I. Dragon Boat Festival information
1, Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, celebration, entertainment and food. It originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the Mid-Summer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon stayed in the middle of the south for seven nights, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just as the fifth volume of the Book of Changes said that "the dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.
2. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping on the Miluo River on May 5, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are mixed, and there are customs differences due to different regional cultures.
Second, the customs.
1, Dragon Boat Race: It is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, it originated in ancient times. Because Chu people could not bear to be separated from the sage Qu Yuan, they died in the river, and many people rowed to catch up and save. They rushed to catch up until Dongting Lake disappeared. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. People use dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body.
2. Eating zongzi: Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is the same throughout the ages. Nowadays, glutinous rice is usually wrapped in glutinous rice shells, but the color inside depends on local specialties and customs. The more famous ones are Longan Zongzi, Meat Zongzi, Crystal Zongzi and Lianrong Zongzi.
3. Drink realgar wine: The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River basin. Common realgar wine is made by adding a small amount of realgar to white wine or homemade yellow wine. For children under drinking age, adults apply realgar wine to their foreheads, ears, nose, hands and feet.
4, hanging wormwood calamus: "Qingming inserted willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted wormwood." On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should sweep the courtyard, put calamus and moxa sticks in the lintel and hang them in the hall.
5. Perfume sachet: a sachet carried with you during the Dragon Boat Festival. Its contents have changed several times, from mussel powder, copper coins, realgar powder to sachets filled with spices, and its production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Traditional festivals in China:
1, New Year's Eve: The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which is also called New Year's Eve because it often falls on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month in the summer calendar, is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. On the festival day, every household is busy cleaning the courtyard and preparing a reunion dinner.
2. Spring Festival: The first day of the first month, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is traditionally called New Year's Day, New Year's Day and Lunar New Year. China people celebrate the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
3. Lantern Festival: Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the 15th day of the first lunar month and the last important festival in China Spring Festival custom.
4. Mid-Autumn Festival: Also known as Autumn Festival, August Festival and Reunion Festival, it is a traditional cultural festival in China. The full moon symbolizes people's reunion and is a rich and precious cultural heritage for missing hometown and relatives.
5. Double Ninth Festival: On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is called "Double Ninth Festival" because the second and ninth days are important, and it is also called "Double Ninth Festival" because the day and the month meet on the ninth day. This is a traditional festival in China. The ancients thought that Chongyang was an auspicious day to celebrate. In ancient times, there was a custom of climbing and praying for blessings on the Double Ninth Festival. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival usually includes climbing mountains, sunbathing in autumn and enjoying chrysanthemums.