The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival that we honor Qu Yuan, dragon boats and dumplings are essential, then you know why Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat racing? The following is a small make-up to bring you the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race origin (what is it), for your reference!
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Duonwu Festival Dragon Boat Race origin
Dragon Boat Race, the Dragon Boat Festival, is the main custom. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times when the people of Chu could not bear to see Qu Yuan, a wise minister, throw himself into the river to die, and many people chased after him in boats to save him. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival and so on. In Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan area, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into big Dragon Boat Festival and small Dragon Boat Festival. Small Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and Big Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. The Dragon Boat Festival is a very important traditional festival in China, and there are a variety of customs in different parts of the country. Among the many customs, the most important is the custom of rowing dragon boats.
The Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Racing, eating zongzi custom, a long time ago, some people link it with Qu Yuan.
The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has long been associated with Qu Yuan. Ge Hong "hold Park Zi" anonymous cloud: "Qu Yuan cast the day of the Buro, people and life oars to meet. To this day, it is thought to be a race, or the water army for the ...... state will be the generals and the general public, all to watch." Huan Yu Ji" Volume 145 "Huanzhou Customs" cited "Huan Yang Customs" cloud: "Qu Yuan cast the Buro River on the fifth of May, his wife every cast food to the sacrifice. In a dream, Qu Yuan told his wife that all the food he sacrificed was taken by a dragon. Dragon fear of five-color silk and bamboo, so his wife to bamboo for dumplings, wrapped in five-color silk. Nowadays, the custom is to raise the five-color silk on all days and eat rice dumplings, which means to avoid the danger of scaly dragons. And the original five days first sunk, ten days and out, Chu people in the water, the rapid oar scrambling ...... intention to save the drowning, clamor shocked the Sichuan land. Customs migrate, so there is a race to the play." Customs inherited to this day, has become a popular recreational activities for the people. On the first day of April every year, the "dragon boat out of the niche" ceremony. Because every year after the boat race, these dragon boats are always set up in the ancestral halls of the tribes, and now the dragon boats should be invited down to repair the paint, and then launched into the water to start practicing. So for a month, the sound of drums could be heard everywhere.
Dragon boats, as the name implies, are boats shaped like dragons. The bow of the boat looks like a dragon's head held high, and the sides and belly of the boat are painted in different colors. Dragon boats are of different sizes and have different numbers of paddles; there are six pairs, twelve pairs, seventeen pairs and fifty-two pairs. If the competition is the same, then the dragon boats must be the same size. If it is a new boat, then the ceremony of sacrificing the dragon head must also be held. In the past, the Chaozhou people also held the opening ceremony of the dragon boat race: the dragon boat was paddled to the front of the Mazu Temple to pay homage to the "Dragon Tail Master". The head of the dragon towards the temple door, paddle into the paddle back to worship three times, so-called "three lamps", praying for the gods to bless the flag to win. During the race, each dragon boat is like a long-distance runner, waiting for the start at the starting point. When the gun sounded, the dragon boat on the drums heard the drums, the athletes waved their arms and paddled, the dragon boat is like an arrow off the string, in the water flying. Onlookers for their own team members shouting support, some even jumped into the water, for the team members to splash water, so that its spirit is refreshed.
Duonwu Festival dragon boat race moral
Memorial 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 the idea of raising the level of the state, enriching the country, strengthening the army, and uniting Qi against Qin, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan, etc. Qu Yuan was removed from his post, driven out of the capital city, and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. While in exile, he wrote the immortal poems "Li Sao" and "The Question of Heaven" and "The Nine Songs", in which he worried about his country and the people. In 278 B.C., when the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan could not bear to abandon his country, and on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, after writing his final poem "Huai Sha", he threw himself into the Miluo River and died.
Legend has it that 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. They scrambled and chased him to Dongting Lake when he was nowhere to be seen. After that, every year on May 5, they rowed dragon boats to commemorate him. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body.
In Miluo County, Hunan, before the race must first go to the temple of the Qu Zi Temple, will be the dragon head for worship in the word of God, Phi red cloth on the dragon head, and then the head of the dragon in the boat racing, both worship the Dragon God, but also to commemorate the Qu Yuan. And in zigui, hometown of qu yuan in hubei province, there are also rituals to worship qu yuan. The custom of worshipping Qu Yuan is recorded in "Sui Shu - Geography": "The swift oars and oars run in unison, and the rowing songs sound chaotically, clamorously vibrating the land and water, and the spectators are like clouds." Tang Liu Yuxi, "Race for the ferry song" since the note: "Race for the ferry began in Wuling, and now the oars and and, and the sound of the salty call cloud: He in, the swamp Qu the meaning of."
Yuanling Panzhu said
Before Qu Yuan Yuan had dragon boat. The Yuanling dragon boat originated in ancient times, and the object of worship was the ancestor of the five streams of various tribes **** with the same Pan gourd. He had settled in a stone cave in Yuanling's Half Creek and gave birth to six sons and six daughters, who married each other and multiplied into six ethnic groups: Miao, Yao, Dong, Tu, She and Li. After his death, the six tribesmen invited the gods and wizards to beckon for him. Since Yuanling has many mountains and dense water, the sorcerer did not know where his soul had landed, so he let the tribes build a dragon boat and searched for him by stream and river, calling out for him, which evolved into the later ritualistic witchcraft activity of rowing a boat to beckon for him. Yuanling dragon boat originated 5,000 years ago, more than 3,000 years earlier than the commemoration of Qu Yuan.
Honoring the Dragon God
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was no river on the west bank, only a small and dirty ditch. One day, a fisherman caught a small snake in the ditch. The snake was so strange that it had nine shining scales on its tail. When the fisherman touched his hand to the scales, the snake's eyes shone with a begging light, very pitiful. The fisherman felt compassion, stroked its scales, and returned it to the gutter.
Who knows, the nine scales suddenly fell off, and the snake grew and danced, turning into a small dragon. It turned out that it was a divine dragon in the sky, and it was punished by the Jade Emperor for violating the rules of the sky, so it turned into this appearance. Nine locks were added to its tail - the nine shining scales on the little snake's tail. The Jade Emperor once said, "This lock can only be opened if you get human yang qi." Just now, the fisherman inadvertently opened the thousand-year yoke on the little dragon.
The little dragon thanked the fisherman and kept turning over in the ditch, and spewed out water from its mouth to pour into the small ditch. Slowly, the small gutter turned into a big river (West Bank River), and the river brought a good harvest to the West Bank. In honor of the dragon, people call the villages along the river Dragon Head Village and Upper Dragon Head Village. On the day of the dragon's ascension, the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races are held to celebrate.
Traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
1, Dragon Boat Race: Dragon Boat Race is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to have originated in the ancient times of the people of the State of Chu, because they could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, every year on May 5, rowing a dragon boat to commemorate the Dragon Boat, by rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat Qu Yuan's body.
2, hanging mugwort: Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival after the summer, the temperature rises, it is the disease-prone period, people tend to hang a few plants in front of their homes, due to the special flavor of mugwort, people use it to drive away diseases, mosquitoes, and ward off evil spirits. At the same time, the ancients inserted moxa and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention, these activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation.
3, food zongzi: Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, with Mizuko leaves wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner corn". Bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called "tube zong". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mizo leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.
4, bathing orchid soup: the Dragon Boat Festival bathing orchid soup is the "Dai Dai Li" recorded ancient custom, but the text of the orchid is not an orchid, but the family of chrysanthemums Peilan or herbs, fragrant, can be decocted water bath. The five miscellaneous chopping block" recorded in the Ming Dynasty because "orchid soup can not be obtained, then take the five-color grass at noon and bathe". Later, generally is fried bushes, mugwort and other herbs bath.
5, Tu Xionghuang: Dragon Boat Festival with the custom of Xionghuang smear children's foreheads, the cloud can be driven away from poisonous insects. Typical method is to use andrography to draw "king" word on the forehead of a child, a lending andrography to drive away poison, and second lending tiger to suppress evil. In addition to the forehead, nose and ears painted, can also be painted elsewhere, with the same intention. In the city rarely see this custom.
7, hide the Dragon Boat Festival: hide the Dragon Boat Festival refers to the newly married or married women to go home for the festival, the common May, May 5 for the evil month, the evil day, all things need to be avoided, because there are women back home to hide the Dragon Boat Festival custom. This custom seems to have been formed in the Song Dynasty, Lu You "rich years" poem has "sheep cavity wine stretcher to meet the women, the drums and dragon boat * * * race God" line. Jiajing Longqing Zhi" also recorded cloud "married women called back to the festival".
8, to avoid the five poisons: Dragon Boat Festival in the minds of the ancients is a poisonous day, the evil day, in the folk beliefs of this idea has been passed down, so there are all sorts of peace, avoiding the custom of disaster. In fact, this is due to the summer weather is hot, people are prone to disease, plague is also easy to epidemic, coupled with the reproduction of snakes and insects, easy to bite people, so be very careful, which is the formation of this habit.