The story of the Dragon Boat Festival The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here again. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May every year. Legend has it that it was born in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. According to my mother, there will be dragon boat races in some places during the Dragon Boat Festival! Although we don't have this activity here, eating jiaozi, an egg wrapped in wormwood and sachets, is something we do every year. Dragon Boat Festival is just a holiday. My mother wrapped delicious zongzi one day in advance, including candied dates, bacon and bean paste, and my favorite bean paste.
After getting up, I ran to the kitchen to find zongzi after washing. When I saw the zongzi wrapped by my mother, I couldn't wait to find the bean paste just like a kitten saw a fish, so I peeled it off. When I peeled it, I found that the zongzi was neither square nor round. The slightly green zongzi is wrapped in white glutinous rice with red bean paste in the middle, and the white is red. I drool from time to time while observing my mouth. Take a bite slowly, close your eyes, and let the sweet glutinous rice fragrance slowly spread out in your mouth. It smells so good. After eating zongzi, my mother brought me and my brother a sachet that she sewed before dawn, saying it would bring us good luck. All kinds of cloth are sewn together, and then loaded with wormwood cinnabar and peach leaves, and there is a faint fragrance when you smell it. It is also a beautiful ornament. In order to understand Qu Yuan, I specially asked my mother to help me find his relevant information. Qu Yuan was a patriotic minister in the Warring States Period. His spirit is worth learning from each of us. We must carry forward this spirit and inherit our folk culture and national traditions.
I like the Dragon Boat Festival.
Chapter two: The story of Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival comes from the story of Qu Yuan: the patriotic poet Qu Yuan came up with a good idea of enriching the country and strengthening the people, but it was not adopted by the king, but was expelled from the palace; He jumped into the Guluo River in anger. The local fisherman paddled the boat and scattered the rice in the bamboo tube along the Guluo River to Qu Yuan. Later, people changed rice into zongzi with bamboo tubes and rowed boats into dragon boats to commemorate Qu Yuan. People celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. My whole family worships Qu Yuan very much, so we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year.
Qu Yuan, who lived in the Warring States period, was ambitious and showed amazing talent when he was young. He won the trust of Chu Huaiwang and became a "leftist". According to Sima Qian's Historical Records, he was a minister in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs.
The Warring States period was originally a chaotic time when Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin competed for hegemony. After Shang Yang's political reform, Qin became more and more powerful and often attacked six countries. At that time, only Chu and Qi could compete with them. In view of the situation at that time, Qu Yuan advocated improving internal affairs at home and uniting with Qin State abroad, which violated the interests of the upper ruling class and was excluded and framed by the favored concubine, Shangguan doctor and Lingyin Zijiao who were bribed by Qin State.
Confused Wang Huai listened to slanders, alienated Qu Yuan and exiled him to Hanbei. As a result, Chu Huaiwang was tricked into being a prisoner for three years by the State of Qin and died in a foreign country.
When Qu Yuan saw all this, he was extremely angry. He resolutely opposed humiliating and surrendering to the State of Qin, which was more severely persecuted by political enemies. King Xiang of Chu, who was newly enthroned, was more fatuous than his father and exiled Qu Yuan to a more remote place than Hanbei.
During his long exile, Qu Yuan's spirit and life were greatly destroyed. One day, when he was singing by the river, he met a hermit who was fishing. Seeing that he was haggard, the hermit advised him to "not stick to the rules" and "be easy-going" and go along with the dignitaries. Qu Yuan said: "It's better to go to Hunan and be buried in the belly of a river fish;" Ann can be white and covered with worldly dust? " I would rather jump into the river and be buried in the belly of a fish. How can I expose my white matter to the secular dust? )
In 278 A.D., the capital of Chu State was breached by Qin Jun, and the poet suffered a great spiritual blow. Seeing that the country was ruined, he was powerless. He's worried. In extreme disappointment and pain, the poet came to the Miluo River east of the Yangtze River and bowed down. He was about sixty-two years old when he died, which was the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
There is another story: Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Wu Zixu.
Wu Zixu was a native of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. King Chu Ping killed his father. He angrily ran to the State of Wu, helped He Lv, the king of Wu, complete his hegemony and captured the State of Chu. He dug up the body of King Chu Ping from the grave and whipped him three hundred times to avenge his father. However, after the death of He Lv, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha was very bossy. I didn't listen to Wu Zixu's plan of "uniting against Vietnam", but listened to him.
Words, give the sword to Wu Zixu to commit suicide, but also on May 5th, throw Wu Zixu's body into the Qiantang River. Since then, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have held various activities of offering sacrifices to Wu Zixu on May 5th every year, which became the origin of various customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.
These stories have been widely circulated among the people on both sides of the strait for generations, bringing tragic cultural connotations to the Dragon Boat Festival.
Chapter 3: The Story of Dragon Boat Festival Whenever I walk alone by the pond and see the lush green reed leaves, I know that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming and people will wrap zongzi with its leaves. Zongzi is delicious and sticky, and it can bear a candied date in one bite, which really makes people memorable.
Want to know how the Dragon Boat Festival came about? I'll tell you next! I once learned from colorful China that the fifth day of May is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival. This day is also to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. He was a Chu native in the Warring States period, and he was smart and talented since childhood. Chu Huaiwang trusted him in his twenties. Although some officials of the imperial court tried their best to frame him and destroy his relationship with Chu Huaiwang, he remained fair and honest until Chu Huaiwang died.
Later, Chu Huaiwang's son succeeded to the throne. He is young and energetic, and his cronies often say that Qu Yuan was dismissed from office and exiled. Soon, Chu declined gradually and was finally annexed by Qin. Qu Yuan hated that the world was muddy and there was no light, which made him very sad. So on the fifth day of May, he jumped into the river with a big stone in his arms. When the locals arrived, they all rowed to save him. The boat took off on the water like a dragon, but it failed to save Qu Yuan. People heard that it was trapped in the water by a dragon, and began to throw jiaozi tied with five colors into the water, hoping to drive the dragon away.
Since then, every year on the fifth day of May, every household will pack jiaozi, buy mung bean cakes, race dragon boats, insert moxa sticks in front of the door and other folk customs to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.