Duanwu Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China. Customs are mainly: rowing dragon boats, sacrificing dragons, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the afternoon water, wash herbal water, worship God and ancestors, dip dragon boat water, eat dragon boat rice, eat zongzi, put the paper dragon, put the paper kite, tethered to the five-color silk thread, Pei incense sacs and so on, these different customs moral is not the same, here we come to learn about some of the common customs and morals of it ~~~
1, eat zongzi. The zongzi is a traditional Chinese festival food, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period has appeared as a sacrifice to ancestors, gods, and spirits, to the time of the Jin Dynasty has become the festival food of the Dragon Boat Festival. Memory: Folklore has it that zongzi are eaten in honor of Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river.
2, hanging wormwood. Folk proverb says "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai", during the Dragon Boat Festival, families have to clean the courtyard, to calamus, Ai inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. Morals: The Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" that has been passed down since ancient times, where people clean their courtyards on this day to prevent diseases. At the same time, there are also health reasons, such as children hanging incense bags, medicinal baths can reduce the number of exogenous diseases and not easy to get prickly heat.
3, step on the dew. Duanwu this morning, people lead children to step on the dew, to the wild growth of mugwort place with a hand gently dipped on the dew on the mugwort, the first to the children wipe their eyes and face. Moral: It is said that the moxa dew can brighten the eyes and beauty, scrubbing after the year adults and children will be invulnerable to poison.
4, wear flower rope. Duanwu Festival on this day will use colorful threads together twisted into a flower rope, with Chinese medicine prepared spices to rub the flower rope will leave a fragrance, and then to adults and children are worn on the wrist, neck and ankles, have the effect of driving away poisonous insects. Moral: Wearing a flower rope is said to attract good luck.
5. Draw the word Wang on your forehead. Duanwu this day with xionghuang in the child's forehead between the eyebrows to draw a king. Meaning: The king is on the top, all poisonous, avoid the great fortune. In addition, the king is supreme, the king of the Dragon Boat Festival will be blessed with luck and prosperity.
6, Pei incense bag. Duanwu Festival made of scented pouches inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, has become a common crafts. Moral: Duanwu Festival children wear scented pouches, legend has it that the evil spirits to drive away the plague.
7, kite flying. Duanwu kite is also called paper kite, in the bamboo gabions and other skeleton paste on the paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to the top, taking advantage of the wind can be put up in the sky, and the Dragon Boat Festival, children put the paper kite known as "put the disaster". Meaning: Put away the disaster.
8, dragon boat racing. Modern dragon boat race is usually built into a dragon boat shape, painted with dragon pattern, held every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, in order to show respect for the dragon, but also to show that they are the descendants of the dragon, the descendants of the dragon. The symbolism of the Dragon Boat Festival is: to pray for blessings, good weather, to get rid of evil spirits and disasters, and to have everything go well.
The origin of Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by the ancestors of Wu-Yue in the south to worship the dragon ancestor. Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan jumped Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month to kill himself, and later people will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings.
Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the ancient ancestors to choose the "dragon ascends to heaven" auspicious day to sacrifice the dragon ancestor, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month, bad day" in the northern Central Plains, attached to the The Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures. Dragon Boat Festival custom formation can be said to be the product of the fusion of northern and southern customs.
Duanwu Festival story legend: commemorating Qu Yuan said
278 BC, the capital of Chu was attacked by Qin. The country, which had been the spiritual pillar of Qu Yuan's life, collapsed. Qu Yuan had been wandering around the Miluo River, reciting sentimental poems. A fisherman said to Qu Yuan, "Aren't you a great man of Chu? How did you end up in such a state?" Qu Yuan said, "I am in this state because many people are dirty, but only I am clean; many people are drunk, but only I am awake." He was in despair. "With despair, he walked toward the Miluo River and threw himself into the river to express his will and martyr his country with his death!
After Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Fishermen were afraid that the dragon ate Qu Yuan's body, so they took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river. Later, for fear that the rice balls would be eaten by the dragon, people came up with the idea of wrapping the rice in neem leaves and wrapping them with colorful silks, which was developed into palm.
In addition to commemorating the story of Qu Yuan eating rice dumplings legend, there are commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi push and other sayings, but the most widely circulated or commemorate the story of Qu Yuan eating rice dumplings legend.
The above is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, the origin, the legend of the relevant knowledge, we all understand? If you have a Dragon Boat Festival and what special place, welcome to the bottom of the message to share Oh ~ ~