Legend of Dragon Boat Festival:

The legend has it that Qu Yuan advocated for the promotion of the virtuous, the rich, the strong, and the strong, and strongly advocated for the alliance of Qi and the Qin Dynasty, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan and others, and he was slandered and dismissed from his post, and was expelled from the capital, and was exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. In 278 B.C., the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu, and Qu Yuan saw his country being invaded, and his heart was cut to the core, but he could not bear to abandon his country, so he threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

After Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, local people immediately rowed boats to rescue him. In order to send condolences, people swinging boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. The people are afraid of the river fish eat his body, they have to go home to bring the rice ball into the river, so as to avoid the fish and shrimp spoiled Qu Yuan's body, and later became the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi custom.

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Folk Customs:

1,扒龙舟

扒龙舟是端午节的一个重要活动, is the ancient Dragon Totem Festival rituals, is a legacy. So far in China's southern coastal areas are still very popular. After spreading abroad, loved by the people of all countries and formed an international competition. Archaeological evidence shows that about 7000 years ago, in the coastal reproduction of the Lingnan ancestors on the use of canoes in the coastal fishing activities.

2, release paper kite

Paper kite, in the bamboo gabions and other skeleton glued with paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to the top, taking advantage of the wind can be put up in the sky, belonging to a kind of purely aerodynamic flying machine. In the south of China, the Dragon Boat Festival children put paper kites called "put the calamity".

3, playing the afternoon water

Afternoon water, that is, in the Dragon Boat Festival at noon in the well to play up the water. Dragon Boat Festival, "playing water at noon" is a traditional custom prevalent in the southern coastal areas. Heavy noon of the day at noon, Yang plus Yang, so "noon water" has "extreme Yang water", "Longmu water", "positive Yang water

The ancients played up the noon water as a great auspicious water, the day of the noon of the yang gas is the most abundant, the Dragon Boat Festival at noon to drive away the best evil spirits, with the effect of warding off evil spirits, purify the body, in addition to the obstacles.

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