Literally, happiness means happiness or satisfaction, while well-being is more focused on blessing life safety and good health. Therefore, two different greetings will also give the Dragon Boat Festival two different meanings.
In the Tang Dynasty, people celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and everyone would congratulate each other on "Happy Dragon Boat Festival". This is because in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people felt that when commemorating this festival, the whole country celebrated and life was smooth sailing, so it was a process of "from sadness to prosperity, from sadness to joy", a happy event, and of course a happy festival.
In modern times, Dragon Boat Festival has become a traditional festival in China, but everyone is used to saying "Dragon Boat Festival is healthy". That's because the life of the people in China has long been calm, and there is no threat from foreign enemies. Everyone is living a happy life. Therefore, to commemorate this festival of Qu Yuan, people hope to pray for well-being and happiness.
Dragon Boat Festival custom:
1, Guangdong: flying kites, medicated bath.
You must have enough physical strength to spend the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangdong, because there are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangdong, besides dragon boat racing and eating zongzi, there are also wormwood, luncheons, flying kites, taking medicine baths, praying to the gods and so on, and the festival customs are very rich.
This is because there are many rivers and water networks in Guangdong, and there are abundant water sports activities. The Dragon Boat Festival is the midsummer season, and it is really a good way for the whole people to participate in activities.
2. Jiangsu: Wear a ruling suit and go to a ruling banquet.
The custom of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival is closely related to the Five Poisons. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Jiangsu will decorate the festival with paintings of five poisons, calamus, mugwort leaves and statues of Zhong Kui. They will also tie colored threads on their arms, wear clothes of five poisons and sachets. The most important thing is that you will eat a five-poison banquet, but I don't know which is better, crispy scorpion or centipede sashimi.
3. Hebei: Eat fruit cakes and cherry mulberries.
Spending the Dragon Boat Festival in Hebei is really a blessing for cherry and mulberry lovers. Because of the Dragon Boat Festival, vendors selling cherries and mulberries can be seen everywhere in Hebei. According to the old man, it is because of eating cherries and mulberries on the Dragon Boat Festival that flies will not be eaten by mistake all year round. There are also "five poison cakes" sold by the hearth food store-cakes decorated with poisonous insect patterns.
4. Gansu: give gifts to each other and hang up.
The Dragon Boat Festival in Gansu is inseparable from "giving gifts". Whether picking roses, curing them into caramel and giving them to the neighborhood, or giving them to the newlyweds, incense fans and Luo Qi, they are all "essential programs" of Gansu Dragon Boat Festival. Not only that, in Gaoyou, Gansu, children also hang "duck egg complex" on the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, choose beautiful duck eggs and put them into the complex woven with colored ropes.
In addition to the above, Hunan, Taiwan Province, Jiangxi and other places have their own unique Dragon Boat Festival customs, which have followed thousands of years of traditional festivals and become increasingly colorful with the changes of time and cultural development.