Dragon Boat Festival Handbook Content 1: Introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival

Every year, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival or more than different.

Over the Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people for more than two thousand years, due to the vast geographical area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a large number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around. Its content is mainly: the daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, hide afternoon, post afternoon leaf amulet, hanging calamus, mugwort, swim in a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, prepared for the sweet, dragon boat racing, martial arts, hitting the ball, swinging, to the child Tu Xionghuang, drinking Xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings, and seasonal fruits, and so on.

Dragon Boat Festival handbook content 2: the significance of the Dragon Boat Festival

Commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan; commemorate the anniversary of the death of Wu Zixu (Wu Zixu's body in leather on the fifth day of the 5th of May into the river); commemorate the death of the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao E, to save her father to throw himself into the river (Cao E threw himself into the river on the fifth day of the 5th of the 5th of May, and then held his father's body five days later). Commemorate the modern revolutionary poetess Qiu Jin (Qiu Jin was martyred on June 5, later admiration for its poetry and its people, in the May 5 Poet's Day and Qu Yuan held in commemoration of the merger).

Dragon Boat Festival handbook content 3: Dragon Boat Festival on the legend of Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC), is China's earliest Romantic poet, Mi (mǐ) Qu's family name, the name of the Ping, the word original, is the descendants of the Chu King Xiongtong's son, Qu Yuan, the first Chinese literature, the great patriotic poet. He was the first great patriotic poet in Chinese literature to leave his name. He was known as the "Father of Poetry". His appearance marked the beginning of a new era in Chinese poetry from collective singing to individual solo singing. Qu Yuan was born in 340 B.C. in Le Ping Li, Sanlu Township, Zigui (present-day Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan was diligent and studious since childhood, and had great aspirations. Early years by the king of Chu Huai trust, served as the left disciple, Sanlu dafu, often with the king of Huai to discuss state affairs, participate in the formulation of laws, advocating the chapter of the law, appointing the wise, reforming politics, United Qi anti-Qin, and advocate the "beauty of the government". With Qu Yuan's efforts, the state of Chu was strengthened. However, he was not willing to listen to the words of the senior officials and be complicit in the revision of the laws and regulations. In addition, King Huai of Chu's minister Zilan, the senior official Jin Shang and his favorite concubine Zheng Sleeve were bribed by the Qin emissary Zhang Yi, which not only prevented the king from accepting Qu Yuan's opinions, but also alienated him from the king. In 305 B.C., Qu Yuan opposed King Huai of Chu to enter into an alliance with Qin, but the state of Chu still went into the arms of Qin. Qu Yuan was expelled from Ying by King Huai of Chu and began his exile. As a result, King Huai of Chu was lured by Qin with the encouragement of his youngest son Zilan and others, and King Huai of Chu was imprisoned and died in Qin. After King Xiang of Chu assumed the throne, Qu Yuan continued to be persecuted and was banished to Jiangnan. In 278 B.C., Bai Qi, a general of Qin, led an army southward and broke the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan's political ideals were shattered, and he despaired of the future, and even though he had the intention to serve his country, he was powerless to do anything about it, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into Miluo River in May of the same year with a grudge. When the people heard the news, they were very sad and scrambled to retrieve his body, but found nothing. So, some people with reed leaves wrapped in glutinous rice, thrown into the river to worship Qu Yuan, this ritual activity is passed down from year to year, and gradually become a custom.