Eating zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival has three kinds of morals, the first of which means "honoring one's ancestors" and the ancient symbol of "getting a good name"; the second commemorates Qu Yuan; and the third expresses the good hope and desire for health and peace. The third one expresses the good hope and yearning for health and safety.
1, the symbol of the CJE
In ancient times, want to make a name for yourself, you must take the imperial examinations, and can achieve better results, also known as the CJE, after the CJE, you can seek a half of the post, can achieve career achievements. Therefore, in the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat dumplings, in fact, a high school meaning, because the dumplings of "dumplings" and "in" harmonized, so the Dragon Boat Festival will eat dumplings, especially in the family of high science and technology exams, will eat dumplings.
2, honoring the ancestors
In ancient times, the family is prominent, if there are some political achievements, is able to honor the ancestors. And the dumplings of "dumplings" and "Zong" is a harmonic, some similar, so I hope that after eating the dumplings, the family can get some achievements, some fame and fortune, and be able to do to honor the ancestors. So the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, not only to taste its delicious, more important is to take a good omen, I hope to eat the zongzi, can bring good luck, can make a difference, can shine.
3, in honor of the great poet Qu Yuan
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river because of the destruction of his country, which was very sad and the world felt very sorry for him. In order to be able to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan, so every family with zongzi leaves and glutinous rice wrapped into zongzi put into the river, so that the fish to gnaw, so as not to infringe on the body of Qu Yuan, to protect the body of Qu Yuan. So on the Dragon Boat Festival everyone will wrap zongzi and eat zongzi to commemorate the ancestors. To this day still do not forget the ancestors pay.
The cultural connotation of eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival
The cultural connotation of eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival is very rich, just like other traditional festivals, folk customs, but also three miles of different winds, five miles of different customs. For example, what to eat at the Dragon Boat Festival, what to do, the north and south are not the same.
Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings is the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival of the Chinese folk festival. According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of millet"; bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called "tube zong". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in corn. According to legend, eating rice dumplings originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, people to commemorate the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan and gradually passed down.
Dragon Boat Festival food customs in addition to the zongzi **** enjoy across the country, most of the southern region to drink Xionghuang wine, Changde, Hunan, Zhangjiajie and other places to eat patties, the Jianghan Plain area to eat eel, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places to eat tea eggs, Hebei region to eat printed with the five poisons pattern of five poisonous cakes and so on. People south of the Yangtze River and Yellow River package dumplings are used bamboo leaves, while the northern region more reed leaves. These all show the rich and colorful traditional festival food culture in China.
In the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, eliminating disasters and epidemics, and driving away evil spirits and demons are the most primitive themes and the main driving force. For example, drinking Xionghuang wine, there is a plot in "The Legend of the White Snake" about Xu Xian listening to the words of Fahai and letting the White Lady drink Xionghuang wine, which resulted in her original form. This festival theme, which is based on the elimination of disasters and avoidance of disasters, health preservation and good luck, has had a vigorous vitality since ancient times.
The Dragon Boat Festival custom is a celebration and expectation of life, nature, beautiful personality and happy life. It has changed along with the transformation of people's way of life and way of thinking. From the beginning of the theme of the evil drive plague, sacrificing their lives to serve the country or sacrificing their lives to save their father and other noble personality respect, and gradually through a variety of activities (eating rice dumplings, dragon boat races, etc.) to rise to the human race and nature, society is both in harmony with the initiative to regulate the wisdom of life. It is for these reasons that the traditional Dragon Boat Festival has been able to thrive.
The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is particularly popular among the public also stems from people's identification with the traditional cultural background of the nation. Honoring Qu Yuan is one of the most distinctive themes of the Dragon Boat Festival. Starting from the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese progressive intellectuals have adopted the form of poetry festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. Echoing the poetry festival with the Dragon Boat Race is a better way to reflect the classical Chinese traditional culture.
In the era of globalization and the great fusion of world cultures, it is important to guard one's identity, enhance national cohesion, and pass on the cultural spirit represented by Qu Yuan. By carrying out a variety of traditional festivals and activities, and integrating cultural inheritance into folk festivals, people can return to tradition in this specific festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, feel the noble character of the great patriotic poet in the dialogue with ancestors, enhance our national consciousness and sense of cultural mission, and allow the fine national cultural traditions to be continued and renewed in modern life.
The Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena, which evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that combines ancestor worship, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate him; it also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival covers a wide range of ancient and ancient cultures. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences.
The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.