Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Wu Festival, Chung Wu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is a folk festival integrating worship of gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.
Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from dragon festival in ancient times. On the Mid-Summer Dragon Boat Festival, black dragon spent seven nights in the center of the south, which was the most "upright" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "Flying dragons are in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day of "flying dragons in the sky", and dragon and dragon boat culture have always run through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
Arrange all kinds of flowers and plants that can exorcise evil spirits on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the source is also long. People regard wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as hanging wormwood on the door, "A Record of the Age of Jingchu": "Picking wormwood as a person hangs on the door to poison gas." This is because Artemisia argyi is an important medicinal plant, which can also be used to treat diseases, moxibustion points and repel insects.
In May, wormwood contains the most oil (at this time, it is in the prosperous period of Wen growth), so it is best to repel mosquitoes, and people are scrambling to pick wormwood. A few plants of wormwood are often hung at home. Because of its special fragrance, people use it to prevent mosquitoes and ward off evil spirits.