Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, we know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? Do not know it! Then let me tell you! Do you remember that patriotic general Qu Yuan of Chu? Let me say a few words about him!
Qu Yuan was a man from the country of Exodus during the Warring States period and was very learned. He worked as an official beside the king of Chu to image is his country rich and strong. The dim king of Chu, however, listened to the words of the treacherous ministers, and cut Qu Yuan into exile. While in exile, Qu Yuan heard that the capital city of Chu had been occupied by the enemy and the people were suffering, so he was very angry. On the fifth day of the fifth month, he came to the Miluo River, embraced a stone in his arms, and jumped into the Miluo River. When the people in the country heard the news that Qu Yuan had thrown himself into the river, they were very sad. With tears in their eyes, they rowed their boats to salvage Qu Yuan, but also threw the dumplings into the river to feed the fish, hoping that the fish will not hurt Qu Yuan's body. This is the origin of the May Danyang dumplings.
Let me tell you about the origin of dragon boat racing! At that time, the people of Chu because they could not bear to see the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there were many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue. They were scrambling, chased to Dongting Lake when the trail, is the origin of the dragon boat race, after the fifth of May every year to commemorate the rowing of the dragon boat. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat the body of Qu Yuan. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan began to have dragon boat races, and at that time, Taiwan's governor, Mr. Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of the Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year.
Children also have to hang scented sachets. Dragon Boat Festival children wear scented sachets, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also have a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Scented bag inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and eye-catching.
Dragon Boat Festival and hang ai leaves, calamus habit: in the Dragon Boat Festival, families are to calamus, ai leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made of human-shaped known as Ai people. Ai leaves hanging in the hall, cut for the tiger or cut color as a small tiger, paste to Ai leaves, women scrambling to wear to seclude the evil and drive away miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, there is to drive away demons and ghosts of the divine effect.
The activities of the Dragon Boat Festival can be really many ah