Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. It was first recorded in Jingchu Chronicle. Because sunny days are midsummer and May is midsummer, its first afternoon is a fine day, so it is called "Duanyang Festival". There are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as "Magnolia Festival", "Daughter's Day", "Acorus calamus Festival" and "Tianzhong Festival", all of which come from some details of life related to folk customs.
The biggest reason why the Dragon Boat Festival has been spread in China so far is because of Qu Yuan, a great poet admired by the people. His patriotic feelings, concern for the people, infinite loyalty to the motherland, and lofty personality and will of "winning glory with the sun and the moon" made him the first great patriotic poet in the history of China literature.
Qu Yuan, a native of Chu at the end of the Warring States Period, was an outstanding politician and patriotic poet. The name is flat and the word is original. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei) people. He initiated a new style of poetry-Songs of the South, which was later called "Sao" by the Book of Songs. Feng and Sao are the sources of the two fine traditions of realism and romanticism in the history of China's poetry. His literary treasures, such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, are like the sun and the moon competing for glory in the long river of culture. In his limited life, he always thought about the rise and fall of the motherland and the sufferings of the people, and took Chu as his own responsibility and embarked on the road to prosperity. When his motherland was facing the disaster of extinction, he was filled with indignation and threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, making a heroic sacrifice. "Family deep sorrow in one thousand, loyal soul can also be entrusted. What country dies today, only Li Sao is left in the world. "
Literati and poets of all ages wrote poems and poems on the Dragon Boat Festival to express their memory of Qu Yuan. "The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is widely rumored that it is Qu Yuan through the ages. It is ridiculous that the Chu River is empty and cannot be washed directly. " Wen Xiu's "Dragon Boat Festival" poems in Tang Dynasty added a lot of homesickness to the lament of the festival. Chu Chaoyang in the Tang Dynasty also had "only praise for the Dragon Boat Festival, who recommended Qu Yuan Temple; The poem "Drink the wine in one gulp, and Miluo is far away" profoundly expresses people's respect and commemoration for a generation of patriotic poets.
Folk commemorative activities are more colorful and gradually form cultural customs throughout the country. Up to now, there are mainly commemorative activities such as "Dragon Boat Race" and "Eating Zongzi". Because the Chu people couldn't bear the death of Qu Yuan, a wise minister, many people rowed to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. Rowing on the river is the origin of the dragon boat race, and then rowing a dragon boat on May 5 every year to commemorate it, so it is called the "dragon boat race". The people who eat brown rice are Jingchu people. On May 5th, they cooked glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes and threw them into the river to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, so they threw them in bamboo tubes for fear of eating fish. Later, they gradually replaced bamboo tubes with rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, which evolved into the custom of "eating brown rice" on the Dragon Boat Festival every year. "The corners are covered with gold, and the grass is covered with jade. The scenery is still beautiful." Yes
"Dragon Boat Race" and "Eating Zongzi" show that the people of China highly agree with Qu Yuan's morality and life ideal. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a festival for the Chinese nation to express its high respect for beautiful poems and great poets.
Feeling nostalgic, I am still sighing today! Although this great poet walked in the distant ancient times, his thoughts and life ideas moved from "self" to "self", but his magnificent poems crossed time and space and were connected with us from generation to generation in the form of a rich national festival.
"Slow warbler throat, tap like a board, better than reading Li Sao chapter. Lotus fragrance is dark, lying on the head of the river, painting boats and drums. "
Through the ages, the lotus wind blew through Qu Yuan's hometown, fields, mature wheat, apricot, riverside and fragrant palm leaves. A festival related to poetry-"Dragon Boat Festival" is coming to us in the sparse "Huangmei rainy season".