My impression of Dragon Boat Festival

I was born in a small village only more than 81 kilometers away from Chengdu. I grew up in a hilly area. In my impression, we must drink realgar during the Dragon Boat Festival there (in the first year, Chinese medicine realgar was soaked in a bottle, and we can drink it in the second year), and children should rub some realgar on their foreheads. At the same time, we had to cook duck eggs at noon that day. I remember that every year when I was a child. Because of the poor conditions in my family, I seldom get the chance to eat eggs. At that time, I liked this festival very much, because I could not only eat duck eggs, but also eat zongzi. Although I never saw my mother make zongzi since I was a child, my sister and I never ate less, and we ate it every year from my grandmother.

I remember that in the year when my family just finished building the house, my parents had to run out of savings and owed a lot of money. My grandmother also went to my aunt's house for the holiday, and I don't think I can eat it. As a result, my neighbor's aunt sent us a few specially for my brother and sister. Since then, I have never been tired of eating zongzi and duck eggs. Even now, I love these two foods. When the conditions are good, I have also worked and have the ability to buy what I like. It was last year that a friend of mine in Suzhou got married and went to her house to see dumplings for the first time. I want to eat zongzi when I get married.

Another time, it was on my birthday, when I was studying alone in other places. I wanted to eat zongzi so badly that I went to the supermarket to buy some zongzi and duck eggs and invited my classmates to eat them. They also laughed at me and said that people who had such a birthday were so sorry for themselves, and at the same time they said that I was stingy and didn't invite them to a big meal. Today is also my birthday, and I .. From the bottom of my heart, I still want to eat zongzi. But I was not invited to eat it, so I bought zongzi specially last night as a birthday breakfast for myself.

Student composition: Dragon Boat Festival as a child

Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as grand in China folk festivals. Zongzi, tea eggs and mugwort are all features of Dragon Boat Festival.

When I was a child, I was excited about the Dragon Boat Festival for a week in advance, because I could eat delicious zongzi. At that time, life was monotonous and bitter, and I couldn't eat anything on holidays. Speaking of zongzi, it is not only delicious, but also interesting in the process of making zongzi. Every year, when the Dragon Boat Festival arrives, my mother runs to a pot of glutinous rice on the first night, and the next morning, my mother and I wrap it together. The green leaves of rice dumplings are wrapped with glutinous rice and jujube, and then they are cooked in a big pot for 3 or 4 hours. After that, my mother soaks the rice dumplings in two prepared buckets, and after cooling, she carefully pushes aside the bamboo leaves and bites on the white and tender glutinous rice, and the purple jujube emerges.

On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, every family put mugwort collected on the mountain on the door, saying it was to ward off evil spirits. We children just followed suit and didn't understand the meaning.

On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, after getting up, my mother wrapped colorful silk thread around our wrists and ankles, and she has been wearing it all the time. It is said that it can get rid of diseases and evil spirits. In fact, in my heart, these colorful silk threads are substitutes for those exquisite bracelets in my heart. Some people also spend some money to buy sachets for their children to take with them. My mother made them by herself with small pieces of cloth, stuffed with cotton and vanilla. Even so, we are very happy.

It's happy to remember childhood holidays, and the festive atmosphere is stronger than now.

composition commemorating Qu Yuan on Dragon Boat Festival

During the Warring States Period, Chu and Qin fought for hegemony, and the poet Qu Yuan was ranked as the right doctor and was highly valued by the King of Chu. Later, Qu Yuan's ideas were opposed by the old school headed by Shangguan doctor Jin Shang. They constantly vilified Qu Yuan in front of Chu Huaiwang, and Chu Huaiwang gradually alienated Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan, who had great ambitions, was deeply saddened. With uncontrollable melancholy and indignation, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao and Tian Xiang.

In 229 years before the reign of Duke Wu, the State of Qin captured eight cities of Chu, and then sent envoys to invite Chu Huaiwang to the State of Qin to make peace. Qu Yuan saw through the plot of the King of Qin and risked his life to enter the palace to state his interests. Instead of listening, Chu Huaiwang expelled Qu Yuan from the capital. Chu Huaiwang went to the meeting as scheduled, and was imprisoned as soon as he arrived in Qin. Chu Huaiwang was filled with remorse and depression, and died in Qin three years later. Shortly after King Xiang of Chu acceded to the throne, the King of Qin sent troops to attack the State of Chu. King Xiang hastily withdrew from the capital, and Chi captured the capital. On the way to exile, Qu Yuan heard the bad news of Chu Huaiwang's sudden death and the attack on the capital of Ying, and then he lost all hope. He sighed and threw himself into the surging Guluo River. Fishermen on the river and people on the shore heard that Dr. Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, and they all came to the river to salvage Qu Yuan's body, and at the same time brought zongzi and eggs into the river. Some practitioners also poured realgar wine into the river, so that the medicine could stun the dragon and water beast and prevent the body of Dr. Qu Yuan from being hurt.

From then on, every year on the martyrdom day when Quyuan threw himself into the river in early May, the people of Chu went to the river to row dragon boats and throw zongzi to commemorate the great patriotic poet, and the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival was handed down.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu, is one of the biggest traditional festivals in China. The meaning of "Duan" is the same as that of "Chu", and calling "Duan Wu" is just like calling "the fifth day"; The word "five" in Duanwu is also connected with "noon". According to the order of earthly branches, May is the "noon" month. Because noon is "the sun", Duanwu is also called "Duanyang". On May 5th, both the month and the day are five, so weighing five is also weighing noon. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Summer Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and so on. The numerous nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival indirectly illustrate the divergence of the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival custom. That's exactly what happened. There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; Wuyue's national totem sacrifice theory; From the three generations of summer solstice festival; Evil month and evil day drive away, and so on.

Up to now, the most influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is in memory of Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, Chinese people associate the Dragon Boat Race and eating Zongzi with Qu Yuan. It is said that after Quyuan jumped into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they sailed to rescue him, because of the custom of racing; He also said that people often put food into the water to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, but most of them were eaten by the dragon. Later, due to Qu Yuan's suggestion, they used neem leaves to wrap rice, wrapped with colored silk, and made it look like zongzi later.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival. "Five" and "noon" are connected, and "five" is also a positive number, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu, Chongwu, Duanyang, Zhongtian and so on. It is a traditional festival of the Han people in China. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into: eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, fumigating Atractylodes and Angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine is said to suppress evil spirits. Although the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated every year, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is not very clear. To sum up, there are roughly the following statements.

first, in memory of Qu Yuan. This theory originated from the records of Wu Jun's "Harmony of Continuation of Qi" in the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties and "The Time of Jingchu" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It is said that Qu Yuan threw himself into the Guluo River on the fifth day of May. After his death, he was trapped by mosquitoes and dragons. The world < P > mourned it, and every day, he threw five-colored silk zongzi into the water to drive the dragons away. It is also said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Guluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue and went all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was not found. At that time, it was rainy, and the boats on the lake gathered together beside the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the virtuous minister, Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain again and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on the rivers, and then it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. It seems that eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival are related to commemorating Qu Yuan, as evidenced by Wen Xiu's poem "Dragon Boat Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored that it is Qu Yuan. It' s ridiculous that the Chu River is empty and can' t be washed straight. "

second, ying Tao said. This statement comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty's Cao E Monument. In the Spring and Autumn Period, after Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Wu, died unjustly, he became a Taoshen, and the world mourned and sacrificed it, so there was the Dragon Boat Festival.

third, the dragon festival. This statement comes from Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education". He believes that the fifth day of May is the day when the "Dragon" tribes in ancient wuyue held totem worship to their ancestors. The main reasons are as follows: (1) Eating zongzi and racing are the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, both of which are related to dragons. Zongzi is often stolen by dragons when it is thrown into the water, while dragon boats are used in the race. (2) The relationship between race crossing and ancient wuyue is particularly deep, besides, the people in wuyue also have the custom of continuously tattoo to "look like a dragon". (3) The ancient folk custom of "tying arms with colorful silk" was used on the fifth day of May, which should be a relic of the tattoo custom of "like a dragon".

fourth, the evil day theory. According to Records of Historical Records, Meng Changjun Tian Wensheng was born on the fifth day of May, and his father once made his mother abandon Tian Wen on the grounds that the child born on this day would kill his father. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is also a saying in "Tongyi Customs" that "a child is born on May 5, and the male harms the father and the female harms the mother". Wang Zhene, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born on the fifth day of May, and his grandfather named him "Zhen Evil". Zhao Ju of Song Huizong was born on the fifth day of May, and was fostered outside the palace since childhood. It can be seen that it is a common phenomenon to regard the fifth day of May as an evil day in ancient times. In this way, it is logical to insert Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi to exorcise ghosts, fumigate Rhizoma Atractylodis, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and drink realgar wine to avoid epidemic on this day.

five, the summer solstice said. Liu Deqian, who holds this view, put forward three main reasons in The Origin of Dragon Boat Festival and Interesting Talk about Traditional Festivals in China: (1) The authoritative book Jingchu Sui Ji did not mention the holiday custom of eating zongzi on the fifth day of May, but wrote it in the Summer Solstice Festival. As for the race, Du Taiqing's "Jade Candle Collection" in the Sui Dynasty classified it as an entertainment activity on the summer solstice, which shows that it is not necessarily to salvage Qu Yuan, a great poet who threw himself into the river. (2) Some contents in the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as "stepping on a hundred herbs", "fighting a hundred herbs" and "picking herbs", have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. (3) The first explanation of the Dragon Boat Festival in the masterpiece "The Year of the Year" is: "The sun is sunny, and it is midsummer." That is to say, the Dragon Boat Festival is in summer, so it can also be called the Mid-Day Festival. From this point of view, the earliest origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the summer solstice.

There are many theories, and the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan has the most extensive influence. Because of Qu Yuan's great personality and superb poetic skills, people are willing to attribute this anniversary to him.

Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu Festival, Heavy Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. Although the names are different, the customs of people everywhere are the same. Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in China for more than 2,111 years. On this day, every household hangs bells and statues, hangs mugwort leaves and calamus, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, drinks realgar wine, swims in all diseases, wears sachets and prepares sacrifices.

Hanging the bell: Zhong Kui catches ghosts, which is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. In the Jianghuai area, every family hangs bells and statues to ward off evil spirits. Emperor Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty returned to the palace after lecturing martial arts in Lishan Mountain, and malaria was rampant. He dreamed that two ghosts, one big and one small, were wearing red crotch pants, stealing Yang Guifei's sachet and Yu Di of the Ming Dynasty, and running around the temple. GREAT GHOST wears a blue robe and hat, catches the kid, gouges out his eyes and swallows it in one gulp. When asked by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, GREAT GHOST said: My surname is Zhong Kui, that is, I am the most martial artist. I am willing to rid your majesty of evil spirits. When the Emperor of Ming Dynasty wakes up, malaria will be cured. So I asked Wu Daozi, a painter, to paint a portrait of Zhong Kui catching ghosts according to what I saw in my dream, and ordered all the people to post it during the Dragon Boat Festival to exorcise evil spirits.

Hanging Acorus calamus with mugwort leaves: On the Dragon Boat Festival, every family makes Acorus calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic and dragon boat flowers into human figures, which are called Ai people. Hanging mugwort leaves in the hall, cutting them into tiger shapes or cutting the ribbon into tigers, and sticking mugwort leaves on them, women compete to wear them to drive away evil spirits. Using calamus as a sword and inserting it in the lintel has the magical effect of exorcising ghosts.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, Chu people were reluctant to let their sage Qu Yuan die, so many people rowed to catch up and save. They scrambled to catch up with each other, but when they reached Dongting Lake, there was no trace, because it was the origin of dragon boat race, and then they rowed dragon boats every May 5 to commemorate it. Dispel the fish in the river by rowing dragon boats, so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu. Dragon boat races began in Taiwan Province in the 29th year of Qing Qianlong. At that time, Jiang Yuanjun, the magistrate of Taiwan Province, hosted a friendly match in Hokkeji Half Moon Pool in Tainan City. Now Taiwan Province holds a dragon boat race on May 5th every year. There are boat races in Hong Kong. Recently, the British have followed the example of our country, organized ghost teams and held competitions.

eating zongzi: people in Jingchu cooked glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes and threw them into the river on May 5th to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, so they threw the glutinous rice in a bamboo tube for fear of eating it, and gradually replaced the bamboo tube with rice wrapped in zongzi leaves.

drinking realgar wine: this custom is very popular among people in the Yangtze river basin.

Travel to all diseases: This custom is prevalent in the Dragon Boat Festival custom in Guizhou.

wearing sachets: children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits and ward off plague, but also has the style of embellishment on the front. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, and is wrapped with silk cloth, which is full of fragrance, and then tied with five-color silk threads to form a rope, making a string of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and eye-catching.