Dumplings fragrant, fragrant kitchen, Ai leaf fragrance, fragrance full hall This is not whose poetry, these lines from the "dumplings fragrant" in the nursery rhyme.

"Dumpling Fragrance" all:Dumpling Fragrance, Fragrance Kitchen. Ai leaves fragrance, fragrance full of hall. Ai sticks on the gate, go out and look at the yellow wheat. The dumplings are very fragrant, and they are very good for the kitchen.

Based on the phrase "zongzi, fragrant kitchen, moxa leaves, fragrance, full of incense", it can be seen that this ballad describes the traditional festival is the Dragon Boat Festival, in honor of the historical figure Qu Yuan. In 278 BC, Ying, the capital of Chu, was occupied by Qin. Qu Yuan was so desperate that he threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month of that year to die for his country. Qu Yuan for the country for the people and died, the people of Chu with a variety of ways to memorialize their poets, to this day, every year on the fifth day of May Dragon Boat Festival, we race dragon boats, eat zongzi, it is said to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. etc.

The name commonly used before the Tang Dynasty is "the fifth day of the fifth month", after the Tang Dynasty, "Dragon Boat Festival" will replace "the fifth day of the fifth month" and other aliases, a leap into the mainstream of the name.

The Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as one of the four major traditional festivals of Chinese folklore, and was formally approved by UNESCO in September 2009 for inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival China's first festival to be selected as one of the world's intangible cultural heritages.

The Dragon Boat Festival, although known as the "Festival", because of the nature of the sacrifice, as with the Qingming Festival, should not say "Happy Holidays"!

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are a lot of sayings, such as commemorating the qu yuan, commemorating the wu zixu, commemorating the cao e, from the three generations of the solstice festival, the bad month and the bad day to drive to avoid that the wu month of the national totem sacrifices, and so on.

But the most popular is to honor Qu Yuan. About honoring Qu Yuan, it is said that this is the story:

Chu has been bullied by Qin since it was defeated by Qin, and King Huai of Chu wanted to re-unite with Qi again. After King Zhaoxiang of Qin took the throne, he politely wrote a letter to King Huai of Chu, inviting him to meet him at Wuguan (in the southeast of Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province) to conclude the alliance face to face.

When King Huai of Chu received the letter from King Zhaoxiang of Qin, he was afraid of offending Qin if he didn't go; and he was afraid of danger if he went. He discussed the matter with his ministers.

Qu Yuan, a great minister, said to King Huai of Chu, "Qin is as strong as a jackal, and we have been bullied by Qin more than once. If you go there, you will fall into their trap."

But King Huai's son, Duke Zilan, urged the king to go, saying, "We have lost many lives and lands in our attempts to treat Qin as our enemy.

Now that Qin is willing to make peace with us, how can we refuse them?"

King Huai of Chu listened to the words of Gongzi Zilan and went up to Qin.

As expected of Qu Yuan, King Huai of Chu had just stepped into Qin's Wuguan Pass, and was immediately cut off by Qin's pre-emptive ambush. During the meeting, King Zhaoxiang of Qin forced King Huai of Chu to cede the land in Qianzhong to Qin, which King Huai of Chu did not agree to. King Zhaoxiang of Qin then took King Huai of Chu to Xianyang and put him under house arrest, asking the ministers of Chu to pay for the land before releasing him.

When the ministers of Chu heard that the king had been detained, they made the prince the new king and refused to cede the land. This ruler was King Haxiang of Chu. Duke Zilan became the ruler of Chu.

King Huai of Chu was detained in Qin for more than a year and suffered a lot. He ventured out of Xianyang and was chased back by Qin's soldiers. He was even angry and sick, and he died in Qin before long.

The people of Chu were very upset because King Huai of Chu was bullied by Qin and died outside. Especially Qu Yuan, a great doctor, was even more angry. He advised King Haxiang of Chu to search for talents, stay away from villains, encourage his generals, and train his soldiers, so as to avenge the country and King Huai of Chu.

But his advice not only failed, but also attracted the hatred of Zilan and Jin Shang. They spoke ill of Qu Yuan in front of King Haxiang every day.

They said to King Hixiang of Chu, "Your Majesty, have you not heard that Qu Yuan has been criticizing you? He always told people that the king is unfilial if he forgets the hatred of Qin, and unfaithful if his ministers don't advocate the fight against Qin. If Chu has such unfaithful and unfilial ministers and rulers, how can the country not fall? Great King, think about what this is called!"

When King Haxiang of Chu heard this, he was furious and dismissed Qu Yuan from his post and banished him to Xiangnan.

Qu Yuan, who had the ambition of saving the country and the people, and the intention of enriching the country and strengthening the people, but was ostracized by the treacherous ministers, was simply furious. When he arrived in Hunan, he often sang sad poems while walking along the Miluo River (in the northeast of present-day Hunan Province, Miluo sounds mì).

The croppers in the neighborhood knew that he was a patriotic minister, and they all quite sympathized with him. At this time, there was a fisherman who often fished on the Miluo River and admired Qu Yuan's character, but just disapproved of his sad appearance.

One day, Qu Yuan met the fisherman by the river. The fisherman said to Qu Yuan, "Aren't you a great doctor of Chu? How did you get to this state?"

Qu Yuan said, "Many people are dirty, but only I am clean; many people are drunk, but only I am still awake. So I was driven here."

The fisherman said in disbelief, "Since you think everyone else is dirty, you shouldn't claim to be clean; since everyone else is drunk, why should you be sober alone!"

Qu Yuan objected, "I have heard it said that those who have just washed their hair always flick their hats, and those who have just bathed always like to dust their clothes. I would rather jump into the heart of the river and be buried in the belly of a fish than take my clean body and jump into the sludge to get dirty."

Because Qu Yuan did not want to live with the tide, on the fifth day of the fifth month in 278 B.C., he finally committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River with a large stone in his arms.

The nearby farmers, getting this message, all rowed their boats to save Qu Yuan. But the water was so heavy that there was no sign of Qu Yuan. They fished for half a day on the Miluo River, but did not find Qu Yuan's body.

The fisherman was so upset that he cast the rice in his bamboo tube down to the river as an offering to Qu Yuan.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the following year, the local people remembered that it was the first anniversary of Qu Yuan's throwing himself into the river, and rowed a boat to spread the rice in the bamboo tube into the water to worship him. Later, they changed the bamboo tube with rice into zongzi, rowing the boat into a dragon boat race. This kind of activity to commemorate Qu Yuan gradually became a custom.

People call the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is said that this is how it came about.