage his real body. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown.
Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
2, to commemorate the Wu Zixu said
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival legend related characters: Qu Yuan and Wu Zixu
The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC) of the Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu, then Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu to help Wu to conquer Chu, and entered Ying City, the capital of Chu, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed to it. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zixu was a loyal and good man, and looked upon death as a home away from home. Before his death, he said to his neighbor, "After my death, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to see the Vietnamese army enter the city to destroy Wu", and then he cut his own throat, and Fu Chai was furious, and he ordered to take the body of Zixu and put it into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and so the Dragon Boat Festival was also said to commemorate the day of Wu Zixu.
3, from the ancient Vietnamese national totem sacrifices
A large number of recent excavations and archaeological research has confirmed that: the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the Neolithic era, there is a geometric print pottery as a characteristic of the cultural remains. The remains of the clan, according to experts inferred to be a totem worship of the dragon tribe - historically known as the Baiyue tribe. The decorations on the excavated pottery and historical legends show that they had the custom of cutting off their hair and tattooing, lived in the watery countryside and compared themselves to the descendants of dragons. Their production tools, a large number of stone tools, but also shovels, chisels and other small pieces of bronze. As a living thing in the altar pots and jars, cooking food printed pots are unique to them, is one of the symbols of their community. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still Baiyue people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was created by them for ancestor worship.
Dragon Boat Festival Festival Introduction
Dragon Boat Festival for the first five days of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, the May Festival, etc.; Duanwu Festival is the Chinese Han people commemorating the Qu Yuan's traditional festivals, but also to eat zongzi, Dragon Boat Race, hanging calamus, Artemisia annuata, Aiye, fumigation, dahuricica, and drink Xionghuang wine custom. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the national holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival in English), also known as the Duan Yang Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, in Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou Dragon Boat Racing Dragon Boat Racing activities Dragon Boat Racing activities in the state of Sichuan and around the area, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into the big Dragon Boat Festival and the small Dragon Boat Festival. Small Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, the big Dragon Boat Festival is the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year.
To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
On September 30, 2009, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, decided that the Duanwu Festival of China had been successfully inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
1. Eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival
Rice dumplings are also a kind of medicinal food. Glutinous rice has the effect of benefiting the qi and strengthening the spleen, appetizing and eliminating food. The leaves used to wrap the dumplings are more elaborate. In the north, most of the reed leaves are used, and in the south, bamboo leaves and lotus leaves are used. These leaves have good medicinal function. Such as: reed leaves can clear the heat, in addition to the thirst; bamboo leaves can clear the heat in addition to the annoyance, diuretic detoxification; lotus leaves can clear the heat and dampness, and the stomach and tranquility. Overall, the dumplings have heat, heat, energy, blood and tranquility effect.
At the same time, we should also emphasize that the dumplings are fragrant and sticky, high viscosity, not easy to digest, eat more easily caused by indigestion. The people who are not good at eating are especially careful to control the amount of food they eat.
2. Dragon Boat Festival hanging moxa leaves calamus
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the evil is mainly hot and humid, dirty, so to aroma wet, aroma turbid, Dragon Boat Festival customs are always inseparable from the aroma.
Proverbs: "Qingming Festival insert willow, Dragon Boat Festival insert Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every house is cleaned, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. Mugwort, also known as family mugwort, mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. It produces a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes and flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which is a drug for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria. It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention.
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