Why can't we wish "Happy" on Dragon Boat Festival:

This is because Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and in ancient times, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a month of hot and humid, with many viruses and epidemics running rampant, and was therefore called the "evil month" by the ancient people, who described this period as the "five poisons are out". Describe this period is "five poisons out", because this period of snake breeding, easy to bite people, people easy to get sick, plague is also easy to epidemic.

So many of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as hanging wormwood, wash the hundred grass water, hang the five poisons, hang Zhong Kui statue, etc. have to drive away disasters, plagues, pray for peace and health. That's why you can't say "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" but "Dragon Boat Festival".

Expanded information:

Duanwu Festival customs:

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The Dragon Boat Festival children to wear scented pouches, legend has it that the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, in fact, is used for the lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented pouch 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, knotted into a string, colorful, small and lovely. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express strong love.

2, Hanging Ai

Folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people take the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important contents. Households have to sweep the courtyard, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made in the shape of a man or a tiger, known as moxa, moxa tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear to drive away miasma.

3, hanging Zhong Kui statue

Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal Yang Guifei's scented pouch and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run.

The big ghosts wear blue robes and hats, catch the little kid, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Emperor asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Emperor woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, the order of the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

4, point Xionghuang wine

Xionghuang is also a kind of medicinal herbs, said to be able to kill a hundred poison. So during the Dragon Boat Festival, ancient people would soak andrographis in wine and smear it on children's ears, noses, brains, wrists and ankles, etc. It is said that this practice can keep mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and spiders away from their bodies.

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