The handwritten newspaper about the Dragon Boat Festival includes the origin, activities and traditional food customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.
1. the origin of the dragon boat festival.
The word "Duan" has the meaning of "initial", so "Duan Wu" is the "fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the "noon" month, so "Duanwu" has gradually become the "Dragon Boat Festival". "Yanjing Years Old" records that "the fifth day of the fifth month is the transliteration of the characters in May."
The ancient people picked bluegrass in May, and the custom of bathing and detoxicating bluegrass soup prevailed. "Big Dai Li Ji"? Xia Xiaozheng, "Boiling plums in May is also a way to store orchids for bathing." Qu Yuan's Nine Songs? Yun Zhongjun, "Bathing Lan Tang Xi Mu Fanghua picking clothes Xi Ruoying." In the Southern Dynasties, people from the Liang Dynasty wrote in The Chronicle of the Age of Jingchu that "May 5th is called the Bathing Orchid Festival." This custom spread to the Tang and Song Dynasties and was also called the Dragon Boat Festival as the Moon of Bathing Orchids.
2. Dragon Boat Festival activities.
before the dragon boat race, please invite the dragon and offer sacrifices to the gods. For example, the Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival, before the Dragon Boat Festival, has to get out of the water, worship the South China Sea God in the South China Sea Temple, install the dragon head and the dragon tail, and then prepare for the race. And buy a pair of paper cocks and put them on the dragon boat, thinking that they can protect the boat safely (vaguely corresponding to the ancient bird boat). Fujian and Taiwan went to Mazu Tempel to worship.
some people sacrifice the dragon's head directly by the river, killing chickens and dripping blood on the dragon's head, such as Sichuan, Guizhou and other individual areas.
Playing polo is also one of the Dragon Boat Festival plays. Polo is riding a horse and playing with a stick, which is called bowing in ancient times. There is a sentence of "Lian Pian hits Jurang" in Cao Zhi's Famous Capital in the Three Kingdoms. In Chang 'an in the Tang Dynasty, there was a wide stadium, and emperors such as Xuanzong and Jingzong all liked polo. Ma Qiutu in Prince Zhang Huai's tomb depicts the prosperity of polo in the Tang Dynasty.
3. Traditional food customs.
eating zongzi, "zongzi smells good and smells good in the kitchen. The wormwood leaves are fragrant and fragrant. Peach branches are inserted in the gate, and when you go out, you can see that the wheat is yellow. It's sunny here, sunny there, and sunny everywhere. " This is a popular ballad describing the Dragon Boat Festival in the old days. Generally speaking, people around the world have the same custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has been the same throughout China.
Eat tea eggs. In Nanchang, Jiangxi, tea eggs and salted eggs should be cooked during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, packed in colorful net bags, and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child good luck and safety.